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R.I. lottery machine prints invalid ticketsNews Story
They entered the store with hopes of striking it rich through a winning lottery ticket. They exited with bogus tickets all dated from 1999. A lottery machine mix-up Thursday resulted in roughly 70 invalid tickets being printed at a Cranston convenience store, the Rhode Island Lottery said Friday. The problem was caused by a field service technician for the gaming technology company Gtech Holdings Corp. who accidentally replaced a malfunctioning machine at Oaklawn Mart with a model termin
Jan 15, 2007, 3:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New lawsuit claims Indiana Lottery did not award all prizesReply
I think the point is being missed, the Hoosier lottery got caught cheating! With all the technology that is available, there is no excuse for the state to think prizes are still available and report them to be available on their web site when that is not the case. If I buy a MM ticket in Illinois the state of Georgia knows what numbers I have chosen. They know if they have a winner and what states it comes out of in a matter of minutes and thats not just for jackpot prizes.
Jan 8, 2007, 5:51 am - CCHS13 - Lottery News

Virginia Border Stores Take Hit From N.C. LotteryNews Story
Now that North Carolina has a lottery, residents with hopes of striking it rich don't have to head north to Virginia to buy tickets, and retail stores just across the line are feeling the effects. Virginia lottery director Sheila Hill-Christian said the overall decline of 8 to 10 percent was expected. But she said her state's lottery will make changes in games and install state-of-the-art technology that should enable it to make up the loss within two years. We'll overcome this, she said
Aug 11, 2006, 1:39 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Poll - RNG, auditors and game fraudReply
come on Floyd In RNG programs a programmer can make whatever numbers he wants to come out on any particular day. he can set the program up in ways no one would have the foggiest idea of what's going on. the program could work in many ways selecting and deselecting numbers that have been bet and drawing whatever number is being bet the least. or drawing a number that would pay out only a small percentage of the take in. let's put this another way say i wanted the number 328 to come out on
Jul 24, 2006, 2:28 pm - four4me - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Giant Targets European MarketNews Story
Scientific Games, a dominant player in the US instant lottery ticket market, is jockeying for a larger stake in Europe after buying a British maker of betting terminals last month. The traditional lotto market has matured in Europe, the chief executive of Scientific Games, Lorne Weill, said. Growth needed to come from other product areas, such as instant scratch tickets and video lottery terminals. Instant lottery tickets are a high-growth market. In Italy, annual sales of instant
May 9, 2006, 6:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

The Solution t This Gas ExtortionReply
They need to put this technology in a car. As long as you don't get rear-ended, I think it'll work safely. Fusion is the solution. I saw a show on the Science channel a while back, where they showed a huge plant where the process of fusion was being experimented. This wharehouse sized plant could only produce one explosion/combustion once every few days or so. After the combustion, it had to be partially taken apart and cleaned, and wiped down, which took a few days. And that was just one ex
May 7, 2006, 12:46 pm - pacattack05 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery: Promises and pitfallsNews Story
A look at problems and solutions of some state lotteries, as North Carolina leaders try to predict their own problems to come.Art Johnson isn't a big gambler but plays the Florida lottery on occasion. No, not because it will help the Palm Beach County School District, where he is superintendent. I want to win, Johnson said with a laugh.Ask him about the lottery's funding for education and Johnson is a lot less jovial. I'm unimpressed, said the former principal and school board member who now h
Dec 26, 2005, 8:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Alabama candidates discuss lottery possibilitiesNews Story
Former Gov. Don Siegelman wants Alabama to have a lottery, just as he's argued since first running for governor in 1990, and he promises to fight for it if elected to another term in the state's top job.Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley says she's not necessarily against a the idea but told the Mobile Register she would neither push for a lottery herself nor block another public referendum on someone else's proposal.Baxley said it would be a shame for Alabama to depend on a lottery for revenue but added th
Nov 28, 2005, 10:06 am - Todd - Lottery News

Winning a Jackpot, Luck or Fate/Destiny?Reply
yep. ugly stuff that religion can be (which if you remember that i have worked hard in here to distance myself from religion while esposing the relationship aspect of God). man has muddied those waters for sure. which is why i made that differentiation in my post before this one about speaking up about who is and who isn't in reference to their 'claims' as not all who say they are ....are. and some of the people that have done these things ... obviously aren't.like i said before in he
Jul 15, 2005, 10:29 pm - visiondude - Lottery Discussion Forum

N.C. gets lottery advice from Georgia, FloridaNews Story
Even as a gaming advocate, Steve Geller offers a bit of caution as North Carolina considers sanctioning a state lottery don't promise too much.Geller's home state of Florida has shipped $14 billion in lottery profits to a state education trust fund since the lottery's 1988 beginning.But it hasn't been nearly enough to escape the sort of criticisms that have come with lotteries nationwide, especially ones intended to help pay for education initiatives. It will help education, but it will never
Jun 6, 2005, 10:27 am - Todd - Lottery News