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North Carolina Lottery is a GoNews Story
Residents of the Tar Heel state will finally get a lottery, under terms worked out by the state's House and Senate Friday.The final budget plan allows North Carolina to start a lottery, advertise it, and spend the profits on teachers, school buildings, and scholarships for the needy.The compromise between House and Senate plans for a lottery virtually ensures that North Carolina will start a state numbers game during the next year. The lottery was the last disputed issue between the House and Se
Aug 6, 2005, 10:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

New System – I MIGHT be on to somethingReply
Hi Lottery Analyst. Just a few words... why not try the pick 5 GH wheel 3 out of 3, pool of 26? You dont have to select key number(s). 174 entries.. If you have 5 correct the minimum guarantee is 3 times 3 and 30 times 2, max. guarantee 1 times 5, 2 times 4, 7 times 3 and 30 times 2, or, if you dont get a jackpot: 4 times 4, 6 times 3 and 38 times 2. How does that sound? GH has also wheels (f.i. pool 26) with only one key number. I have tried it on paper many times (the first-mentioned wheel) an
Aug 2, 2005, 8:10 pm - Mouche - Lottery Systems Forum

Indiana lottery sales decline has officials probing illegal gamesNews Story
The Hoosier Lottery, faced with slumping profits, is struggling to get more people to play ticket games in a world of electronic gambling.In the budget year just ended, lottery officials expect to see about a 5 percent decline in profits, which reached $199 million last year, according to W. Edward Benton, the lottery's chief financial officer.So what's eating into ticket sales? Smaller Powerball jackpots, for one thing, something Hoosier Lottery officials can't control.The approximately 22,00
Jul 11, 2005, 12:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery chief could face punishment for inflated jackpotsNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission chairman laid blame for inflated lottery jackpots squarely on the agency's chief Wednesday, hinting to state lawmakers that executive director Reagan Greer could be punished.Chairman C. Tom Clowe was asked by members of the House Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee who specifically had deceived lottery players by advertising phony estimated jackpots four times since last fall.Mr. Clowe answered: The person who made the decision [to sign off on the esti
Jul 1, 2005, 9:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery considers changing jackpot calculationNews Story
Amid complaints of false advertising, Texas Lottery Commission officials will consider changing the way jackpots are paid.C. Thomas Clowe, the commission chairman, said the three-member panel will discuss this month whether to guarantee the advertised jackpot or continue basing the grand prize on a percentage of ticket sales.Clowe said Thursday that he is concerned that miscalculating the lotto jackpot could undermine confidence in the game. We want the public to have confidence in the lottery,
Jun 10, 2005, 12:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Prediction by Recurrence Analysis
Hello,I thought I'd like to share a method I've been working on which other people might like to use or develop further themselves. It uses recurrence analysis, a non-linear mathematical method developed to analyse noisy or chaotic time-series data. It has been successfully used to study a wide range of real-world phenomena, from the stock market to cardiac arrhythmias.It occurred to me that it might be possible to analyse and predict lottery numbers using recurrence analysis. The mathematics is
Jun 2, 2005, 12:00 am - NemeSys - Lottery Systems Forum

S.C. Lottery may learn lessons from GeorgiaNews Story
As North Carolina inches closer to starting a lottery, Georgia lottery officials may be enjoying a sense of irony, as South Carolina is now undergoing the same uncomfortable feeling that they created for the Georgia Lottery when they started the S.C. Education Lottery in 2002.At the time, South Carolina politicians estimated that a Palmetto State lottery would siphon away up to $112 million from Georgia's lottery.But those predictions never came to pass.Instead, Georgia has enjoyed a string of r
May 10, 2005, 12:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Old Pick 3 method reviewed.
Just late last night or early this morning spurred by Biglooser's comments about his dicovery, I thought again about one of my very many old pick 3 methods, but with a some-what fresh mind and attitude, depending on the percent (%) of winning numbers that you want to get, you adjust the ammount of combos that it produces for you to farther process in some other way or to play them as they are in that ammount.Well I am not sure yet, but it seems as if the best compromise right now with it is to h
Mar 30, 2005, 3:03 pm - LANTERN - Lottery Systems Forum

Opinion: Time has come for a lottery in North CarolinaNews Story
Charlotte Observer EditorialBy Jim Black, N.C. House SpeakerNorth Carolina must make the education of our children our number one priority and find the needed revenue to fund it. The future of our state and its people depend upon it.Unfortunately, the North Carolina legislature is facing a budget shortfall of more than $1.2 billion in the upcoming year. In order to continue improving education, legislators will either have to increase taxes or find new revenue sources to help fund education.Rais
Mar 28, 2005, 11:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Nevada Lottery Proposal KilledNews Story
Nevada may be a gambling state but a Senate panel decided on a 5-2 vote Thursday that a lottery is one game of chance the state can do without.Sens. Steven Horsford, D-North Las Vegas, and Valerie Wiener, D-Las Vegas, cast the only yes votes as the proposed constitutional amendment for a lottery to fund education was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee.AJR2 would have had to pass this session and again in 2007 before going to a vote of the public in 2008. I've only been here seven weeks
Mar 25, 2005, 11:06 am - Todd - Lottery News