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Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Yes, that's something that we know happens but obviously the general public and the lottery won't go publicizing that type of procedure. Most people don't do as much research as people who use the forums on the lottery's operations. Look at the $3 Bankroll Bingo game. It is around 43% sold, yet still has 7/8 top prizes remaining or 12.5% of top prizes remaining...
Jun 9, 2018, 10:38 am - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

bringing back Kola PiReply
Yes it does need to be re-programmed, but only if there's interest. I'd rather people try it by hand as well, while visualizing the operations at play. Doing this may help to frame and expand how one approaches any Pick 3 method. For example, some may have realized that the Rings of Pi with its 3 tiers of circles, is really a Spiral that grows or increases in size from one tier to the next. Using this concept or perspective and then expanding upon it may be helpful for all kinds of methods an
Apr 17, 2018, 2:21 pm - Kola - Lottery Systems Forum

Washington Lottery director accused of gender discriminationReply
I remember a former WA Lottery Director who REQUIRED the main system vendor to name a female Director for their Washington operations and to employ an unqualified female as part of their in-state marketing team. By the way, the director was one of the most accomplished people in the industry. WA was lucky to have her assigned to their account. What I'm saying is - in the 17 years I spent in the State Lottery industry - I saw at least as much pro-woman bias as I saw old boy network . Not j
Oct 18, 2017, 6:42 pm - Drivedabizness - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery computerized drawing machine generated identical winning numbersReply
The easy way to get states to stop using RNGs is to boycott the games. If people simply stopped playing those games, the loss of revenue would cause the states to go back to using balls. As long as states keep recording record sales, they have no incentive to change operations. I also wonder if this problem exists with second chance drawings since those are computerized. Florida has been doing second chance drawings for losing scratch-off tickets for a few years now. About a year ago, one pe
Oct 6, 2017, 9:43 pm - gatorsrok - Lottery News

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
Hi RL, I managed to find the Freq program, but can not get it to run on Windows 10. However I did manage to open the help menu and this is how the program works. The usual frequency analysis approach is to pre-process your data, apply a Fast Fourier Transform to the series, and plot the power spectrum. Peaks in the FFT spectrum may correspond to interesting frequencies. However, it is difficult for anyone but a signal processing expert to know how much power in the time series is actua
Jul 25, 2017, 2:08 pm - Spot9 - Mathematics Forum

Illinois lost $4 million by halting Powerball, Mega Millions salesReply
$4 million isn't all that much in the whole scope of things. And as the article points out, some players chose to play other games instead. Though, presumably, many players stopped playing entirely. So the loss could be somewhat higher than the $4 million. Regardless, relatively small amount compared to what the lottery takes in over the course of a year. Likely among the top reasons Illinois didn't seem too worried about the PB / MM games shutdown / not paying some winners timely on and off ove
Jul 10, 2017, 9:59 am - Ron5995 - Lottery News

Washington Lottery to shut down if lawmakers can't agree on budgetNews Story
Winners will be unable to claim prizes during shutdown Washington's Lottery will suspend all operations if lawmakers can't pass the state's operating budget by midnight on Friday, June 30, 2017. That means no Lottery tickets will be sold, and no winning tickets will be redeemed in the state of Washington for any game until the shutdown is over. This includes Scratch games, jackpot games and multi-state jackpot games such as Powerball and Mega Millions. Washington's Lottery will also
Jun 30, 2017, 8:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Mexico House committee endorses changes in lottery operationsNews Story
Financial bonuses for state lottery officials and contractors would be tied to increases in scholarship money available to New Mexico college students under a bill that got unanimous bipartisan approval from a House committee Monday. House Bill 250, sponsored by Rep. Jason Harper, R-Rio Rancho, also would require the state lottery to transfer money from unclaimed cash prizes usually $2 million to $4 million a year to the lottery scholarships fund. In addition, the bill would halt a pilot p
Feb 28, 2017, 3:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Impressive results. Dat hustle. I never imagined it was possible to do that well at Dave and Busters. I'm losing interest on scratchoffs again. If the final SM/2MJ prize isn't found, then perhaps with the current state of their operations, it isn't worth chasing any of these scarce games. Only time with tell soon enough. I started venturing into the stock market. Prices seem very high on alot of stocks, and wth Trump's inauguration coming...I think I'll remain a spectator for a whil
Jan 15, 2017, 2:48 pm - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
I have read several articles some of which are left wing propaganda operations such as the Huffington Post and Politico and they mention that over 25% of all federal employees would resign if Trump is elected, that number rises to 42% if only democrats poll figures are used. I hope these folks keep their word and resign as there are a lot of people in need of a government job that comes loaded with perks. It's time to overhaul the entire government workforce starting with the IRS, EPA, DOE an
Oct 29, 2016, 11:54 am - Skibunnylk - Lottery News