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Human error caused expensive Va. Lottery mistakeNews Story
New Game Generated More Than 600 Winning Tickets Debra and Raul Bennett are faithful lottery players, though in nearly 15 years of playing they never had won much more than pocket money. So on Sunday, when the retired Hampton, Va., couple realized they had a winning ticket from the Virginia Lottery's brand-new Fast Play Super 7s game, they were ecstatic. Plans for spending the $7,777 the game's top prize came fast and furious. But when the Bennetts went to the Hampton Virginia Lottery o
Oct 22, 2008, 6:44 pm - Todd - Lottery News

chad g petey told me it only gives numbers that "appear random"Reply
Generally training data would be to take a data set and split it up, maybe the first 70% for training an AI model, and the last 30% for testing the model. You can change parameters on the model and redo the test data until it becomes more accurate. The error function measures how far off the predictions are off from the test data, then the computer learns to reduce the error by applying techniques like gradient descent to find a minimum error level, and adjusts the model (the weights applied
Jul 26, 2025, 6:45 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

SC Lottery not paying winnings on game because of 'programming error'Reply
I'd assumed it was simply a printing error, such as too many winning symbols shown. Based on the report, that's exactly what it was. Sort of. The tickets were printed incorrectly, but it was obviously a flaw in the software that resulted in the printing error. Since something caused the software to incorrectly print the tickets so that they appear to be winners it seems perfectly reasonable that those tickets would appear to be winners when they're checked against what's likely to be the sa
Dec 29, 2017, 3:42 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Virginia: 9/1 - 9/30/2015Reply
I found an error in my back-checking program. Rats. Funny thing is, the error only affected some numbers and not others, and it happened that the two numbers I checked the program against manually were not affected by the error, so I completely missed it. Oops! What passes for good news here is that the error was easy to fix (way easier to fix than it was to find, that's for sure). Anyway, here is the output for today from my workup combined with the corrected back-check program. 001 072 072
Sep 4, 2015, 6:52 am - factorX - Pick 3 Forum

Warning Black list of online play sites/guess who is on the list?Reply
Hi Todd. My post certainly wasn't to promote the entity, convince anyone, or anything like that as I do respect you and your rules here. The case with Dan , though, seemed to have a red flag upon discovery of a bad (inflated) line. Seems he actually felt uneasy about the 7000:1 deal which made perfect sense. You know the old cliche, 'If it sounds (or looks in this case) too good to be true then it probably isn't. Personally, I would've never touched that bet and he shouldn't have either. However
May 29, 2014, 7:06 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia winners may have to pay for Lottery's mistakeReply
Statement From The Virginia Lottery About Fast Play Super 7s October 20, 2008 The Virginia Lottery sincerely apologizes for the error with its new game Fast Play Super 7 s. Unfortunately, there was a technical problem when the software was loaded on the computer gaming system. The problem caused misprinted tickets. Thanks to the Lottery s retail partners, the error was caught by 9:00 a.m. Sunday, October 19 and the Lottery stopped selling the game immediately. The Lottery sold
Oct 22, 2008, 8:21 am - jump1900 - Lottery News

Getting Error Popup Window
This help topic deals with error popup windows on the Lottery Post web site. There are many types of error popups, some generated by Lottery Post, and some generated by your web browser. We will show you common error windows generated by Lottery Post, but because of the number of possible browser and operating system combinations, it would be difficult to show all the possible browser-generated popups. See your browser documentation (or Google) for those. Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerP
Jul 18, 2007, 11:11 am - Todd - Help

NY Post chides rival paper over lottery errorNews Story
The New York Post appears to be enjoying the mess that its long-time rival, The New York Daily News, created when it printed erroneous lottery numbers, and misled thousands of readers into thinking they won big bucks.The Post's editorial was scathing, including a call by the paper for the Daily News to award all the prize money that they initially reported people won. New York Post criticizes rival(by New York Daily News)New York's hometown newspaper scamsters tried to buy their way out of big t
Mar 22, 2005, 8:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball resultsNews Story
Players who claimed prizes under wrong numbers can keep their winnings By Kate Northrop The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a human reporting error and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings. Several hours after the wrong Powerball numbers were posted on the Iowa Lottery's website the night of the drawing on Mon., Nov. 27, the Lottery removed the incorrect sequence and republished the
Nov 30, 2023, 9:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Top prizes missing from Ireland Lottery games blamed on 'human error'News Story
Some jackpots were literally impossible to win By Kate Northrop The Regulator of Ireland's National Lottery released a report today that confirmed four jackpot prizes worth a combined 180,000 (US$211,544) in three separate scratch-off games went missing, making them impossible to win. In November 2019, the National Lottery's regulator was notified that the number of jackpots offered in three separate scratch-off games was inaccurate compared to the number of jackpots actually available
Oct 8, 2020, 5:46 pm - Todd - Lottery News