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Fixed LotteriesReply
Back in the old days of Vegas there were times when a Keno room went an entire shift without a number even being in the bowl - wasn't even intentional. That only affected the players using that number and actually gave the players using the other numbers a slightly better percentage. With the bowl in full view of the patrons, it would be next to impossible to take out a ball or balls if drawn that would result in the highest payoffs. But what if a state lottery looked at its L
Dec 26, 2006, 5:10 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Online gambling threatened by U.S. legislatorsReply
This is the only real problem I have with online gambling: I keep seeing a signature line on here that says to "Elminiate all computerized drawings". I agree with that. Computerized drawings can be easily rigged to draw a combination that has the least amount of tickets picking it. i.e. instead of Pick 4 "1978" it picks Pick 4 "8885" which is much less popular. With a real drawing you see the balls mixing and that it would be almost impossible to cause certain ones to float up into the chute. (T
Jul 8, 2006, 12:51 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News

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Here is the letter I sent to the MO Lottery Office via e-mail the other day.I read an article the other day about MO lottery sales being down. Ifthat is the case, then I thought I would give you a clue as to why thisis. It is the computerized drawings. I know several (long time, loyal)players who quit playing when you went to computerized drawings, meincluded. I have spent as much a $20 dollars a day in the past on the lottery.But ever since you have started the very untrustworthy and non-rand
Apr 26, 2005, 4:19 am - Bryan - Lottery Discussion Forum

Third suspect surrenders in national lottery rigging scandalNews Story
A third man charged in a still-unfolding, multi-million dollar lottery rigging scandal investigation surrendered to authorities in Iowa on Thursday, his attorney said. Robert Clark Rhodes II was arrested last spring in his home state of Texas by authorities there, after Iowa prosecutors charged him with two counts of fraud for helping a then-top lottery security official allegedly rig multiple jackpot drawings. Rhodes challenged the arrest in court, claiming investigators did not have suff
Apr 28, 2016, 3:43 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Four years after drawing fiasco, Tenn. Lottery settles with tech firmsNews Story
The Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. has received nearly $1 million from a pair of technology companies it blamed for software glitches that resulted in the sale of about $2 million worth of unwinnable tickets in 2007. (See Tennessee Lottery computerized drawings flawed since inception, Lottery Post, Aug. 21, 2007.) The computer program that Smartplay International and Gaming Laboratories International came up with for games such as Cash 3 and Cash 4 was flawed and resulted in thousands o
Dec 17, 2011, 9:22 am - Todd - Lottery News

The transformation of Lucky for Life into a computerized daily drawingNews Story
How the popular multi-state game evolved By Kate Northrop In April, state lotteries participating in the popular multi-state Lucky for Life lottery game announced that the game would be moving from bi-weekly drawings to a once-daily draw format. Now that the changeover has officially transpired since last Monday, Jul. 19, Lottery Post took a closer look at how and why the game offering players the opportunity to wi n $1,000 a day for life evolved as a whole. For a little over a week
Jul 28, 2021, 2:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Canada lotteries changing biggest games to computerized drawingsNews Story
Random number generators will be used for Lotto Max and Lotto 649 after May 14 Starting mid-May, players of Canada's two largest multi-province lottery games will no longer be able to rely on real lottery ball drawings to choose the winning numbers. Instead, the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation will retire the lottery balls that generate the winning numbers for Lotto Max and Lotto 649 on May 14, moving to a computer program called a random number generator. They're part of our histo
Apr 24, 2019, 6:19 pm - Todd - Lottery News

MUSL CHIEF OUSTED OVER JACKPOT-RIGGING SCANDALNews Story
Key industry official has run Powerball from its inception Bret Toyne appointed interim executive director A prominent lottery official who has run the Powerball game since its inception was quietly removed from his 28-year post leading the Multi-State Lottery Association after a jackpot-fixing scandal inside his organization got bigger, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. Charles Strutt, executive director of the association since its 1987 founding, was stripped o
Dec 23, 2015, 2:39 pm - Todd - Lottery News

ARKANSAS LOTTERY DRAWINGS TO BE COMPUTERIZEDReply
Don't play any Doubles or Triples at first! Are people afraid the computerized drawings can't be systemized or that they will have programming errors that make some ticket unwinnable or that they can be more easily fixed? Would we accept computerized drawings if they could be proven to run flawlessly and fairly? Many of the same people who are against computerized Lotteries have no problem with online casinos that are not only computerized but less regulated. I don't like computerized a
Aug 9, 2009, 1:53 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery's Hargrove named chair of the Powerball GroupReply
Don't be so sure. The folks at MUSL have talked about doing it before, and Hot Lotto is surely a test case. It would be a simple matter to convert Powerball to computerized drawings, and they have been laying the groundwork for a long time. People said no way Tennessee would go computerized , and it happened in a flash. The states would NOT jump ship to Mega Millions over computerized drawings. No way in 100 years. The people in government could care less if the games are computerized or n
Jul 29, 2009, 2:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News