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Minnesota Gov. vetoes bill to limit online lottery salesNews Story
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton vetoed a bill Friday that would have done away with online instant-play lottery games and barred sales of tickets via gas pumps or ATMs. His decision ends suspense over a bill that passed with big bipartisan majorities on the final day of the legislative session. The Democratic governor confessed to being torn over the strong message sent by lawmakers and his fear that the legislation was partly motivated by other gambling interests looking to protect their turf
Jun 1, 2014, 8:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Systems Forum just based on real stats and facts!Reply
FACTS FORUM...WELL LETS START OFF WITH SOME FACTS AND NOT GUESS WORK... FACT # 1...there are 1000 combinations in pic 3...if you play all 1000 then the time it takes you to win is ONE DAY...anything you do after that meaning the amount of combos you play WILL INCREASE THE TIME into the future... FACT # 2...TO FIND THE FUTURE YOU HAVE TO USE THE PAST...and that is where all MATHEMATICIANS are wrong...and just about everyone here at LP can figure that one out on their own...THE MAT
May 17, 2014, 9:27 pm - lotterybraker - Lottery Systems Forum

Postal agents intercept, destroy fake lottery checksNews Story
Includes video report Instead of sending foreign lottery letters and checks directly to you from Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica or Mexico, more and more, scammers are sending big batches of letters in a box, to middlemen in the United States. Each letter is stuffed in a pre-addressed envelope and many envelopes are stamped with American postage. The return addresses are typically just a private mailing center in an American city. The person who picks up the box may hand it off to yet another
Mar 4, 2014, 1:14 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania will not privatize lotteryNews Story
Pennsylvania is scrapping a deal with a U.K.-based company to privatize management of the state's lottery system, Governor Tom Corbett said on Monday. The state struck a deal more than a year ago with Camelot Global Services LLC, a subsidiary of Britain's national lottery operator, Camelot Group PLC, to guarantee $34.6 billion in payments to the state over 20 years to manage the Pennsylvania lottery. But Corbett's administration repeatedly had to extend the contract after Pennsylvania Atto
Dec 31, 2013, 8:43 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery director to departNews Story
The executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery is leaving for a private-sector position with a subcontractor of the company the state contracts for lottery services. Todd Rucci, appointed executive director in September 2011, will stay until Nov. 22. Then he'll take a government and communication relations job with PAP Technologies, a Lancaster-based firm specializing in lottery ticket printing for games such as Powerball and Mega Millions. The company is a subcontractor of Scientific
Nov 9, 2013, 6:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Jamaica making new efforts to curb lottery scamsNews Story
Jamaican officials said Thursday that they are hopeful new legislation will finally result in a stream of convictions and lengthy sentences for fraudsters behind a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that has swindled mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings for years. National Security Minister Peter Bunting told reporters that the law reform act will result in a vastly accelerated number of successful prosecutions of swindlers who have made the island a center for cross-border
Mar 15, 2013, 10:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Union fights effort to privatize Pa. LotteryNews Story
The union that represents Pennsylvania Lottery employees is fighting Gov. Corbett's move to privatize its operations. With a day to go until the private company's offer is set to expire, AFSCME Council 13 is waging a strong counterattack against outsourcing the profitable lottery in the courtroom, the Statehouse, and the streets. This week, a particularly edgy some might consider over-the-top billboard appeared near the Capitol, skewering the British firm that is the sole bidder for the lo
Jan 9, 2013, 12:09 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Are you good at Algebra?Reply
It looks like your calculations are incorrect. If you are trying to isolate the F, then the calculations should run like this: F = (A - B + F) / 3 F*3 = A - B + F 3F - F = A - B 2F = A - B F = (A - B) / 2 Of course if you incorrectly typed the first line of the equation and it was supposed to read : F = (A - B + F) * 3 Then it would follow: F/3 = A - B + F F/3 - F = A - B 2/3(F) = A - B F = (A - B) * (3/2) OR: F = ((A - B) * 3) / 2 The last line c
Aug 19, 2012, 4:12 am - AlgorithmGuru - Mathematics Forum

Minn. store clerk accused of "micro-scratching" lottery ticketsNews Story
What began as a complaint from a lottery customer about the loss of $15 led to an undercover operation and eventually the arrest of a store clerk for lottery fraud. A man told the Minnesota State Lottery he'd bought a scratch ticket at the Casablanca Market in Hopkins. He scratched it and found he'd won $15. But, when he took the ticket to the Lottery booth at the Minnesota State Fair, he was told the ticket had already been redeemed. Lottery Security checked the records they had from C
Jun 26, 2012, 8:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

The RINGS OF PI SYSTEM - download programReply
From a mathematical point of view to use the constant Pi (the ratio between a circumference of any given circle to its diameter) for creating Pick 3 numbers seems rather silly; the irrational number among the Pick 3 the integers 0 to 9 has the flavor of Pseudo-Math. But then as a fun exercise the use the constant Pi can be amusing and in quite a few cases it can also bring successful. {TEXT}I'd like to give you all an example of a Pi formula that that actually has the potential of hitting nu
Jun 24, 2012, 11:17 pm - CajunWin4 - Lottery Systems Forum