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DC Lottery offers compensation for players affected by computerized draw errorNews Story
DC Lottery offers several pathways for remediation after programming error caused untold tickets to lose out By Kate Northrop After Lottery Post alerted the DC Lottery to a possible error that prevented tickets from winning in three of its local draw games for weeks, the DC Lottery has announced several different forms of compensation for players who may have been impacted by the computerized drawing glitch. Last week, Lottery Post reached out to the DC Lottery after Lottery Post mem
Apr 27, 2026, 7:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Anti Computerized Lottery Petition
Anyone know if the petition to eliminate computerized drawings is gaining steam?Any other orgs supporting the measure?Thanks
Apr 23, 2026, 6:57 am - meta19 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas: 4/1 - 4/30/2026Reply
lol... ...Yeah, maybe for those states that use computers to choose their numbers, but Texas is a ball machine state. No algorithm to compete against. I only predict states that use ball machines because computers can be manipulated more easily. I don't know of any ball machine manipulation since the 80's. But yeah, our strategies have to be undeniable in these ball machine states. It's all good tho. Keep it movin'... Since I'm talking about computerized drawings and ball mac
Apr 18, 2026, 8:40 pm - LottoIntuitive - Pick 3 Forum

Florida: 4/1 - 4/30/2026Reply
Yeah computerized drawings are a whole different animal than ball machines. Computerized drawings should be boycotted. But with ball machines, it's an extremely rare occurrence to see the results come out like this within 3 consecutive drawings. The 95 pair just hit for the 5th consecutive time. I can't remember ever seeing the same pair hit 5x in a row. I'm mean sure these events are bound to happen eventually over the years. I've just never seen this happen in my 17 years o
Apr 28, 2026, 1:51 pm - LottoIntuitive - Pick 3 Forum

DC 5 Lottery needs to be audited immediately. The same thing that happened to Tennessee in 2007Reply
does dc lottery use computerized drawings? as of right now, all 39 april pick 5 drawings have been singles, and the probability of that happening randomly is 5.5295 x 10^-21. that's 1 in 181 quintillion. lol. just milk it, man.
Apr 20, 2026, 4:30 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

Anti Computerized Lottery PetitionReply
part of the problem with computerized drawings is that state lotteries use third party vendors to make overly elaborate computer programs that the lottery employees themselves cannot easily audit because they're run on some proprietary systems. an eighth grader could write a simple python or javascript program to generate lottery numbers. this is not difficult stuff. and it would be cheaper to do this in-house. but probably some lottery officials get kickbacks for outsourcing every single l
Apr 23, 2026, 12:53 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
I have a bit of sympathy about that response that players were getting from the lottery, mainly because the lotteries all get accused by angry gamblers daily of being rigged. So the handful of messages they might have received as a result of this drawing error were likely dwarfed by the daily onslaught of similar messages that do not have a shred of proof. You really can't expect a customer service rep to sort all that out, and the result is a canned response, because most of the time what they
Apr 22, 2026, 6:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News

DC 5 Lottery needs to be audited immediately. The same thing that happened to Tennessee in 2007Reply
just to add more context to this conversation, here are some past news articles about programming errors in computerized drawings other states similar to what we're seeing with dc pick 5 https://www.lotterypost.com/news/112810 https://www.lotterypost.com/news/315664 https://www.lotterypost.com/news/265143 https://www.lotterypost.com/news/161740 i bet someone at dc lottery is already sweating bullets knowing they are drawing with bad code. but they won't fix it until they
Apr 20, 2026, 11:58 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

same Ga. Cash 3 number hitting straight 3 days in a row all midday?
so on 9/17/25 239 dropped midday and on 9/18/25 239 dropped midday and on 9/19/25 239 dropped midday What are the odds on that? welp they are 1 in 1,000,000 Why? once a number hits on Day 1, the chance it repeats exactly on Day 2 is 1/1000, and repeats again on Day 3 is another 1/1000. Multiply 1/1000 x 1/1000 = 1 /1,000,000 Rule-of-thumb: you d expect a three-day identical run about once every 2,700 2,800 years of daily midday draws Research it for yours
Sep 19, 2025, 4:50 pm - lottoman626 - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
With regard to the last paragraph, I remember watching the DC Lottery drawings when they used balls. It was much more entertaining the first time I saw the computerized drawing on TV, I stopped watching the drawings on TV. Even though I live in a RNG lottery state, I go onto the Texas Lottery website every once in a while to watch their live drawings.
Apr 27, 2026, 12:10 am - Hermanus104 - Lottery News