It was red faces all round at the Illinois lottery company last week.
About 3,000 duplicate quick-pick lottery tickets were issued!
Now that’s embarrassing.
[It was a software problem and only affected players in Illinois, USA]
Lottery terminals were being upgraded over the weekend, and part of the software upgrade process caused a problem with quick pick numbers not being cleared down properly.
If you lived in Pennsylvania in 1980, and were old enough to read a newspaper, I’m pretty certain you’ll know all about the Nick Perry lottery scandal.
But for those of us who don’t know, and for those who love a good conspiracy story – here’s the one about the Pennsylvania lottery scandal.
Brad Duke was a Powerball winner back in 2005. He won the headline grabbing Powerball jackpot of $220 Million, and after choosing the lump sum payout he happily banked $85 Million.
In an interview with Fortune Magazine in 2007 Brad revealed the lottery strategy that was responsible for his big win.
You’ve seen the shiny lottery systems, may have even bought one. It didn’t work of course. So are there any lottery systems that work?
There is so much lottery junk online. Not just systems, but bad advice and poor information everywhere.
Just dare to ask what really works in an online lottery forum — you’ll get 10 ‘experts’ swearing on their mother’s life that asking Felix the psychic feline is the only way to win 🙂
Then another 10 who say system ‘x’ works.
This post was originally a comment on my page reviewing lottery systems, but I thought it was worthy of getting a post of it’s own.
So with thanks to ‘Hobbs’ for hitting the nail squarely on the head again. Over to him for some wisdom about which is the best lottery system to use.
Yes, the Pick 3 lottery is much easier to win. But as a lottery game, it pretty much sucks.
Because you might just as well be feeding your money into a slot machine.
The best you can ever hope for with Pick 3 games is a fairly small win, typically about $500.
This has to be one of the most over-used and unoriginal phrases.
The lottery is a tax on the stupid… or the lottery idiot tax.
Or my personal favorite variation… the lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Gosh, that’s so desperately witty.
This phrase has been abused by dull, smug people for years.
Wow, you could have heard a pin drop all over Florida on Monday.
Seriously, we’re talking gaping mouthed amazement when the Florida Fantasy 5 results came on screen.
14, 15, 16, 17, 18
A complete set of consecutive lottery numbers.
That’s just totally impossible. What an incredible result. The game is clearly fixed… and other such nonsense could be heard from every direction.
This is one question I get asked fairly often… “have you ever won the lottery?”
And I do understand why I get asked.
But there is a very good reason why it shouldn’t even cross your mind to ask.
I’ll try to explain why with a quick story.
Bill and Ben are playing a dice game.
Fans of TV series ‘Lost’ were thrilled to find 4 of the 6 ‘Lost’ lottery numbers came up on the US Mega Millions (4th January).
Enthusiastic ‘Lost’ fans who played the numbers collected $150 each.
The ‘Lost’ numbers are a set of numbers made significant by cropping up in various guises throughout the series.