Lottery

As new rules and game features in the Powerball Lottery are being implemented this week, one state is already having upgrade issues.  Idaho Lottery Officials have announced that a number of error tickets were printed after they performed the necessary upgrades on their own system:

“During the upgrade of Idaho’s Powerball game, operator error resulted in a small number of Powerball tickets being printed in error during a short period of time,” said Zeke Chemodurow, Idaho General Manager for Intralot, Inc., the Idaho Lottery’s lotto-systems provider. “The ticket information and the locations where they were printed at have been identified and that information has been provided to the lottery.”

Now the question is, did any other states make errors as a result of the upgrade?

The last $10.00 ticket of the allotted 250,000 has been sold in the Idaho Lottery New Year’s Eve Raffle.  The drawing will take place 1 minute before 10pm on Tuesday with a top prize of $1mil , four $15k prizes, 500 $300.00 prizes, and 150 $100.00 prizes.

Lottery officials said ticket purchase rates were topping 1000/hour before the last one was bought.