The Texas Lottery Commission suspended sales of tickets for its Pick 3 game Thursday night after the lottery operator said there was a computer code problem associated with the game.
The Texas Lottery Commission did not reveal any details about the nature of the computer glitch.
Drawings for the game will continue and any tickets already purchased for Pick 3 drawings are valid, said lottery spokesman Robert Elrod. Drawings are held twice a day Monday through Saturday.
Elrod said officials don't know when GTECH Corp. will have the problem corrected. "We're hoping it is soon," he said.
He said he didn't know when sales will resume.
have they ever had any other glitches like this recently? texas inflating jackpots,now this......
Texas is definitely having their problems, it would seem.
Fewer than NY, however.
true.
Their main problem is their greed.
Fewer than NY, however.
I think Texas is having more problems than NY. New York Lottery seems to run a tight ship.
Texas is trying to avoid a state income tax. They expect the lottery to help fund education and it isn't working. Income from a lottery is not steady enough to fund teacher salaries, etc. They need to wake up and smell the coffee. We turned down casinos for religious reasons and won't initiate a state income tax for philosophical reasons. We need to cut spending, but with the wetbacks crowding the ERs and other social services it is very hard. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California are in big trouble.
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