Self-serve lotto machines are down for a third week as the B.C. Lottery Corporation continues to fix a major glitch.
The B.C. Lottery Corporation in mid-April “temporarily” shut down hundreds of self-serve machines in bars and pubs after one of the terminals spat out two tickets with identical numbers.
At the time, BCLC said two Lotto Max Quick Pick tickets purchased from the same machine on two different days produced the same numbers. The lottery corporation acknowledged that producing two sets of identical three-line tickets is unusual.
BCLC told the Optimist today that it has completed its technical analysis of the system used to generate Quick Pick numbers for Lotto Max on self-service terminals (SSTs), and has now engaged a third-party testing lab to certify that the system is working as expected.
“Out of an abundance of caution, BCLC has asked the testing lab to also certify the system for all games on SSTs that utilize the Quick Pick convenience function. While duplicate tickets can and do occur, BCLC identified an anomaly in the system used to generate Quick Pick numbers for Lotto Max purchases on SSTs,” BCLC explains.
BCLC in a statement also notes it has assessed Quick Pick technology on all other points of sale used to generate tickets for players and determined that it is working as expected to generate random numbers.
