Is the Lotto down everywhere?

Snake Plisken · 04-02-2015 07:17PM

I Await Lizard Squad claiming they are responsible for the lotto outage!

Crunchienut · 04-02-2015 07:26PM

Independent.ie just tweeted: BREAKING: Tonight's scheduled Lotto draw will now take place tomorrow, after technical difficulties with ticket machines today

Señor Fancy Pants · 04-02-2015 07:34PM

Caaaaaaancelled!

I was hoping I was going to win - 1,2,3,4,5,6 is bound to happen one day.

Harry Palmr · 04-02-2015 07:35PM

RTE reporting now "cancelled due to gremlins" says yer one...cue gremlins going over to the cub reporter outside Lotto Towers

04-02-2015 07:35PM

https://m.facebook.com/nationallotteryireland?_rdr

Cancelled alright

Atlantic Dawn · 04-02-2015 07:36PM

Cancelled for the first time in the history of the draw in Ireland, it's a disgrace that I shall be calling Joseph Duffy to lodge my disgust.

Looks like Telefónica taking the headshot...

In a statement the National Lottery said it could confirm "that there were technical problems this morning following a service outage related to the 3G telecommunications infrastructure provided by Telefónica.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0204/677849-lottery/

whiskeyman · 04-02-2015 07:36PM

Truffle Pig wrote: »

Caaaaaaancelled!

I was hoping I was going to win - 1,2,3,4,5,6 is bound to happen one day.

It may well... but you'll win feck all apparently!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/240734.stm

Choosing numbers at the edge of the game card lifts your chance of being a solo winner, as people tend to shy away from these. Also, avoid the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Dr Simon Cox told the BBC - 10,000 people a week select this combination.

Señor Fancy Pants · 04-02-2015 07:38PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

It may well... but you'll win feck all apparently!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/240734.stm

That was 1998! Things are different now. People usually choose 6,5,4,3,2,1. Iv a much better chance than them thicks!

FloatingVoter · 04-02-2015 07:40PM

****..I got a ticket in Dunnes on Georges street while I was walking half the store out in a secondhand bag. Convinced I was going to win.
Dishonesty is rife, I tell ya.

fryup · 04-02-2015 07:42PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

wha?

beertons · 04-02-2015 07:42PM

Cancelled tonight. Balls.

Menas · 04-02-2015 07:57PM

Rats. Spent about 15 mins buying my ticket online just there...
The lotto website is v slow.
And now tonights draw is postponed until tomorrow.
Gggrrr.

The_Valeyard · 04-02-2015 08:20PM

And this was the night I was sure I was going to win....

LoonyLovegood · 04-02-2015 08:24PM

Grand stuff, forgot to do it tonight so that's handy enough.

Calibos · 04-02-2015 08:42PM

Truffle Pig wrote: »

Caaaaaaancelled!

I was hoping I was going to win - 1,2,3,4,5,6 is bound to happen one day.

In Ireland the figure is 2,000 clever clogs who say to themselves that they alone understand statistics and that 123456 is as likely as any other combination to come up and thus they won't have to share the winnings with anyone.

The irony is that that thinking is shared by 2,000 other people. My shop alone has 3 regulars who play 123456. Further irony is that because the jackpot prize fund is ring fenced from the prize-fund for the rest of the prizes, that if the jackpot that week is the base 2 million, their share of the jackpot would be €1,000 meaning they'd come out with less winnings than someone who only got 5 numbers

A few years ago at the height of the TV shows popularity, 5 of the 6 'LOST' lotto numbers came up in the Irish Lotto. A few hundred more players than usual thus got 5 numbers in the lotto and instead of winning the usual amount of about €1500, they only ended up getting €300 or something like that.

Collie D · 04-02-2015 08:43PM

Hmm. I did mine online. Always use the date of draw as two of my numbers. Will be seriously pissed off if five comes out. Still, quarter of a century without any issues is not bad going

WoollyRedHat · 04-02-2015 08:52PM

beertons wrote: »

Cancelled tonight. Balls.

No, no balls I'm afraid.

FloatingVoter · 04-02-2015 08:56PM

This means I can't leave this pile of rubble country until Friday morning at the earliest.
I'll just have to cancel the hookers and the champagne.
Oh well.

suicide_circus · 04-02-2015 09:05PM

First they took me cheep tins
den they took me loto

FloatingVoter · 04-02-2015 09:10PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

First they took me cheep tins
den they took me loto

Fear not, I'm going to drop 2015 slabs of Dutch Gold on Leo V.'s house as I fly out of here of my Lear jet.

It will be my partying gift.

thelad95 · 04-02-2015 09:14PM

So the Lotto isn't on tonight? I'll just throw €4 out the window instead.

endacl · 04-02-2015 09:15PM

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

They are cleaning the balls

That's important. I do it every day.

Greenmachine · 04-02-2015 09:15PM

Postponed till tomorrow. Time to get a ticket now.

whupdedo · 04-02-2015 09:18PM

Calibos wrote: »

In Ireland the figure is 2,000 clever clogs who say to themselves that they alone understand statistics and that 123456 is as likely as any other combination to come up and thus they won't have to share the winnings with anyone.

The irony is that that thinking is shared by 2,000 other people. My shop alone has 3 regulars who play 123456. Further irony is that because the jackpot prize fund is ring fenced from the prize-fund for the rest of the prizes, that if the jackpot that week is the base 2 million, their share of the jackpot would be €1,000 meaning they'd come out with less winnings than someone who only got 5 numbers

A few years ago at the height of the TV shows popularity, 5 of the 6 'LOST' lotto numbers came up in the Irish Lotto. A few hundred more players than usual thus got 5 numbers in the lotto and instead of winning the usual amount of about €1500, they only ended up getting €300 or something like that.

You know, this is probably the most interesting thing I've read on boards in yonks

Guy:Incognito · 04-02-2015 09:34PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

It may well... but you'll win feck all apparently!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/240734.stm

Imagine how sick you'd be if your once in a lifetime lotto win came in and instead of your 10m prize you were pointed towards a table with a huge pile of cheques on it and told to go stand in line and take one each for 1000.

Birneybau · 04-02-2015 09:38PM

Yay, extension on the idiot tax until tomorrow.

brian_gall85 · 04-02-2015 10:57PM

Calibos wrote: »

Not a speed issue per se, just that Vodafone must have given the PLI new lotto crowd a better deal for 3G than Eircom were giving the old lotto on Line Rental and DSL for the old system.

When I queried our installer about repositioning our Lotto DSL modem/router when he came to setup the new machine, he proudly explained it wasn't needed anymore because they were going wireless with 3G. Straight away I groaned and told him I envisaged huge problems ahead if that were the case. Turns out I was right.

That said, this particular outage unlike the previous outages which were more limited and spotty seems not to be 3G related but a problem with the main servers and/or their network nodes and interconnects to the 3G network.

You were right the first time, was a 3G problem, thankfully our mobile reception is very poor in store, so are still on eircom, meaning our terminal worked all day....well apart from the usual camera scanning issues.

Calibos · 04-02-2015 11:29PM

brian_gall85 wrote: »

You were right the first time, was a 3G problem, thankfully our mobile reception is very poor in store, so are still on eircom, meaning our terminal worked all day....well apart from the usual camera scanning issues.

3G or not 3G, that is the question!

Scratch card validation yeah? We don't have problem with Lotto slips. We did with scratch cards. It goes without saying that you need to go over the Q code with a fingernail again even if it appears the customer has already scratched over that area. Even a small spec of latex left on that part of the ticket can screw up the reading of the Q-Code. What I found solved the issue for us though was putting the stubborn scratch card along the back of the tray orientated long side against the back wall if you get me. Seems to read it first time every time that way.

brian_gall85 · 04-02-2015 11:54PM

Yeah have noticed that with the cards and the positioning of the cards on the tray, the biggest problem isn't getting the camera to read the ticket, card or slip, it's in getting the camera/sensor to activate at times when the red light has gone off. Total nightmare at times and only compounded by the self checkers being out of action.

bugfreebob · 05-02-2015 12:13AM

brian_gall85 wrote: »

You were right the first time, was a 3G problem, thankfully our mobile reception is very poor in store, so are still on eircom, meaning our terminal worked all day....well apart from the usual camera scanning issues.

The Lotto are blaming Telefonica/O2 network in Spain. Perhaps a problem due to the takeover by Three. Three have managed to disassociate themselves from the announcement, however. It probably suits them to blame the previous owners of the network. Why do Irish Lottery transactions need to go through Spain? Does that mean that O2's data network goes through Spain? The announcement said that the outage affected other business customers of Telefonica/O2.

Is the Lotto down everywhere?

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