From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

The Maryland Lottery will now use a Random Number Generator for the Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5, Bonus Match 5 and Multi-Match drawings. It will be done in a secure room where drawing officials will ...

The random-number glitch in the software Tipton said he warned Multi-State Lottery officials about in 2006 is separate from the code he inserted into the system that allowed him to predict numbers ...

A Virginia man has a lot more time on his hands since retiring from his job in October. Part of that time is spent playing the lottery. Glenn Cyrus, a Lynchburg resident, was playing the Easy Pick ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --A Michigan man who won a lottery jackpot of $25,000 a year for life said the numbers on his winning ticket came from a random number generator he found online.Aaron Essenmacher, 50 ...

As part of the admissions process for most DOE public school programs, each applicant is assigned a random number — like a lottery. These random numbers are used in cases where there are more ...

In the past few months when we’ve tried to make a little sense of random numbers in Powerball and Mega Millions, things have been pretty random.. The two stories we update after each lottery's ...

Glenn Cyrus, a Lynchburg resident, was playing the Easy Pick Cash 5 game from the Virginia Lottery ahead of the Jan. 30 drawing when he had to pick his numbers, according to a Feb. 21 news release.