Roy L wrote:
"Ron" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
I guess the lottery machines are the best of all
worlds with a truly random pool of numbers on the balls, and a
one-at-a-time mechanical picking system. Hard to see how you could
make it any more random.
There`s quite a compelling conspiracy theory which says that the
results of the draw for the National Lottery are not entirely
random.
I havent bothered looking very far into it myself but it`s been
suggested that numbers which for 'human reasons' are more likely to
have been heavily picked tend to come out less often that the
average would suggest. There are tables of statistics somewhere in
teh interwebs I think.

In the event of a rollover, ticket sales rocket, so it would be in
the organisers interests for rollovers to occur.

As I understand it we already know that the live TV broadcast isn't
actually live but transmitted some minutes behind the actual event.

Ron

Dont start me off on this one Ron! I am one of the people who no
longer believethe UK LOTTO is random. I sent several letters some
years back to Camelot requesting that they actually state that it is
random. No replies. Then they changed the name of the game from
LOTTERY to LOTTO. Check the meaning of lottery. What was the real
reason for the change? Frightened of getting sued if the truth was
discovered?. Average Joe public does not understand how easy it is to
construct an apparently random ball selector using OCR or embedded
RFID. Why on Wednesdays can you not buy a ticket after 7.30 when the
draw is not announced sometimes until very late?. Has there ever been
a draw where there were dozens of people sharing the jackpot?
I smell fish....

Personally, I`d much rather 14 people won 1 million pounds each than one
person winning 14 million.

Ron