"Roy L" wrote in message
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"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....

Roy


It's an interesting thought, but OCR or embedded RFID ? That would be a bit
obvious in terms of it requiring physical hardware to implement, and a whole
host of people from the designers to the programmers and machine
constructors who would all need to keep their mouths shut about it. I think
that might be taking conspiracy theories a bit far, really, and that the
smell of fish is drifting up the road from your local chippy ... !! d;~}

Arfa