"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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"Roy L" wrote in message
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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
Hi Arfa, agreed - keeping the silence would be the hardest part of the
operation although it probably could be done with a stringent penalty
contract for everyone in the know.
Although I dont believe the lotto is random - they would have to let
me examine the internals of the draw machine to convince me - I still
am a member of a syndicate at work. We have been using the same set of
7 numbers "wheeled" for 6 years and never had a sniff. We usually
average about 3 to 4 wins of 40 quid per year. Maybe we are using a
set of numbers that too many people are also using! The fish reference
was a bit tongue in cheek - although I dont live too far away from
Fleetwood!

Roy