LottoMike:  I'll concede that humans wouldn't be opposed to conspiracy if they thought they could get by with it, or if there was sufficient monetary gain, even if they figured they might get caught.

But we humans are fairly stupid in a lot of ways, fickle, jealous, and when we buy one another we can't be depended upon to stay bought.  That's why I rule out a conspiracy.

So maybe it's just coincidence.  Maybe it's flawed machinery misbehaving in ways we aren't looking hard enough to detect, all manifactured in the same places with built-in flaws (though that doesn't account for the RNGs having similar flaws that rhyme with those of the ball machines).

Or maybe there's something at work here that has those numbers responding to something we haven't bothered to measure..... 

Occam's razor demands that anyone looking for a solution pick the one that's least unlikely. 

Jack

Rip Snorter, I am a scientist, I need control experiment. Let' mess up with the date and perform a similar analysis. If you can still get some patterns, that means those are just spikes in statistical deviation. If pattern dissapears, then I would agree there is something there.

Your agreement isn't a necessary element in my life.  However, if you back test the method I just PMed you it ought to get the job done.  Combining that method with the 'date' method should give you the hole in probability theory you're looking for.  Plugging in some other methods you can find on other threads will get it down to 20 numbers most times.

Jack

Well, if I become a believer, then I would work on it, and feed you back with my new discovery. Isn't that the reason we are discussing here?

If I do not believe it, I will just wait for you to work on it. One less brain contribution.

No problem.

Good luck.

Jack

probably just coincidence

I suppose so.

J