Has anyone proved that one is more/less predictable than the other?

or is it a trust issue?

I am an Indiana resident who has played our state lottery since it's inception. We used to have a televised drawing, but no more. I was informed a few weeks ago that we had gone to the computerized drawing.  Though I'm not 100% sure of this, it seems to make sense.  Indiana's lotto has never exceeded the $20 million dollar range, if I'm not mistaken, and now we're posting a $47 million jackpot.  With the ball drawing the winning numbers were readily available, though winning tickets were not announced until the following day, presumably because the system took overnight to scan for winning tickets. So, I'm wondering, if the drawing is computerized, it could be delayed until all the bets were in. Then the computer could choose from all the leftover combinations that weren't played, and nobody would hit the jackpot. Well, as with all lotteries, when no one hits the jackpot grows, people play more for the larger jackpot, and the state rakes in even bigger profits. Indiana's lotto increases only $500,000 per drawing, no matter what the jackpot or how much more sales are generated. So they are pocketing a fortune the past 40-some weeks. With this much money coming in, they don't want a winner! Not to mention the fact that our governor is trying to contract the lotto to some investor. ( The same way he did our toll road ). Could it be the state is trying to impress this investor with the possibilities of HUGE profits? Or do they just intend to squeeze us for as long as they can?  Anyway, I smell a rat........

We hav 50% cp drawings in W.C

The systems are stand alone ( the tickets sold) The number drawn 2 machines not tied in together.

i for one hate computerized drawings..delaware has computerized drawings and they cheat so badly it is pitiful..why i still play i will never know..at least when they had the ball drawings you had a half a chance ..not so with computerized drawaings..delaware cheats and cheats...it is a sorry state of affairs when a state does that...oh well..there time will come...lesonook

I’ll vote in favor of the computerized draws due to the theory (or just my belief) that the random number generator is not completely random and the occasional patterns can be tracked for profit.  California’s Fantasy 5 used to be mechanical balls in the hopper though they switched to computerized at some point in ’88.   Here’s an interesting test when looking at the data sets for the early mechanical and later computer draw methods.  I built a database table that has the frequency of the 39 numbers, where each day it looks at the last 6 draws and gets the count for each.  Between 9/8/07 and 9/3/07, the 32 was picked 5 times in six draws in CA’s F5.  I’ve noticed other predictable trends when that (5/6) happens so I ran a query against the total dataset going back to ’92.  I found that in the era of computerized draws, the machine had almost twice the number of instances of a number hitting 5 times in 6 draws.  

An example where it may have been rigged: on 11/25/00 all 5 numbers in CA’s F5 repeated from 10 draws back (11/15/00) and something like 26 or 28 people matched all 5 numbers.  That made me wonder if there may have been an inside job or some kind of fix.  Anyone in California can verify the 11/15/00 and 11/25/00 "anomaly" by asking the retailer for a printout.

I agree with you on this matter. The hoosier lottery is fixed. The machine picks all the numbers nobody picks and then picks the winning numbers from that list. As I said in a comment I made maybe the Indiana Attorney General needs to look this problem very hard and in great depth.  By 10/21/07 the jackpot will  have gone a year w/o being hit. Way too long in my opinion. Go back too the ping pong balls and live televised drawings.

Drawing machines aren't connected to sales computers.  Most of the time, sales are handled by a contractor. 

You might want to believe that but I disagree with you. It has been (as of 10/21/07) almost A year that the IN lotto has been hit. Even with the odds that the lotto has it should been hit two or three time in that period ,maybe even more. I haven't done any research on the other online games exclusive to IN only But I bet my last lotto $ they haven't been hit as frequently as they were hit before the computer started picking the winning numbers. As you said in your comments most of the time, sales are handled by a contractor. Just suppose the contractor also controls and programs the drawing computers and they are networked to each other.  Thanks for your comments.

Most of the time? Theory or fact?

Balls are definitely not connected to the sales database, you see there is no network card or RJ45 connector hooked to the mechanical ball machine.

Call me old fashion, but this woman just love balls.