Same Mega Ball three drawings in a row...

A better question might be  "why does it take an hour to drop 6 balls out of a machine?"  They have an hour "draw break" where you can't purchase any tickets and they draw the numbers.  Powerball at least claims and shows the pretests they say they have.  MM doesn't even claim to do pretests.  But still, an hour?  C'mon!  Doesn't that scream "fixed" to anyone else but me?

I mentioned that in another topic, it gives them plenty of time to find unused combinations seeing as every number played is reported instantly back to the HQ. The only problem is that unless there's only a few people involved, the secret would get out rather quickly if a lot of people working with the MM knew. The more that would know, the harder the secret would be to keep. But it wouldn't be all that hard to rig.

The places you're buying your ticket are making a decision to stop selling tickets an hour before the drawing because in Ohio at 24hrs service stations I have bought MegaMillions tickets at 10:45 PM, 15 minutes before the drawing and the clerks have told me I still had plenty of time but I've never taken the chance.

Because they are not fixed ?

I can tell you in PB there is a decent amount of history with White Balls hitting 3 times in a row, Red Balls I have not really looked at, but I know it has not happened in the last 3-4 years.

No reason to think it is IMPOSSIBLE to happen.

If that is the case, MUSL needs to make regulations that make ALL states have the same draw break time....Keep it fair.

I beleve this as well.

Each state runs its multi-state games under its rules.  That's the reason California has pari-mutual payouts and Ohio has fixed payout for the same game.  In Ohio MM winners have only 6 months to claim their prizes while some other MM states will wait a year.   

What's unfair about having an earlier shutoff time in one state than another? If you can't buy your tickets in the 3 or 4 days that they're on sale before the shutoff time you've got bigger problems than an extra 40 minutes will solve.

At one time part of the Ohio Lottery retailer's agreement was that a business must be open until 8 PM Monday through Saturday, but that changed when they added more retailers, Sunday drawings, and the 11 PM Mega Millions drawings. The machines stop selling tickets for the daily Midday drawings at 12:27 PM and at 7:27 PM for the evening drawings. If you're using play slips or playing a number multiple times close to the deadline, it's possible some of your tickets will be next day's drawing.

Some stores are closed on Sunday or close earlier and if a store close at 8:00 or 9:00 on any day, that becomes their MM deadline. In California they see the MM drawing at 8:00 PM when most the stores are still open so there is no reason for MM to mandate all the terminals stop selling tickets an hour before the drawing.

The drawing is not fixed.....however I can gurantee you to a high degree of certainty that the game is designed to payout on the combinations that will pay out the minimal amount so that they can make a profit. Why does the #26 show up three time in a row? Simple....because some player out there is spending a whole lot of money on those three drawings and the #26 in his pack is distributed unevenly. If the said player playes the exact series of combinations he did for the last there drawings I can gurantee you #26 would show up again.

How many times have I told you.....with proper series of combinations you can manipulate which direction the numbers will not go.....the trick is to having a series of combinations that will fall into the column of least waged upon numbers. Hint hint!