Here's some pictures of that new lotto selector thingamajig... + other things

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ThatScaryChick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:29:16 GMT

That's a neat little gadget. Cool find!

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wiltay — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:51:37 GMT

How cool!

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sorensonfan41 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:49:37 GMT

Very valid point about the balls and stuff truecritic. I've noticed some "imperfections" in the balls myself.....mostly because they were attached to plastic thingamajigs and you had to twist the balls off of those. Yeah, I could imagine a possible bias to the drawn numbers.....but it's better than shelling out 4 digits for a used bingo blower and balls and stuff just to have some fun and whatever. ;-)

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truecritic — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:34:15 GMT

<br />I imagine that you will eventually see a bias on the numbers drawn by it.

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reddog — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:08:50 GMT

That was a good find. I remember the days my son and I would go to the Goodwill store every Saturday morning. You will surprised what "treasures " you can find there.

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sorensonfan41 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:48:22 GMT

Reddog, my mom found it at a Goodwill store. She was shopping while I was playing scratcher tickets at a nearby tobacco mart.

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reddog — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:37:11 GMT

cool looking machine. Where did you find it?

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konane — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:58:52 GMT

Just saw your video. That's exactly like the one I was given about 13 years ago.... lots of fun playing with it. Your mom has a sharp eye .... not sure if they're made anymore.

Original Blog Entry: Here's some pictures of that new lotto selector thingamajig... + other things

sorensonfan41 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:12:52 GMT

That 1st one just shows the item. The 2nd one shows it after 12 nmbers have been drawn. I have a YouTube video of the thing in action here. I do welcome comments (here on LP as I've disabled comments on YouTube for that video) on how I can possibly get the stuff to show up better (what could I do lighting wise....like turn off my monitor, my bedroom light, etc. or any other suggestion).

Now that I've realized the video capabilities of my digital camera........that might open the door up for some new stuff.

Later on, I'll post some details on my proposed 5/60 blog challenge (which would be a must-match-all-5 game.......fewer balls it takes you to match all 5, the more you win -- few as 5 balls and as many as 12 balls to match all 5).

Update: The darn thing has decided to quit working on me (thing that turns the plastic cage refuses to turn, despite holding down the buttons and the motor running). Gears or whatever may have messed up or something. Plus, I've been tinkering around with my game idea and it isn't working out (I've been doing test runs of the game idea and decided it's too hard to match all 5.....but I do get close by adding a 13th number). Back to the ol' drawing board (and in need of a small screwdriver so I can unscrew the thing, open the case, and have a look to see if anything can be done to fix the bloody thing).

Until next time, may you hit all 5 numbers in your pick 5 game.

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