Missouri Pick 3 players get bonus drawing

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Todd — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:01:22 GMT

The Missouri Lottery does not use ball drawings for anything. It is a computer pick, and they CALL it a ball.

In fact, they call ALL the numbers picked by their computer balls , which is pretty mystifying.

I guess they want people to THINK that there are real balls being used, which raises the question, why are they so afraid of reminding people that a computer picks the numbers

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LckyLary — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:21:57 GMT

They do this in nj in February or March. The problem is it messes up my algorithms and when I did win during a double drawing it was always on the first draw.

I am GUESSING that a ball machine will be only used to draw the orange ball because it would be cumbersome to write an extra program to keep track of what color balls are still in rotation . They can draw the first number, run the machine, and then if it's orange they run the computer program a second time. I'm curious if any of this is... [ More ]

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bashley572 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:56:40 GMT

In NY about once a year they INCREASE the payout on Numbers (3way) and Win4 by 20% for about 5 days. I have hit a couple of times then and it is cool to hit and win extra money

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spy153 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:50:31 GMT

Sounds like fun. Would be nice to have it here.

Missouri Pick 3 players get bonus drawing

Lottery Post — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:00:04 GMT

A special promotion is giving Missouri Lottery Pick 3 players a shot at doubling their chances of winning cash in the Midday drawing.

From Oct. 19 through Nov. 15, the Lottery will draw the winning Pick 3 numbers along with a second drawing from among three white balls and one orange ball. If the orange ball is drawn, the Lottery will draw a bonus set of Pick 3 numbers, giving players a second chance to win cash to win from the same ticket purchase.

Even though there are no balls utilized