Lotto company can control lotto machine

Reply #13

hypersoniq — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:01:49 GMT

Of course they know the combos played, that's actually a big part of validation...play a ticket, the terminal dials up (if not already online) and transmits the bet info (#'s either player selected or terminal generated... I believe QPs are terminal generated because I got a PB QP, ticket printed then it dialled up because I could hear the modem negotiating). that serial number on the bottom of your ticket EXACTLY matches the entry in their database. Forger tries to alter the ticket so visually... [ More ]

Reply #12

sirbrad — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:06:30 GMT

Ok you want a game with 17 more balls, and by far a less chance of winning. Good logic.

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Greg — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:52:19 GMT

Cash writes, I would rather play a game with 55 balls than a certain PA game with 38 numbers. Cash, dude, are you CRAZY? LOLCompute the odds! I think you're suffering from lottery psychosis: the unshaken belief that it is more likely that playing 55 number will yield millions than playing 38 number will yield thousands a month!I know of only one cure: suspend all lottery play for 6 months until you recover your right lotto mind!Oh, one last thing: take three hugs and call me in the morning... [ More ]

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sirbrad — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:45:04 GMT

You got your 10 anti-LFL posts in for today...

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CASH Only — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:41:58 GMT

I would rather play a game with 55 balls than a certain PA game with 38 numbers.

Reply #8

sirbrad — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:21:18 GMT

At first I used to think that maybe they added a few duplicate balls in the machine, as they could not be seen clearly while the machine is spinning. But then I thought how embarrassing it would be if they drew duplicates. Or maybe they used less balls to narrow it down, because how do we know that there are actually 55 balls in there? They should show them in one big line going into the machine prior to the draw, this would erase some more speculation.But it would take all the fun out of playin... [ More ]

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truecritic — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:13:59 GMT

>I can list what lottery combination has not been bought in less than 5 minutesI have the way to win the Lotto jackpot almost every week. Since no one wins most weeks, if you will come here to Michigan and get the terminal to spit out tickets for all the combinations NOT bought - then I will be holding the winning ticket

Reply #6

JAG331 — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:17:03 GMT

I voted for Lotto company can control lotto machine. Looks like our friend meant to say can't on one of the choices.Maybe he can re-post the poll, and specify computerized or mechanical ball machine.

Reply #5

sirbrad — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:11:26 GMT

Yea with such an obviously biased/one-sided poll, you are basically saying that you only care about your own already solidified opinion. Probably why many have not bothered taking part in the thread, or voted.

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shalini — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:48:03 GMT

Quite pointless

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Todd — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:01:46 GMT

A poll is pretty meaningless unless there is more than one choice -- it's just silly.Also, there is no mention of what the word lotto machine means -- computerized or ball drawings. The answer would be completely different, based on which one you're talking about.

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bellyache — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:12:09 GMT

Hmmm...a poll where there is only one choice. What's the point

Reply #1

wreakshavok777 — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:55:58 GMT

sounds like you might be on to something? computers are for us the people who track the lottery , and balls are for the lottery drawing. The only way it should be

Lotto company can control lotto machine

liuhuiguo — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:38:30 GMT

I can list what lottery combination has not been bought in less than 5 minutesusing UNIX sort,diff and grep commands by comparingall 13,983,816 (for 6/49) combinations in a filewith testing files that contains all the virtual lottery sales.Let the lottery machine to drop out balls that the lottery company wants is easier trick than a little magician.There is almost one hour gap between sales close and lottery machine start working....In history there was lots of times that almost three times of