Lottery pre-test question?

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justxploring — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:50:14 GMT

Bob, is this done for all games? I never really thought about it until I got on this board, but it does concern me. I don't understand the statement if they don't like the results because who makes that decision? If the balls are carefully measured, weighed, checked for density and whatever might influence the outcome of a draw before they are used, I don't understand why they even need to be tested before a game, but I'm not a scientist or mathematician. I just googled the words ballset and... [ More ]

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four4me — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:17:51 GMT

It's my understanding in Maryland that the ball sets they will use for a drawing are picked by a computer. Leaving out the human element as to some employee favoring a specific set of balls in their locked ball cabinets. All the balls in the cabinets are calibrated to within specific weights and measurements. Before each drawing they do pretests to validate the balls and machines before the draw for auditing purposes and to insure that each machine is functioning properly. The whole process can... [ More ]

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BobP — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:25:17 GMT

The state of Florida conducts several pre-draws prior to the real drawing. If they don't like the results they try another machine ballset combination. I have no idea exactly how many tests they do or what they are looking for but I assume if the same number(s) keep coming up they can't take the chance it's just random and set the machine ballset combination aside for a checkup.

If the game were totaly random, they wouldn't have to rotate machines and ballsets. The fact they do, tells us th... [ More ]

Lottery pre-test question?

lotterybraker — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:38:42 GMT

do they..the state lotteries pretest everygame before they draw and if so..do they pretest the same amount of times before every draw?..because I didnt really know they pretested anything..that explains quite a bit..that will explain why a set of numbers I am looking for will come out in a certain time frame I am depending on..and next time it will be double or tripple time which would indicate that the number/s I was looking for may have showed in a predraw and was discarded and I had to wait f... [ More ]