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Random Skew Vs BiasReply
I've read that there are formulas that mathematicians can use to calculate the parameters of randomness and bias of any event. I would imagine the lotteries audit their drawings and prizes payouts and investigate whenever those events are not within the expected parameters. When PowerBall had all those 5of5 wins last year it triggered an investigation that ended at a fortune cookie factory in New York.
Jul 13, 2006, 2:51 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Preferred lottery prediction methodsReply
People who win with any regularity have a system. Calling it their lucky or favorite or fortune cookie numbers results in less hounding (from the what's your method? crowd) than calling it anything else.
Jan 21, 2006, 10:42 pm - time*treat - Mathematics Forum

Your own personal "supercomputer" for number crunching?Reply
That's always the case, Pac. They don't care how you went about losing, but let a few people win and it's Let's go investigate the fortune cookie factory or Those numbers were shown on a T.V. show... , but they can hide and (mess) up without consequence. Bah, you can't even get tips without their hand out again (double taxation, that). For those of you who play p3 p4, just look for those glitches and load the boat like this guy in Michigan did: from their state lottery site LANSING, April
May 2, 2008, 1:25 am - time*treat - Mathematics Forum

Statistics around the balance of even/odd and small/big numbersReply
TO: Jimmy4164 CC: RJOH, Stack47 RE: Quick Review of OP's Question For any ball drawn, isn't the probability of it being even or odd the same? Is this tendency explained by the small probablility increase that the next ball will be odd if the previous balls drawn are even? Jimmy, these are the two questions posed for discussion in (this) stef's thread. You have missed that point. Now you might convince someone you have proven a correlation between reality and adverse co
Jan 7, 2011, 1:15 pm - garyo1954 - Mathematics Forum