You do know that if they were to use that cards lotto machine that there will be easier to win than the balls machine called a hopper...The cards lotto machine will present are more EVIDENT pattern and/or trend (s) in the numbers it plays...Also if they were going to use the cards lotto machine they will have to do more pre-test than they are doing now because the mechanism that grips the lotto cards, doesn't look like the kind that it will always work flawlessly...Because the cards are wider and taller than a bouncing lotto balls they will have less room to collide, in fact a lot of less room to collide and you will see more numbers/cards that appeared previously repeat more often...
If they were going to go ahead with a lotto cards machine i suggest they use a machine that looks like a squared gumball candy machine...Here is a picture: http://www.gumballs.com/triple-proline.html
Here is a picture of another squared gumball candy machine: http://www.gumballs.com/trcacacoma.html
And because the walls would be squared & flat the balls will collide with the walls more often, and then collide with other balls more often...The squared gumball candy machine looking lotto machine will make the bouncing lotto balls have less room to collide with other balls or with the balls, and you thus will see more numbers that previously played before repeat more often...Also a cylindrical gumball candy machine looking lotto machine will do the same trick as a square-gumball-candy- machine-looking-hopper...Now only this but if they want to experiment with the hopper leaving patterns behind they could always make the bouncing lotto balls bigger...And a suggestion you can always simulate it on a computer using a computer program....
Of course this is providing they kept the same dimensions as the hopper they are using now or as the gumball candy machines......
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