This post is NOT directed at Guru101, nor at any other members. Guru's statement is included here because it makes a valid point, and the comments below are intended to address the topic being discussed.
I could re-hash everything LosingJeff and I have posted on this subject in multiple threads, but I'm not going to do that. I'm reading the same, tired old arguments from people who simply refuse to believe that a state lottery can be rigged to produce a pre-determined outcome. "But the lottery would never do that, because look at what would happen if they got caught." Realistically, the same argument could be presented if we were discussing any criminal endeavor, and it would be just as valid. Believing the inherent consequences actually deter criminal activity is very naive, and I would point to any newspaper in the country to support this claim. Our jails are full of people who believed they wouldn't be caught, even knowing the likely consequences of their actions. Had LosingJeff and I accepted this lame argument, we would never have obtained the evidence we now have in our possession (which amounts to 610 different independently-verified documents). Even the lawyers admit that what we have is damning evidence. Three different Indiana law firms have told us that what we've collected "is probably sufficient to convict on AT LEAST three RICO predicates (Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Misappropriation/ Conversion of Public Funds)." So why weren't charges filed? "Because," the lawyers told us, "the State House can make it very difficult for us to make a living." They're simply afraid that our legislature will put them out of business, so they do nothing.
Further, we have proven beyond ANY possible doubt that the Hoosier Lottery has engineered and continues to engineer the results of their daily game numbers and their lotto game. They've BEEN caught, so now we know what happens - NOTHING happens, but not for the reasons most of you choose to believe, in spite of what's been presented here.
There must be 100 different threads on this topic alone, and there will probably be 100 more by this time next year. They all say the same things, they all seem to end with some type of personal attack against another member, and I don't see anything here to indicate that this one won't end the same way. People will stew for a while, and the subject will be forgotten until someone gets bored and decides to stir things up again with yet another version of "Is Your Lottery Rigged?"
LosingJeff and I worked very hard for FOUR YEARS to gather information and evidence to support our allegations concerning the hopelessly corrupt Hoosier Lottery. We met with players, Indiana lawmakers, Hoosier Lottery executives and personnel, attorneys, reporters and countless others. We didn't sit in front of our computers speculating on a forum whether or not our lottery was operating dishonestly; we went out into the world and gathered hard PROOF. Those of you who haven't been exposed to an operation of this type will have no concept of a crooked lottery; you simply cannot imagine it, because it's beyond your scope of vision. YOUR lottery might have drawn identical numbers back-to-back, but you might have won the following week, so you tell yourself it was just a coincidence. It probably was, but that in itself does not mean that other lotteries in other states CAN'T be manipulating their RNG technology in order to minimize payouts. This is what the Hoosier Lottery does, and if you'd take the time and trouble to check the payouts on their daily games for a week or so, and then compare those payouts to those of similarly-situated lotteries (those with equal or lesser populations than Indiana), you would see the glaring disparity present there. Couple that with the fact that, every year, the Hoosier Lottery cries to the press that no one is buying tickets, and that's why their payouts are not as high as those of identical games in other states. Then, when their annual report comes out, the Hoosier Lottery crows about setting new sales records. Well, either they're selling lots of tickets, or they're not selling lots of tickets. They can't NOT sell tickets AND set new records every year; I've done the math, and it just won't prove out, because lottery tickets are their ONLY product.
If you want to know how a lottery can be rigged against the players, do a search and read the information LosingJeff and I have posted in other threads. If you can't be bothered with such mundane tasks, then you're not really looking for answers; you're looking for an argument.
I don't think anyone here would disagree that an RNG CAN be programmed to produce a predetermined result. I just don't understand why otherwise reasonable, rational and intelligent people would adamantly refuse to believe that someone, even a state lottery, would make every effort to exploit that flaw for their own ends.