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• Mikkin

  

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  Aug 16, 2011, 11:56 am

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  I've been wondering, how are the set of balls put inside the machine?

  Seeing the drawings on TV, I see that the balls are placed in several tubes and are dropped inside at once to be shuffled, but...

  1) are the balls randomly placed in each tube? or are they grouped like 1-10, 11-20, 21-30?

  2) if they are grouped, are they in a random order or are they in order like 1,2,3,4....
• guesser

  

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  Aug 24, 2011, 11:53 am

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  Dang, I have witnessed a few ball drops, and I don't even remember!
• Mikkin

  

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  Aug 26, 2011, 1:09 pm

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  Not that knowing it would change much, but was just curious...
• Raven62

  

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  In response to Mikkin

  Quote: Originally posted by Mikkin on Aug 26, 2011

  Not that knowing it would change much, but was just curious...

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