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LottoVantage

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Mar 25, 2013, 3:32 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on Mar 25, 2013
Cuz she can slide right over the border to Hicksville and get her some tickets on real ball drawing games.

"Hicksville"?? Hey rdgrnr, most of us over here ain't got no teeth missing in the front, you must be thinking West Virginia?
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Mar 25, 2013, 3:42 pm

Quote: Originally posted by LottoVantage on Mar 25, 2013
"Hicksville"?? Hey rdgrnr, most of us over here ain't got no teeth missing in the front, you must be thinking West Virginia?

No LV, actually I'm talkin' about a real town right across the border from her - Hicksville, Ohio.

I bet the people who live there hate when people ask where they're from, lol.
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Mar 25, 2013, 3:46 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on Mar 25, 2013
No LV, actually I'm talkin' about a real town right across the border from her - Hicksville, Ohio.

I bet the people who live there hate when people ask where they're from, lol.

I'll bet they do to, ha ha...
SkyLine69

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Mar 25, 2013, 4:54 pm

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Mar 24, 2013
Would not seeing the balls being spinned around change your impression or betting on the game?

Personally l say- let the spinning of the balls continue into " infinity and beyond"- Transparency matters, especially when money is involved, your money.

Thoughts?

Here in Texas we would shoot em down like rattlesnakes on the hot dessert rocks
Saylorgirl

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Mar 25, 2013, 5:00 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on Mar 25, 2013
Cuz she can slide right over the border to Hicksville and get her some tickets on real ball drawing games.

And I have done that!! In fact I have a powerball winner for $7 ffrom Ohio sitting on my desk that I need to take in next time I cross the border!!
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Mar 25, 2013, 5:10 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Saylorgirl on Mar 25, 2013
And I have done that!! In fact I have a powerball winner for $7 ffrom Ohio sitting on my desk that I need to take in next time I cross the border!!

I knowed it!
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Mar 25, 2013, 5:14 pm

Quote: Originally posted by SkyLine69 on Mar 25, 2013
Here in Texas we would shoot em down like rattlesnakes on the hot dessert rocks

What kinda rocks do y'all eat for dessert down there, Tex?
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Mar 25, 2013, 6:03 pm

I'm wondering how many people that say they wouldn't play a computerized game buy raffle tickets.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
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Mar 25, 2013, 6:40 pm

I would'nt play rng, before I came to LP I never even heard of them w/respect to lottery,

only slot machines, and I don't play them either.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds -- Charles Mackay LL.D.
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Mar 25, 2013, 9:45 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 25, 2013
I'm wondering how many people that say they wouldn't play a computerized game buy raffle tickets.

I do.

Good point, CT.

It'd be nice if we could change that too.
Stack47

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Mar 26, 2013, 10:34 am

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 25, 2013
I'm wondering how many people that say they wouldn't play a computerized game buy raffle tickets.

That's a good point, but I participated in many reverse raffles and the usual format was each number was placed into a capsule and drawn one at a time. It took over an hour with just 100 entries. Some of these lottery raffles have 250,000 entries and over 1000 different prize winners so it would be difficult and time consuming if the same method was used.

While they were ball drawings, up until last year Kentucky's midday Pick-3 and Pick-4 drawings were not a live broadcast. Last year because of cost, the KY lottery could no longer televise the evening drawings, but came up with a unique way to now stream the midday and evening ball drawings live via the Internet.

IMO, in games where an RNG choose our numbers, drawing the winners by RNG makes no difference, but in the games where we can choose our own numbers, we should be able to see the drawing process.