I'm right there with you. but we lottery players have got to remember that lottery outcomes are not random. They are picked and chosen by those who run the department and those who receive orders and instructions to run the machines. NCEL needed to make up for recent big hits on scratch cards , pick 4's and if you remember just a few weeks ago, the very long string of CASH 5 hits when the jackpot was at its beginning level. It's very costly when a lottery has about 9 out of 10 jackpot hits when the pot is only at 50,000. The jackpot never gets a chance to grow and thereby hurts their total yearly profit. this happened a few weeks ago in NC on CASH 5 game. So, they had this giant run to make up for that lost. and they will do whatever they have to do to make that jackpot " not " be won until the time is right for them.
just look at the last 5 draws or so of this record breaking run in the CASH 5. Is there anyone out with at least half a brain that really believes the last drawings were 100 % legit, fair and honest ? Of course not ! Look at how when the jackpot was peaking and about to be hit and every night everyone was saying, " it's just gotta be hit tonight ", and then it wasn't. The draw that night would be some very freakish 3 ball repeat from the night before.
Everybody with half a brain sees what they're doing. They're just driving up ticket sales with scam drawings that really aren't drawn, but are more like selected or picked for a time that is right at their choosing.
You see, the lottery doesn't care if they eventually have to give away a 1.7 million dollar check to someone , just as long as they know they are going to in the end receive a total of about 3 times as much in ticket sales profit - about 3.5 to 4 million dollars profit from this one drawing.
It's like a dishonest person at an auction, who shouts out a number to the auctioneer just to keep the bidding going, so that those who run the auction get a very high price for each and every object being bid on.
Remember folks a few important things as you play lottery ball draw games :
1) you never see the word " LIVE " on the TV screen when WRAL TV Channel 5 airs the drawings at 11:22 pm in Raleigh.
2) Ticket sales for all CASH 5 drawings end at 10:00 pm
So, the drawings are taped and then sent to the TV station to be played. ( whether this be in the Yonkers rd. office bldg where lottery headquarters is located or in another studio room of the TV station makes no difference - it is still taped and then played just after weather segment of the news goes off). This taped drawing is a drawing of their choosing that is only seen by them in their drawing room. It is a drawing more or less that is hand picked - one that gives them the best financial outcome whenever such action and drawing is most needed.
Ending ticket sales an hour and 22 minutes before needing to air the lottery result gives them plenty of time to do all of this.
Wake up people ! ..... STATE RUN LOTTERIES ARE NOT RANDOM. THEY ARE CONTROLLED OUTCOMES RUN BY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO WORK ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT - STATE GOVERNMENT - TO RAISE AND GENERATE REVENUE for their employer .... the STATE !!
They are no different than private casinos in New Jersey or Las Vegas, Nevada. If they let all outcomes of its games be left to pure 100% random chance, they would either be out of business soon or would make very poor and marginal profits at best. Lotteries are NOT RANDOM because they cannot afford to be random !
And random by definition means : fair, pure, honest, unadulterated, no manipulation, something that is of a natural occurrence without impact or influence from anything else.
So, there you go. There's your answer. Spread the word people. There are millions of lottery players every day who aren't aware and are totally clueless about this fact. The lottery loves these people.