The other day I overheard a few of the Crickets talking about a cousin that crawled under the carpet at the Lottery Place. Cousin Rickety said that there was just one guy sitting at a table with a keypad and a small monitor. He saw numbers rolling by on the monitor. The guy at the table had his index finger pointed at the key pad. He was frozen like a Dog pointing a bird in a bush. There was a photographer in the corner that snapped a picture, gathered his equipment and left the room.
The guy leaned back in his chair and put his feet on the desk. He dozed off and was awakened by the monitor with a doorbell ring. He pulled down a blindfold from his brow and began circling his index finger over the key pad. When the doorbell rang again, he lowered his finger to the keypad and pressed a key. If the key had a number value, that number would flash on the screen and increase in value by 1 with each flash. There was a multiplier that rolled with each flash. It turned over at 999 and went back to zeros. The product value was used to scroll thru the list of tickets purchased in time order starting with the last and counting back. That draw was published as the winner. It was all completely Random. Well, that part was except for the fact that most of the keys had a value of zero which meant that the jackpot would roll up for the next draw.
That was the second part. Before that The Guy at the table Had selected from a menu of Zip Codes to narrow down the location of the winner. Again, totally random. Except that the Lottery could maintain a quota and control the winnings returned to any Zip Code.
Vickie Cricket was the second one under the carpet in a different room where another man sat at a table just like the first man. He was watching a list of specific terminals to lock out their numbers. This guy was allowed to decide how to numerically torture the player from an establishment with infections of one-off-itus.
The Cricket conversation broke up but I will keep my ear to the ground.
I have not heard from the Crickets for several days. Still no way to validate their story.
I was thinking about the argument that the Lottery has no reason to cheat. The Games payout less than half of the Odds of winning. One of the most outrageous Ratio of Odds vs Payout can be found in the California Supper Lotto Plus. Get 5 numbers but miss the Bonus Ball and look at what you get. Your odds of hitting 5 out of 47 are 1,533,939 to 1 with a meager payout under $100,000 split by the number of "Winners". The best “returns” come from Pick / 4 Games with a payout ratio of half the odds of winning.
So why Cheat? See above. Why as many here claim, are they being Cheated? Now that is the right question. It’s all theoretical but consider this. Imagine how boring it must be working for the Lottery Complex. On top of that, talk around the breakroom table is about how long it will be before AI put’s them all out of a job. Anonymous sources say that no jobs will be lost to automation. That means that emplyees will perform different tasks, i.e., “special projects”.
If there is any shred of truth to the Chirps? Even without being valid, we can imagine a background for conspiracy. The Chirps lead me to the conclusion that a “Deep State” faction is controlling the Danged thing. How many Keyboards and Screens are active? How many of those setups do “special projects”. That confirms that a certain math wiz just might be telling the truth.
There is no carpet in the break room. I heard that a couple of under cover Crickets were hiding behind the trash can listening to the chatter.
I’ll let you know what I hear.
700 light yrs West of Milky Way Galaxy's Center
Neeavah lied to Me.
