Quote: Originally posted by goose on February 22, 2004
China is the same..The big winner of each draw is broadcast by TV and its live show
Maybe you guys ignored my assumption...
No offense intended, but your replies show you're not getting all the information convayed by the posts. To go back over what I said . . .
The big winner of every draw is the government because they collect almost half the lottery prize in taxes. They couldn't care less if you predicted and won the lottery one time or a dozen, they collect just the same.
The only people taking a mild interest in such goings on might be lottery security where multiple wins would set off alarms causing them to examine their procedures and look for reasons. If they investigated you as they do winners in some states looking for taxes due, child care payments due, etc. and found you were posting winning predictions you might have to demonstrate how you arrived at such a prediction or not collect the prize, they can pretty much do whatever they want.
Just as casinos changed when people learned how to count cards, lotteries would change their games if anyone figured out how to beat the game, that they don't believe can happen but must keep a few of them awake at night.
You can be sure there isn't a budget for buying and testing lottery software and systems, just as the AMA doesn't buy and test hemopathic health store concoctions unless enough reports of success come out they are forced to look into it and even then they conduct the tests wrong. Weird world we live in.
BobP