Lottery draws same numbers 3 days in a row; same thing happened last month
When will the Tenn. Lottery dump the computer draws?
Seven was a lucky number for Tennessee lottery players last week. A very, very, very lucky number.
For three consecutive days, the winning ticket in the Cash 3 drawing was some combination of two sevens and a zero. Thursday, the winning Cash 3 number at midday was 0-7-7. Friday, the winning midday number was 7-0-7. And Saturday evening, the winning number was again 0-7-7.
It was the second time in two months that winning lotto number combinations repeated in consecutive games. In March, the Cash 4 drawings paid out for 1-3-7-2, 1-7-2-3, and 2-3-7-1 over the course of two days.
Lottery officials say the equipment has been checked, certified, audited and checked again. The repeating numbers, they say, are a statistical coincidence.
"We're always watching, monitoring and testing. We have found nothing wrong with how the equipment is operating," said lottery spokeswoman Kym Gerlock.
Last year, a software error in the lottery's computer equipment generated winning numbers for several weeks that never had repeated digits. That meant that people who chose numbers with duplicate digits, such as 5-4-5 or 9-9-9-8, had no chance of winning.
That glitch prompted the state to call in an outside computer review and launch its own audit of the Tennessee lottery computers. Gerlock said the equipment has been certified and passed a compliance audit by the outside auditing firm KPMG Canada. The audit also cleared the computers that Tennessee uses in lieu of traditional pingpong-ball lottery machines.
Bruce Cooil, associate professor of management at Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management, studies the probability of rare events.
"In the Cash 3 Lottery, the probability is less than 1 in 10,000 that one would see the same three numbers in various orders for three of the last four winning numbers," he said. He thinks the lottery should check its equipment.
But Rafe Donahue, adjunct associate professor of biostatistics at Vanderbilt, has watched the Tennessee lottery computers in action and said he was impressed by the precautions the system takes to ensure its random drawings are honestly random.
Two bills that would switch the lottery back to using ping-pong balls are pending in the legislature.
Thanks to four4me for the tip.
I want to see what the payout increase was from draw to draw for the 077 combos back to back.
They will probably end up paying out more per year in prize payout than when they had ball draws.
That pick 4 back to back cost them a bundle.
Somebody must have them figured by now.
This has got to help push the legislation through, which is a good thing because this kind of stuff repeating has got to be killing consumer confidence
"We have found nothing wrong with how the equipment is operating" ~ spoken like ... well nevermind.
Who programs these machines, anyway? Diebold?
To put this in some kind of perspective, the probability of selecting a back to back combination from any of these set of Pick 3 numbers, {077, 707}, three times is (2 out of 1000) ^ 3 or 8 out of 1,000,000,000; this reduces down to 1 out of 125,000,000. Here are a few other games with their probabilities: Powerball - 1 out of 146,107,962 / Mega Millions - 1 out of 175,711,536 / my state’s Megabucks Pick 6 of 49 - 1 out of 13,983,816. That is the probability of winning those lotteries on the first try using only one combination or play. There is actually a better probability of winning my state’s lottery the first time using only one play combination by a factor of 8.9 times.
Also, keep in mind the original probability is 8 out of 1 BILLION... That’s BILLION with a ‘B’.
Yeah,right!? The fact that a "glitch" happened before only convinces me that me that a "glitch" could happen again. I have been watching the Tenn numbers since the 3,6,9 repetition months ago.
3,6,9,repetition scroll down
CASH 3
1/2/2008
Evening
593
$22,790.00
Just a simple glance at these I'd have to say the System is Hacked!!!
Someone is cashing in BIG TIME on this one.
This isn't a glitch, it's a HACK!!!
it will feel really good to buy a tennessee lottery ticket again if they decide to go back to ball draws.
p.s.....i got an idea.i think rebecca paul hardrode needs to resign and bring our ball drawings back.
I totally agree!
Doesn't matter how many times you've contacted your legislators ...... contact them again and again and again if you feel strongly enough about this.
It's a sure bet they're being lobbied to keep the RNG's.
Keep pressure on to revert back to ball drop draws you can see with your own eyes !!!!!!!!!!
the same combo coming out 3 times in a row really isnt that big of a deal..look at this way
..Have you ever seen the digit 1( or any single digit) repeat in 3 straight draws..Yes!!!
Have you ever seen a pair like 12( or any other pair) repeat for 3 straight draws in a row...Yes!!!
the same combo is the samething..its just part of the same group..it has happened many times before..it will happen many times to come..haha
Did you notice the pay out increase on the 3rd 077...it went UP!!!!..hahaha
It wasn't consecutive draws - there was a draw in-between. Besides, you can't compare draws together, because each one is a separate event. I've been trying to recognize a pattern, but there isn't one. It's random... and you'll see stuff like that randomly.
369 only showed up once in that entire list. Where are you going with that? Also, Mid-day and evening are 2 separate drawings.
Pick-4_Master (Miami,Fla) on 11.22.03 wrote:
because you will have numbers that come up repeatedly or more often and less often in a given draw history.You also have numbers that don't come up for weeks,in the Pick-3/4 games I've seen a number drawn 4 days in a row while another number was out for 2 wks.In the Pick-3/4 you can observe the numbers Hit/Skip activity and select a group of numbers
If his/her observation is correct then there is nothing wrong with Tennessee’s RNG picking the number 7 three draws in a row.
Do we have someone from Florida who can verify this?
Lately in Georgia with ball draw we've had the same digits drawn in Cash 3 back to back or within a few days of one another ..... have seen comments on LP wondering what's happening when we see the draw take place before our very eyes.
In the case of Tennessee the same digits were drawn within 4 draws ..... behind closed door with no players being able to watch the actual drawing ........ which certainly raises suspicions discussed here and in other posts about Tennessee's RNG's.
Nothing feels random about the same digits in 4 consecutive draws, does it??????
The observation made by Pick-4_Master is not relevant to this discussion, because we are not talking about one digit being drawn on consecutive days, or being "out" for a couple weeks.
We are talking about all three digits matching several draws in a row, and not just happening once: it happened just last month too!
The odds of that taking place are astronomical, and you'd have to try very hard to find another time, in any state, where it has happened. Perhaps it's never happened, I'm not sure.
it's not the 369 combo by itself. it is the selection of 3, 6 and 9 individually over that period. yes, there just happens to be a 369 combo, but it also has the highest payout, too. that payout also adds to the suspicion of the particular numbers of 3, 6 and 9.
I wouldn't put to much into 369 coming out and having a high payout. It's a popular number with mechanics and mussel car buffs. 369 big block Chevy engine.
Also considering the digits 3-6-9 were showing up a lot in the draws before 369 came out. Some people just might have had a hunch it would come out.
How many people who live at the address 369 you think might play it especially on Christmas.
3-6-9 is one of the most popular numbers consistently played in Pick 3 games. Look it up- there will be a big payout EVERY time that number hits, especially straight.
OK, a quick look at the last six months of Illinois Pick 3 numbers revealed this... And they have ball drawings right?
4/7 eve 5-2-7 4/7 mid 1-4-7 4/6 eve 4-2-7
4/4 eve 3-8-9 4/4 mid 6-0-9 4/3 eve 8-9-3
3/22 mid 1-7-9 3/21 eve 7-1-9 3/21 mid 9-1-7 3/20 eve 8-3-5 3/20 mid 3-5-8
2/19 eve 4-3-6 2/19 mid 4-6-3 2/18 eve 2-4-3
1/15 eve eve 0-2-0 1/15 mid 0-0-8 1/14 eve 0-0-2 1/14 mid 9-2-0
12/1 eve 0-4-3 12/1 mid 2-4-3 11/30 eve 2-3-3 11/30 mid 0-3-3
10/27 eve 1-7-3 10/27 mid 1-7-3
Those are all consecutive draws and within the range of probability for random numbers. Where's the conspiracy
CT- 3/11 659 Mid
CT- 3/12 695 Mid 695 Eve
NO WAY ...NO HOW!!!
2 days in a row..maybe. It has happened!
But 3 days
I wouldn't spend dime one in Tenn.
I have a hard a time enough believing in the 100% integrity of regular BALL DRAWS in my own home state let alone some computer that can calculate HOUSE STAKES vs ACTUAL # OF BETTERS .
Maybe it's a lack of understanding. But I don't get how in BALL DRAW states why they run several tests before the actual draw.
IS IT LIMITED TO "x" amount of pre-draw tests?
Or do LOTTERY OFFICIALS get to choose the number of "dry run tests" ?
I think those of you in and around TN should rape the TN Lottery for everything you can the next time something like this happens. Play that 'hunch' and suck the life out their profits. I think if they see a payout of $5,000,000.00 on one Pick 3 draw they'd really do something about it.
CL...actually what you have shown, is normal. 60% of the times, 1 digit will repeat from one drawing to the next ( midday to midday and evening to evening ). 2 digit returns average about 1 in 6 draws and they can move eve to eve and midday to eve or eve to midday and midday to midday, for the 2 digit returns....I will generally watch for those that are out for awhile and play them. But what has happened in Tenn........WOW !!!!!!!!!
Also. what you have shown is over 6 months and it does happen from time to time...even here in michigan...but Tenn is a whole different animal............
It is a 396 cu. inch big block a relative of the 409 cu. inch big block which spawned the baddest rat motor of all the 427 cu. inch bigblock. Me like big block Chebies.
[ Generation 1: "W" Series
348 available from 1958 to 1961
2 Generation 2: Mark IV Series
396 and 402 was introduced in the 1965 and 396 bored out by .030 to create
1965-1972 Chevrolet Chevelle
1967-1972 Chevrolet Camaro
1968-1970 Chevrolet Nova
1970-1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
1965-1972 Full-size models
Thanks for straightening that out. I currently own a vehicle with a 350 M motor see if that is in wikiwiki.
But nevertheless, yeah, all of these engines are kindred, but saying 369 cu. in. is kinda like scratching the chalk board to us old motor heads. No biggie.
The last thing I rebuilt is a 225 Evinrude loop scavenge 2-stroke boat engine, it is rated in KW output @ 5500 rpms its output (theoretically) is about 18 Kwatts. the boat weighs about 2,700lbs. at about 1/2 throttle trimmed out on calm water is about as fun as it gets, it is almost like flying with instantaneous response. If you ever so slightly accelerate it puts you back and turning you can feel the G force!
350 Chevy engine
one of my favorite numbers
While i am mostly into big blocks more has been done to the 350 engine then just about any engine. Gorilla motor comes to mind. You can mix and mingle 400 Chevy parts cranks etc and build just about any street or strip aplication. All depends on how deep your pockets are.