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About those NC Digital Online Games...What's the verdict?Reply
states should audit lotteries for excessive operations costs and excessive salaries, but never for paying out too much in prizes. without attractive prizes nobody would play these dumb games. giving back us fools some of what we wasted on the lottery is why we keep coming back for more.
Jan 8, 2026, 3:27 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

Anti Computerized Lottery PetitionReply
part of the problem with computerized drawings is that state lotteries use third party vendors to make overly elaborate computer programs that the lottery employees themselves cannot easily audit because they're run on some proprietary systems. an eighth grader could write a simple python or javascript program to generate lottery numbers. this is not difficult stuff. and it would be cheaper to do this in-house. but probably some lottery officials get kickbacks for outsourcing every single l
Apr 23, 2026, 12:53 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
The idea that the IOWA lottery let a guy write an RNG, let that same guy have access to the machines without random supervision and witnesses, and used his code without an independent audit boggles my mind. Me too. I would think that episode would be burned into every lottery in the country, whether it's RNG or ball drawn, so that never happens again. I wouldn't say it can't happen again, but highly unlikely. Also, some on here are convinced that state lottery LO's are the cheater
Feb 11, 2026, 11:07 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Michigan Weekly Breakdown — Fantasy 5 & Lotto 47 Trend Report (April 4-9)Reply
Great questions, and I appreciate you digging into the actual game rules. Most people never bother reading those. I've looked into both of those sections before, so here's my take. The certain information is not available to the general public language in the Ineligibility section is standard legal boilerplate. Every state lottery has something similar. It mostly covers internal security and audit procedures, employee eligibility restrictions, and vendor information. It's not about the win
Apr 20, 2026, 1:40 am - RichW - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Numbers Aren't Meant To Be Random
I'm seeing sermons on LP by certain posters preaching that lottery numbers are random. They believe these numbers are ran like a slot machine with the numbers being produced by a computer-based RNG. And they believe we, as players, won't ever be able to predict the next numbers unless we know the seed value and the formula, ...... the harvesting, the gathering, the purging..... So, I took the initiative to research the game I play: Lotto Texas. And I learned its ran by a mechanical
Dec 19, 2025, 11:15 am - Ney1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

DC 5 Lottery needs to be audited immediately. The same thing that happened to Tennessee in 2007
This was bought to my attention from jimjwright regarding my prior post of DC Pick 5 1-200 million odds As of right now Dc 5 has played all single digits 36 times in a row. Not 1 duplicate digit has been played in the 36 draws. Duplicate digits make up roughly 70% of the numbers. Mathematically this is impossible and seems to be what happened to pick 3 and Pick 4 in Tennessee in 2007 Tenn. Lottery audit: players spent $2 million on worthless tickets $2M in tickets un
Apr 18, 2026, 3:08 am - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
I've always believed that state lotteries truly want winners, especially big jackpot winners. What does rigging a draw do for the state? I think there are two obvious reasons for the lotteries themselves to rig the game(s). One would be so that a few insiders could divert prize money to themselves. The other, and better, IMHO, reason would be to allow a jackpot to continue growing in order to boost sales. The problem is that no matter how much the people running the lottery might apprec
Feb 11, 2026, 2:24 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

About those NC Digital Online Games...What's the verdict?
I asked the search engine about NC digital instant games and what money they take in vs what money they pay out. I asked the question b/c the games seem to just take your money and never give you anything substantial. Below is the response, but I am having trouble believing that they pay out 87% of proceeds. Nonetheless, I do believe the part that says that even though they are taking in more $$ with these games, that they are contributing less to the education system than they did before the di
Jan 4, 2026, 10:00 pm - SBIP$999 - Lottery Discussion Forum