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What Does It Take To Win (Mathematically Speaking?)Reply
How would you know the difference even if the details of the computer program were known? I remember reading papers describing methods to calculate a randomness score of sets of variables to determine which set was the most random. However, I just put measures of randomness into the Google search box, and got tired trying to find what I vaguely remember. Try it - maybe you can find something useful. The data is available here at LP to enable one to compare the results of ball drops and c
Mar 18, 2011, 6:58 pm - jimmy4164 - Mathematics Forum

Canadian gets 9 years for U.S. lottery scamNews Story
A Vancouver man was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday for running a lottery scam in the United States that defrauded dozens of elderly victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Henry Anekwu, 43, was convicted in April of 10 counts of mail fraud and six counts of wire fraud, all of which were centered around a telemarketing operation that told victims they had won a lottery, but needed to pay taxes or other fees up front to claim their winnings. Individual victims paid as much as $60
Jul 12, 2010, 8:51 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Is the Millionaire Raffle ADM Hacker Proof?Reply
Thanks rdgrnr, What do you recommend? I was hoping that my post would prompt the lottery commission to address my concerns. My recommendation would be for as many people as possible to contact them and request an explanation of how their ADM (Automatic Drawing Machine) is programmed. My phone call to the published number didn't get me beyond a very nice front gatekeeper who was completely clueless regarding the issue. Perhaps someone here has a better connection. You're wise to be war
Jul 11, 2010, 2:09 pm - jimmy4164 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Fla. woman faces eviction after lottery-winning husband disappearsReply
A $19 million jackpot went to a company called Ibis Corporation, listing the names of a group of her husband's coworkers. There was a Ramdass on the list, but it wasn't Campbell's husband it was Janelle Ramdass, his daughter from a previous marriage. The company, [Campbell's Lawyer, Richard Lara] contends, was formed as way to hide the money from Campbell. Hey guys... let's form a corporation! Just so we can hide the profits from my wife! Janelle Ramdass and the Ibis Corporation wer
Dec 16, 2009, 5:06 pm - Raven62 - Lottery News

Psychics & the lottery...Dont you think...Reply
In all seriousness the hypothesis is, and evidence leads to the conclusion, that ESP is more routed through and mainly dealt with in the suboscious mind. The subconscious mind is tied to the part of the brain that works at interpreting symbols and their symbolic meaning and relation to the conscious/unconscious dreamscape. While numbers and numerical values(let's just say Math) are the domain of the cold, logical nuances of the rational mind. For a shorter explanation, the rational mind is cold
Jun 30, 2009, 8:14 pm - mangeydog - Lottery Discussion Forum

DOJ says privatizing state lotteries illegalReply
Excellent point, KY Floyd; the laws you reference can be found under Title 18 of the United States Code which, ironically, also contains the RICO statutes. During our four-year investigation into the Hoosier Lottery and their crooked practices, LosingJeff and I were told by three different Indiana law firms, What you have is probably sufficient to convict on at least three RICO predicates (Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Misappropriation/ Conversion of Public Funds). No
Oct 30, 2008, 2:40 am - jim695 - Lottery News

$85M sought for "defective" Virginia lottery ticketsReply
I agree with RJOh that it's the structure of the game. I would not call it fraud unless nobody won the top prizes. Up to means that even if you win, you might still get a smaller prize amount. I think most people who buy scratch tickets are aware when a game has been around for a long time. Still, that doesn't mean there isn't a nice prize still available. These aren't raffle tickets, they're scratch tickets. If there were no prizes at all left, then it would definitely be fraud. But the
Jul 1, 2008, 3:29 pm - justxploring - Lottery News

Questions about security and distribution
I'm a new member from Pennsylvania - don't even have any clever end quote yet - and I'm wondering about something in regard to instant scratch off games. Perhaps someone can help? Let's take a $10 game that has 8 top prizes of $250,000. I'm assuming whatever company creates these for the states runs off the entire lot of tickets at once, somehow sprinkling in the top prizes along the way (exactly how they do that is also a bit of a mystery to me). Does someone decide how the big prize tick
Jun 1, 2008, 8:47 am - winorlose - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Should tax payers be paid back after a winReply
I agree with the hell no side of this question. Repayment, as noted in state and even federal code, is based on fraud or some sort of processing error. So, if you are to payback something based on 'advancement of assets' (in English-your not broke anymore), then an awful lot of people would be required to ante up. Take a look at our old buddy, David Edwards. He was on public assistance of sort, unemployment, when he won. Spent $7 he couldn't afford on tickets and won $27,000,000. Had h
Dec 10, 2007, 9:43 am - fastball 9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does $9 goof point to larger problems with Ontario Lottery?Reply
I wish to make two points. First in reference to the question why does the retailer not simply scan the ticket to determine it is a winner. The procedure for redeeming a scratch ticket in Ontario is a two step process. First the retailer scans the tickets then is prompted by the terminal to enter the 4 digit code that appears under the latex. The 4 digit code must correspond to the scanned code (long code). For this code to be entered in error and also match the scanned code and come up a win
Jan 14, 2007, 11:11 am - LottoGroups - Lottery News