The state legislative audit of Maryland's Lottery Agency revealed that, in a one-year period, eight players had won top lottery prizes 200 or more times.
In the state's Pick 4 game, where the odds of winning are one-in-10,000, auditors found one player had claimed the game's $5,000 top prize 79 times in one year.
Guess the race
ReplyDeleteNo reparations for you, Tamiflu Porchmonk!
DeleteDamn, those Amish are lucky.....
ReplyDelete1 in 10,000? Damn, for a lottery, that's pretty low! Or, at least it's low compared to the Powerball, which is 1 in 252,000,000 or so. I guess it's because entrants have to be from Maryland, maybe. 79 times, eh? Nothing fishy there, no sir!
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DeleteMaryland has enough problems. Don’t saddle us with Joe too. 🙃
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ReplyDeletenothing to see here, move along
ReplyDeleteWonder how many tickets they bought compared to the number of times they won?
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Pick Four doesn't sound like a scratch-off game. Not that I ever play the lottery (except when PowerBall goes to 1/2 a billion - so I can buy one ticket and fantasize about what I'd do with it). I never trusted scratch-offs. First off, you can be buying from a game that already had a winner. Second, SOMEBODY has to know which roll of tickets has the winner.
ReplyDelete¨ SOMEBODY has to know which roll of tickets has the winner¨.
DeleteFunny that you say that a few years ago in a local store a clerk was scanning the back of scratch offs looking for winning tickets and when she found them she remove them and cashed them in.
Long story short, the store caught on to what she was doing fired her and the state lottery had her arrested.
Hiker Mike
If you don't play, you can't lose...
ReplyDeleteNothing is truly random. There's always a pattern. If you can discern that pattern you can rig things in your favor. Lotto is no different. Add in corruption and there will always be people who win more than statistics say they should.
ReplyDeleteThe Kansas lottery had a pick numbers game that cycled every five minutes. Old guy would go to the station every afternoon and pick ten winners in a row. There was nothing random, the same numbers came up in sequence every afternoon. I don't know if every number was that way, but that set was. He watched for a certain set and did the next ten.
ReplyDeleteThat was told to me by the station attendant.
This is the first one I remember.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal
Nobody notice that 5000 bucks is the top prize? What kind of ghetto lottery is that?
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Pick 4. 10,000:1 odds pays $5000 on $1 play. Pretty good ghetto lottery,...., well, if ya have some ghettos under ur purview, at least.
Delete$5000 payout on $1 ticket at 10k:1 odds makes the net value of the ticket $0.50, so it is a net loser. How many tickets did he buy to win 79 times? Buying more tickets for each drawing increases the odds of a win in that drawing, but statistically it is a net loss, unless there is a non random element which they have discovered; if they know the algorithm which generates the numbers, they could bend the odds their way.
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