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If someone was going to rig the outcome, why would they make it such a conspicuous number?
by Widdershin 6y ago
If someone was going to rig the outcome, why would they make it such a conspicuous number?
- BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 6y agotrue ... might be an innocent mistake too.
- jamesrcole 6y agomistake? As far as I can see, it could only be either intentional or the result of randomness.
- jtbayly 6y agoIt could also be an attempt to rig gone bad
- jamesrcole 6y agoSure. I’d call that the result of an intentional action, but maybe that’s just personal preference.
- chki 6y agoThere might be some error in the randomization process that caused consecutive balls to be drawn.
- jamesrcole 6y agoThat’s a fair point. In that case it would be the result of a both a mistake and randomization.
- BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 6y agosoftware bugs are neither intentional not random
- BurningFrog 6y agoAs a prank and/or to expose how unsafe the system is.
- Widdershin 6y agoGood point, I hadn't considered that. Seems pretty plausible.
- lb1lf 6y ago-I'd say that is plausible if next week's draw turns out to be 1-2-3-4-5-6, for instance. (That is - as is pointed out upthread, such 'weird' draws will occur naturally on occasion. It would, however, be quite suspicious if it happened twice in a row.) I am sure one of the things the lottery looks into is how many coupons with 'weird' numbers chosen like this week's winning numbers have been picked in the past - of course, if you get a result which makes you suspect shenanigans AND the number of coupons with such a strange sequence of numbers is way up from normal, then perhaps that suspicion is well founded.
- ezzaf 6y agoYou're going to share the jackpot with dozens of other winners, so it wouldn't be immediately obvious which of the winners rigged it. While if you pick a random number sequence and are the only winner, you'll be the prime suspect if anyone realises the draw was rigged.