H''''': The lottery is run by corrupt officials, who want to cover their tracks. In order to do so they want to have many associates win so no single winner is

H''''': The lottery is run by corrupt officials, who want to cover their tracks. In order to do so they want to have many associates win so no single winner is subject to scrutiny. They need to communicate to this diverse group of conspirators the correct numbers to choose in a simple way, say: multiples of 9, or anti-diagonal of ticket. Remark 4: The human mind is an amazing hypothesis generating machine. If it also knows about Bayesian statistics, it is capable of accounting for it. Paranoia is a bitch.