Ohio Lottery Conspiracy?

The link does not say if that number of purchases is unusual. How many tickets total were purchased?
 
Mercutio said:
The link does not say if that number of purchases is unusual. How many tickets total were purchased?
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401 winning one-dollar tickets paid $5,000 each, and the lottery lost about $1.8 million on this drawing, and so clearly the number of winning tickets purchased was unusually high. See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230709,00.html It just goes to show that woo pays (right, Amy?). Meanwhile, hapless Randi forum devotees are trying to scrape up enough money to visit Starbucks. ;)
 
For the record, I don't think this is a conspiracy, but I'm sure some one will!
LOL!

I see it as another coincidence in life.
 
Famously, on Sept. 11, 2002, the winning New York State lottery numbers were 911.

The wrong question to ask in such cases is what the chance is of that happening on that particular day. The right question is to ask what the chance is for some crazy coincidence like that to happen somewhere, sometime. And the answer of course is: such coincidences are inevitable and happen all the time. Confirmation bias makes us notice the hits and ignore the billions of "misses" that happen all around us.
 
After TWA flight 800 blew up in flight, some state had pick three number 8-0-0. Sometimes **** happens.
 
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Famously, on Sept. 11, 2002, the winning New York State lottery numbers were 911.
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Talk about **** happens, sheesh! I Never heard that before.
 
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The chances of 4239 coming up were 1 in 10,000, same as ever. Now, stacking the odds of the score being 42-39 (not a common football score at all, for you non-Americans), and you come up with a pretty remarkable coincidence. But a coincidence, and nothing more.

And I'm sure there was a selection effect-people bought tickets BECAUSE the score was 42-39.

But it wasn't rigged. People go to jail for that. Didn't someone rig a lottery once by injecting paint into most of the balls to make the un-injected ones come up?
 
jhunter1163 said:
And I'm sure there was a selection effect-people bought tickets BECAUSE the score was 42-39.
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Clearly, there was. The article said that about $350,000 was wagered. With 10,000 possible combinations, and most tickets presumably going for $1, the expected number of winners would be about 35. This game had 401 winners.

Interestingly, in many states this would have been a bad outcome for the players. If this were a game where the prize pot was divided amongst all the winners, everyone would have won a much smaller prize than usual, like happened in a certain Jim Carrey movie.
 
After TWA flight 800 blew up in flight, some state had pick three number 8-0-0. Sometimes **** happens.
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Famously, on Sept. 11, 2002, the winning New York State lottery numbers were 911.
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The score to the Best College football game of the year, on Saturday, was 42-39 Ohio State over Michigan. Look at the winning lotto pick four numbers ....(4-2-3-9)
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The NWO works in mysterious ways...
 
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And here I was thinking it was the last great Bo Schembechler shot at Ohio State. "Beat my Wolverines huh? Well I'm going to screw over your state lottery." :D
 
According to Wikipedia:
New Jersey Lottery holds two Pick-3 lottery drawings per day, and on the day of the crash, the numbers selected for the evening drawing were 5-8-7. The afternoon drawing was 5-7-8. So many people chose the combination for the evening draw that the prize was $16 for each 'winner', whereas $275 is the typical straight bet payout for Pick-3.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38665,00.html

:eye-poppi
 
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