Can the National Lottery be fixed???

[Nitpicker]

Hiya, Skbunks
There is nothing mysterious or esoteric about the chart.
It is simply a probability table based upon the popularity among players of the numbers 1 to 49.
Camelot are not allowed to disclose certain information concerning the tickets that are sold, but you can get a rough idea from studying the results of each draw.

As for my 'theory', I have spent most of today updating my files and have come to the conclusion that there is a more mundane explanation for the 'sea change'.

However, I am still hoping that Dream Number will re-join us because I need some reasonable excuse to play the lottery.

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

How about publishing your research?

[Nitpicker]

That's a good question, Skbunks.
But it wouldn't reveal anything in addition to what is freely available on the web. And besides, I doubt that they would be of use to any skeptics.

This thread is entitled "Can the National Lottery be fixed???" and I was just contributing to this subject, because I thought that I had detected some anomalies over the last few months.

I'll return later, perhaps today, when I may have a bit more time.

Until then.

[skbuncks]

I eagerly await your return

skb

[Nitpicker]

What theory?

How does this chart work? How do you relate the numbers of the draw, through your little chart, to the numbers I, or anyone else, has independently chosen?
Although it is too early, because of the 'chance' element, to draw any real conclusions I have certainly detected a sea change in the success rate of my rollover prediction chart.
I for one would like to see a prediction of this chart.

Yes, there are lots of crazy people out there.

skb

A quick bit of information for you and Far Side of the Moon.
As we appear to be the only ones still not bored by this thread.
Here is a link to the best site on the internet for the UK National Lottery:

http://lottery.merseyworld.com

It is run by a couple of genuine lads, and there is a good amount of interesting reading relating to what this thread has been about.
In particular, you might appreciate the Draw Simulator download.

I'm off to give it another try before bed. Goodnight

[Nitpicker]

In conclusion then:

It is extremely unlikely that the UK National Lotto draw itself is fixed; there is no reason to jeopardize such a successful money 'making' project, especially now, with the present global scale of operations.
Nevertheless, it is open to a certain limited amount of exploitation by some budding entrepreneurial 'Sir Fred' penetrating the security system of the business (the operation of which must, of necessity, be kept secret).

Imagine a dozen or so punters gathering for a game of dice in which they each write down on a slip of paper any number from 1 to 6 then hand the slip to the banker along with a £1 entry fee - the resulting roll of the die determining which players share in the pot. Would the banker be allowed to play?

Basically, lotteries operate as the equivalents of 'totalisers' without the need of a Totaliser Board. Indeed, this is the only way they can operate on such a large scale. In fact, they would not get through the gates of any dog track or racecourse - in this country, at least.
And if they did they would very quickly be put out of business by competition from the legitimate 'Honest Joe's' operating on the rail.

Thus, to some extent, sites like 'merseyside.com' provide an independent way of keeping a check on any would be 'entrepreneurial' operations by security personel.

Reading through this again, I feel that I may have been 'unfair' to some of the 'Sir Freds' of our financial system - after all, they did not understand a single thing about what they were doing, except that it was lucrative especially when it came to bonuses.
Not so though, in the case of the 'scam-masters' (known as 'carpetbaggers'in the ol' U.S. of A) from across the Atlantic that built the modern pyramids, and even now are busy preparing the road for us to stagger along to the next one.

But that deserves a thread of its own...
Is there a link to one already on this forum?

[ukskep]

I definitely doubt National Lottery is fixed. If it is not fixed how they can sometime guarantee win. Whenever they guarantee people have won the lottery.
I dont know why they ripping money from people's pocket instead of assembling proper Camelot so that people should win money every week. Also National Lottery can take a ratio for their funding.

[Matt]

I definitely doubt National Lottery is fixed. If it is not fixed how they can sometime guarantee win. Whenever they guarantee people have won the lottery.
I dont know why they ripping money from people's pocket instead of assembling proper Camelot so that people should win money every week. Also National Lottery can take a ratio for their funding.

Say again?


They never guarantee that someone will match 6 numbers.

Sometimes however they do say that the Jackpot cannot rollover again. There's an upper limit of I think a triple rollover.

Increased sales decrease the chances that no-one will match six numbers on a triple rollover which in any case are relatively rare. I can't remember it happening yet but it's a possibility. Were that to happen the Jackpot prize fund would be added to the match 5 plus the bonus ball prize fund. That's what the guarentee states.

Does that answer your question?