As the numbers were not truly random, and the actual number selection was, well, those autopick coupons just didn't win as often. Chance? Design?

Whilst I am as much of a conspiracy theorist as the next man this statement flies in the face of what you just said. Any valid selected numbers (random or not) have the *same* chance of winning. 1-2-3-4-5-6 is not random but has the same chance of winning as 14-36-21-1-7-8

BTW most lotteries drawn with balls are not random. The weight of the paint for the numbers and other things that lead to differences between balls skew the results. Unfortunately the skew is just not enough to be able to profit from.

The famous story of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo was supposedly true and due to imbalance of the roulette wheel. The advantage in roulette it that the house's margin is ~3% so you don't need too much skew to screw that.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Picking (potentially) winning lottery numbers by tachyon
in thread Picking (potentially) winning lottery numbers by scain

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