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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
This came up briefly in the Penny for your Thoughts forum ... in the context of Derren Brown's lottery prediction.
Recently, the same six numbers were drawn twice in a row in Bulgaria's national lottery. Okay, fine so far, it could happen. Now, in the next drawing, three of these same six numbers were drawn again. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8259801.stm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew......own.html http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2009/s2689394.htm http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/18......-abound/ (In this lottery, I believe there are 45 numbers to draw from.) Even stranger, I just read today that these numbers bear a striking similarity to numbers made famous in the popular American television series, LOST: Lottery numbers ... 04-15-23-24-35-42 LOST numbers ... 04-08-15-16-23-42 My Spidey sense says that something funny is going on here. But, what do you all think? Just coincidence? The Bulgarian lottery officials have been insisting that the results of these draws in September were just coincidence. What hasn't been as widely reported is that the Bulgarian government launched a probe into corruption in the state lottery a year or two back, and Bulgarian prosecutors just last month were investigating allegations of corruption in the state lottery.
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Michael J. Douglas Inner circle WV, USA 1645 Posts |
Assuming that the lotteries are fair, it's quite possible. Actually, it's conceivable to have the exact same numbers come up every time if it's truly random. It's like a roulette wheel - if the ball lands on black five times in a row, most people would bet on red. However, the odds are always 50/50 (excluding the green spaces on some wheels). The variables are how hard the wheel is spun and the ball is thrown. Same thing with a lottery - there are variables that usually lead to different numbers, but the odds are always the same.
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Potty the Pirate Inner circle 4632 Posts |
The chances are MINUTE that this could happen - though, of course, it could. A more likely explanation is that many, if not all, national lottery draws are fixable, which, if you're a conspiracy-theorist, would make sense. And we, as magicians, know just how easy it would be to fix the "props" for a national lottery.
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Enzo Loyal user CA 243 Posts |
Well, Bulgaria is known to be the most corrupt country in the EU:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/world/......483.html That and the fact that, as you say, the government had already suspected corruption in the state lottery in the past makes me think that, rather than this rare event happening spontaneously, the guy that operates the machine set it up with last week's settings by mistake... By the way, apparently nobody got the sequence right in the first drawing, but in the second drawing all of a sudden 18 people "knew" the combination. Either in Bulgaria the saying "Lighting never strikes the same spot twice" does not exist, or some people knew about the fix-up and were counting on the operator making this mistake at some point. |
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