Breakable Lottery Games

That guy is a piece of ****

Who the hell reports something like that?

If anything you don't go to the lottery about it. You go to the news.
 
Solid Wired reporting. Good catch! zg
“The tickets are clearly mass-produced, which means there must be some computer program that lays down the numbers. Of course, it would be really nice if the computer could just spit out random digits. But that’s not possible, since the lottery corporation needs to control the number of winning tickets. The game can’t be truly random. Instead, it has to generate the illusion of randomness while actually being carefully determined.”

MORE- http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1​
 
dont they all get scanned?

i thought that when you played a scratch n win game you take it to the cashier who scans the card and pays what the lotto machine says. Whats the alternative? some moran has to read through the game and make some judgement? If the barcode was also under latex then that would be some security, but i imagine a scanner could be made that would read it anyway not to mention a machine that would just reapply the latex. but im pretty certaint he barcode is exposed. so then what keeps them from just scanning all the tickets before they sell them?

also look at the picture in the article. they act like the dude is just looking at the tickets and divining them. he is still scratched off 80% of the card to see the tictactoe spread, he just hasnt scratched off the 20% that tell you what numbers are relevant. i dont believe the part about returning unscratched tickets and getting a refund. let alone scratching 80% of it and being like "nah i changed my mind"

trying to link random **** to the mob is also the classic way everyone over 50 tries to make everything sound cool. "public swimming pools...man thats mob ****. under every swimming pool is bunch of corpses." its like the acceptible version of conspiracy theories
 
blackriver said:
also look at the picture in the article. they act like the dude is just looking at the tickets and divining them. he is still scratched off 80% of the card to see the tictactoe spread, he just hasnt scratched off the 20% that tell you what numbers are relevant. i dont believe the part about returning unscratched tickets and getting a refund. let alone scratching 80% of it and being like "nah i changed my mind"
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The article states the Tic Tac Toe boards are fully exposed upon purchase. The only portion the player scratches off is the "Your Numbers" section on the left.
 
Maybe $600/day wasn't "enough" for that guy, but anyone else who had discovered that flaw and was playing it must be PISSED.
 
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