The Lottery

[Heywood]

This is only conceivably possible if the winning numbers are known beforehand. The air and gravity mix machine outputs are extremely difficult to manipulate, making your earlier comparison to casino slot machines out of place.

Not true. If I, the lottery board, know all number combinations played, why do I need to know the winning numbers before hand? Why can't I simply negate all played combinations? This is exactly what I'm claiming.

You don't need to do this to snow ball jack pots. Set the odds to 1 in a googleplex and the jack pot will never be won....it will snow ball until the earth is swallowed by the sun. Set it to say 1 in and a billion and it might snow ball to several billion dollars before it is won. Set it to 1 in 256 million and it might grow to a be several hundred million dollars on occasion.

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You can turn roulette into a positive EV game if you can predict a small slice of the wheel where the ball will not land before the croupier waves off further betting. Machines can do this

This would fall under the category of "cheating", not a system.

I call it a cheating system.