(January 8, 2015 at 7:00 am)BlackMason Wrote: Why do I think the lottery is not random? Because casino slot machines and similar equipment is rigged. The lottery is gambling. The way the lottery works is by playing on the hopes and greed of individuals by promising life changing money. Therefore I believe there has to be a way for the lottery operators to prevent too many people winning the jackpot. If too many people win the jackpot then they will have to split the prize money. This has the effect of making the lottery lose it's lustre. No other gambling system has life changing jackpots like the big L.
I don't really get where you're coming from. The lottery's simple: you sell 100 tickets for a dollar each and you give out $60 to the winner. Doesn't matter if the number's random or not.
This is just like, say, poker machines. They're not "rigged" in the sense that they see you holding a 4, 5, 6, 7 of spades and say to themselves "aha! I will lower the probability of him getting the 8 of spades from 1 in 47 to 0, thus taking his money!"; they're "rigged" in the sense that, when you play perfectly, you might have a 1 in 10,127 chance of getting a certain hand but it only pays you 10,000x when you do get that hand.
I think the point's been made here that the take in gambling isn't due to a lack of randomization within the system, it's due to the system itself. The only thing not randomizing would do is allow people to figure out the ways in which things aren't randomized, thus allowing them to exploit your system.
One-time key's uncrackable, yo.
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