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Title: It's all on the cards Post by: kinboshi on February 01, 2011, 09:18:23 PM http://wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1
Very interesting article about flaws in some lottery scratch cards. Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: Claw75 on February 01, 2011, 09:21:53 PM cliffs pls
Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: The Camel on February 01, 2011, 09:31:19 PM Years ago my brother had a whole box full of scratch cards to to raise money for his Sunday football team.
The winning tickets were a slightly darker shade of yellow than the losers.. Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: outragous76 on February 01, 2011, 09:32:51 PM Years ago my brother had a whole box full of scratch cards to to raise money for his Sunday football team. The winning tickets were a slightly darker shade of yellow than the losers.. Which would suggest a different print run, yet they are on perforated reels I believe nowadays Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: Laxie on February 01, 2011, 09:41:02 PM Years ago my brother had a whole box full of scratch cards to to raise money for his Sunday football team. The winning tickets were a slightly darker shade of yellow than the losers.. Which would suggest a different print run, yet they are on perforated reels I believe nowadays They're on reels, but if yer working in a shop across the road from a local bingo hall you learn the pattern of winning tickets in no time. Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: Graham C on February 01, 2011, 09:44:00 PM Only read the start but it's Canadian scratch cards. Are ours supposed to be the same? I would have thought that we have enough regulators etc in polace to make sure ours is legit.
Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: Cf on February 01, 2011, 09:49:43 PM cliffs as far as i can tell were he could tell which tickets were winners by looking at the serial numbers
Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: titaniumbean on February 01, 2011, 09:50:46 PM cliffs as far as i can tell were he could tell which tickets were winners by looking at the serial numbers could tell which were winners from the no of times the visible numbers were repeated. those that weren't repeated were going to provide wins basically. Tis awesome read. Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: Bongo on February 01, 2011, 10:18:34 PM Only read the start but it's Canadian scratch cards. Are ours supposed to be the same? I would have thought that we have enough regulators etc in polace to make sure ours is legit. lol, we might have enough of them but are any of them competent? Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: kinboshi on February 02, 2011, 03:37:27 PM Only read the start but it's Canadian scratch cards. Are ours supposed to be the same? I would have thought that we have enough regulators etc in polace to make sure ours is legit. lol, we might have enough of them but are any of them competent? Canada and America have enough of them too - in that article it talks about the size of the lottery market in North America ;gobsmacked; Title: Re: It's all on the cards Post by: RED-DOG on February 02, 2011, 04:12:32 PM Years ago my brother had a whole box full of scratch cards to to raise money for his Sunday football team. The winning tickets were a slightly darker shade of yellow than the losers.. Which would suggest a different print run, yet they are on perforated reels I believe nowadays They're on reels, but if yer working in a shop across the road from a local bingo hall you learn the pattern of winning tickets in no time. So the pattern on the tickets affected the sequence of the balls coming out of the machine? |