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« 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.
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2011, 09:21:53 PM »

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« Reply #2 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..
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« Reply #3 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
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« Reply #4 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. 
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« Reply #5 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.
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« Reply #6 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
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« Reply #7 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.


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« Reply #8 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?
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« Reply #9 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
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« Reply #10 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?
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