Is the lotto rigged? Multiple recent "New record jackpots" seem statistically unlikely to be random chance.
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Everyone always seems jaded when it comes to this specific topic, so I'll give my two cents since I'm of the few with a contrary view on it.
The lottery isn't rigged in the way most seem to think. I know two lottery winners IRL. One of them won a moderately large jackpot (and still managed to blow it all on stupid crap) and the other won one of those "win X amount every day/week for the rest of your life" lotteries. He's done a little better, but that's because he basically just retired at 30 since he had a steady income for the rest of his life.
So I know for a fact THERE ARE legitimate lottery winners. I firmly believe most of these large jackpots are actually won by random people, who will more likely than not blow it all and end up bankrupt in a year or two, if that. Because they don't know how to handle money responsibly.
But that's a different topic. The "rigging" isn't the actual jackpot. It's all the "unclaimed" smaller prizes.Did you know that on average, there's something like $150-250 BILLION in unclaimed smaller prizes ($10K-$5 Million)? Supposedly, that all goes to the public school system of whatever state the unclaimed ticket was bought it, but we all know it never does. It get's laundered out to various slush funds for the cabal.
Most people don't understand how the lottery works. Every time a drawing is made, the proceeds from the ticket sales have to be split between payouts for smaller prizes, paying employees, and increasing the jackpot size if it wasn't won.
This is where I believe the actual rigging is coming in to play. The higher the jackpot, the more people will play. The more people that play, the more "unclaimed tickets" can be printed (probably in a similar manner to how election ballots are fraudulently printed into existence). Which means more money can be funneled away from the jackpot increases.
So for example, between saturday and monday, the $1 Billion+ jackpot increased by roughly $200 Million. When numbers get that large, it's entirely likely they probably had roughly $800 Million-$1 Billion in small prize payouts. Assume 30% of that was siphoned into slush funds. That's $300 Million they made in a single night that's virtually untraceable since no one cares about the millions of $10K winning tickets floating around.
If that happens 3 more times (And keep in mind the numbers will progressively increase), then they'll make more money than the jackpot will be worth. And that's not including all the money they've siphoned leading up to the $1 Billion mark.
So yes, the lottery is probably rigged. But not for the jackpot winner. They're preventing anyone from winning for long periods of time, in order to siphon off massive amounts from the smaller prizes (far more than any single jackpot will provide), and once they deem it to be to obvious, they'll finally let some random schmuck win it so that too much attention isn't drawn to it.
As for why we've had so many $1 Billion+ Jackpots lately, well it should be obvious. They're running out of funds, so they're desperate and pushing the envelope with this specific method out of desperation. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say this one will probably be won around the $2.5-$3 Billion mark since each jackpot has been getting progressively higher when it was won.
I think it's much more blatantly rigged than that.. as in.. they print a ticket with the winning numbers after the drawing and give it to their deep state person to turn in and become rich. Maybe a few are legit - but most are totally rigged. I'm only basing this on my experience with the stock market and politics in general - the higher you go, the more corrupt it is. The lotto is basically the highest you can go in terms of gambling prizes - so it would only make sense that those involved are the scummiest most corrupt criminal individuals. I hope I am proven wrong. But, unless there's interest to conduct the lotto on the blockchain - where people can verify what numbers were allocated before the drawing - I will have to believe that the whole system is built as a 'trust us; we're honest' type system. Any system built like that is built like that on purpose.
How can they “print a winning ticket” prior to the televised random drawing? Unless the “televised random drawing” is just some deep state deep fake video bullshit. And let’s assume the televised random drawing is legit and they just print out a winning ticket with the winning numbers after the fact. How can they control the fact that another winning ticket was legitimately purchased before the drawing? What can they say then? “Oops, when we said only one winning ticket was “purchased” we made a mistake and actually two or three winning tickets were purchased”?
There’s been more than one winner many times.. the winnings just get split.
I can think of one or two times in the past 10 years that there was a split jackpot prize. In fact, the first ever $1 Billion Jackpot was a three way split if I'm not mistaken. He's got a point, and poked another hole in your logic.
See, the problem with that is that, is that "the curse of the lottery" exists. Within a year or two, 95% of all lottery jackpot winners go bankrupt, and there's ALWAYS coverage of it. Heck, there's whole TV shows revolving around the stories of people ruining their lives after being stupid with lottery jackpot winnings. And let's not forget that only a handful of states allow for anonymous claiming. Meaning we almost always have a name to search for and see what has happened to them.
There's too much evidence that the overwhelming majority of lottery jackpot winners are legitimate. On the other hand, there's plenty of circumstantial evidence that the hundreds of billions in "unclaimed prizes" are being laundered away into slush funds.
Besides, as I said, I know several lottery winners IRL, so I have personal proof that not every lottery winner is a deep state stooge.
Either way, there's too much evidence that the majority of lottery winners are legitimate to just blatantly claim every single lottery drawing is rigged. To do so, is to ignore all evidence and base your claims solely on emotions. Which we all know ends badly 90% of the time.
We aren't talking about tiny payouts like the people you know. They didn't win the top amount, which is where the rigging or preplanned payouts are likely happening...
Apparently someone didn't read anything beyond the first paragraph of my comment. I laid out why that's more likely than not, NOT the case. And why it's far more likely that they steal a large percentage of the many thousands of smaller prizes that go unclaimed (officially anyway), with every drawing.
And for the record, the "Win X amount for life" guy, did win the top prize. It's why he's now guaranteed a six figure income annually for the rest of his life by the government.
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Let’s see. Elections rigged. Check. Congress rigged and Kaiser’s money. Check. President rigged for chyna. Check. Lottery with billions and billions at stake. RIGGED. Check.
Someone "wins." The government takes most of it. AKA just another form a taxation for the people who bought tickets.
Blue states are full of stupid people who can't do math. That's why they play the lottery, among other things.
Not really, It's actually pretty random where someone wins. The last one being in california WAS iffy because of the weird "glitch" they had, but there's been plenty in Red states. Texas has had quite a few jackpot winners over the years for example.
Most lotteries lose money. Wait ... let me rephrase that. Most GOVERNMENT FUNDED lotteries lose money. The mob ran them for decades ... they didn't seem to have problems losing money until government came in and wiped them all out since they wanted to the be premier organized crime family on the planet.
All of it is a scam. All of it.
What do you mean they lose money?
In the case of Pennsylvania state lottery's"fund", half was supposed to go to help senior citizens. Half goes to the winner. The state blew that money on other garbage. The lottery itself falls into the negative and cannot fund itself.
It's one of the big reasons many states ganged up to make these mega jackpot lotteries.
I think a similar thing happened in Illinois ... They couldn't pay out winning for a little while since they didn't have the money.
Yea that makes sense. Bigger ‘pools’ of money (bigger jackpots) gives them more money to play with. That makes a lot of sense actually. And provides incentives these days to make sure the jackpots are all really large.
Good Mr. President! Now get these bastards :-) (in reference to your name ;-) ).
Also, if you want to read a good story about how lotteries can be manipulated, check this one out ... I was really young when this happened ... the guy that ran the local TV show (Bowling for Dollars) was in on the scam. He was an icon in the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal#:~:text=Perry%20was%20the%20host%20of,watched%20that%20night%20never%20knowing
Also note that all of these lotteries still use those "balls" in a machine to present the illusion of randomness to those that throw their money at this idiot tax that's accepted as "normal" all across the country.
Why wouldn't it be rigged? Everything that can be rigged most likely is.
Always has been...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal
Just posted this myself ... I remember that despite being very young ... I didn't see you post it.
Nick Perry was great at both bowling for dollars AND loading up balls so that "666" would hit! :-)
It is rigged. They’ll let it get close to 2 billion and then someone will “win”.
Rigged, irs wins EVERY time.
Ha....I would like to see this house of representatives introduce a bill to exclude lottery winnings from all taxes.....See how fast lotteries go away.
Complete out of my butt theory. ILLINOIS, COMMIFONIA ECT... Are bankrupt, they are using the WINNERS. TO HARVEST THE CASH. ITS THE ONLY THING PROPPING UP THE CABAL. these states are broke.
That money's gotta be laundered to Ukraine somehow
Zelensky’s winning ticket won!
Hollywood Henderson, x Dallas Cowboy won twice.
Rigged
Maybe not every time.
There has been a trend to increase the range of the regular balls (now 70) and decrease in the red ball range. This increases the odds of small prize winnings. Do people play 1-31 and 1-12 more heavily? 69 for the win!
If you pay extra for "megaplier" (and you should) at least 10% of your ticket cost will be returned to you in 1 red ball or 1 red + 1 white ball prizes. Is a 10% return enough for payments?
I don't trust the lottery quick picker. It is a potential avenue for fixing the game but I'm not sure how. Get numbers from an independent party, preferably a site that offers true random numbers. Humans suck at picking random numbers.
You would assume that a portion of the ticket sales goes into the jackpot. Maybe the jackpot is not won because there are not as many ticket sales as you think, based on the jackpot increase. These huge jackpots draw in more ticket sales so there is a huge incentive to publish a huge jackpot. Do old unclaimed tickets fund the jackpot?
Are the lotto drawing truly shown live and open to the public? If not, they could draw several times and then use the numbers that minimize payout.
Lotteries are not a good thing.
Remember the McDonald's Monopoly Game? It was rigged too:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/how-mcmillions-scam-rigged-the-mcdonalds-monopoly-game.html