Is the National Lottery fixed??

Question

Have wondered from day one, as I recall Camelot saying the chances of a roll-over was less likely than anyone winning, yet there are constantly rollovers, especially coming up to Christmas. Obviously more tickets are bought if jackpot is higher than usual. Also wonder why the actual draw is not made immediately after the ticket machines are closed at 7.30pm. My own thoughts on this are that the balls could have a magnetic card inside which could be activated, similar to the magnetic strip on a credit card, to magnetise the ball which could be attracted to the tube which collects the winning numbers. Bear in mind your credit card is electronically activated when you call the card company.I think the time between the ticket machines closing and the draw being made is used by Camelot to collate all ticket sales and orchestrate the winning numbers to their advantage. Why not simply have 7 memers of the audience pick the balls out of a bag at 7.35pm? Do you know any big winners personally?

Answer 1

You may be right. I am sure that on some occasions the announcer has said the number of the ball before it has actually popped up. He also has a lot of information with regard to number immediately the ball has shown. I have often wondered, like you, if the balls are predetermined and he is scripted.
I must admit though I still do the Lottery each week but not to the total amount I used too.

Answer 2

I don't know about the draw itself but I'm constantly suspicious about Lucky Dips. I've often noticed that if I purchase 5 or 10 tickets for the same draw then some numbers come up way above what the law of averages should decree. For example if you purchase 5 you may get 2 numbers between 1 and 9 which appear 3 times and similarly between 10 and 19 etc. I vow every week to stop being idle and write the numbers out in full!! Yes,yes all you mathematicians I'm well aware that any 6 from 49 has as much chance of winning as any other 6.

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Answer 3

The lottery is fixed, but not in the way you suggest. The rules governing it mean that the government takes a healthy slice of the profits. Another part of the profits go to the 'good causes' and this allows us to pretend that when we buy a ticket we're really giving to charity. For governments lotteries are like the goose that laid the golden egg. A river of money, from the people who can least afford it, floods into the Chancellors coffers. The phrase: if it's not broke don't fix it, comes to mind. Think of all the people who would need to know if there was any cheating going on. And how much would they get for their story from one of the tabloid newspapers?

Answer 4

You can never actually answer this question by observation only, as in theory it would require an infinite number of draws for one to say with 100% certainty that on average, all the balls are drawn with equal frequency. However, we don't have the time for all that, so we rationalise and approximate things down to a finite but statistically significant number of draws (the exact size of this number of draws to acheive statistical significance depends on the number of prize-winning balls and the number of balls in the draw (i.e. 6 and 49 respectively)). Thus we can say that BEYOND REASONABLE (whatever THAT is!) DOUBT the balls come up with approximately equal frequencies. The trouble is, we haven't had enough draws yet to say this, and we appear to have some balls "leading the way". I'm afraid that you may as well generate a completely random set of numbers as try and stick to a "method" of picking out winning balls - however, maximising winnings "per jackpot win" would involve picking balls least likely to be picked by a large number of others, thus sharing the winnings among fewer individuals. Anyway, as for magnetic strips etc, well, sorry, I doubt it - somebody would have blown their cover by now. I'm afraid this is the same kind of logic as the UFO conspiracy theories/alien abductions etc. Good luck everyone, Chris. PS - By the way, has anyone else noticed the little green man standing in the corner of the studio, just in shot, at each lottery draw?!

Answer 5

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Is the National Lottery fixed??
Have wondered from day one, as I recall Camelot saying the chances of a roll-over was less likely than anyone winning, yet there are constantly rollovers, especially coming up to Christmas. Obviously more tickets are bought if jackpot is higher than usual. Also wonder why the actual draw is not...

Answer 6

I think the basis of your question is a tad paranoia! Why on earth would the National Lottery be fixed? What would be the point as even with multiple rollovers, someone, somewhere will eventually win. And with a fixed proportion of monies going to prize funds and good causes, money distribution will always be constant. And, if as you suggest, the whole thing is an electronic marvel of fixdom, there must be many people in the know who would have spilled the beans by now. After all, it would be embezzlement of the highest nature, if not criminal fraud. However, we need to remember that the people that develop, design and run the show are there for one reason ... to make money, and a lot of it. High stakes, high prizes must mean high income to run it all. Just let them all deny it. MY own thoughts are that the odds are so great, it simply feels like it is a fix because winning is so remote. Since it's launch in November 1994, I have won a handful of tenners. But like everybody else on this planet I dream about that big greedy win that will take me to another planet! The offshoot of that is that life becomes a bit 'plastic' at times ... how many people have said to you ...'It'll be okay when I win the lottery!' ...... it has made us all live in hope rather than work for our dreams .......... so there's another can of worms to ponder over! Roll on Saturday evening ....

Answer 7

I don't see how we could prove it either way. I know a couple of big winners actually. Although not in the millions. But they always make a big deal about the ball set being picked at random don't they? And we'd see the balls behaving oddly if the magnetisation was strong enough to make a difference. And you cannot turn on and off magnetisation they way you describe. Only in electro magnets, and then the balls would have to have a switch to turn them on, which people would notice. It is too elaborate, they couldn't do it without people knowing.

Answer 8

Of course its fixed and the BBC and the British establishment are all in on it since day one. Is it any wonder why Richard Branson didn t win it because lottery wasn t going to be corrupt. They give all our money to their bullshit good causes when all the unclaimed millions shoulf be put back into the weekly pot yet the corrupt assholes don t do that and also they think we actually give a **** about their good causes when all we want is to win the lottery not support their poncy assed causes. The bosses who run scamelot tell each other the numbers so they can win the jackpots because the draws are all fixed in advance. Whilst the rest of us win measly small prizes. Welcome to corrupt Britian.

Answer 9

well, i cant answer it exactly what? but im wondering why there' always very less winner .. there are millions of sell n why not such a match tht more than 100 winners for the jackpot? of course there is a doubt that they have gap in between sell n draw!!..

........ there may not b real winner all the time but sometimes yes with fantastic cover story they give to public ... hell i hv no idea .. they have such a brilliant setting to make money ...though this is not bad ... u spare pound may be for some good reasons....keep on buying ticket.. at least u hv some excitement every week or twice ..... n of course hope for moving forward!!

Answer 10

Well tonight's (Sat 25th June 2016) is estimated at £9.4 million, yet the national lottery site is already advertising next Tuesday's jackpot (28th June 2016) at £11 million. That would indicate that it is already known that tonight's jackpot will not be won before the draw is held - does this answer your question as to whether it is fixed????