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Are the lotto draws tricked / fair?

9 February 2010 21 Comments

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Since months, I have been hearing quite a lot of rumors since the lotto game has been introduced in Mauritius. Most of you might perhaps agree that these lotto draws are the talk of the town, mostly on weekends…. Shops and other lottery outlets are overcrowded with people who are trying to change their fate by trying to choose the correct 6 numbers. The lotto has been such a success that the 20% of the traditional “Lotterie Vert” tickets were unsold for the end of year draw. For years, most of those tickets were finished before Christmas!

In the month of December 2009, people even complained on a private radio and one of them even said that the draw was not really live on TV. In fact,  it is broadcast after a few minutes.

Some people say that they don’t trust the 2 guys who are supposed to supervise the draw and ensure that everything is done in a fair way. I even heard other versions, for example; the lotto balls were not of the same size and the smaller ones were the ones which sink to the bottom, thus getting out of the machine. A few days ago, I overheard a few people discussing this topic too… According to them, most of the lucky people are from one community only and this game is turning out to be a lucky one for them :P

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Let me tell you that I don’t know to how much extent the above is true but I want to know what you think about those ‘lucky’ draws?

Finally, everyone will keep on repeating : “Mauriciens p vine zougadère et pu plaigner meme zotte pena casse!”. It’s more or less what the famous sega says : “Rhum la pas bon, to boire meme!“

Disclamer : I maintain that these are only rumours which I heard. I only mentioned them to share what I heard.

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  • http://www.tushal.net Tushal

    I never played to loto. And I don’t intend to play too.

  • Yashvind Kumar

    Moi mo fine jouer loto plus precisement Quick Pick.

    Once i played Rs.100 as Quick Pick, but when the draw took place, NO NUMBER that figured on the receipt appeared in the draw. for example, I played number 18, number 17 came out. I played number 5 and got number 4, etc….

    The following week, again i played Quick Pick. And still it was the same= No number on my receipt appeared as the lucky draw.

    MAYBE I’m unlucky in LOTO…..lolzzzzzz

  • PascaL

    What I think of this….
    well I just find this obscenely sick that some people even went so low thinking that “most of the lucky people are from one community only and this game is turning out to be a lucky one for them “.
    Only some retard racist individuals might think that ever single loto ticket being played is somehow tagged to be sure when the draw is run only that “one community” will be the winner.
    Quid to those abyssal moronic goons who came up with such an idea how can they keep track of those lucky number being drawn is for sure played by that “one community”?

    And you ask yourself, why this country is going FUBAR!

    Mauritius its a Pleasure

  • http://www.yashvinblogs.com Yashvin

    @Pascal : I share the same point of view as urs. I think its pretty impossible to make turn them into the lucky ones, its only pure coincidence.
    Did you hear anything on your side?

  • http://www.chaya.fowdar.com/ Chaya

    I heard the same rumors as you :P
    Mais bon, my dad wins mini lotos of Rs.100 often. :P

  • Mike

    I’m flabbergasted that people find a community link to this, what rubbish. I used to play the very same Lotto in Europe and it is no different here in its presentation and organization. I have played here too and won small amounts. I also heard that there was some controversy about the control of the Lotto in comparison to the Lotterie Vert where issued tickets are strictly controlled by the authorities.

  • http://gaia-helloworld.blogspot.com/ Gaia

    that’s why its better not to gamble :p

  • http://www.nayarweb.co.cc/blog Nayar

    All loto players need to revise HSC’s ‘permutations and combination and probability’ chapter in Stats. lol

  • yurit0s

    loto la genuine. bien sure pas tou dimoune capave win.
    avec ene bon combo permutation combination. hot numbers and cold numbers ena plus chance win mais tjs est pas facile pu coche les 6 bon mumero.

    ca ki trouver loto la triquer ou fause a b pas bizin zuer.

    RT: “Rhum la pas bon, to boire meme!“

  • http://reechdazzle.blogspot.com Reechna

    I’m not a maths freak but according to some statistics, the chance you lose is much greater than the chance you win. I told as much to my parents but like you said: ““Rhum la pas bon, to boire meme!“”

  • http://sozzz.net Sun

    Fair or not, this is rubbish :

    “According to them, most of the lucky people are from one community only and this game is turning out to be a lucky one for them “

  • http://www.yashvinblogs.com Yashvin

    @Sun : To some extent yeah.

  • http://www.savonvert.com Greg

    Come on …
    Do you guys think it’s tricked ?

    Well what i can say, is that i don’t support their marketing/ad everywhere…

    It’s working too well…

  • Anonym

    I don’t trust there must be tricks!!!

    It’s not fair assholes!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/sawanm Sawan

    Many of us (if not all) know that the numbers are collected through a network system to one computer, just like credit cards, Stevenhills, etc. And from that point, it can be guessed through a simple algorithm what series of numbers haven’t been played and so on…

    I don’t know why it has not been mentioned above but everyone can clearly notice that the wheel doesn’t rotate at constant speed. It will slow down at times. ‘As if somebody remotely slows the wheel down when the ‘correct’ ball is on top of the opening of the tube. And this is how all the balls sink to the bottom, one by one!
    Think about that. Next Saturday, look carefully the speed of rotation the wheel.

    The lotto machine and many other elements in the show are just a curtain, hiding ‘the real thing’ behind it. Its like many magical tricks on TV where there is an “audience”, a “supervisor” or whatever, some music, some suspense, all these are just distractions. Many magicians will tell how easily the human mind can be tricked!

    Of course, its not about magic here but people’s money. So, I better be wrong and they better make it a 100% legit thing.

  • Aki

    SAwan, Very pertinent, brilliant observation from your part!
    i share the same opinion as you bro!

    these days even the most intelligent people are being tricked easily…
    things you see on tv may not necessarily be genuine..
    You need to see what goes behind the scenes..
    To those b***rds pretending to be too smart to say its pure chance / coincidence. I will tell you one thing – think out of the tuna can… lol…
    Makes me remember some morrons who used to believe in christ angel black magics.. lol… a simple click on google reveals all the truth abt that pathetic guy…

    remember the 50 million jackpot??
    It was divided into 5!!!!
    why don’t they do it for small jackpots of 5M and 10 M??
    why is not shared among 5 or even 10 people…
    Being a critical thinker!! I highly doubt it until i won’t see the system with my own eyes!!!I don’t trust bloody hackable system.. IS…………
    enough said…
    cheers

  • zicitron

    Ok, I’ll add my 2 cents!

    The thing is tricked, not in the sense that it “chooses” the winner but rather in the sense that it chooses WHEN to make out a winner or winners.

    Now think of this: chances that someone pick out the 6 correct numbers are statistically close to chances that a person is struck by lightning while walking.

    It’s practically IMPOSSIBLE that the LOTTO has generated so many 1st prize winners since its inception. Impossible!

    So there must have been “human” or machine intervention in the process. The LOTTO is a business…if nobody is winning over several weeks, the excitement will fade. So what they are doing is simply playing with the mind of the mass players.

    On the other hand, if they are defeating statistical numbers and allowing more players to win, what’s to complain? Of course, assuming they are not favoring X,Y or Z in the process! (I can’t answer the unfortunately).

    However, one thing I’m SURE is that it is not a purely random game! If they want to have a 1st prize for this week, they CAN do it and if they decide that the next 1st prize winning ticket/s will be for the last week of December, they CAN do that too! You get the idea!

  • z1manArmy

    The cylindrical thing at the bottom of the wheel looks fishy to me. It looks like a kind of opening which is controlled manually. Here’s what I mean: http://i.imgur.com/0591G.jpg

    And you can clearly see (and hear) the door open and close on television.

    Of course, I will only be sure if I personally get there to have a close look at the system. For the time being, I prefer the Air mix lotto machines and I won’t play lotto.

  • LOLZ

    The one (@ Loterie Nationale) willing to make me the winner of this week, i’ll share 50% with him. LOLZ

    Somehow I must agree that there must be some trick.

  • roubesh

    tand dire brigade d jeux pas ti gagne access dans lotto so headquarters??kikain kapav elaborer lorla plz

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