Re: Is BC49 rigged?
Brad said:
Hey tomtom,
we've talked about this bfr with other BCers here, my thoughts were (are) it is not rigged ... others think it may be. That doesn't stop me from poking fun at the BCLC though ... and I would be flattered if they read my posts, lol. Somehow I think they have other priorities, like counting $$ 
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I think you're right that minimal exposure/advertising has an effect on ticket sales. What I find interesting though, based only on how many prizes are won in all categories, is that at first glance ON49 seems to have an even smaller player base than BC49 ... now given that ON has about 3x the population of BC I would have thought ON base would be proportionately larger ...
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My thoughts were about the same(not rigged), but however after seeing that many draws without any JP winners in a row
, wanted to make sure they change nothing regarding the way they draw numbers, so visited their site and checked for the legal statements, and the game's rules and regulations…
...and by not finding any possibility for some small letters regarding this particular game, and after reading those statemets, especially one which states numbers are drawn in an UNBIASED manner, I'm sure BC49 game is 100% safe regarding any possible rigging , both internally and externally
. The site is updated after every draw, so there is also no any reason for possible avoidance of updating such crucial information as in which way the numbers are drawn is.
At the end, I’m not a casino player, but can you imagine a roulette game where a dealer, or anybody else in or out has a hidden magnetic device, making the ball stops anywhere else but on a random number somewhere around the wheel…. I don’t think such an event is legally possible by means of the way that game is regulated .
So since those lottery guys hold some much higher level licenses than casinos, if there were any known bias in the way the numbers were drawn, they would advice interested parties and not clearly state the numbers are drawn in an unbiased manner..
Speaking about any possible rigging in lottery games, it seems one of the possible ways in such a lotteries where a stand alone computer is used to draw the numbers would require a wireless network, so hope some disappointed lottery dude didn’t go there with a suitable device, checking if there existed any intensive wireless network in a half an hour or even more (since partially imported or checked database may provide a low or high % of accuracy depending on it's size) before draws…
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I don't think any serious lottery from security reasons would draw numbers using a computer which has had installed any hardware required for a wirelles network...nor has had instaled any software or a programming code on it in whole or partially which somehow in any way may affect the numbers randomness and unbiasedness..
Regarding ON49 and BC49, well, it seems ON always has something like 15% more 3/6 winners, so may that suggest about only 15% more people play ON49 than BC49 even three times more people live there?
However, I think the BC49 game is much better while considering both tickets costs and prizes, so that may be a reason proportionally much more people play BC49…Also, it seems in ON they have some more interesting games with a bit lower odds like 6/42 or such....
