Articles tagged with "lotto"

Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto

6 August 2017

There was a nice story about the 30th anniversary of the Lotto this week from Stuff. The article talked about how the fact some numbers come up more often than others is likely chance (Lotto take this seriously, and apparently regularly wash and weigh the balls to ensure there's no bias). The difference in frequency between the most drawn ball, number 1 (16.91%) and the least drawn ball number 34 (13.97%) is not huge, and I suspect the number frequency draws a bell curve.

Bias claimed over Lotto

1 August 1989

THE Lotteries Commission has been accused of tacitly supporting crackpot lucky number schemes to boost the sales of Lotto tickets.

Psychic's lotto claim debunked

1 February 1989

Astrological betting systems which claim to win on Lotto are bunkum, according to a group which investigates the unexplained.