NY Lottery weirdness yesterday (1 Viewer)

[Patrick Sun]

Yesterday, the Cash3 winning number for New York was 9-1-1, isn't that strange?

So many people played those numbers that the system locked out many other people trying to play those numbers once too many people played those numbers. Weird.

 

[Brian Kleinke]

Wow very weird.

 

[Malcolm R]

Was the payout $9.11 as well?

 

[Patrick Sun]

Maybe $91.10.

 

[Chet_F]

Well here's the odds and payouts:

Note: Minimum bet - $0.50. Straight/Box payouts differ on whether straight or box is hit, payouts and percentages based on total possibilities.

Formula for Total Possibilities - 10x10x10 = 1,000

Straight -- Possibilities - 1 -- Odds - 1::1,000.00 -- Payout - $500.00 -- Percentage - 50.00%
3 Way Box -- Odds - 1::333.33 -- Payout - $160.00 -- Percentage - 48.00%
6 Way Box -- Odds - 1::166.67 -- Payout - $80.00 -- Percentage - 48.00%
3 Way Straight/Box -- Odds - 1::333.33 -- Payout - $490.00 -- Percentage - 49.00%
6 Way Straight/Box -- Odds - 1::166.67 -- Payout - $490.00 -- Percentage - 49.00%
Front Pair -- Possibilities - 10 -- Odds - 1::100.00 -- Payout - $50.00 -- Percentage - 50.00%
Back Pair -- Possibilities - 10 -- Odds - 1::100.00 -- Payout - $50.00 -- Percentage - 50.00%

 

[Chet_F]

Here's a link to the story:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/807167.asp

 

[Gui A]

wasn't last year's Sep 11 lotto numbers 9-1-1 too? I think that was in New Jersey though.
EDIT:
Nope.
It was a flight number... LINK: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lottery.htm

 

[Jared_B]

Rigged? I think so.

 

[MickeS]

Wow, I'm glad they have an engineer on hand to explain that the chance of picking one number out of 1000 is 1 in a 1000.
/Mike

 

[Dave Poehlman]

A few years ago, here in Milwaukee, on Halloween, the pick 3 numbers were 666. Kinda spooky.

 

[Christ Reynolds]

I'm glad they have an engineer on hand to explain that the chance of picking one number out of 1000 is 1 in a 1000

too bad they didnt have anyone telling us how probable it is to pick that number on that particular day. sure 1 in 1000 for any day, but for a specific day of the year, i would imagine the odds to be 1 in 365,000. a little more significant now, isnt it?

CJ

 

[MikeAlletto]

too bad they didnt have anyone telling us how probable it is to pick that number on that particular day. sure 1 in 1000 for any day, but for a specific day of the year, i would imagine the odds to be 1 in 365,000. a little more significant now, isnt it?

Wouldn't it still be 1 in 1000? Just because its a wednesday or a friday doesn't mean the odds are any greater or less...right?
Or maybe I slept during that day of class which is entirely possible

 

[JohnAD]

Mike, Christ:

The probability would be 1:365,000, but that is still not really significant, since any combination of a specific day and a specific number would be 1:365,000 as well.

John.

 

[Holadem]

too bad they didnt have anyone telling us how probable it is to pick that number on that particular day. sure 1 in 1000 for any day, but for a specific day of the year, i would imagine the odds to be 1 in 365,000. a little more significant now, isnt it?

The days are not random elements. What you are talking about are the odds of picking A DATE, then a number corresponding to that date. In our case, the day was not picked...

1/365000 represents the chances of all days of the year having numbers corresponding to their dates, for a particular year.

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Holadem