Lottery 23rd March

George_Michael

JReacher1 wrote: »

It might not be connected to the draw machine but the action of the celeb pressing the button starts the machine as the actual machine controller waits for the celeb to press the button before starting the draw.

Therefore it does effect the draw as its signals the start.

That's a bit like saying that the clock used by the BBC also affects the outcome of the draw as the lottery program only starts when the correct times is reached.

Anyway, the machine controller doesn't always wait for the celeb to press the button before they start the actual draw.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1572592/BBC-admits-Lotto-button-is-a-fake.html

JReacher1

George_Michael wrote: »

That's a bit like saying that the clock used by the BBC also affects the outcome of the draw as the lottery program only starts when the correct times is reached.

Anyway, the machine controller doesn't always wait for the celeb to press the button before they start the actual draw.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1572592/BBC-admits-Lotto-button-is-a-fake.html

That article says the pressing of the button is the cue for the draw master to start the draw.

When the celebrity presses the button the draw master starts the draw. Therefore the time that the button is pressed has a significant effect on the draw.

It's seems pretty obvious. You're just being stubborn for some reason.

George_Michael

JReacher1 wrote: »

That article says the pressing of the button is the cue for the draw master to start the draw.

When the celebrity presses the button the draw master starts the draw. Therefore the time that the button is pressed has a significant effect on the draw.


It's seems pretty obvious. You're just being stubborn for some reason.

Here we go again. Someone has a difference of opinion and you immediately start with the insults.
Read the article again.
The draw master started the draw before the celeb had pressed the button so tell me, how did Craig David pressing the button have any effect on the draw?

JReacher1

George_Michael wrote: »

Here we go again. Someone has a difference of opinion and you immediately start with the insults.
Read the article again.
The draw master started the draw before the celeb had pressed the button so tell me, how did Craig David pressing the button have any effect on the draw?

It's not a difference of opinion. You are fundamentally wrong. That is not an opinion it is a fact....

The article says as Craig David went to press the button he hesitated and as such didn't press the button. The draw master was caught out be the hesitation and started the machine.

Craig David's action of moving his hand to the button started the process, although the draw master made a mistake. This was however an abnormality as usually they will start the draw when the celebrity presses the button.

I don't understand why you are having trouble understanding the flow, it's very straightforward. The machine starts up, a celebrity presses a button, the draw master then starts the balls being chosen. The timings of the draw and thus the numbers being chosen are therefore obviously influenced by the time the celebrity presses the button, or in Craig David's case start to press the button and then stops.

George_Michael

JReacher1 wrote: »

Therefore the time that the button is pressed has a significant effect on the draw.

So I will ask one further time.
Did the time that Craig David pressed the button have any effect on the draw?
Not the time that he moved his hand, but the time he actually pressed the button which is what you clearly stated in your quoted post above.


A simple yes or no will suffice.

JReacher1

George_Michael wrote: »

So I will ask one further time.
Did the time that Craig David pressed the button have any effect on the draw?
Not the time that he moved his hand, but the time he actually pressed the button which is what you clearly stated in your quoted post above.


A simple yes or no will suffice.

Did Craig David moving his hand towards the button cause the draw master to start the draw?

George_Michael

JReacher1 wrote: »

Did Craig David moving his hand towards the button cause the draw master to start the draw?

Yes, but that's not what I asked, nor is it what you stated in your earlier post.

JReacher1

George_Michael wrote: »

Yes, but that's not what I asked, nor is it what you stated in your earlier post.

So you agree that the start of the draw is dictated by the celebrity's actions.....

You should really apologise to the poster where you stated they were wrong that the timing of the draw was linked to the celebrity's actions. You now agree that they were right.

It's an Easter miracle.

shaun_from_Africa

The amount paid for 5 + the bonus ball was also very low.

Most draws have given somewhere in the 90k to 100k range but this one was only £10, 000.
A nice sum but not really life changing for most people

mjm3346

Both 5 and 5 plus the bonus get a far smaller share of the prize fund than they did when tickets were £1 - one of the old draws had over 6,600* match 5 winners who got £183 each - Compared to this draw that's over 50% more winners getting over 12 times the prize for half the stake.

This is something that's been waiting to happen since they introduced the figure padding "lucky dip" that they count as a win though it's not even money back and then count it as a ticket sale when it's played - a proper set of just low numbers should be really interesting.


*Shared over 1.2 million compared to less than 62,000 for this draw.