South Africa Powerball Scam
You have to pick 5 balls from a pool that ranges from 1 to 50.
You have to pick 1 ball from a pool that ranges from 1 to 20.
Last night the winning numbers were: [5][6][7][8][9]+[10]
There are 20 people who won this combination.
Sub categories:
5 correct: 79 winners.
4 + 1 correct: 109 winners.
4 correct: 1944 winners.
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According to the Lottery company, your chance of winning the jackpot is 1/42000000.
To get last night's jackpot, your selection has to be near the very end of the left side of the bell curve.
They use a computer program to generate the numbers. How probable is it that their programming language picked those numbers? What are the chances they were hacked? What are the chances an old (or current) employee or contractor didn't bake in some numbers + dates with known data?
What's the chance that 20 people picked numbers that close to the edge of the bell curve? What's the chance that the next 79 people picked 5 balls that close to the edge?
Any thoughts on these results?