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[T.Jackson]

I've seen the calculated odds in a Visual Basic program, believe me, not very good - many, many millions from memory. God the people behind it must be stinking rich, probably so rich in fact, that occasionally they fix a win to someone every now and them just to off load some money that they just simply don't know what to do with. Should I pass a couple of million onto someone who I know is gonna give half of it to charity or just let it sit beside the other 1,000 trillion that we have? Feeling generous today - lets fix a win

[Ioannis]

At least in my Country, from a lot of "evidence" I am strongly convined that this lottery thing is setup. Every now and then there is a jackpot almost every holiday! So no machine could predict the next numbers this way. Sure past numbers have no effect on future numbers that way.

I decided that the only way to make money is to work! And sure it feels good when you are paid for the good job you've done.

Ioannis

[T.Jackson]

Yeah - it's probably all bull. I think a lot of these game show on TV are like this too.

[Melanie]

>I think a lot of these game show on TV are like this too.

Big scandal currently in UK that a lot of them were fixed either in advance, or were fraudulently weighted against contestants. The regulator stepped in last month and 95% of all the phone-in shows have suddenly dissappeared, and the great BBC even cancelled all phone-in contests yesterday after a report divulged that the shows were rigged in at least half-a-dozen examples.

>And sure it feels good when you are paid for the good job you've done.

Actually orgasmic... especially when you play games like ensuring the total of this months 'high' is bigger and better than last months... I'm not saying you have to only get it once a month - but we're talking pay-cheques here...

[RussMartin]

>Big scandal currently in UK that a lot of them were fixed either in advance, or were fraudulently weighted against contestants. The regulator stepped in last month and 95% of all the phone-in shows have suddenly dissappeared, and the great BBC even cancelled all phone-in contests yesterday after a report divulged that the shows were rigged in at least half-a-dozen examples.

I'm sure you're all aware that the first big fuss about TV game-show deception occurred here in the USA back in the late 1950s. Even the President (Eisenhower) said it was national embarrassment.