Posted on 12/02/2020 11:10:57 AM PST by mylife
An unusual sequence of numbers drawn in South Africa's national lottery has sparked accusations of fraud after 20 people won a share of the jackpot.
Tuesday's PowerBall lottery saw the numbers five, six, seven, eight and nine drawn, while the PowerBall itself was, you have guessed it, 10.
The organisers say the sequence is often picked. But some have alleged a scam and an investigation is under way.
It is extremely rare for multiple winners to share the jackpot.
The organisers said 20 people purchased a winning ticket and won 5.7m rand ($370,000; £278,000) each.
Another 79 ticketholders won 6,283 rand each for guessing the sequence from five up to nine but missing the PowerBall.
What do lottery winners spend their money on? The chances of winning South Africa's PowerBall lottery are one in 42,375,200 - the number of different combinations when selecting five balls from a set of 50, plus an additional bonus ball from a pool of 20.
The odds of the draw resulting in the numbers seen in Tuesday's televised live event are the same as any other combination. Competitions resulting in multiple winners are rare, but this may have something to do with this particular sequence.
"Congratulations to tonight's 20 winners of the PowerBall draw," lottery operator Ithuba tweeted, adding: "These numbers may be unexpected, but we see many players opt to play these sequences."
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I’m thinking of a number between 1 an 10...
The South African Lottery is more secure than a USA election.................
Damn. Ain’t that the truth!
Where is Nick Perry?
Dominion does lottery machines? Who knew?
Let me guess: Smartmatic picked the numbers on Dominion equipment.
It could happen, couldn’t it?
Apparently it happened a LOT!! LOL
Have always told folks that if they want the winning lottery numbers, to play the ones that won the previous draw.
A lot of people have told me that it is impossible for the numbers to come up the same two times in a row.
I didn’t know that Powerball was run in Africa.
Now you know ;)
5,6,7,8,9 and 10 are just as likely as any other numbers to come up. Still funny though../
That said, decades ago, I worked for HP, and we were involved with the first lottery in Delaware. Our involvement was that we provided the hardware for the lottery. It was a special HP 2100 computer and optical card readers for tabulating the lottery tickets. The winning number was determined by a specific horse race at Dover Downs Race track (horses) the night of the drawing.
For weeks before the drawing, big billboards were put up all over Delaware showing people how to fill out the marked cards (tickets).
It just so happened that the number on the instructional billboards happened to be a big WINNER. You can guess the rest of this disaster... Many many people won, and the next drawing few people bought tickets because the Big payout was so small (divide a big jackpot by thousands of winners).
That was the last drawing BTW.
That is hilarious!!
Where was Carly Fiorina at the time? /s
So many persons winning on 5,6,7,8,9,10 isn't that strange.
Hard to crack their password...
“An unusual sequence “
No more unusual than any other sequence. Same for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
No, it was before the wicked witch...
HP was a powerhouse.
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