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To: mylife

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.


14 posted on 12/02/2020 11:33:21 AM PST by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: babygene

That is hilarious!!

Where was Carly Fiorina at the time? /s


15 posted on 12/02/2020 11:35:34 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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