>>18816694Yes, The numbers that come up are a unpredictable random for you, but for the people who have visibility over all tickets, they can decide when the payout happens.
That's how the frequency of winners is not what a mathmatician would expect based on the probability of an actual hit. Random numbers are quite annoying for everyone, both teh customers of lottery tickets, and the share holders and accounting bean counters.
And so the winners are randomly selected to happen at the rate the company is willing to let out funds, in a way that maximizes their income.
And no law has been broken by doing this, if you bring the actual mathematical proofs to an attorney that the frequency of winners is not plausible based on the chance of winning, then they will pull out a fat tome from their shelf and find the clause that they maintain the right to let winners win according to discretion.
This also prevents rich people from digitally buying every single lottery ticket to guarantee a win, thus winning more money than spent, when the expected value is positive.
People were actually doing this for a while, using actual math to game the system. So they put a stop to that real quick. The winners are still random, but it's when they decide a payout is needed to keep the stupids putting coins in the clinker.
