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Pennsylvania Lottery - 666

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal

On the night of April 24, 1980, more than six million viewers tuned in to the Pennsylvania lottery to watch The Daily Number to find out the winning three numbers for the $3.5 million jackpot.

Since the money drawn in by the lottery was for the benefit of senior citizens they would have a senior citizen draw the numbers and on that day they drew the numbers 6, 6, 6.

So what?

A large number of winners than normal?

So what?

Lottery authorities and local bookmakers became suspicious when they noticed that a large number of tickets were purchased for the eight possible combinations all involving the numbers 4 and 6.

So what?

They found out that the 4 & 6 balls of the drawing were lighter than the other digits at the time of the drawing that the other digits were covered in a thick latex to make them heavier.

So what?

They got a tip from a bar that there were two brothers going from shop to shop purchasing large quantities of lottery tickets in combinations of 4 & 6.

So what?

Well at one of the bars that they bought tickets they made a phone call from the payphone to the studio that was doing the drawing.

So what?

The bartender said it sounded like the person was speaking Greek, and the host of the lottery drawing, Nick Perry happened to also speak Greek.

So what?

When the brothers were questioned they saw that they had a previous vending machine business with the announcer of the lottery, Nick Perry.

So what?

The brothers confessed that the idea was Nick Perry’s

So what?

They found the latex paint in Nick Perry’s studio that was used to weigh down the other digits of the balls for the drawing.

So what?

Nick Perry and the brothers all confessed to the crime…

So what?

Everything in the investigation points to the fact that the drawing was rigged. No sensible person would attribute all these coincidences to pure luck e.g. there are so many lotteries and this just happens to be the one that had a high rate of participants pick numbers eerily close to the winning numbers and a large number of individuals claim to win.

When determining if an event is random or by design, we need to investigate

No different than when police investigating a death - they need to determine was the death caused by natural causes or was there foul play