The draw is the most important moment in any lottery. During the draw, the lottery ball machine chooses the winning numbers. It is up to fate and the lottery machine which numbers will be chosen. Do you know how does the lottery ball machine work? Today we can tell you something about the myths about the lottery machine, we will share with you an interesting fact about the lottery machine names and we will explain how does the lottery machine work. Are you ready for some information, which will help you to understand better how the world of lotto really works?
What is the lottery ball machine?
A lottery machine is a machine, which is used during the lottery draw to select the winning numbers. Each of the lotteries in the world has own lottery machine. When the machine is not working, the draw can not be realized. There are a lot of myths about how does the lottery ball machine work and how the numbers are selected.
How does the lottery ball machine work?
To answer the question how does the lottery ball machine work we want to tell you about the most popular types of lottery machines. Two of the most frequently used types are mechanical machines and random number generator.
Mechanical lottery ball machines are the most popular. Why? It is interesting to watch how the numbers are selected. The draw with a mechanical lottery machine is more transparent. The players can see exactly how the mechanism is working and watch how the balls come out of the lottery ball machine. The players can see the lottery balls all the time during the draw.
A popular type of mechanical machine is the “gravity pick” machine. This machine has a drum with arms rotating inside the drum. The balls go to the drum from the balls container. The drum has a hole, and when the gravity pushes the ball with the lottery number to the hole, a ball goes to the special tray for the winning numbers.
This type of lottery ball machine is used in, for example, Powerball, Polish Lotto or MegaMillions lottery.
The random numbers generator is also used in the world of lottery. Winning numbers are selected by a computer with specialized software. It is a cheaper solution than mechanical lottery machine, in which the organizer has to replace balls and mechanism from time to time. For the players, this type is not interesting to watch and most of the players do not believe that the lottery with random numbers generator is not falsified.
Lottery machine names
Did you know that the lottery machine of the UK National Lottery has a name?
British Camelot is the organizer of the national lottery of the United Kingdom. Probably you can know “Camelot” as a castle from the movies about Camelot, King Arthur and Lady Guinevere. Today “Camelot” is a group, who is responsible for the lotteries in the UK.
This company in 2009 decided to change the old lottery machine used during the draw and replace it with the new models. The lottery machine names are Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Merlin.
Probably most of the UK National Lottery players do not know that the lottery machine names exist. For the Camelot, it was obvious that the names should be connected with the name of the lottery organizer. Now you know that you can ask before the draw “Sir Lancelot, which winning numbers will you choose today?”.
We do not know anything about lottery machine names in other countries.
Myths about the lottery machine
Some people think that the draws are rigged. One of the myths says that the lottery organizer knows before the draw which numbers are rarely selected by the players and which set of the winning numbers is not chosen by the player. For example, if nobody picked 3, 16, 28, 34 and 42 – those numbers will be selected by the lottery machine. How? The balls with these numbers will contain a piece of metal and a magnet in the lottery machine will catch the balls with metal.
The second myth says that the balls with numbers determined before the draw, are lighter and that is why the gravity will help them to be selected. How? We really do not know.
Why do people believe in myths about the draw and lottery ball machine? Probably because they never won the lottery and they do not know anybody who won a big prize. What is more – people usually believe in rumors and they do not think logically. Some people think “I can not win, so something is wrong. The lottery is a cheat and the draw is falsified. Probably something is wrong with the lottery machine”. Oh, come on! Maybe it is your attitude is bad?
Now you know how does the lottery ball machine work and why the mechanical machine is better than the random numbers generator. Do not believe in myths about the lottery machine and balls with a magnet. All lotteries want to be transparent and reliable. There are a lot of fraud protection systems. If the lottery organizer will cheat the players – he can lose more than gain by cheating. Do you really think that the biggest lotteries want to risk the reputation?
We have more than 50 years of experience in the world of lotto and we never heard about the cheating procedure with the lottery ball machine. If you play the most popular lotteries with a good reputation, you are safe and you can be sure that the draws are fair and consistent with the rules.
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