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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Then suffice it to say that something is rotten in the state of Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine! You live there, right? Try it yourself and see if you win once every three weeks. It will only cost you $6 to find out if they are telling the truth. If one could win 'cash' once every three weeks, more people would be playing. Although $2 is the minimum cash prize, one can also win a free ticket. Besides the $2-$4 wins, he does win a free ticket more often. But you can't buy tea with a free ticket...
Trust... but verify.
Stitchawl
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The game has been tweaked. Tickets cost $2 (so it would cost $12 to buy a ticket per drawing for three weeks) and the minimum prize is $2. No more free tickets.
The odds of winning are as stated, easy enough to verify with a calculator. So, are the drawings fixed? The balls weighted, perhaps, to reduce the odds of picking lower numbers (since people play dates)?
I suspect your friend wins small amounts more often than he thinks, or else he's truly unlucky.