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  2. Kerala State Lotteries - Wikipedia

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    Kerala State Lotteries is a lottery programme run by the Government of Kerala. Established in 1967, under the lottery department of the Government of Kerala, it is the first of its kind in India. In 1967 all private lotteries were banned and the Government of Kerala started the Kerala State Lotteries.

  3. Lottery - Wikipedia

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    A lottery drawing being conducted at the television studio at Texas Lottery Commission headquarters Lottery tickets for sale, Ropar, India. 2019. A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national ...

  4. Lotteries by country - Wikipedia

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    The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.

  5. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement. It can also be used to analyze coincidences that happen in lottery drawings, such as repeated numbers appearing across different draws. [1

  6. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    Lottery wheeling (also known as a lottery system, lottery wheel, or lottery wheeling system) is a method of systematically selecting multiple lottery tickets to improve the odds of (or guarantee) a win. It is widely used by individual players and syndicates to secure wins provided they hit some of the drawn numbers.

  7. Lottery jackpot records - Wikipedia

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    Lottery Country Tickets Date Notes ¥570m Welfare Lottery (Union Lotto) China: 1 12 June 2012 Sold in Beijing [citation needed]; Asia's largest prize (€79.3m, US$87.3m) R$541.9m Mega-Sena Brazil: 5 31 December 2022 Five winners: Sold in Florestal (MG), Arroio do Sal (RS), Santos (SP), São José da Bela Vista (SP) and one ticket online.

  8. Gambling and information theory - Wikipedia

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    The additive nature of surprisals, and one's ability to get a feel for their meaning with a handful of coins, can help one put improbable events (like winning the lottery, or having an accident) into context. For example if one out of 17 million tickets is a winner, then the surprisal of winning from a single random selection is about 24 bits.

  9. Derren Brown: The Events - Wikipedia

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    The bonus was number 15, however, his predictions did not include the bonus ball. On Friday 11 September at 21:00, a second show aired, which stated three possibilities for winning the lottery. The first, faking a winning ticket, was quickly dismissed, and the majority of the programme described Brown's use of automatic writing and crowd ...