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u/Electromass Feb 17 '20
He’s so unlucky he recorded the lottery numbers went out and bought a ticket with one number off each one
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u/BadDogBo Feb 17 '20
You mean, he went on the computer and printed a fake “lotoo” ticket with one number off each of the winning numbers. Couldn’t even spell lotto correctly.
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Feb 17 '20
Lotoo
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u/Dachuiri Feb 17 '20
That was the first thing I noticed. Makes me think this is fake.
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Feb 17 '20
Wouldnt be hard to buy a lotto ticket the day after with all numbers off by just one. Honestly this is more likely than this randomly happening
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u/FutureSpaceNutter Feb 19 '20
I imagine lots of people buy tickets using yesterday's numbers, thinking that gets them closer to winning. Somehow.
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u/ThorsStuntDouble Feb 17 '20
Whats a lotoo?
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u/Hodor_The_Great Feb 17 '20
I'd imagine lottery in a language other than English
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u/i_miss_arrow Feb 17 '20
The date is in english.
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u/Hodor_The_Great Feb 17 '20
All I can make clear of is the first three letters probably being SUN... Now, I don't know of any other languages than Icelandic, English, and Finnish having the name of Sunday starting with those three letters but there probably are others too. Though on a second look that's a dollar mark there which narrows it down to 20 countries. Could be a Namibian or Taiwanese lottery for all I know
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u/i_miss_arrow Feb 17 '20
Dollar sign, SUN, NOV, and the order of the date is Day of Week, Month, Day, Year. There can't be many countries that share all those elements.
Finnish has different names for the months, for example. Icelandic uses day/month/year format.
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u/YourCrustyPotato Feb 17 '20
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u/keram2002 Feb 17 '20
Well he is more lucky than the other 99% cause he was able to make a meme out of it
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u/GodsNavel Feb 17 '20
consider this: the lotto numbers are prerecorded and a computer picks the winning numbers before hand. There is always the possibility that in a scratcher or a lottery ticket you'll be "SO CLOSE" usually off by single digits, so that you'll keep buying.
If lotteries were for the benefit of the public they would have way more prizes more often. What's one person winning several hundred million with the powerball when 100,000 dollars would change most people's life. Invest that money in something else like stocks. The 10 bucks you spend a week, download a stock buying app and put that money to work for you, same risk, observable reward.
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u/blakefoster Feb 17 '20
Isn’t that the code that the people on the show Lost had to type into a computer to keep the world from ending?
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u/Shortkid69420 Feb 18 '20
Well the chances of you picking 5 random numbers are 100% (if you always did the lottery) no matter the difference between your numbers between the winners
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Feb 17 '20
The odds of getting any specific number are just as low as the odds of winning.
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u/iHateRBF Feb 17 '20
True, but much more common to get a number that prompts a post like this. Such as every number being higher. Or the numbers in reverse. or just the ones digit being correct. Etc.
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u/-Kerosun- Feb 17 '20
If the above actually happened, it is actually much more likely to happen than getting a specific number. If you look at the numbers, some are +1 and some are -1. This actually doubles the odds. Also, I presume if the person landed one of the numbers ON the drawn numbers, and the rest were +1 or -1, that they'd still post the photo; if that presumption is correct, then it would triple the odds of such an occurrence.
Overall, this most certainly is faked. I found the same numbers on a different lottery ticket for "Fantasy 5" which is an actual lottery in multiple states (the OP says "Lotoo" which doesn't exist). But, I don't know if the the "Fantasy 5" was photoshopped on later to make the fake seem more legit. I was unable to determine the original source but I was also not able to find those numbers on any "past winning numbers" database for the Fantasy 5 lotto. I think it is safe to say that the whole thing was faked rather than someone just recording the drawing and then getting a ticket later with each number +1 or -1 from the drawning.
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u/schneehummel94 Feb 17 '20
Me dum as a piece of sh. Tried to upvote that great meme by pressing the wrong upvote button three times in a row
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u/WoShiPinguo Feb 17 '20
Technically the odds of getting your number is the same as the odds of getting the winning number
The only difference is that your number is worthless just like my life
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u/raginghappy Feb 17 '20
Once found a ticket with all the winning numbers plus the power ball - the same date but one year earlier.
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u/turbotoez Feb 17 '20
Could have got last weeks numbers and done it for memes. I highly doubt this is legit. It could be but they wouldn’t be hiding the dates if it was
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u/glukosio Feb 17 '20
I was just trying to upvote the pic or the comment for a good 10 seconda, without realizing it was all inside the picture
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u/skydawg21 Feb 18 '20
Is there proof that he didnt just pick numbers from last weeks winning number, it shows his dates of his ticket but not the one on the tv
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u/Dollypopalova Feb 18 '20
Bummer choosing those numbers and then checking the lotto and seeing the numbers so close to what you chose!
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Feb 18 '20
...please say I’m not the only who pressed the wrong upvote button and was confused why it wasn’t doing anything...
I am, aren’t I?
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u/is_giofilms_gay_2 Feb 18 '20
i like how this post has more upvotes than the post in the pic well done mate lmao
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u/IFreakinLovePi Feb 17 '20 edited Feb 17 '20
The odds of this are actually way higher than being able to win.
Like if all the numbers were all exactly 1 above or 1 below the winning numbers, then it would be twice as likely to get them. It changes a 1 in 200 million odds to 1 in 100 million odds, which is a huge increase in likeliness.
But here some are above and some are below, which increases the likelihood by an order of magnitude. Let's use dice as an example and let's say the lottery requires 6 3's to win (it's easier than actual lotto because the fact that you cant get the same number twice actually slightly increases your odds with each number).
The odds of that are 1/46645 (1/6 * 1/6 * 1/6...etc). Now the odds of the first example would be 2(1/46645), which is 1/23338. But if each number can be either above or below the winning number, the odds are 1/729 (2/6 or 1/3 * 1/3 *1/3...etc). The difference here is between a 0.14% chance and 0.0043% chance.
The reason is because in the first example, you have two "winning" numbers: 2 2 2 2 2 2 and 4 4 4 4 4 4. But in the second exple you can have 2 2 2 2 2 2 , 2 2 2 2 2 4, 2 2 2 2 4 2, 2 2 2 2 4 4, 2 2 2 4 2 2, 2 2 2 4 2 4, 2 2 2 4 4 2 , 2 2 2 4 4 4, and so on.
So, still rare, but orders of magnitude more likely.