Winning Lottery Bets Came Near End of Buckeyes' Victory

[redlegsfan21]

CLEVELAND (AP) -Nearly all the winning bets in a state lottery based on Ohio State's 42-39 victory over Michigan were placed shortly before or after the game ended.
Lottery customers placed 898 wagers in the Pick 4 game on the numbers 4-2-3-9, with 98 percent of them placed after 7 p.m., lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said. The game ended Saturday at 7:13 p.m.; the drawing was at 7:45 p.m.

Winners claimed $2.2 million, or more than six times the $347,867 bet on the game. The typical payout for a Pick 4 drawing is 50 percent of sales, Kilbane said.

The prize for picking the numbers in order is $5,000, but payouts are made on other combinations. The odds of picking a straight combination are 10,000 to 1.

The most winning tickets - 37 - were sold at a market in the Columbus suburb of Whitehall.

It's not unusual for people to bet special numbers, such as 3-1-7 on St. Patrick's Day, but such payouts are rare, Kilbane said. In 2003, the numbers 5-5-5 came up in the Pick 3 game on May 5, or Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican holiday, she said.

Kilbane said she wasn't aware of any other payouts related to sports scores.

http://sports.myway.com/news/11202006/v6557.html

I swear, they Ohio Lottery is rigged. I have noted numerous occasions where the numbers had significant value.

[Snake]

Well buy me a ticket after the BcS Championship game then :-)

[redlegsfan21]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -Ohio Lottery players were betting that the numbers "4114" would be luckier for them than the Buckeyes.
So many people bought tickets based on the 41-14 score of Florida's victory over Ohio State in the BCS national championship that the lottery stopped taking the numbers Tuesday morning, spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said.

The lottery automatically stops players from selecting numbers for the Pick 3 and Pick 4 games once the potential payout reaches $6 million. The lottery suspended sales of 4-1-1-4 for the Tuesday afternoon drawing at 7:06 a.m. About two hours later, the lottery did the same for its Tuesday evening drawing, Kilbane said.

Most of the bettors were hoping that there would be a repeat of what happened after the Buckeyes beat Michigan 42-39 in November. Shortly after that game, the numbers 4-2-3-9 were drawn for the Pick 4 game.

Each bet won $5,000, and the lottery paid $2.19 million in winnings.

There was no such luck Tuesday, when the numbers were 9-1-0-4 in the morning and 6-2-2-0 in the evening.

http://sports.myway.com/news/01092007/v2088.html

[brady_branch]

The other day, the Maryland lottery was 9-9-9-9. That, however unlikely it may be, is nothing compared to the 4-2-3-9.