Protesters may visit Thai Lottery Bureau to determine if prizes were fixed

[Wombat6]

paranoia typical from the yellow fellows who can't help thinking that anything they don't win (which is absolutely nothing including elections and 'shutdowns') must be rigged

Well. they win your boring and senseless comments all the time

[ozvenison]

You are kidding me.. Is this the BEST they can come up with now???

Maybe the PDRC purchased too many tickets in the lottery

Edited March 17, 2014 by ozvenison

[Trembly]

Yep, routinely rigged.

I usually don't have anything to do with the lottery or gambling but one day whilst sitting in a restaurant in Isan a lottery seller walked in and everyone else bought one so I thought 'what the hell...' . For some reason or other I was inspired to get 777, so I asked the seller if she had that. She said "no, the 77 or 777 series have all been locked (meaning that they're unavailable)".

Lo and behold it came out 777. In hindsight I should have asked for the nearest underground bookie.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Trembly

[captspectre]

The lottery should be a live TV program screened for each draw - the method for selecting the numbers should be the same as they do in the west - why should it be any different, oh wait !!! could it possibly be that near enough everything in Thailand must have a way to corrupt it and control it especially when it involves large sums of money - go figure

it IS on live TV!

[mrfill]

Why bother fixing the numbers?

In UK the lottery is £1.50 and the first prize pot is c£6m

In Thailand a ticket is (supposed to cost) 80bt and the first prize pot is 2m Bt. Almost the same cost but only about 1/300th of the prize. One has to wonder where the 299/300th go as it certainly isn't into other prizes. The 'charities' that benefit from the profits may be worth a look though.

[LomSak27]

Good to see them doing something constructive for a change - Cleaning up Thailand one fixed lottery at a time.

[chotthee]

There are many rumours of massive theft from the lottery. There is no transparent accounting for it, so it is easy to pay out smaller prizes than should be and steal the profits that are supposed to go to the Treasury. It is also possible to rig the prize draws, as suggested here, and people have been arrested for doing this in the past. Thaksin set up the 3-digit lottery that was later declared illegal as a huge personal piggy bank. I don't know if the PDRC have enough inside information to know what to look for but have no doubt that the lottery is still hugely corrupt.

Yes, it could be fixed.

Running a government cost money.

[Trembly]

Why bother fixing the numbers?

In UK the lottery is £1.50 and the first prize pot is c£6m

In Thailand a ticket is (supposed to cost) 80bt and the first prize pot is 2m Bt. Almost the same cost but only about 1/300th of the prize. One has to wonder where the 299/300th go as it certainly isn't into other prizes. The 'charities' that benefit from the profits may be worth a look though.

The official jackpot is in the tens of millions of baht Baht (the biggest one I've heard of was over 50 million baht). Not as much as it is in the UK but still life-changing.

In any case, the vast majority of people don't bother with the official tickets and place their bets with underground bookies, usually only playing the first two or three / last two or three numbers.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Trembly

[petedk]

The lottery should be a live TV program screened for each draw - the method for selecting the numbers should be the same as they do in the west - why should it be any different, oh wait !!! could it possibly be that near enough everything in Thailand must have a way to corrupt it and control it especially when it involves large sums of money - go figure

It is showed live on TV.

Earlier I too presumed that it was rigged, but I have a problem seing how they would do it.

As you can actually see every ball being picked is random.

To avoid accusations, they should change the system so no human physical intervention is going on when the numbers are drawn.

I can't remember whether it was in Thailand or another country but a couple of years ago the balls were painted with a substance that could only be seen when wearing special glasses.

Obviously it was fixed this time as people were urged to buy 404 which matches the car she fell out of and 79 which matches her Toyota van.

This is far too much of a coincidence. I could play with the numbrrs too....nearly same as my phone number...age of my best friend and so on.

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[Siripon]

If the lottery has been fixed, as seems likely from the number of times vehicle registration numbers associated with Yingluck have won, then the government can congratulate itself on success in at least one field!

It must be the only thing it's 'got right' in over 2 years,

Yingluck seems to have changed her style of mishaps, no more 'thank you 3 times','overcome to Thailand' or 'Singburi is next to the sea', now the humour is more visual, slapstick comedy, from the ballot paper put into the wrong box to slipping on exiting a van.

I wonder what's coming next?

[spectrumisgreen]

As always, all these ideas and accusations sound like kids spreading gossip about other kids (they don't like!!) in the playground!.. "I wouldn't be surpised if..." and "They did it before" (but not when the Dems were in, obviously!).. so that proves it then!!.. so now they're going to go to the Lottery Bureau to see if it really was fixed.. yeah, 'cause like that's what you do to find out, turn up and.. what?.. ASK if it was fixed? Or maybe cause enough of a disturbance until some low-ranking, meek and/ or young member of staff feels so intimidated that they say it is, and that's your proof???.. back to the podium, then!!!.. But, nevermind, we know everything's on the up and up, being thought about and investigated in a mature way, because it's the Student body who are 'onto' it!!... haha!.. Thailand, though I still wouldn't swap it back for way too over-serious England, nowadays, just gets a bit too surreal at times, as Alice (in Wonderland) once said.. "Curioser and curioser..."

[ThaiOats]

There was speculation that the lottery may have been fixed before the PDRC even formed. I'm sure they were all just coincidental compared to, let's say, Abhisit's license plate.

http://<URL Automatically Removed>/2348612-post1.html

Excerpt: Seven times, in fact, since she took office in August 2011. The numbers have matched plates on official vehicles and in one case on a car used to transport the premier's son.

[kkerry]

Just quietly, I'm reliably informed the number to base your next lottery ticket purchase on is 23555. It's the total number of vehicles used to ferry and escort the PM around the kingdom while carrying out her Prime Ministerial duties since 2011. There is some confusion about this number as it doesn't take in to account the number of motorcycle escorts (add 3478) or the number of vehicles engaged in taking her son and his classmates to McDonald's after school (add another 288)...