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Feedback: Luck of the Irish lottery

23 May 2012

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Lottery of the fake lotteries

WHOOPS! Feedback was momentarily taken in by the website , which promises that “to improve your chances of winning the Irish lottery we have compiled a STATS section based on previous draws”. That prompted reader Terry Devlin to ask whether the Irish Lottery had “discovered some previously unknown aspect of the laws of probability” (21 April).

Craig Lindsay’s pdf-converter software rebuked him with an error message which read: “Warning, You have exceeded the maximum allowable file size of 0 bytes

Stuart Neilson writes to point out that the site name

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