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June 28

lotto set up

Sir/Madam I would like to see a photo or to know how the 45 balls are positioned in the "rack" prior to the Saturday night draw for lotto, could you help me please? Thanks, Ross Gray. --email removed for your safety-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.167.214 (talk) 14:19, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you specify which lotto, and on what date? JessicaN10248 15:20, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

You could try this search at youtube which shows some recent lotto draws. JessicaN10248 15:21, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I have the results for Saturday, sorry for the confusion. In all ball games there is a specific way to "rack" the balls. Say 8-ball, 9-ball or kelly. I would like to know how the 45 balls are set up before they are released into the chamber where they are agitated then drawn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.167.214 (talk) 16:08, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know, the balls are lined up in order 1 to 45 (or however many balls are being used) and then dropped into a spinner called a "Gravity Pick" which randomizes them. There is no need to randomize them before they are released into the chamber, so they'd most likely be set up numerically. Here is a pic of some lotto balls and they are numerically descending. The article Lottery machine may have more information on this. JessicaN10248 16:23, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Still can't find what I am looking for. I know, or believe, for Sat. lotto in Oz the balls are set up numerically in the shape of a tiangle with the base at the top. Starting at the bottom with number 1 then next row 2 and 3 then 4,5,6 then 7,8,9,10 and so on until the top row becomes 37 to 45. But is each row set up low number left to high number right or low nuber right to high number left. Is 45 on the left or right side of the triangle base? Or are the 45 balls set up in the triangle ahape with some other pattern? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.167.214 (talk) 16:47, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah - well that clarifies matters, anyway. Australia's national lotto. Each country/franchise will use a different system, so knowing that was vital (here in NZ, for instance, IIRC the 40 balls are released from four simultaneously-triggered chutes numerically: 1-10 in the first, 11-20 in the second, and so on). Grutness...wha? 00:11, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Maybe the lotteries commission in Oz can help, I'm currently in Venezuela and it's not that easy to contact home. If I could obtain a picture of the ball set up I'd be able to complete a study I'm attempting on what ball goes where when they are dropped from a certain shape, in this case a triangle. But I need to know the order they are loaded for Saturday night lotto. I would like to know also, one thing at a time, when balls are changed or discarded and a new set of 45 balls introduced into the triangle.-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.167.214 (talk) 12:05, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that most lotto commissions have more than one set of balls, and often more than one set of identical machines that they rotate secretly. I doubt they'll easily reveal that rotation schedule to you, it may even be random so they wouldn't even know which balls they were going to use until minutes prior when they actually loaded the machine. Cecil Adams touches on this briefly. APL (talk) 13:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

name of chef

I need help trying to remember the name of a french male chef on public tv not pepin on tv possibly named pierre in the 80's. Wilson j21 (talk) 18:16, 28 June 2008 (UTC) thank you. not franeyWilson j21 (talk) 18:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

A French chef named Pierre? Good, you've narrowed it down to just a few thousand! :P Kreachure (talk) 23:11, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

There are three modern Pierres in Category:French chefs - and one of them seems likely to have been on TV at some stage in the 1980s - Pierre Franey. That him? Grutness...wha? 00:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC)