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The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6, were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
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In 1980, Nick Perry, TV host of the Pennsylvania Lottery, was at the centre of the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, a fraud that involved creating replicas of the official ping-pong balls used in the Pennsylvania Lottery machines. The specially weighted balls ensured that limited combinations of numbers were likely to be drawn.
History has shown us countless examples of lottery winners whose lives took a turn for the worse after hitting the jackpot.
Most people dream about winning the Mega Millions or Powerball; but they should be careful what they wish for. See these 23 people who blew their winnings.
Michael Rosenblum was an American man who died under mysterious circumstances in Baldwin, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1980.A skull fragment which was eventually determined to have belonged to Rosenblum was found twelve years later in a wooded area of Baldwin, near the gas station where he had last been seen.
Nick Perry (1916–2003), mastermind of the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
This demand for the lottery has made it deathless in America, a vampire institution that hides and sleeps during certain ages but always comes back to life. In 1762, lawmakers in Pennsylvania noticed that poor people bought more tickets than rich people and argued that the lottery functioned as a sort of tax on the poor.