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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.
If the three digits, and their order, match the winning number drawn, the player wins. 500 to 1 Boxed: If the three digits, regardless of their order, match the winning number, the player wins. 80 to 1 The payout differs if a winning boxed number includes two of the same digit. 160 to 1 Front Pair: The player chooses any two digits.
On April 24, 1980, WTAE-TV personality Nick Perry, who hosted Bowling for Dollars and also called the lottery drawings for the Pennsylvania Lottery, fixed the Lottery's daily numbers drawing so that it would come up as "6-6-6". Perry served jail time, and the drawings were moved to WHP-TV in Harrisburg a year later.
Nov. 28—WYOMING — The Pennsylvania Lottery on Tuesday announced the winning raffle ticket numbers drawn for the two $50,000 weekly drawing prizes that are part of the second weekly drawing in ...
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The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.
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Lottery payouts are the way lottery winnings are distributed. Typically, lotteries pay out around 50–70% of stakes (turnover) back to players. The remainder is then kept for administration costs and charitable donations or tax revenues.