But wouldn’t the increase in splitting (really the decrease in your winnings) be a very small increase? Seems to be that, sure pseudo-random-number-generators (PRNGs) have flaws, or dice that aren’t obviously tampered with(1) will be so close to “fair”, at least for lotteries in the 10-100million range, it would be very hard to spot?
Some of the flaws in PRNGs seem vanishingly small. Sure, technically, not “fair”. But if the flaws are at the 1-in-a-billion level I think we’d never notice at the lottery level.
I have no evidence or learnings that qualify me in this subject. Just gut feel.
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For instance, if a die has drilled-out and paint-filled dots, the 6 side must be lighter(2) or heavier(3)
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Assuming they don’t correct for this, and I’m sure they do, 'cause if I thought about it, it’s not that complicated.
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Does the extra paint in the 6 dots combined make up for the opposing 1? But now I think the 3 pairs of opposing faces always add to 7… to the dice box!
