[quote name=\'joshg\' post=\'199574\' date=\'Oct 14 2008, 09:16 AM\']
There must be a lot of stupid people in PA because we have no fewer than eight different numbers games alone. And some of them draw twice a day. They have so many drawings on one broadcast, the numbers draw themselves. The studio must be a barn because of all the machines lined up next to each other.
And Palin cursed the Flyers because they can see Russia from the Center currently known as Wachovia.
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To go even more off-topic for a bit, because this seems to be a shared interest:
That lottery studio is one and the same as the main WHP-TV news studio. Flip around the cameras, wheel in the machines, curtain down, and presto, you have a lottery drawing. This explains the (terrible) video quality and production values of the PA Lottery numbers games feed at 6:59pm each night.
Day drawings, every day: Pick 3, Pick 4, Quinto, Treasure Hunt (5 of 30)
Night drawings, every day: Pick 3, Pick 4, Quinto, Cash 5 (5 of 42)
Mondays/Thursdays: Mix & Match (5 of 19 in order)
Tuesdays/Fridays: Match 6 (6 of 49, multi-line)
Plus the normal Powerball drawings. And the insane amount of "when your number matches the target number" scratch-off games.
Yes, it is a bit overkill. At the end of the drawing, prior to last month, the Lottery used to show a super of the morning numbers (3 lines w/o Quinto) plus the numbers from the just-occurred night drawing. Now with the addition of Quinto, they don't have the space to fit all 8 to 9 rows of numbers on screen at once! But the Lottery must be doing something right, because revenues just keep going up and up.
/I do enjoy the automatic push-button draw for the Pick 3/4/5 games that they use each night, a la the UK