New York State Lottery Daily Number for 9/11, 911

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[The Chief]

The winning number for tonights New Yorks Instant Numbers (pick three)game evening drawing was 9-1-1!

[The Chief]

All I can say is AMAZING!

[TBall]

Oh man that is too too strange.

[SamAdams76]

This is a joke.

[fuzzthatwuz]

Would not even want to attempt to figure the odds. You are right..."amazing".

[SamAdams76]

Okay, this is not a joke.

[Fred Mertz]

This is a joke or the lottery was fixed. IMHO of course.

[SBeck]

From an Ian Fleming novel: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and the third time is enemy action."

[pgkdan]

yesterday's pick 3 in VA was 9-1-1 I wonder what PA's number is? Do they have a pick 3?

[Viva Le Dissention]

No no, I think fixed is a pretty reasonable conclusion.

[pgkdan]

It's not a ljoke and the same number came up in VA yesterday. So we've got the WTC state and the Pentagon state covered...what about PA?

[Benrand]

Sounds like Nick Perry and the PA Lottery at work!

[LibWhacker]

I'll bet it was the most popular combo today, too.

I remember that 1-28-8-6 were the most popular four numbers in the NY lottery immediately after the Challenger disaster.

Sick.

[Dallas]

Incredible....

[pgkdan]

There have been a couple of weird lottery numbers this past year. Remember the day after the plane crash in Rockaway Beach NY, the NJ pick 4 number was the same as that flight number. The actual number escapes me now...but that was the case.

[isthisnickcool]

Gee, I predicted this earlier today. Not in NY, just that some state would have a pick 3 of 9-1-1.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Would not even want to attempt to figure the odds. You are right..."amazing".

1 in 1000, I would gather. The same as any arbitrarily selected three-digit number. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[Viva Le Dissention]

Sitting around thinking about it, if my off the cuff math is correct, the odds of this happening should only be about once every 1000 years, assuming zero is a number in the pick three. If it's not, it's closer to once ever 750 years.

It COULD be some sort of mystic cosmic force, but I'm thinking a lottery official with a sentimental conscience is the more likely culprit.

[Viva Le Dissention]

You are correct in saying 1 in 1000 of drawing 911. There is another part to this problem, though--drawing 911 on Sept 11. There are 365 days a year, of course, so there is only a 1/365 chance the first criteria will be met before the second one can be looked at--which brings our total odds to 365,000 to 1 against--or once every 1000 years, assuming a drawing everyday. Right?

[Rightproud]

PA was 621

[ganesha]

There are two drawings a day however so it would be 2/365 times 1000, not 1/365. The other number was 8-3-3.

[Iwentsouth]

Chance is always the same for each drawing.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

You are correct in saying 1 in 1000 of drawing 911. There is another part to this problem, though--drawing 911 on Sept 11. There are 365 days a year, of course, so there is only a 1/365 chance the first criteria will be met before the second one can be looked at--which brings our total odds to 365,000 to 1 against--or once every 1000 years, assuming a drawing everyday. Right?

We aren't talking about two random events here. Your scenario would hold if we randomly selected a date from the calendar and THEN did the 3-number drawing. The odds of selecting 9/11 and then drawing 999 would indeed be 1 in 365,000 (366,000 in a leap year). But in this case, the date is indeed 9/11, so the probability is 1 (a trivial probability, but necessary for the math), not 1/365.

I hope I explained this clearly. And again, if someone sees an error in my logic, please let me know.

[KineticKitty]

Ping

[Naspino]

Everytime I stay up and check ours it comes out 6-6-6.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Woops, 999 should be 911. Although the statement holds for any 3-digit number, as they are all equally likely to be drawn.

[TexasNative2000]

The week that Michael Jordan returned to the Chicago Bulls in the late '90s, the Illinois Pick 4 was 2-3-4-5. 23 was Jordan's old number, 45 was his new one.

[Lady Jag]

Standard & Poor closed at 911.00 today. Is that weird or what?

Traders puzzled by eery 911 closing of S&P futures

Wed Sep 11, 5:32 PM ET

By KRISTINA ZURLA

CHICAGO - In an ironic twist, the September Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract closed Tuesday at 911.00 — a day before the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

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DJIA NASDAQ ^SPC	8581.17 1315.45 909.45	-21.44 -4.64 -0.13

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There was some buzz on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange stock index futures trading floor Wednesday about why that happened, but there were no reports of collusion or price-fixing.

"It was bizarre, it was strange, but it wasn't manufactured," said Richard Canlione, vice president of institutional financial futures at Salomon Smith Barney. "It was just the rules of coincidence ... That's just where the market was."

"It just proves the market God was with us, remembering the day, too," said one CME trader.

The start of trading was delayed Wednesday in honor of those killed in the attacks.

Market players noted prices were already moving higher throughout Tuesday after two prior up days, so it wasn't as if an abrupt change in direction took place to achieve the numerical equivalent of Sept. 11.

Some thought perhaps suspicious activity could have taken place, but most brushed it off as a "patriotic rally" and didn't see the harm in it.

"I'm always kinda paranoid, and I find the fact that we settled there kind of eerie, but I don't think we should dwell on it or read too much into it," said Tim Haefke, a stock index futures trader and president of Top-Notch Trading.

The futures contract is an obligation to buy or sell a basket of stocks composing the Standard & Poor's stock index at a set date for a fixed price.

(EDITORS: Kristina Zurla is a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires)

[July 4th]

I've done a screen capture of the lottery site for posterity. Everyone go and check it out for yourself...creepy.

[gg188]

Please give the link. Thank you.

[ladysusan]

Now that is eerie.

[July 4th]

I don't have a website to post the still, but you can still get it if you go to the lottery site.

Click on http://www.nylottery.org/ and then on the right hand side the game is called "Numbers."

[Lunatic Fringe]

According to Yahoo, the S&P closed at 909.58 yesterday.

[clamboat]

According to Yahoo, the S&P closed at 909.58 yesterday.

Yes, but the S&P futures closed at 911.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Proof that the lottery is rigged....

[L`enn]

My Mom plays 1921 on pick 4 every day. It was sold out today when I went to buy here ticket. Did not realize it then but 9-1-1 is part of 1921.

[HAL9000]

Are you sure this place is honest?

[glorygirl]

Full PA lottery results, fyi for 9/11/02.

Thurs, September 12, 2002

621 Wed, September 11, 2002

Payout

9975 Wed, September 11, 2002

Payout

49142239 Wed, September 11, 2002

Payout

354552536668 Tues, September 10, 2002

Payout

36263948 Power Ball: 28 Powerplay: 3 Wed, September 11, 2002

Payout

[Southack]

NUMBERS   September 2002
09/11/2002 - Evening	9,  1,  1
09/11/2002 - Midday	8,  3,  3
09/10/2002 - Evening	5,  2,  5

[glorygirl]

Pretty bizarre, but not entirely suprising, for some reason.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

New York State Lottery "Numbers" Game

[Neuromancer]

Yes,

And one Halloween in Chicago the pick 3 was 000, followed the next night by 000.

[TexasNative2000]

Just checked the Texas Lottery results for 9/11. The Pick 3 number was 1-9-9.

[Abcdefg]

This is obviously rigged. If they rigged last night, maybe they are all rigged.

[William McKinley]

Two other things.

Nick Johnson, batting in the 9th slot in the New York Yankees' lineup, won the game in the 11th inning with a single, beating the Baltimore Orioles.

And on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the index ended the day at 911.00.

[William McKinley]

Would not even want to attempt to figure the odds.

The odds that yesterday the number would be 9-1-1 were exactly 1 in 1000, just as the odds today that the number will be 9-1-1 remain 1 in 1000.

Odds can be counter-intuitive :-)

[William McKinley]

You are correct in saying 1 in 1000 of drawing 911. There is another part to this problem, though--drawing 911 on Sept 11

Think of it this way. The odds of two circumstances happening is the product of the two individual odds.

Circumstance 1: That 9-1-1 would be drawn in a 3 sets of 10 balls lottery. The odds of this are 1 in 1000.

Circumstance 2: That there would be a lottery drawing on 9/11/02. Since this was a scheduled drawing, the odds of this were pretty much 1 in 1.

Ergo, the odds of both happening were 1 in 1000.

[William McKinley]

Oops, I just saw that there are two drawings in NY each day. So the odds were really 1 in 1000 + 1 in 1000 = 2 in 1000 = 1 in 500

[PennsylvaniaMom]

"Nick Perry" was/is is stage name. His real last (which I won't put on the web) begins with a "k". At the time of the PA Lottery fixing (for which he was convicted) his phone number appeared on page 666 of the Pittsburgh phonebook. Spooky, huh.

[Benrand]

I remember Bowling for Dollars well. My Grandma was on it once...

I kinda figured Nick's ethnic feature might mean he had a different last name.