NY lottery drawing is 9-1-1 on 9/11

AOX81 · #1 09-12-2002, 05:32 PM

ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 12 — On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a date often repeated as 9/11, the numbers that popped up for the New York Lottery were 9-1-1. “The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols,” said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. “It’s just the way the numbers came up.”

texas*princess · #2 09-12-2002, 05:46 PM

i heard about that on the late evening news last night. i thought it was interesting to say the least.

this may sound kind of silly, but it kind of makes me wonder if there *really* is some kind of "plan" or ultimate purpose? Many people say "It will work out in the end" or things of that sort.

Just random thought.

Hootie · #3 09-13-2002, 02:00 AM

They said on the radio it will be interesting to see how many people played those numbers....eerie.

Hootie

Thrillhouse · #4 09-13-2002, 10:14 AM

"just the way the numbers came up" I wonder how many people played those numbers that day.

ShaedyKD · #5 09-13-2002, 10:52 AM

"LOTTERY OFFICIALS said Thursday that 5,631 people selected the winning sequence. It wasn’t immediately clear how much they won.
The 9-1-1 combination was picked so often, it reached the lottery’s set limit for combinations and sold out, Hapeman said. On any given day, seven to 10 sets of numbers are “closed out,” she said.
Christopher M. Rump, an assistant professor of industrial engineering who studies probability at the University of Buffalo, said there was a one in 1,000 chance of the numbers ”9-1-1” coming up on in the lottery."

I'm guessing these folks didn't win that much. What a disturbing coincidence though, that these numbers came up.