Cheaters at Hair Lotto — Page 3

I think there should be a rule that you can't enter for someone else.

I always thought there was. I mean, I know you can't enter more than one name. I guess you could go and write someone else's name down, but if you're just going to enter for someone else and are going to give them your tickets anyway, what difference does it make whose name you put in?

I don't think staff -- like, the people who maintain the lottery (not cast members) -- should be able to enter for their friends, because that creates troublesome situations. I've seen that happen, and in that case, I'm sorry, it's hard to believe they didn't see to it that their friends' names were drawn.

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I know for a fact he doesn't rig the lottery, and goes out of his way not to. Where do your stories come from?

Yeah, you know for a fact HE didn't rig the lotto, shesamarshmallow, because you were the one cheating and pulling your friend's name.

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If a cast member enters for you and makes sure you win, that is cheating. I am sure we can make up a million scenarios that constitute cheating or are unfair.

Yes, it is wrong, but unless someone has hardcore proof, there is not much you can do unfortunately.

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Updated On: 7/13/09 at 06:37 PM

The biggest difference is that at Wicked he is directly behind glass doors and people can see him as he pulls the cards. I've watched him myself and have watched multiple people video him as he does it, so he KNOWS he is being watched.

At WSS, I have been there when the guy went behind the second set of doors where no one could see him. THAT is when it gets suspicious. My friend and I tried this past week and he did pull there in the box office area so he could be seen, but the potential does exist for him to go behind doors that are NOT see through and "pull" the tickets.

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Cast members can enter for themselves. At Wicked when Amanda Rose went on as Nessa for her first time ever she had about 15 people with her entering also although no one won. I have seen various cast members enter and some win. On the Wicked tour Katie Rose Clarke entered her dogs name and he won...LOL.

Which lottos require you to put your zip code on? Usually it's just write your name on a piece of paper with 1 or 2 tickets that you want if you win

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If it's a case where that's the only way for, yes, even cast members to obtain tickets, then no, there's nothing unfair about it. Their being in the cast doesn't magically make their name more likely to be called. And they are just as entitled to help their friends as anybody else, SO LONG AS it's not rigged in their favor. That would be unfair.

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Updated On: 7/13/09 at 01:05 AM

Stephanie J Block use to play the Wicked tour lotto all the time (and lose all the time) oh the good old days.

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Fair or not fair,IMO, every show has a right to conduct their lotto their own way. If you don't win, take your $25 and go out for a nice meal, shop downtown, whatever... What's the big deal?

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Fair or not fair,IMO, every show has a right to conduct their lotto their own way.

So they have the right to allow the people who are drawing names to rig it for their friends? That's cheating. That's why it's a big deal. What a ridiculous thing to say. Losing in a fair situation, yes, no big deal, get over it. Losing when the person running the lottery made sure to "draw" their friend's name is a problem. If it is arranged so that a certain person is sure to win, that defeats the entire point of having a lottery.

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Updated On: 7/13/09 at 11:39 AM

I was at the Hair lottery yesterday, and while I wouldn't accuse them of cheating, I think they need to tighten up their process so there is no appearance of impropriety. Yesterday, the girl pulling the names (Allison, a cast member?) was holding the bucket of slips at waist level, looking down into it, and picking the slips. She chose several that had been folded into unorthodox shapes. It's rather simple to make the process as transparent and proper as possible.

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His name would be Joelle, not Joe with a last name beginning with "L"

Cheers,
Al X.

Updated On: 7/13/09 at 01:38 PM

Yesterday, the girl pulling the names (Allison, a cast member?) was holding the bucket of slips at waist level, looking down into it, and picking the slips. She chose several that had been folded into unorthodox shapes. It's rather simple to make the process as transparent and proper as possible.

My dad's name was one of those oddly-folded slips that she drew, and I can promise you, there was no cheating involved, only strategy. We had tried for tickets both times on Saturday and lost, but we noticed that the guy seemed to be picking unconventionally folded slips. I don't think it was intentional, his hand was probably just naturally drawn to them because they feel different, if that makes sense.

Anyway, this was the last day my family would be in town and this was our last chance to see the show, so we decided to employ a little strategy, not to mention have some fun with it, and folded our slips into interesting shapes. It worked, but it was purely chance that our interesting shape was picked and not one of the other interesting shapes (I saw lots of people dropping in crumples and airplanes and fans, so it wasn't just us who noticed this trend). Especially since Allison picked it and she wasn't even there when we put our names in.

I also saw both Allison and the lotto guy chatting with people who were clearly their friends, and I don't believe any of those people won.

Allison signed our winning slip. She's one of my new favorite people. :)

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Yes, Allison Case. She was there, talking to friends at yesterday's lotto before she went in, so she asked the lotto guy if she could draw the names. It's not a regular thing.

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