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It would not work, except that some lotteries have been trying to get creative with marketing. They want to give people an illusion of control, hence letting them choose between several "different" tickets. This is the "baited hook" they mention.

In theory, the tickets are not actually visibly different. In practice, apparently they are, just not in entirely obvious ways.



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