The machines were manually loaded by three lottery staff introduced at the beginning of the show. Once loaded, Faye would instruct the machines needed to mix. Then she would send the proceedings out to the audience. The cohost would interview the "button presser" and ask them to press the button that activated the trap doors on the lottery machines. It then was a matter of waiting for a ball to come out of each machine. Only one ball was allowed to emerge. Sometimes a machine might take a couple of minutes to drop a ball. The integrity of the draw was monitored by a Montreal Trust officer. Each number was presented to the TV camera by a lottery staffer known as the "ball girl". Faye would announce each number until the proper number of digits needed were read. The machines were reloaded by the ball girl, and the same process would happen again.