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Consistently hitting 5 numbers any Keno draw should be easy using this method:

I posted this on one of the threads, but Keno's not available as a state game where I am.  I've only played it in a casino.  I don't know what it costs to play, how many numbers can be played as a state game, anything.  Including how many numbers you have to hit to win anything.

Anyway, I've studied Keno histories a bunch, and here's some stuff I've noticed. 

One way that works sometimes is to use your Premium Search features.

Say you were playing Atlantic Canada Keno on October 9.

Keno AtlanticSun, 10/9/2005 01-06-09-13-14-16-19-29-31-33-34-38-41-47-52-54-57-58-61-65

You search all the numbers you can get into the boxes, maybe 10, on another Keno game, say, Michigan, all available history.  The first one that comes up, as many as you can match:

Thu, Michigan Keno Sep 14, 2000  02-03-05-07-08-15-17-21-22-25-32-33-35-46-51-60-64-68-69-70-74-76

This is the draw immediately following the match draw.

Atlantic Canada on the 10th draw looks like this:

Keno AtlanticMon, 10/10/2005  02-03-04-07-09-12-14-17-18-19-23-27-37-41-43-46-49-56-63-66

I neglected to mention you'd need the Premium Member Search Feature to do this, however.  Cost's about $5 per month.

But if you'd done an additional search on the higher end of the ATCAN October 9 draw you'd get:

Thu, Aug 13, 1998 Michigan Keno 05-09-34-35-37-38-39-40-41-47-50-51-52-54-55-57-58-65-68-72-73-77

Next draw being:

Fri, Aug 14, 1998 02-04-06-11-14-24-32-33-37-38-40-41-44-45-48-53-56-64-66-74-75-76

Keno AtlanticMon, 10/10/2005  02-03-04-07-09-12-14-17-18-19-23-27-37-41-43-46-49-56-63-66

Here's another example for the same ATCAN draw, but with the search in NY Pick 10:

NY Lotto
Search ATCAN Keno numbers drawn:
10/9/2005 01-06-09-13-14-16-19-29-31-33- 34-38-41-47-52-54-57-58-61-65
NY Lotto Match 7:
Fri, Jun 10, 2005 01-06-09-12-13-16-17-19-29-32-34-49-55-58-60-64-69-70-73-80
Next draw:
Sat, Jun 11, 2005 02-04-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-22-28-32-35-51-58-63-69-70-74-77

Keno AtlanticMon, 10/10/2005  02-03-04-07-09-12-14-17-18-19-23-27-37-41-43-46-49-56-63-66

Which looks middling good for one search.

But maybe you play NY Pick 10.

Pick 10Sun, 10/9/2005 02-12-14-18-26-32-34-42-43-45-48-51-53-61-62-67-70-74-75-77

You go to, say, Michigan Keno, search all 20 of those numbers on two lines.  You find you can only match 5 numbers, but there are a lot of draws where five match, with these as the first two:

Michigan

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 05-06-12-14-15-18-20-27-34-43-49-54-56-57-59-61-62-64-68-69-73-75

Wed, Nov 10, 2004 01-02-03-12-13-17-19-32-34-42-46-47-52-56-57-59-61-69-71-72-78-80

Next two draws:

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 02-04-14-15-20-24-27-29-30-31-34-42-43-44-48-51-59-65-66-67-70-80

Thu, Nov 11, 2004 03-05-08-09-11-13-15-16-20-21-29-36-40-44-47-48-51-56-65-70-71-78

NY Pick 10 the following day:

Pick 10Mon, 10/10/2005 05-18-20-21-33-36-37-45-48-50-54-60-63-64-66-67-69-74-76-79

The more searches you do the more overlap you'll tend to see.

Give it a try on paper for a while. 

Here are a few more on the NY Lotto draw:

NY

Search for these:
Pick 10Sun, 10/9/2005 02-12-14-18-26-32-34-42-43-45-48-51-53-61-62-67-70-74-75-77
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Target numbers:

Pick 10Mon, 10/10/2005 05-18-20-21-33-36-37-45-48-50-54-60-63-64-66-67-69-74-76-79

Searches(next draw):
Michigan
Fri, Mar 4, 2005 02-04-14-15-20-24-27-29-30-31-34-42-43-44-48-51-59-65-66-67-70-80
Thu, Nov 11, 2004 03-05-08-09-11-13-15-16-20-21-29-36-40-44-47-48-51-56-65-70-71-78

Ontario
Search first 10 numbers
 Sat, Sep 17, 2005 01-02-03-10-15-22-27-32-33-37-47-49-51-54-58-59-63-64-65-67

Search both sets, 2 lines
Wed, Jul 20, 2005 03-07-14-19-23-28-30-31-33-36-37-38-43-45-46-47-55-56-61-63

Quebec
Sat, Aug 27, 2005 03-05-08-18-20-23-25-28-29-33-34-36-48-50-51-55-58-59-63-65

Seems to me this ought to be useful to someone, provided getting 5 numbers on a Keno draw will win a prize of one sort or another.  That's assuming the card has you picking a possible 20 numbers per draw.

Jack

 

Remembered a few more lines..... somewhere in there was,

"That's what distinguished our caliche pit

From just another hole in the ground.

I can't remember a single place more fun

To climb in and hang around.

Da da da

Had a hyperactive cousin named Melvin

Whom it paid to keep intertained

'Cause every time there was a break in the action

He'd commence into beating out my brains.

I'd take him out to the caliche pit

And run him up and down the walls.

I could usually have him pretty well worn out

By the time his mama called."

 

More might come to me later, which I'll naturally share.

Jack

 

Evening blogsters:

Watched a VCR of the old Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein yesterday.  Hadn't seen that one in a generation or more, but was delighted to see it still moves to the music.  Hilarious.

Marty Feldman probably had his best role ever in this one, as Igor.  But he had strong competition.  None of the leading roles came up short of the mark.  Cloris Leachman was Cloris Leachman at her best.  Madelein Kahn had her best role outside Blazing Saddles.  Gene Wilder never did a bad job on a movie and this is no exception.

If you haven't watched this classic in a while I'd recommend it.  If you have, watch it anyway in deference to, to, to the season, to humankind, to all that's lovely and admirable in this best of all possible worlds.

Jack

 

 

 

Morning blogsters:

I see on one of the threads that the lottery states have begun promotions to offset the loss of sales, which they're naming fuel prices to be the cause.  I've wondered sometimes whether maybe there's so much lottery sales they don't need to do such things.  Even in good times you'd think it would have been gooder if they did promotions.

Dunno.  But I'm betting these fuel prices are going to bring about a lot of changes in the way 'Mercans behave.  Some of the changes will probably be positive, long-term, while on the short term I'd expect we won't like some of them, unless we happen to be the type people who enjoy seeing a lot of negativism in attitude and ripping up the rules on some things environmentally.

Might be high fuel prices will nudge things over the top for some actual changes in the freight hauling arena, force those guys to do their hauling locally and let the trains do the cross-country stuff.  That would bleed into a lot of other positive changes, including healthier railways. 

Maybe even a slight return of economical passenger service.  They'd still be as slow as they used to be, but maybe there wouldn't have to be so much security as trying to fly somewhere. 

Anyway, I'd surely like to see some of those promos with NM lotteries.  But I look for them to be cutting off arms and legs over at the Lottery Authority before they'd turn loose of the potential dime a ticket and imagination to try something innovative.

Nice morning here, not so cold as the past few days.

Jack

 

 

From "Our Caliche Pit" by Jerry Sires

My daddy used to let people dump

In our caliche pit.

They'd bring trash, and leaves and

old dead sheep and all kinds of sh*t.

But it sat there, right beside the road

And he always had a good heart

When I was eight or nine years old

It seemed like a work of art.

 

It had stalagmites in the middle

The bulldozer couldn't dig

A lot like Carlsbad Caverns

And just about as big.

I found a box of cans there once

From Canco Company

And just about that time they were on

National Teevee.

Sort of made you feel you were part of the world

And in to every thing.

Man that old caliche pit

Sure was good to me.

 

 

Or maybe it should be, the road goes on forever and the party never ends.

 

I posted this on one of the threads, but I think it's worth posting here, as well.

 

Interesting site.  See if you can peg the needle one way or another on an RNG influencing bell-curve.  It only takes a minute:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/experiments/

Jack

Morning blogsters:

For those of you unaccustomed to the concept of human history, here's how things happen.  The earliest people in this country named the stone promontory above, "Locomotive Rock".

Much later when the Wright brothers were attempting to develop something similar, but mobile, they came and studied Locomotive Rock, trying to understand what made it tick.  Then they went back to Kittyhawk and pounded pieces of iron flat, drilled holes, constructed this in their best spirit of imitation: 

 

 

Not a bad job, everything considered.  Fact is, it didn't last.  The mechanical models were a flash in the pan, only occupying a moment of history.  Hardly worthy of the name, "Locomotive".  But you have to give it an E for effort.

On the other hand, it was a lot better than some of our picks.

Jack

 

 

 

Morning blogsters:

Nice morning here.  There's a herd of scraggly wild horses runs around the mesas around here.  This morning they're near enough, and on mornings when all the animicules go into harmony they join the roosters, the coyotes, the llamas and the rovers for a concert of whinneying.  This is one of those mornings.

In a sense it's a lot like most of the really popular threads on LP.

Got me thinking about one of the fault line issues that frequently gets the opinions flowing on the threads.  LP users are divided into a couple of extremes, with a scattering of fence walkers and a few off in a pasture somewhere entirely else (Mystical Forum mostly), with the denominator being the issue of whether those balls behave randomly, and if so, whether there's any factor other than luck to improve the odds. 

My sense is that newcomers usually arrive at the site predisposed to one view or another.  They read the threads and discover somebody's been there before them, and gravitate toward others who hold that view.  A few will start a few threads with a flat-out statement trying to get a discussion going about some idea they have, which is usually met with a shrug by the older members who've been there before.  Others will merely add to a thread here and there with the statement, "It's all luck anyway," or some such explosion of originality.

But some of the more interesting discussions involve people who've been at this a long time, who have taken a run at whipping the system and didn't make it, or are in the business of trying to develop software with enough of an edge to win occasionally, but who actually hold the self-contradictory viewpoint that the system can't be beaten.  That it's all a statistical exercise.

The old-timers who began believing they could beat it and stayed long enough to convince themselves otherwise take it as a personal mission to persuade anyone who will listen that the system can't be beaten for this reason, or that.  For them, I suspect, there's a submerged anchor in the sand holding them where they are.  If someone came along and succeeded, it would be a negative affirmation... a statement that someone did something they tried to do and gave up too soon.

Over the months at LP I've often wondered why the group on the opinion extreme holding the belief the system can't be beaten continue to hang around.  That actually includes the beentheredonethat group carrying their personal mission to evangelical attempts to dash the aspirations of those who continue to believe it can be beaten.

Maybe the system can't be beaten.  That's one of the possibilities.  But there's a certainty in the equation.  If the system can be beaten, it will be beaten by someone who believes such things are possible. 

We live in a world surrounded by the impossible.  1950s vintage science fiction is filled with entire planets converted to computers with capabilities roughly equal to a laptop of 1999.  Somewhere they're cloning sheep.  Trinidad, CO, is a town filled with people in line to have themselves converted to a sex they weren't born into.  In 1905 physicists were still more-or-less certain the atom couldn't be split.  They'd have laughed at the idea of artificial moons, the internet.  The best minds of the time knew too much to believe such things could happen.

The fact is, science fiction of the early 19th Century doesn't include computers, television, sex changes, cloning.  3/4 century ago nobody'd even thought of the possibility of such things. 

Even as computer technology was aborning men with imagination, determination, and belief in believing were working in their garages and workshops to turn the information age upside down while IBM and other giants who hired men who knew best scoffed. 

Those garage and workshop believers are names everyone knows today, though they didn't teach us the fundamental fact about reality they, themselves once knew:  That you can't stop a man who knows he's right and keeps coming.  That the only way to discover the boundaries of human potential for discovery is to explore the boundaries personally, without regard for conventional wisdom and bland statements of what 'can't' be done by the people who 'know'....

Maybe those guys understood that the people who know came to their knowing by having been told by someone else who 'knew', and them believing it.  But the people who 'knew', somehow, weren't the one's who made the discoveries.  They were just the ones who sat on the sidelines and said it couldn't be done.

Strange life, unusual reality we've chosen for ourselves.

Jack

 

 

 

 

Evening blogsters:

Just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffennegger.

Pretty good read.  It's an amazing job of plotting, better than average characterization, and bizarre enough to keep you putting it down to unscramble your thoughts without any danger of not picking it back up.

Vaguely reminescent of the movie, Being John Malkovich, as a measure of weirdness, though the two works are entirely different from one another.

I recommend it.

Jack

 

Morning blogsters

Nice morning here, thunder and lightning stalking to the west and south.  Cats are out prowling the yard trying to find a gopher or mole who's been churning up the yard.  (Storm's overhead, rain pouring by the time I finished typing this)

If you looked at those tests for yesterday and the results you'll see I'm going to have to step backward to Thursday in my methodology.  There's no slop in the system.  There are no shortcuts, or none I've found yet.  That means it's going to be a long haul every draw going through the entire thing step by step.

"When I was a young boy on a tractor

I wished somebody's daughter would

Run right out in front of a freight train

And I'd be there to save her

And everything would turn out good.

I'd get a gratituous motorcycle.

I understand that's the hero's fare.

Maybe not a Harley, not a Triumph,

But a hero don't have to care."

From The Tractor Top 40

Jerry Sires

 

When we were kids we probably all spent the dull moments figuring out how events were going to gang up and allow us to show our stuff,  how things were going to be easy after one climactic event that would catapult us away from the day-to-day drudge.  We were mostly pretty sure some talent scout would come along and be bowled over by our amazing abilities, our luck, or the worth we were carrying around that nobody could see.

But the fact is, it just isn't how life works.  Dams get built on drafting tables, then someone eventually takes a bulldozer and dump truck out to the site and moves the first shovelfull of dirt.  And they keep moving it until there's a lake there, instead of a riverbed.  An accumulation of step-by-step small events eventually leading to the anti-climax of such a large one the steps are forgotten.

I've been pondering this Lottery Bible hoopla, a bit, though that's not what I've been discussing until now.

From the beginning, that thing was doomed to cause a lot of stink if the system worked at all.  It all pivoted on a single person.  It began when that person began posting numbers, and it ended when that person ceased to do so.  The longer it went on, the more dependent all the people who were winning would have become on the person posting them.  Some would have (did) begin to call themselves winners as a result.  Some would have begun making plans around continuing to win and making financial decisions based on the tenuous trickle of information coming from a single source, over which they had no influence.

Win, lose or draw, I never felt comfortable with pursuing it far enough to try to bet money on the system, so I probably don't have enough of an investment in it to legitamatize the relief I feel knowing she isn't posting those numbers anymore.  There was something inherently wrong with an approach that created such a lot of dependent cheerleaders who, as people are prone to do, tended to mildly deify the person who was carefully trickling dust out of the poke..

I'd have loved to know, to understand the system.  I'd have turned my attentions to pick 3, had there been a system provided, long enough to discover whether it worked.  But as it was I'd rather hang my hopes on my own efforts.

There aren't going to be any kids running in front of freight-trains, no gratuitous motorcycles.  There's just going to be more dirt going into more dump trucks until I either figure this out, or until there's a place I can get a dipperful of water from the river of money.  But it will be from my own labors, and when it's done I'll understand how to hold the dipper for another drink, should I need one.

Which mightn't happen.  But I won't be standing around watching trains, meanwhile.

Jack

 

 

 

Forgot to post these.

I don't feel good about this workup.... I took a couple of shortcuts and have a nagging feeling I screwed up somewhere on it.  But here's what I came up with, single lines only.  No idea which will hit with which, if any:

	Powerball tonight
WBs	2	12	27	36	47	53
		11	26	34	45	51
		17	23	28	41	55
		16	25	33	48
	RB	2	8	12	27

Jack

 

A few minutes ago

The commercial used to say, "You call it CORN.  WE call it maize."

Around here we call that one a dipper moon.

Evening blogsters:

The balloonsters got a break with the weather this AM.  Filled the sky with all manner of monsters, Pepsi cans, witches, pizzas, smokey the bears, mother hubbards.... drifted north along the Rio Grande valley, came down, a lot of them, in Bernalillo.

Nice morning.  I watched the mass ascension from a place called, NO TRESPASSING, which is where I've gone for a number of years when I decide to take a look.... East of I 25, it avoids the crowds, is free, and has a great view. 

Might post later when the draws are in on the test posts.

Later,

Jack

 

 

 

Single line method,

Tri State Megabucks

1	12	22	40
8	11	26
9	18	28

 

TN Lotto

2	16	22	35
7	12	27
9	11	29

Don't bet'em.

Jack