| Posted: August 22, 2008, 8:32 pm - IP Logged |
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I just heard the same report on FOX news that they had all 4 tickets. The trick is, they still only won ONE time for the jackpot. Put it this way, what percentage of regular players use systems, say 10 percent which is just a guess. But that means for every 10 winners one of them was using a system. It does not say if that system HELPED them win. The only way to prove any system is with an honest backtest. And also, once they make this system public (is that what happens now with the patent?) the Wis. Lottery may determine what biased the numbers and want to change it very soon, maybe go computerized or something or switch ballsets differently. They should have not MENTIONED their system and just kept playing to win again, but of course they want to make additional $.
Maybe they put out a misleading set of numbers to confuse would-be system authors?
They won the jackpot four times. THis particular game is not parimutuel. You can have up to seven winning tickets in one drawing, and each will win $350,000. Once it goes beyond seven winners, the jackpot starts getting parimutuel and is divided among the number of winners. (I forget the formula) So if you play, and no one else wins on that day, but you do, you can actually buy 7 tickets and potentially win over 2 million dollars.
I guess because the odds of winning the jackpot are over 1.6 million to one, they felt they would never get "burned".
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