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Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
Whats a quick pick? I dont know why one needs a computer to make an incorrect decision for them. Is it so hard and extensively time consuming to think of 1 2 3 4 5? If that one is too long and time consuming, try, 20 21 22 23 24. I use logic all the time playing online. I say if that terminal is down, then try a different store
Mar 18, 2013, 8:57 am - LottoBoner - Mathematics Forum

Who has better odds of hitting 3 of 5 ?Reply
LOL. so I'm going to jump in and play a little semantics game really quick (this isn't an attack, just a semantical note lol). So the reality is, all the numbers have the exact same OODS of hitting in any drawing. The QP's don't have better odds, they have a better statiscal win history. That does not mean that the best numbers to play are QP's. Actually you could argue that QP's hit the most because the most people play them. All this is indicative of is the natural order of the randomness. In
Oct 10, 2012, 3:28 am - AlgorithmGuru - Mathematics Forum

Does Mathematical Innumeracy foster superstitions and support the belief in them?Reply
It's been an upside down jumble a long while, Pumpi. Maybe longer than they've had different beliefs. But as things pertain to math, lotteries, buying lottery tickets, working on lottery systems by various methods and based on countless premises, it is definitely, definitely, definitely surprising to see the level of rancor, venom, poison, condescension, smugness, rudeness, and general acrimony revealing itself within the vessels containing differing viewpoints. The issue of system play
May 24, 2011, 5:37 pm - JosephusMinimus - Mathematics Forum

Do Not Need Mathematics to TrackReply
Actually you don't even need Excel to track them. Just track the facts . Give you a hint....i.e. Mega Million. On the game card where I live the 56 Numbers are written out on 7 Rows with Row7 having only 2 numbers. There are only 5 Numbers to pick. What does that tell you? Most of the time the numbers are on only 3 or 4 Rows. Again, what does that tell you? What other facts can you come up with when you look at what plays? Last night in the Power Ball I had 3 of the 5 Numbers on three
Aug 1, 2010, 1:04 pm - Clipper - Mathematics Forum

21 CombinationsReply
Take a (quick pick) lucky dip scenario. Camelot dont know how many people will play the lucky dip on any any one day...they can only estimate based on previous draws. If software is used to generate lucky dip numbers then what's to stop the software from generating 100+ potential jackpot winners or millions of 10 winners? Probability says it can happen but it has never happened on any lottery. So there has to be some mechanism to control what numbers sets are generated and how many set
Apr 1, 2009, 3:45 am - Newb - Mathematics Forum

Quick Picks can't match the power of Self PicksReply
For one thing, my average play is $1 a draw, maybe $2 or more if the jackpot is up (Little Lotto had been over $1,000,000, not bad for a Pick 5 game), so I'm not about to go dollar-for-dollar with anyone who wheels numbers. In your post with the scanned tickets, if I'm reading it right, you're showing $50 worth of play for one day. You talk of winning $22. I don't see any winnng in that whatsoever. I do see a bookie's wet dream. I'll also venture that if you're playing $50 a pop all $22
Dec 2, 2007, 6:10 pm - Coin Toss - Mathematics Forum

Statistics around the balance of even/odd and small/big numbersReply
When people laugh at the idea of only using 4 Powerball numbers when buying 3,168 tickets, it tells me they haven't noticed that, collectively, over the year 2010, the 137 participants in MadDog's Powerball Challenge purchased 198,651 tickets containing the winning Powerball, compared to 212,106, What is laughable, you still have no clue how people play lottery games. It's highly unlikely even 1 of the 137 participants played all 3168 combinations in one drawing and to suggest all 137 bough
Jan 7, 2011, 4:43 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Odds of winning.
There can never be a true predictor of lottery numbers drawn. Each draw is an absolute event , reliant on no other influences from the past . The only way to improve your odds of winning , is to buy more tickets and no, buying two tickets does not halve the odds of winning. The only other way to improve your chances of winning is to wheel sets of numbers , but even that does not change the odds against any of your six number combos being drawn. In fact, a quick pick has exactly the same od
Aug 14, 2013, 6:09 pm - scouser - Mathematics Forum

Florida Lotto ProbabilityReply
Ok. I've put up my thinking; but I also ran a test. I took the first 100 Lotteries in the Florida Lotto history list and ran them against each other so that each Lottery took the other 99 as Quick Picks. The results confirm your calculations. Where did I go wrong? Quick Pick Results Hits Count Percent Probability 1 4044 40.85 1 in 2.4 2 1170 11.82 1 in 8.5 3 118 1.19 1 in 83.9 4 10 0.1 1 in 990.0
Jan 24, 2012, 8:15 pm - FlLotto - Mathematics Forum

Interest In Backtesting and Simulating Lottery SystemsReply
I can't help but wonder how they learn new things themselves, if not through reading. As far as I know no system exists that can predict the outcome of a lottery drawing better than a random quick pick and all the articles I've ever read say the same thing so reading them again isn't going reveal anything new about the theoretical systems we are discussing. It's unlikely they have read many scholarly articles or journals because if they had they would know that source citations are not on
May 8, 2011, 1:50 am - RJOh - Mathematics Forum