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Your own personal "supercomputer" for number crunching?Reply
That's exactly my point. If using a computer could help any one win a lottery, all the computer power needed already exists in today's PC and there's no need to wait for the more powerful PCs of the future. The fact that players buying QPs do as well as players picking their own numbers means no one has a clue about how to predict a future random event by observing past random events using computers or other wise. Even when Tennessee started using a computer for its daily games that didn't p
Apr 25, 2008, 11:37 am - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

lexicographic clusteringReply
After checking the last 90 draws for the Tennessee P5 game, there are 45 draws in the Lower Half and 45 draws in the Upper Half. This means something but I don't have a clue as to what it may signify. Any thoughts? Any one?
Feb 26, 2008, 9:13 pm - GASMETERGUY - Mathematics Forum

Quick Picks can't match the power of Self PicksReply
Self picks vs Quick picks. The numbers are random. Any patterns that you believe you are seeing are a mirage. Quick picks that group in the number range are no worse or better than any other number combination. There is only one place that self picks have an advantage to quick picks, and that is to take advantage of other players' selection anomolies. Specifically, when the pot is large it will draw a lot of players. In these cases the probability of multiple winners begins to increase.
Oct 29, 2007, 4:47 pm - Rehoboth - Mathematics Forum

Benford's Law
Hi Friends, While researching unrelated scientific subject matter I came across an article on Benford's Law. I decided that LP should/could benefit. I see that Win D already brought this up on November 25, 2004. Of particular interest is how it can be used to determine whether a lottery is being run fairly or not. You could probably sue the state lottery if Benford's Law proves that they are cheating.http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s116315.htm Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Jul 17, 2005, 8:06 pm - Sedertree - Mathematics Forum

Backtesting and Simulating Lottery SystemsReply
...a lot of those attempts rely on nuances easily corrected by the lottery administrations if the systems worked... Many of those nuances are just the natures of the game and there's nothing lottery administration can or would do to change them and still have an honest game. For example in Ohio 649 game, 50% of the winning combinations have 2 or more adjacent numbers while only one third of PowerBall and MegaMillions have them, so avoiding those types of combinations might give a PB or MM
Apr 13, 2011, 12:39 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

How do I prove my state lottery's CGNs are fixed?Reply
Badger 5 is a 5/31 game that uses a RNG and I believe the affects of trying to prove the game is fixed is to find a group of 12 numbers that consistently has 4 or 5 of the drawn numbers. Finding a flaw in a RNG could benefit players. Get all lotto game stats (games with Balls over 50 played) and show them side by side to see if the random and 50/50 is working or is there a odd game out there that is producing a unique set of numbers and patterns. The Tennessee Lottery had some unique pat
May 28, 2008, 8:54 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Math and LotteriesReply
Shane3, I totally agree with you about the mathematical patterns. And, yes, there is something there worth pursuing. I use patterns. But rather than backtest, I look forward. I will institute the pattern I think will come up and then find the number set associated with that pattern. After the drawing, or rather after I discover I am still not a winner, (Tennessee Cash 5 only) I run the successful pattern just to see how many number sets were contained in the winning pattern. Last Monday
Sep 27, 2006, 2:04 pm - GASMETERGUY - Mathematics Forum

Pick 3/4 Meter Made Math MovesReply
I honestly believe that these states have gone to computer generated drawings to make it easier for them to cheat. I don't think it is so much an individual doing it, but it is the management companies manipulating the results to show that they are profitable. They make a lot of money managing these lotteries and the more revenue they pull in the more they make. Illinois just went to computer generated and they keep telling us that they have all sorts of security to be sure no-one can ha
Oct 26, 2015, 10:29 am - LonniC - Mathematics Forum

Ideas for Bayesian Networks & predictionReply
Lantern After your hiatus from Lottory Post, you returned with the comment that you would post again some of your thoughts. I replied at that time that you had a lot of posting to do. The reason I said that was due to the fact I search this site all the time. I will go back to day one and re-read all that was posted for many, many hours. I have yet to travel from Day One to Present Day in one sitting; there are just too many posts. But you had a lot to say back in the day and I found them ext
May 1, 2010, 1:18 pm - GASMETERGUY - Mathematics Forum

Looking for fomulas
I am new here to LP, yet over the years have played around with different techniques to decipher a group of numbers to play. I have hashed out Pick 3, Pick 5's, and powerball. I am joined LP to seek out diffeenpoints of views and techniques that are being used. I really liked TNT's way of grouping the Tennessee Pick into 3 groups. I did the same for Iowa's Cash Game which is a Pick t from 35 instead of 39. So since Iowa had only 35 I set-up 5 groups of 7 in the same fashion to keep my groups
May 17, 2007, 2:44 am - nightshade - Mathematics Forum