I'll never win any Jackpot

I share some of my ideas and code too, on the math and p5 forums, as do a few others...

There is more signal and less noise on those forums, IMO ... but I guess it depends on what you're looking for.

And yet people win it 'only playing this game 2 or 3 times before', and some in their 20's have won it.

Maybe when you get older in life you have nothing else to live for, so why the heck not (play the game) ?   (LOL) 

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If Big Dog's Challenge were increased to 20 numbers, I wonder what the results would be?

I would venture a guess that you would see quite a few 5 for 5 hits each time as there
are some very good number predictors within that group.  It seems to me when you start
reducing from 20 numbers, it gets extremely difficult to predict on a consistent basis;
consequently, in my opinion that is why you generally see three hits, inclusive with the MB.

Just my three cents worth,

Best Of Luck,

LottoL

Picking 20 numbers for the challenge is almost half the selections so there might be better results. However it still boils down to selecting the right digits. 

The thing is wheeling 12 numbers cost less than wheeling 20 numbers. It doesn't mater much if in your wheel you don't have the winning digits.

I was just pointing out that if you gave (xsmega, fja, konane, gamegrl, maddog10, rjoh, jadelottery, raven62, litebets27, tweetietoo, magma, geos*5666) twenty numbers to select from, you would probably have someone hit 5 for 5 on a relatively consistent basis.  If you were to put these predictors in a think tank room to get their best number for a given draw, I would venture a guess that you would have at least 3 out of 5 correct numbers on every draw.

Best Of Luck,

LottoL

I didn't mean to say that the challenges are bad.

It is a major part of my equation. I use anything that gives me advantage.

I just think it might be worth trying other strategies. It is for our own entertainment afterall.

When we started this challenges which is going on 3 years, we used to highlight or likely picks which slowly disappeared out of the challenges.

Now like they topic states, if we are not worried about other people using our numbers,

if we realize what the odd of over 1: 140,000,000, we should worry less about the jackpot.

All I am proposing is synergy.

A game could trying to come up with as minimum numbers as possible. You get a point for each correct number and lose one for each wrong number. We can keep track of how players are doing.

It will be a discussion thread.

You could help others win or help yourself win.