It looks to me as if playing at all mixed combinations .....you really never know how close you were to a win ....unless you hit one or two numbers.  Other than a hit ......how close were you on your other tickets ?? There is no way to Gage the level of how close they were.

   Let's just say you played 20 tickets and hit on 3 of them ..... 1 number hit on one .... 1 on the 2nd.... and 2 on the 3rd.   and the other 17 tickets you hit nothing. 

  How close did you get on the tickets that did not score at least one number hit?  No way to know how close they were. No way to know what your progress is ...or how much you have improved your playing technique.

     How about this .....just for an example. 

       Odds going in each draw are about 500,000 to one right ?  If you don't hit any numbers you can never say you were any closer to a win than that ......at least as long as you play MIXED numbers.

     But...... a person that only plays ALL ODD or ALL EVEN combinations only can know how really close he got to a win several times a year.  On average about once a month he will know how close he was .....at the very least.   

    On those days.... on the days that come about one time a month his odds that day were better than anyone else's because he played All ODD/EVEN numbers only.

       His odds were not 500,000 to 1 ......like everyone else.... His odds those days are only 27,000 to 1  !

     At least at the end of the year .....he will know that he got as close as 27,000 to 1 odds ....12-14 times that year.  At least he got that close for a fact.

   Would you rather be a Raffle with all the people attending 10 Super bowls (500,000 thousand)  ..... or a High School Playoff game raffle  ( 27,000) ?  Hmmmmm   and get paid exactly the same large payout.   

       At least once a month his odds drop down some 95 %  and he has an actual real shot at a win...with the same exact payout. 

      At least he knows for sure how very close he got to a win .....and at least it would happen several times a year.  Seems like the smart play to me.  At least the more satisfying.  Plus ....no one says we can't toss a couple the other way at the same time right? 

Chaz,

  You continue to show why you are oone of the best, if not the best, when it comes to stats. Now, you are on a Pick-5 mission. LOL

   In Fla the Even is 9 times per year, Odds are 10-11 times per year.

 Thanks CarBob ....you give me too much credit really. I really do think that its better to go after the best odds and know on those particular days anyway .......you were really really close.  At least compared to all the ones that didn't have a snowballs that day.

 Yeap... 95% better odds is hard to beat.  That's my best shot at a working filter system anyway ...... as an outsider. 

 At least until I can study and know some other things about the pick 5 game.....and i may never get around to it because we both know how long and hard a road that can be. 

 I may just play these .....and stick to this System.  Heck .... it sure doesn't take much study or time this way does it?  LOL

    ........but if you already have it ..... and its NO trouble for u Bob.... I am curious to see a list of all the All odds and all evens in order of draw that you might have. Just those odd even draws only.  Is that hard to do...?  If it is ...don't even worry with it please .... thanks.   

 FYI ...looks like FLA is doing around average on those Odd/evens combined ... if you are  counting only the eve draws .  Normal expected average should be around 19 or 20 a year.... or so a year.... 

   Say Bob .....you will like this......   Following the same line of logic if we only ever played the ALL EVEN combos each and every time we played ......we could lower our odds even more. We could almost cut them in half again.....  !  If we only played the All even combo's only ......on the days that that happened during the year ...... we would be playing in an odds pool....of only 11,000 people !!   

   Ofcourse ..... that would only come around about one time a month ...... but still only 11,000 people .... LOTTERY POST is bigger than that. .....and its still the same payout. Maybe even more since most folks play mixed numbers.     LOL   

 Sure beats ...... 5oo,ooo  people pool worth of odds doesn't it ?   

 I'm sorry .....this is too much fun.

  If you could find 11 people and each of you all put 100 bucks in your pool...... and ......and you were lucky and picked the right day that month ..... they would draw the ALL EVEN numbers that particular day.

  Your group or club of 11 fellas would have ......  a 1 in 10 chance to win the PICK -5 game that day !  

                   As the Fat Lady would say....... 

                                                   " NOW ....... those them are good ODDs" !      LOL

If you're using a system that clearly defines the parameters of the numbers in your number pool and the number of combinations you play then you can figure out how likely the winning numbers would have been in the pool and if they had a chance of matching two or better in any of the combinations you played.

Even if you had all the winning numbers in your pool you would have to be lucky to have two or more of the winning numbers on the same line if you just played a few lines.

      Still.......  are there only 11,628 possible combinations total......in the pick 5 game 1-39  or not ? 

       Because at this point and knowledge level....thats what I needed.  In my limited experience and no software....lower odds plays is all I have right now anyway.

  RJOH.... are their similar odds reduction methods in the larger games that approach anywhere near the percentage reductions achieved here?  Thanks     

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