Hi all
Just wanted to explain a little about the P-3 program, here's the rundown. In a P-3 game you have 1000
3 digit lines 000 to 999. The 1000 lines can be divided into two groups which I call stag or drag. A stag
line has 3 different digits and a drag has at least 2 same digits. Since 72% of the possible 1000 lines
are 3 digit stag sets we can expect a stag set to show around 7 out of 10 drawings. Every 3 digit stag
combination has 6 ways the digits can be arranged, or one could say there are 5 box hits and 1 straight.
Example for digits 1-2-3
1-2-3
1-3-2
2-1-3
2-3-1
3-1-2
3-2-1
Blocking 3 of the 10 digits reduces the total lines to 343 lines regardless of which 3 digits are blocked. Of
these 343 lines there are 133 drag sets so if I remove the drag sets I am left with 210. Above I mention
that there are 6 ways to arrange 3 digits so if we filter for a box set then we can reduce the 210 lines by
a factor of 6, 210/6=35. In my state P-3 pays $100.00 for a box hit and given the fact that 72% or the
draws have 3 different digits then anytime you can successfully block 3 digits then you are guaranteed a
box hit.
The Nuke button here has been dumbed down just a bit and is really just a box optimizer now. Anyone
who is interested in the software can pre-test how they would fair by simply picking 3 digits to block for any
drawing. Anytime one filters the 35 box lines they remove the box hit guaranteed.
I have managed to select the correct digits to block the last 4 games but the last game was a drag set so I
did not have the box hit. So far I am playing only stag sets and accept the drag draws as a culculated loss
but plan to play add drag draws once I feel I have mastered the stags. What I am working towards is reducing
to 10 lines with a high hit rate. I have noticed that drag draws seem to come in pairs so that might be a good
indicator when to go drag.
Using the included filters it's easy to reduce the 35 down to a couple very easy but any filtering comes with the
risk of filtering out the box hit. The wife is my in-house tester and she has managed the box hit in around 8 to
15 lines for several games but lost them reducing down to 2 or 3 lines. The auto filter has also been dumbed a
bit but is able to reduce several lines with around a 85% hit rate. MO uses a RNG to pick numbers so those states
using ball droppers may have different results.
The reason I dumbed down a couple options is to protect the game it's self. DMP-BG has been downloaded around
6000 times and I suspect the P-3 will beat that. Since the maximum digits that can be drawn in any game is 3 that
leaves 7 digits that will not show. This puts the player in a much better position to block then to pick digits that will
show.
RL