Do some number combinations have better odds?

 RJOh numbers have been posted for 16 draws. Your expense total is $1,581,120.

That was an interesting experiment that didn't bear fruit, the only thing to do is take notes and move on.

I'm picking 10 lines for tonight's PB drawing trying something different.

I forgot that you were the one that introduced Ronnie to the nonsense of predicting the jackpot winning numbers from a group of 28 numbers.

You are like those economists that are helping the president to set economic policies. They are using fuzzy math methods that can't be applied in a real world scenario. We would never see any logical person betting $98k plus on every mega milliions or powerball drawing in order to match 5+1.

Why play the lottery if you can afford to spend $98k plus on 18 drawings like Ronnie did in order to match 5+1. Remember when the MM jackpot reached $640M?

Ronnie WINS big JACKPOT with this (BETTER ODDS) number combination......

02 10 13 38 05 18 21 29 41 04 08 43 09 51 44 50 52 13 49 55 06 07 24 11 23 36 20 28

Bonus ball 8 

Actually it was Ronnie who brought up splitting the numbers in half using an easy to identify group of 28 numbers. At best my contribution was pointing out there are several octillion groups of 28 numbers and many of them had and will have better of odds of five of those numbers being drawn than probability.

"You are like those economists that are helping the president to set economic policies."

I'm not into politics especially on Lottery site but if the economy is so bad, why do I need a reservation at my favorite restaurants?

If all the doom and gloom I'm reading is true, there shouldn't be people waiting to be served and the place should be virtually empty or probably out of business.

"We would never see any logical person betting $98k plus on every mega milliions or powerball drawing in order to match 5+1."

Oh really?

That would be chump change to the Australian syndicate that tried to buy all 7 million possible combos in the Virginia 6/44 lotto game in 1992.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/25/us/group-invests-5-million-to-hedge-bets-in-lottery.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Or how about the groups that bought $600,000 worth of tickets several times over a 7-year period in Massachusetts' Cash WinFall game?

http://www.lotterypost.com/news/249164

"Why play the lottery if you can afford to spend $98k plus on 18 drawings like Ronnie did in order to match 5+1."

If the economy is that bad, there is no way any investment group or an individual is going to get the same 800% return on their money as Ronnie did in only 9 weeks. And the question of whether or not it was logistically possible to play 100,000 combos was answered by the Arizona Lottery.

"Remember when the MM jackpot reached $640M?"

Yes I do and an approximate 635 million losing $1 tickets were in trash cans the next day.

In my experiment your numbers took 16 draws to hit 4+1.

The ten PB lines I posted on the prediction board and played matched 3+0 and 1+1 for $11.  Like I said you take notes of the experiments that fail and move on, these experiments are a learning project.

I will play some PB numbers just for fun.......

and...... 46 51 56 24 31 for elimination. 

PB play for Aug. 11, 2012

02 04 05 06 09 13 14 16 19 20 22 23 29 30 32 35 36 37 38 39 48 49 50 53 54 55 57 58

Bonus 25

The ten PB lines I posted on the prediction board and played matched 3+0 and 1+1 for $11.  Like I said you take notes of the experiments that fail and move on, these experiments are a learning project.

Congrat's  on Hitting the    8   I got   a Big Fat   0 Zero

     Ronnie   5- 1   

So in a 28 number wheel that hits 4+1 what are the totals for

4+1

3+1

2+1

1+1

0+1

??

4 + 1 -- 24 -- $24,000

3 + 1 -- 1104 -- $165,600

2 + 1 -- 12,144 -- $121,440

1 + 1 -- 42,504 -- $127,512

0 + 1 -- 42,504 -- $85,008

$523,560 - $98,280

It's the fact you matched the bonus number and five of the numbers that makes the totals spectacular. Just by matching two numbers, the winnings would be $125,580 and zero matches would be $98,280. Had you equally distributed all 46 bonus numbers, you would probably had:

5 + 0 -- 1 = $250,000

4 + 1 -- 3 = $30,000

4 + 0 -- 112 = $16,800

3 + 1 -- 55 = $8250

3 + 0 -- 2485 = $17,395

2 + 1 --  385 = $3850

1 + 1 -- 963 = $2889

0 + 1 -- 752 = $1504

And while it's still a nice hit, small compared to the effect of picking and matching only one bonus number.

As an experiment, I put your 28 numbers (replacing the second 13 with another number) in the same order they appeared into a 4 if 4 abbreviated wheel with 4932 combos and a 5 + 0 match was found on line number 1117. While it's not a guarantee, it still proves it's possible to win a jackpot using only 5% of the combos. It won't help anyone who thinks $10 is a huge bet, but it is a more realistic way to play a 28 number group with one bonus number.

4 + 1 -- 24 -- $24,000

3 + 1 -- 1104 -- $165,600

2 + 1 -- 12,144 -- $121,440

1 + 1 -- 42,504 -- $127,512

0 + 1 -- 42,504 -- $85,008

$523,560 - $98,280

It's the fact you matched the bonus number and five of the numbers that makes the totals spectacular. Just by matching two numbers, the winnings would be $125,580 and zero matches would be $98,280. Had you equally distributed all 46 bonus numbers, you would probably had:

5 + 0 -- 1 = $250,000

4 + 1 -- 3 = $30,000

4 + 0 -- 112 = $16,800

3 + 1 -- 55 = $8250

3 + 0 -- 2485 = $17,395

2 + 1 --  385 = $3850

1 + 1 -- 963 = $2889

0 + 1 -- 752 = $1504

And while it's still a nice hit, small compared to the effect of picking and matching only one bonus number.

As an experiment, I put your 28 numbers (replacing the second 13 with another number) in the same order they appeared into a 4 if 4 abbreviated wheel with 4932 combos and a 5 + 0 match was found on line number 1117. While it's not a guarantee, it still proves it's possible to win a jackpot using only 5% of the combos. It won't help anyone who thinks $10 is a huge bet, but it is a more realistic way to play a 28 number group with one bonus number.