Rip Snorter's Blog

I used to know a guy, a good man, who was also an alcoholic of the sort you'd rather not be too close to.  Jay was his name, an ex-Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Air Corps, B24 pilot of um-de-umph hundred bombing missions over Germany during WWII.  War hero.

By the mid-1960s Jay had a drinking problem bad enough to be placed repeatedly into the hands of the Texas Alcoholic Rehabilitation Commission to dry out.  Finally, in those days a bright new shining light among the mental health medicos was the pre-frontal lobotomy, was chosen as the tool of choice for curing what ailed old Jay..... But the unfortunate side effects were that a lot of him ceased to be Jay. 

But those wise medicos knew what was best for him, they'd read all the recent advances and articles, so they strapped him down to a gurney and inserted electrodes on his temples and shot the juice to him.  Several times.

I'd heard about all this, thought it was fairly awful, but what the hell.  A few months later I was among a group of young folks friends of his who got invited to spend a day on Galveston Bay cruising around in Jay's cabin cruiser down there.

Jay was wearing a tee -shirt that proclaimed, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy".  And he did.

It finally killed him, alcohol, the lobotomy didn't change that.... but he always believed, afterward, that it was a fairly shabby thing for society to have done to him, that lobotomy.  Deprived him of his right to make his own mistakes.  At least, it attempted to.

If you boil all that down and scrape the leavings off the bottom of the pot, that's about the way I feel about the brushwar going on in California about Mega Millions.

And a lot of other things, for that matter.

Jack

 

 

The village chalked it off as a random drive-by when my neighbor lady stopped at the traffic sign down at the pavement and a bullet shattered the rear-window of her bronco. 

Lots of head-shaking, muttering that it’s seeping up the mountain with all these newcomers.  Speculation that she has a secret boyfriend, or that maybe drugs played a role.  Nobody paid any attention to the seemingly unrelated fact that she owns a pit-bull.

Then there were all those dead birds and small animal carcasses showing up on the front porch.

Still, a cat’s a cat.  You come to expect that sort of thing.

But, when it comes late evening and it’s time to get the felines inside for their own good, when a person makes a grab and suddenly finds himself frog-marched indoors to open a can of tuna, that’s too much.

Jack

 

 

 

If you were the sun late in the afternoon and you looked back over your shoulder and saw there was a guy back there taking your picture every day and posting it on his blog, this is roughly what you'd see.   

Jack

53/47 is such an unusual combination that I've had to play fast and loose with my own fledgling rules.
Getting enough draws to make a pie required looking for 47 anywhere in the triplet.

53 has never hit on MM, so I had to tear a few more pages out of the book and go to 47/39, which ought
to add another level of uncertainty to an already shaky proposition. 

So all this ought to provide some insights into just how much slop there is to play with.  Give an
understanding of some other 'rules' that haven't grabbed bitten me on the ankle, maybe. 

53/47 MMPB Combo
     
4/12/2005 15 20 43 47 50 24
4/9/2005 1 11 35 46 53 29
4/8/2005 5 13 17 33 35 35
     
11/26/2004 7 9 18 37 43 34
11/24/2004 3 19 47 49 53 4
11/23/2004 8 30 32 35 51 17
     
3/5/2004 30 40 47 49 52 3
3/3/2004 5 11 17 23 53 34
3/2/2004 25 30 35 40 50 4

53/47 PB
     
11/27/2004 16 28 35 36 47 31
11/24/2004 3 19 47 49 53 4
11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
     
3/3/2004 5 11 17 23 53 34
2/28/2004 6 25 26 52 53 40
2/25/2004 4 5 11 17 47 35
     
11/1/2003 16 19 34 37 47 18
10/29/2003 8 19 22 34 53 29
10/25/2003 6 17 45 47 48 4

47/39 MM
     
2/1/2005 3 17 21 42 44 35
1/28/2005 25 31 39 47 52 43
1/25/2005 2 10 21 25 45 22
     
8/31/2001 4 7 8 12 38 16
8/28/2001 10 29 39 47 50 35
8/24/2001 2 10 23 26 38 26
     
4/17/2001 4 12 14 24 44 21
4/13/2001 16 27 36 39 47 12
4/10/2001 17 22 27 32 42 33

It might be worth the exercize to cross-check these against those above,
just as an experiment, and eliminate any numbers that aren't on both lists.
Might learn something.

48/50mmpbcombo
     
11/23/2004 8 30 32 35 51 17
11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
11/19/2004 1 12 24 36 51 38
     
3/16/2004 3 28 45 49 51 52
3/13/2004 11 44 45 48 50 2
3/12/2004 4 29 32 35 36 11
     
11/13/2002 18 23 31 38 50 20
11/12/2002 3 28 45 48 50 24
11/9/2002 30 36 38 40 53 8
     
48/50mm 
     
11/15/2002 6 17 44 49 51 39
11/12/2002 3 28 45 48 50 24
11/8/2002 17 19 37 47 48 14
     
8/11/2000 2 14 19 24 28 7
8/8/2000 23 32 38 48 50 20
8/4/2000 5 9 14 31 47 22
     
5/19/2000 16 24 37 38 40 26
5/16/2000 9 11 34 48 50 13
5/12/2000 12 27 28 40 48 25

48/50pb 
     
11/24/2004 3 19 47 49 53 4
11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
11/17/2004 15 25 31 36 46 37
     
3/17/2004 7 15 20 24 43 5
3/13/2004 11 44 45 48 50 2
3/10/2004 10 20 22 41 49 6
     
10/9/2004 1 3 10 47 48 27
10/6/2004 5 6 19 44 50 28
10/2/2004 2 13 29 32 35 4

If I were playing MM tomorrow night, which, thank goodness, I'm not,
I think I might be tempted to consider 4 or 34 for the red ball.
I'd succumb to my general liking for 43 as a white, maybe 47,
possumly 35, 28 and/or either of those I mentioned for red
maybe as whites.

But it's a crapshoot six ways from Sunday in my view.

Jack

 

 

 

Hidden by the Trees

You seek truth, Diogenes?

Begin by forgetting
What they told you was a lie
Even though they might
Have thought it was the truth

Fluid fiction hides
In the syllables of words
In the single-celled inventions
Of the mind

Cancer fiction spreads
With the separating cells
A metastasizing tumor
In reality
Feeding on self-interest
Feeding on the fear of mortality
In a plastic box of pictures
In the cellulose perceptions
Of normality.

Distill
Disconnect.
Pull the cords.
 
Pour the liquid
Off the soup
Leave crystal residue:
Tetrahedron maze
Of interlocking molecules
 
Of truth nobody told you
Of truth nobody wants.

 

From Poems of the New Old West
Copyright 2002, Jack Purcell

And I always like to add, while the unexamined life isn't worth living,

the unexamined truth isn't even worth talking about.

 

 

I probably should have mentioned in the wrap-up, the previous entry, that in order to use this method you'll probably need to get the full histories of MM and PB from another site.  The histories on LP are good back to 2000, but stop there.  In trying to chase this it's been necessary a lot of the time to use draws from both of the major multi-states as far back as they go, 97, 98, and wish they went further for a better sampling.

The matrix changes over the years don't appear to have changed the patterns much.

Another thing that appears evident...... some draws will leave you with a lot larger set of numbers in the 3 draw sets than other draws (recurring numbers)....  I'm assuming there's a lot more to be discovered about the way all this fits together, that there are ways of boiling things down so's there's not much to scrape off the bottom of the pot....... but meanwhile, probably I'll confine myself to only playing draws where the size of the number pool is to my liking.

While the fundamental approach appears to be a good one, the various lotteries each seem to behave with somewhat different patterns within the overall system.  You'll probably need to play around with various methods to find the best one for your particular lottery, if you are trying to use this on one of the State Lotteries.

My two best shots, KS and NM Roadrunner, because I have friends in KS and NM's where I live, I haven't yet been able to find a way to get down far enough to make it worth playing. 

The numbers are there on the testing, but KS is particularly tricky because of the 5/32 1/25 weirdness...those lowball numbers are absolutely the most difficult to corral by this method.  I'm not sure what's the matter with NMRR....just seems to be running around outside the fences.

Which brings me to one last item.  Even though this sort of number behavior runs arse-end forward to everything the lottery managers and creators hope for, the evidence suggests it's consistent and that it's been going on for an awfully long time.  There's been a lot of speculation on the boards that electronic draws can be jimmied, but they don't appear to behave differently than mechanical systems, overall.  I think if you have a state lottery, particularly a state lottery with electronic draws, and if that state lottery refuses to show any signs of behaving the way everyone else in the herd is doing, you might be dealing with something I've referred to as 'familiar spirits' in another blog entry.

Jack

 

 

 

I've been messing around with this all day, on and off.  It appears if you do some massaging of the method for a particular lotto you can get all five numbers to show for a pick five, fairly consistently out of a pool of about 20 unique numbers.  On pick 6 you get all 6 about half the time, 5 the other half.

Here's the basic set of premises:

1)  MM and PB aren't separate systems coming out of the universe... they work in tandem

2)  The high numbers each draw are the 'drivers'

3)  The numbers appear in three-draw sets

 

Jack

Tri State Megabucks

6

22

23

31

33

39

3

 

30/48 mmpb combo
8/8/2003	6	9	35	40	43	42
8/6/2003	11	14	26	31	48	30
8/5/2003	7	32	34	38	44	49
4/22/2003	3	9	15	28	52	7
4/19/2003	10	18	40	46	48	30
4/18/2003	5	15	24	50	52	3
6/5/2002	1	18	21	36	47	33
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	48	48
6/1/2002	2	6	17	19	27	2

 

48/30mm
6/7/2002	14	22	27	28	42	13
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	45	48
5/31/2002	12	28	45	46	52	47
2/1/2002	4	15	17	23	33	29
1/29/2002	4	21	30	33	48	34
1/25/2002	9	23	29	32	45	30
12/8/2000	23	27	29	43	45	30
12/5/2000	4	8	30	46	48	1
12/1/2000	15	25	28	38	47	5

Take 5 01-07-08-22-35

 

30/48 mmpb combo
8/8/2003	6	9	35	40	43	42
8/6/2003	11	14	26	31	48	30
8/5/2003	7	32	34	38	44	49
4/22/2003	3	9	15	28	52	7
4/19/2003	10	18	40	46	48	30
4/18/2003	5	15	24	50	52	3
6/5/2002	1	18	21	36	47	33
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	48	48
6/1/2002	2	6	17	19	27	2
48/30mm
6/7/2002	14	22	27	28	42	13
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	45	48
5/31/2002	12	28	45	46	52	47
2/1/2002	4	15	17	23	33	29
1/29/2002	4	21	30	33	48	34
1/25/2002	9	23	29	32	45	30
12/8/2000	23	27	29	43	45	30
12/5/2000	4	8	30	46	48	1
12/1/2000	15	25	28	38	47	5

You'll have to decide for yourselves whether there's any utility in all this, and how.

Lotto South

1

16

18

21

22

At the moment I'm just trying to get a bead on what kinds of connections/interactions, if any, are to be found between the high number combinations on most recent PBMM draw results and other 5 and 6 number lotteries. 

30/48 pbmm combo
8/8/2003	6	9	35	40	43	42
8/6/2003	11	14	26	31	48	30
8/5/2003	7	32	34	38	44	49
4/22/2003	3	9	15	28	52	7
4/19/2003	10	18	40	46	48	30
4/18/2003	5	15	24	50	52	3
6/5/2002	1	18	21	36	47	33
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	48	48
6/1/2002	2	6	17	19	27	2
48/50mm
11/15/2002	6	17	44	49	51	39
11/12/2002	3	28	45	48	50	24
11/8/2002	17	19	37	47	48	14
8/11/2000	2	14	19	24	28	7
8/8/2000	23	32	38	48	50	20
8/4/2000	5	9	14	31	47	22
5/19/2000	16	24	37	38	40	26
5/16/2000	9	11	34	48	50	13
5/12/2000	12	27	28	40	48	25

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appears to be woven into the same helix, drawing from the same source as PB and MM

TX LOTTO 9-Jul-05

3

13

37

39

43

44

Just a slightly different set of draws to find them.  You need to use the 48/38 and 48/30 high numbers from the previous PB draw, 48/30 as combined PBMM history, 48/38 from the PB history.  I think the reason for this might be found in the fact the TX Lotto matrix is lower, closer to PB than MM.

48/30
8/9/2003	18	23	25	26	40	15
8/6/2003	11	14	26	31	48	30
8/2/2003	17	40	41	42	46	25
4/23/2003	14	15	23	31	51	34
4/19/2003	10	18	40	46	48	30
4/16/2003	4	25	39	41	50	31
3/29/2000	12	32	37	40	49	37
3/25/2000	6	30	43	45	48	32
3/22/2000	3	12	30	41	46	32
38/48
6/11/2002	5	6	9	33	44	52
6/8/2002	26	37	42	46	48	38
6/7/2002	14	22	27	28	42	3
6/5/2001	23	27	36	49	50	1
6/2/2001	10	17	26	45	48	38
6/1/2001	5	18	36	44	49	35
6/11/1999	5	7	13	17	43	12
6/9/1999	7	32	35	38	48	17
6/8/1999	18	31	45	48	49	15

I haven't gone much further than this, but I believe they're probably all woven together into this fabric, all the lotteries with 5 and 6 number draws, whatever the matrix. 

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

PB draw tonight:

7/9/2005

8

9

39

47

53

4

MM Last night:

7/8/2005

9

23

45

48

50

3

 

High numbers on MM:  48/50

48/50 Draw history MMPB Combo:

48/50mmpbcombo
11/23/2004	8	30	32	35	51	17
11/20/2004	4	29	45	48	50	1
11/19/2004	1	12	24	36	51	38
3/16/2004	3	28	45	49	51	52
3/13/2004	11	44	45	48	50	2
3/12/2004	4	29	32	35	36	11
11/13/2002	18	23	31	38	50	20
11/12/2002	3	28	45	48	50	24
11/9/2002	30	36	38	40	53	8

Draw history on MM 48/50

48/50mm
11/15/2002	6	17	44	49	51	39
11/12/2002	3	28	45	48	50	24
11/8/2002	17	19	37	47	48	14
8/11/2000	2	14	19	24	28	7
8/8/2000	23	32	38	48	50	20
8/4/2000	5	9	14	31	47	22
5/19/2000	16	24	37	38	40	26
5/16/2000	9	11	34	48	50	13
5/12/2000	12	27	28	40	40	25

I bought 10 tickets with 14 numbers.  Only hit 9, 39 and 53, still uncertain .... 53 on all tickets, 9 on most, 39 on 3, but once as Red. 

But if the pattern holds there's some light at the end of the wick.

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Stalin he might be
Fingers drumming green felt
Calculating his next purge
Fill another gulag
With Ukrainians

Finger tapping
Focus on the down cards
Other players
Cardboard faces
Pasteboard numbers
Shouts past me

Double down!  Double down!
 
Tired first base trucker 
Parlaying his bets 
To survive another hand or two
In this hell-camp.

Stalin tosses three greens 
Past me to the trucker
From his four inch high
Stack of blacks and greens
 
Double down!  Double down!
 
Astonished trucker pushes back
A weathered straw hat
Gazes at the green chips
The dealer upturned six
And his own sixteen
And doubles down.

On and on
Same vein
Stalin winks at me
At second base
Throwing chips past me
The driver promptly loses

But always looks now
To see what Stalin 
Thinks is best
While downstream
In third base Stalin
Plays three hands all at once
Table max 200 on each place

And wins wins wins

Speznatz tattoos 
On chubby knucklebacks
Stalin and I exchange small talk
And knowing smiles
 
Once advised
The other side of a line
I was on this side of

Did his final tour in Afghan
Got out first chance he could
When things got shaky
 
And the walls went down

Now he hauls produce
From east to west coast
Always stops here in-between

Shouting orders
 
Double down!  Double down!
 
To the bloated capitalist pigs

From Poems of the New Old West

Copyright 2002, Jack Purcell

 

 

 

They seem to run in three-draw sets

In this case I've done high numbers from MM/PB last draws, plus 48/30 because it was the highest whiteball:

7/8/2005	9	23	45	48	50	3
7/6/2005	2	12	25	30	48	38
30/48
8/8/2003	6	9	35	40	43	42
8/6/2003	11	14	26	31	48	30
8/5/2003	7	32	34	38	44	49
4/22/2003	3	9	15	28	52	7
4/19/2003	10	18	40	46	48	30
4/18/2003	5	15	24	50	52	3
6/5/2002	1	18	21	36	47	33
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	48	48
6/1/2002	2	6	17	19	27	2
50/48
11/23/2004	8	30	32	35	51	17
11/20/2004	4	29	45	48	50	1
11/19/2004	1	12	24	36	51	38
3/16/2004	3	28	45	49	51	52
3/13/2004	11	44	45	48	50	2
3/12/2004	4	29	32	35	36	11
11/13/2002	18	23	31	38	50	20
11/12/2002	3	28	45	48	50	24
11/9/2002	30	36	38	40	53	8
48/30
6/7/2002	14	22	27	28	42	13
6/4/2002	3	25	29	30	45	48
5/31/2002	12	28	45	46	52	47
2/1/2002	4	15	17	23	33	29
1/29/2002	4	21	30	33	48	34
1/25/2002	9	23	29	32	45	30
12/8/2000	23	27	29	43	45	30
12/5/2000	4	8	30	46	48	1
12/1/2000	15	25	28	38	47	5

38/48
6/11/2002	5	6	9	33	44	52
6/8/2002	26	37	42	46	48	38
6/7/2002	14	22	27	28	42	13
6/5/2001	23	27	36	49	50	1
6/2/2001	10	17	26	45	48	38
6/1/2001	5	18	36	44	49	35
6/11/1999	5	7	13	17	43	12
6/9/1999	7	32	35	38	48	17
6/8/1999	18	31	45	48	49	15
48/30
8/9/2003	18	23	25	26	40	15
8/6/2003	11	14	26	31	48	30
8/2/2003	17	40	41	42	46	25
4/23/2003	14	15	23	31	51	34
4/19/2003	10	18	40	46	48	30
4/16/2003	4	25	39	41	50	31
3/29/2000	12	32	37	40	49	37
3/25/2000	6	30	43	45	48	32
3/22/2000	3	12	30	41	46	32
11/15/2002	6	17	44	49	51	39
11/12/2002	3	28	45	48	50	24
11/8/2002	17	19	37	47	48	14
8/11/2000	2	14	19	24	28	7
8/8/2000	23	32	38	48	50	20
8/4/2000	5	9	14	31	47	22
5/19/2000	16	24	37	38	40	26
5/16/2000	9	11	34	48	50	13
5/12/2000	12	27	28	40	40	25

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cabazon

Bulging motion cauldron cloud of stone
Patchy layer of brief life paint
Boils against the swirl of mist
Caresses swift changes of sky
And seasons

Sleepy knuckle on the skull of earth
What do you ponder?

Promontory above the sweeping distance
Falling, sliding into basin of the eons
This flea of life across the flash of moment
Longs to feel your numbness
To the march of time
Your wisdom of silence

From Poems of the New Old West
Copyright 2002, Jack Purcell