I posted predictions for this evening's NJ Pick 6 Lotto drawing (Thurs., 1/13/2005), using a wheel from Iliya Bluskov's book Combinatorial Lottery Systems Wheels with Guaranteed Wins.  (If you haven't yet seen this book, I highly recommend you take a look.)

I chose his system #36, which uses a set size of 15 numbers that I chose, and guarantees a 4-win if 5 numbers from my 15 are drawn.

Aside from this main guarantee, this wheel also guarantees at least five 3-wins if 4 of the numbers drawn are within my set of 15.

The wheel is pretty well balanced:

• 8 of the numbers appear 17 times
• 5 of the numbers appear 16 times
• 2 of the numbers appear 15 times

A full wheel using 15 numbers would have needed 5,005 tickets, but this system only requires only 41 tickets, making this a very affordable wheel providing great coverage.

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