Had to tweak the spreadsheets to do a frequency count to know which of the 120 permutations has the highest overall value of hits per digit in place, as that is how the straight combo is picked. So it totals them all and then displays a MAX value of the set to highlight the highest valued combo. A little conditional formatting makes it even quicker to spot.

Pick generation...

1. Run the python script that counts both straight and permutation hits.

2. Open the csv file that holds the numbers, the count of straight hits and the count of permutation hits. Use sorting to first sort by the boxed hits, then by the straight hits. The first number appearing within the results that has 5 unique digits is the pick for the week

3. Pop the pick into the spreadsheet to both validate the program results and to find the highest scoring permutation based on per column frequency

That then becomes the pick for the week, one for mid day pick 5 and one for evening pick 5.

Play each game (mid and eve) with it's resultant pick $1 straight and $1 boxed for 7 days (the limit of advanced daily game bets on the PA self serve kiosks)

The next big thing? Doubtful... but it is a starting point. Why not just focus on the pick 3? Because the pick 5 is the goal! Anything learned during this experiment series can be directly applied to the pick 3 later...

At $28 per week I will probably not go on long with zero results, so here is hoping this system catches an early hit... day one was not so lucky, 2 numbers in the mid day and 3 in the evening, but hey, it wasn't zero!

There are not high hopes because the event of 5 unique digits only covers a little over 30% of the possible outcomes. I do think that this is the cheapest way possible to have a proper go at it though.