Results for March 13 and 14, 2012

Comment #5

mediabrat — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:05:05 GMT

I'm not doing anything special with my numbers. It's been suggested that I try wheels and other advanced concepts; while I'm reluctant to change the parameters of the initial project, I will probably tackle these ideas in a side project.

Comment #4

LottoBoner — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:59:59 GMT

maybe instead of one wheel you should make perhaps three different wheels totaling 75,000 combinations

Comment #3

BlueDuck — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:55:46 GMT

Looking forward to future updates.

Comment #2

mediabrat — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:24:52 GMT

I wrote my own program which has both an RNG and a results checker. I feed it how many numbers I want (either 5 for the white balls or 1 for the Megaball/Powerball) and the range (1 to 56/59), put that through a loop, make sure I don't have any duplicate lines (seems to happen about 2,000 times when generating 175,000 lines, which isn't bad), and I stop when I get up to 175,000. All of that gets dumped out to a text file. When I want to check my numbers against the drawn numbers, I read that file back in to the routine that compares the numbers and tells me how many matches I have.... [ More ]

Comment #1

truecritic — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:29:22 GMT

<br />Just a specially designed RNG? Todd's RNG? Some other method?<br /><br />I always enjoy seeing various lottery/gambling simulations. Glad you started this project.

Original Blog Entry: Results for March 13 and 14, 2012

mediabrat — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:52:09 GMT

The winning Mega Millions numbers for March 13 were 2-8-30-36-48 with Mega Ball 31. Nobody won the $171 million jackpot.

... and neither did we. Our simulation got over 4,500 winners worth almost $19,000. That's 2.6% of our 175,000 lines played and a return of 10.852%.

Here's the full breakdown:

MATCH WINNERS TOTAL PRIZES

5+1 0 $0

5+0 0 $0

4+1 0 $0

4+0 11 $1,650

3+1 15 $2,250

3+0 612 $4,284

2+1 214 $2,140

1+1 1269 $3,807

0+1 2430 $4,860

TOTALS 4551 $18,991

The winning Powerball numbers for March 14 were 1-8-41-46-59 with a Powerball of 24. Nobody won the $50 million jackpot, including us. We did, however, come away with over $23,500 spread over almost 5,350 winning tickets. In terms of percentages, that's about 3.1% of the lines played and a return of about 6.72% of the $350,000 spent on those lines.

Here's the full breakdown:

MATCH WINNERS TOTAL PRIZES

5+1 0 $0

5+0 0 $0

4+1 0 $0

4+0 1 $100

3+1 10 $1,000

3+0 206 $1,442

2+1 149 $1,043

1+1 1396 $5,584

0+1 3587 $14,348

TOTALS 5349 $23,517

** I did mention in my introductory post that I wasn't going to be posting the numbers files for space reasons (the files themselves are 3 MB each, and pasting the numbers directly into the blog would be insane), but if anyone wants to review them, just let me know and I'll send them over.

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