Study Proves Number Bias in UK Lottery

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ayenowitall — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:02:10 GMT

Good question, RJOh. From my own experience with PowerBall, I can say that they've helped me to cash quite a few tickets on the secondary prizes. I don't think focusing on any single factor or trend will likely produce a jackpot winning combination, but it might get us closer to the big one. Of course, close is only good enough in horseshoes and hand grenades. We still have to rely on other skills as well as plain ole luck if we want to take down the top prize.Good luck,aye

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RJOh — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:05:46 GMT

Since their last matrix change, MegaMillion has had balls hit 17-41 times and PowerBall 12-35, but has such differences in the frequencies of numbers given anyone and a winning edge in either game? RJOh

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st.germain — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:13:04 GMT

How about an independent study here in Illinois. Or anywhere else in the U.S .of A.

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ayenowitall — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:26:42 GMT

Advantage players. These apparent periodic departures from perfect randomness (whatever that is) are exactly the sorts of things that allow us to predict lottery draw numbers. Randomness and statistical averages are concepts which are approximated and approached over time, but they are rarely perfectly exemplified in any given draw or in the short run of an ongoing series of draws. The 38 ball coming into line is a perfect example of that. Of course, 38 does reduce to 11 which is a very powerful... [ More ]

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BobP — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:31:25 GMT

Wonder if they bothered to take into account when the ballsets were last destroyed and replaced with new? That could account for the 38 ball(s) ending the winning streak. BobP

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JimmySand9 — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:43:01 GMT

Don't take this report the wrong way. Ball machines are the most random way of drawing numbers available.

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Maverick — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:24:12 GMT

>> Today the 38 continues to be the luckiest ball - drawn 144 times. However, the number of times it has been drawn since the report was completed is now in line with what statisticians would expect.

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JAP69 — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:43:23 GMT

Right here at Lottery Post patterns are pointed out and discussed all the time.

Study Proves Number Bias in UK Lottery

Lottery Post — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:00:07 GMT

When you next select your lottery numbers, be sure to pick 38. That is the conclusion of a previously unpublished report by the National Lottery Commission, which unearthed a series of statistical anomalies that, taken at face value, suggest the lottery might not be as random as was previously thought.Completed in early 2002, the nine-page document entitled 'The Randomness of the National Lottery' was meant to offer irrefutable proof that it was random. But the statisticians who produced the rep... [ More ]