Priorities

Reply #20

RJOh — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:41:42 GMT

Since the MegaMillions game started, 64.5% of the winning numbers haven't included a number from the previous drawing. Eliminating any numbers in your number pool is a gamble, but most players can't afford to cover what might happen 100% of the time. Playing the lotteries is just like any other type of gambling, the players try to give himself the best odds of winning based on his knowledge of the game.

Reply #19

JKING — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:34:30 GMT

It helps when you make a blanket statement, that you specify what game your talking about. Were your stats for Mega Millions or some other game?

The particulars of your system is up to you. The point is to try to work your system at the number level so that you can improve your results at the combination level. It works for me. I decided to share. If you opt to ignore it, that's fine to.

Guesser, your going going to be looking for a very long time before you see any more of my predi... [ More ]

Reply #18

guesser — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:53:09 GMT

JAG, you are absolutely correct, you cannot eliminate repeats from the last game, I have a ton of stats to prove it.

Now I will go over to the prediction thread and see what JKING has selected for tonight's drawing...

Reply #17

JKING — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:11:49 GMT

JAG,

Don't worry about it, you'll get what I'm saying somewhere down the road.

Best of luck

Reply #16

JAG331 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:27:49 GMT

I don't like to automatically eliminate numbers from the last draw, because sometimes they are drawn back-to-back. I look to see if it has happened recently...i.e. whether back-to-back draws are hot or cold.

Even/odd, high/low, these are ways of eliminating numbers. I think 'arrangements' is a way of 'eliminating numbers'...we're really talking about the same thing.

Reply #15

JKING — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:57:08 GMT

Thanks to everyone for your input.

While it is important to try to select the numbers that will hit, it is also important to eliminate those numbers that won't hit. Simple things like eliminating the numbers from the last draw or eliminating those numbers that haven't been picked in the last 20 games (for a Fantasy f5) are easy methods for reducing the field of numbers to pick from. Perhaps there are some ideas from someof you on the best way to eliminate numbers in a somewhat reliable way... [ More ]

Reply #14

dacman — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:16:09 GMT

RJOh said: Maybe the definition of a HOT numbers should change depending on the size of the numbers field.

Good point. The Cal Fan 5 has 16 HOT numbers today, almost half the field of 39. It frequently has 20. This site (http://www.lotto-logix.com/txthouse/winthelottery.html) has some interesting ideas on changing the HOT number definition.

Reply #13

Rip Snorter — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:51:51 GMT

What is the most important thing in coming up with a lottery system? I am of the opinion, that the first and highest priority is to be able to pick the correct Lottery numbers for the next draw. If you think of the lottery like a letter jumble game, where you create a winning word, the most important thing is to have the correct letters from the alphabet.

After reading through this thread it seems clear that priorities involving lottery play vary widely among players. Judging from the numbe... [ More ]

Reply #12

RJOh — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:38:55 GMT

I looked at the last 100 MegaMillions drawings (08/30/05 to 08/11/06) defining a HOT number as one that had hit 2 or more times in the previous 10 drawings and this is what I observed about the 500 numbers that hit.

During the previous 10 drawings of each drawing:

205 numbers hadn't hit at all

199 numbers had hit once

75 numbers had hit twice

20 numbers had hit three times

1 had hit four times

The winning 100 combinations had the following:

4 had 3 HOT numbers

22 had 2 HOT numbers... [ More ]

Reply #11

dacman — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:43:13 GMT

In the July 2006 history of the Cal Fan 5, there were 66 HOT numbers drawn, using '2 hits in the last ten draws' as the definition of a HOT number. The breakdown was:

0 HOT numbers---2 draws--------0%

1 HOT numbers---6 draws--------20%

2 HOT numbers---11 draws------40%

3 HOT numbers---10 draws------60%

4 HOT numbers--- 2 draws-------80%

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The above is a copy of my August 9 post on Hot Numbers. As you can see, there were 40%-80% of HOT numbers i... [ More ]

Reply #10

JKING — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:27:17 GMT

Hi,

Since there are several game types and different systems being used, I am only suggesting the following at this point:

For a Fantsy 5, Powerball, MegaMillion, Superlotto....., record your bets and count the amount of times you captured 1 number, two numbers,......to five numbers in each game. Survey 10 games and see how you did overall. Change something in your system and do the same thing over the next ten games. If your on the right track, the amount of times you capture higher a... [ More ]

Reply #9

RJOh — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:06:24 GMT

When you use a term like HOT numbers, you need to define it. By every definition I could come up with, HOT numbers aren't any more important then any other numbers, they usually account for only 35-40% of the numbers in a winning combinations.

Note - I'm talking about pick5/6 and jackpot style games only.

Reply #8

cps10 — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:46:11 GMT

Fernando

I think that Ricky's program is great and you can input your own filters although his program has lots of filters now. It has helped me a lot, in terms of the Statistical standpoint. I input a group of numbers and I can easily figure out their skip rates for any state. I would recommend it, especially for the beginning predictor.

Reply #7

dacman — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:26:46 GMT

JKING said: Therefore I would suggest that the posts here put more emphasis on ways to select correct numbers the highest percentage of the time.

I`ll start. (Pick 5\6 games) You need a fair amount of HOT numbers in your selections most of the time. Anybody else have something to add? Maybe we can come up with a useable Number Selection system that anyone can play.

Reply #6

EXCALIBUR — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:36:16 GMT

Future events can have a sort of flexible scale of some sort of being more or less likey to happen according to their past history, there might also be factors leading to such possible event.

There are a number of possiblle future probabilities.

And their more or less chance of happening.

Besides their chance of just happening they might also have a more or less likely chance of happening time limit.

Lottery prediction can lead to other kinds of predictions if a person wants to, the

Reply #5

EXCALIBUR — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:15:30 GMT

I don't make predictions very often at all, neither private nor public.

but not too long ago I got 5 of the winning numbers out of the 6 on about 80 combos, for TEXAS.

1 time straight and 4 times boxed, same number, but 5 ways out of the six possible.

That prediction has been my best of them all.

I used a few Texas' past draws and the FreeWheeler.

No other software was used and no filtering was done by hand either, just some of the FreeWheeler's filters.

The best software for f... [ More ]

Reply #4

EXCALIBUR — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:24:59 GMT

That is right, you can crack a particular state in time and with a lot of study and you have to keep on studing the draws as they come every day.

Better to stick with one state for this to work best.

Also, it would work best online as they pay more.

My predictions were better for Texas, the few times that I have predicted on the Pick 3 or Lottery Systems forums as Lantern and or Excalibur, because I spent more time looking at the patterns on those draws.

I am not a gambler, I don't p... [ More ]

Reply #3

lottolaughs — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:01:42 GMT

Much easier said than done, that's for sure! I am of the opinion that no one lottery system will work for every state. My research has told me this. What works in one will not work so well in another. That is why I give out many different systems . I have tons more but don't want to clog the boards. I stick to the ones that work time and time again in my state, CALIF. I try to give out the main idea but it's sort of up to anyone who is interested in that idea to go forward and test it on their... [ More ]

Reply #2

Raven62 — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:57:28 GMT

JKing,

Are you referring to Pick3/Pick4 Games or Jackpot Games

Reply #1

cps10 — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:48:02 GMT

Easier said than done, JKING. I think a lot of the arrangements are schemes to determine which 3 numbers are the best to play. If anyone could know which 3 are coming out, then there would be no need to be here, that's for sure.

Priorities

JKING — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:41:15 GMT

Hello,

What is the most important thing in coming up with a lottery system? I am of the opinion, that the first and highest priority is to be able to pick the correct Lottery numbers for the next draw. If you think of the lottery like a letter jumble game, where you create a winning word, the most important thing is to have the correct letters from the alphabet.

So, whatever system you have created, you should always mearsure/track the amount of correct numbers you chose for the ne... [ More ]