POLL: Is this a Quick Pick or not?

Reply #29

psykomo — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:46:54 GMT

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Reply #28

RJOh — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:55:59 GMT

In Ohio you don't have to win the jackpot to have your picture in the winner circle, MegaMillions winners of $250K have been featured.

Reply #27

tnlotto1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:16:18 GMT

if you wait 2-4 weeks before you claim then you have plenty of time to order the entire LP wardrobe but to be on the safe side if someone really thinks they are going to win(LOA) then they should order it now so they will already have it.

Reply #26

RJOh — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:06:38 GMT

I wonder who will be the first to wear a LP cap or t-shirt at a press conference.

Reply #25

tnlotto1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:33:39 GMT

ill say it a few times so even if they want to edit it out it will be harder and im sure ill make it on youtube saying it

Reply #24

KyMystikal — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:11:14 GMT

I will whenever I hit it big

Reply #23

four4me — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:29:05 GMT

based on what i and a number of people have already said i will add this.

when you go to the lottery terminal and buy quick picks / easy picks should you win the lottery with one of them the lottery will report that the game was won using a quick pick / easy pick

if you win the lottery using a separate RNG not a lottery terminal regardless of where the numbers came from the lottery will report that the ticket that won was based on numbers the person who won selected. Unless you specify to... [ More ]

Reply #22

Wintariofan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:28:42 GMT

I voted NO. I am looking at this from the lottery corporations' end of it. When you win, the lotttery corporations tell the media and in its prize payouts if it was a quick pick or player picked. Although you may mave filled out the selection slip from an RNG, in the lottery terminals eye you still picked your own numbers. The only good thing about that would be that if you don't like the numbers QP gave you, the RNG lets you do as many as you want until you get a combination that looks good... [ More ]

Reply #21

Todd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:14:27 GMT

I wonder who will be the first to mention LP in a press conference.

Reply #20

jarasan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:31:28 GMT

Here is the scenario:

You just hit Powerball for $88 million dollars, WOW! The winning numbers you played came from Lottery Post's RNG!

The news flash from PowerBall headquarters:

Joe Schmoe (PBall winner) had the winning ticket, he chose his own numbers.

We asked Joe: How did you choose your numbers?

Joe said: I used the LotteryPost.com random number generator.

Todd thinks: yeah baby!

Todd gets 20,000 new members!

Happy ending.

Reply #19

Guru101 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:01:40 GMT

A Quick Pick isn't defined as a set of numbers that were chosen from ANY RNG . We're talking about the lottery here. The term Quick Pick is a lottery term. A more appropriate definition would be a set of numbers that were randomly chosen from a lottery terminal(which has its own RNG) . When a person gets a Quick Pick from the lottery terminal, and they don't like the numbers, they still have to play those numbers. If they get it from another RNG before playing, they can decide whether or not... [ More ]

Reply #18

Coin Toss — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:07:34 GMT

Making an observation that there are more quick picks played than even the lottery reports isn't an attempt to confuse the facts .

Reply #17

RJOh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:50:53 GMT

The lotteries can only track combinations printed randomly using their terminals and the combinations printed using play slips and that's what they report. Players will alway try to confuse the facts with their own interpretations and that is one of the reason I always assume half of the stuff I read here is just someones opinion and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Reply #16

Coin Toss — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:31:13 GMT

So some folks here in this thread are saying that if we go to the left of the page where it says Quick Picks, use that to get numbers to play, and play them, that's not a Quick Pick?

In esssence, the Quick Pick is not a quick pick?

I'll go with Rick G's definition about random and random only, but consider that the lotteries tll us 70 top 80% of sales are QPs, and 70 to 80% of winners are QPs - I'm saying that it is even higher than that if you include all the tickets played using... [ More ]

Reply #15

KY Floyd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:29:48 GMT

Just relying on probability will almost certainly keep the lotteries safe.

If you flip a coin 10 times your sample is small enough that you could easily have a significant departure from the expected split of 50% heads and 50% tails. When you sell millions of tickets for a game with odds of 1 in 3 to 4 million for the 2nd place prize the probability of random results departing significantly are very small. When there are a lot of 2nd place winners it's generally because ticket sales were... [ More ]

Reply #14

KY Floyd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:20:36 GMT

It's obvious that you need to define quick pick in order to decide if a set of numbers generated in any particular fashion is a QP. AFAIC, quick pick is simply a general* term for a set of numbers that were generated randomly. If that's the case then it doesn't matter exactly how the numbers were generated, as long as the process is random. That it won't be listed in the lottery's database as a QP is completely beside the point. Their datbase can give them statistics on what percentage of ti... [ More ]

Reply #13

RJOh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:17:40 GMT

Under that definition almost every combination I play would be a QP even though I fill out play slips every time I play.

I know which numbers I want in my combinations and how I would like them distributed but there could be thousands of possible combinations so I use a computer program with an RNG to pick 10 or more lines to play because it's the fastest way to do it and still have a good mix of all the numbers.

Reply #12

Todd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:50:02 GMT

I would say anything that involves a RNG picking your numbers qualifies as a Quick Pick, whether it is at the store or on your computer (or anywhere else). It's a pretty broad term.

Of course, others would have a valid point if they disagreed. A Quick Pick could also be thought of as the very specific selection of numbers from the lottery machine.

Reply #11

Just6ntlc — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:44:20 GMT

Good question, but my vote is Quick Pick as usual.

Reply #10

RJOh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:21:30 GMT

When you take the time to fill out a play slip, you're controlling the numbers a terminal will print on your ticket regardless of how you came up with them and to me that is not a quick pick. Quick picks are the numbers a terminal prints randomly totally on its own and are usually noted as such on the ticket.

The only restrictions or filters a terminal printing QPs can have are those imposed by the game for example for a pick3 game there must be three numbers from 0-9 and they can be print... [ More ]

Reply #9

Stack47 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:21:00 GMT

therefore from the perspective of the game officials it is not a QP.

The state lotteries offer a choice, we can pick our own numbers or let their machines pick the numbers for us. So even if we used an identical RNG to pick our numbers, it would not be a QP.

Reply #8

jarasan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:08:35 GMT

If the ticket says QP, Easy Pick or whatever, printed on it by the issuing game lottery terminal is what makes it a QP. Any numbers you request on slip or otherwise will NOT print the letters to identify it as being deemed a QP on the ticket, therefore from the perspective of the game officials it is not a QP.

You can think in your mind whatever or however you got it. But what is printed on the ticket is what counts. IMHO.

So after you hit the jackpot you can tell the world you picked t... [ More ]

Reply #7

four4me — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:53:11 GMT

a quick pick is something you get at a lottery terminal. if you get numbers from anywhere other than a terminal fill out said slip then you played numbers from a different source.

when you fill out said play slip you made a determination to play some RNG numbers generated by an outside source not generated by the lotteries terminal.

You had a choice in the matter because you could keep the RNG's generated numbers or alter them.

When you buy a quick pick you have no say so in the matte... [ More ]

Reply #6

Stack47 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:27:28 GMT

I've always thought there had to be some type of filter to prevent a large number of duplicate tickets because of the fixed secondary prizes. If one state sold 100 duplicate $250,000 second prize winners in MM, they would have huge problem.

I pick and wheel my own numbers in our 5/39 game, but also know the drawing is random so the only advantage I have is if I happen to trap 3, 4, or 5 of the winning numbers. Todd's wheels have an RNG feature so I could use those numbers and do the same thin... [ More ]

Reply #5

tnlotto1 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:47:06 GMT

i voted i would call it a quick pick because when i used the gas station bathroom scale numbers i call it a quick pick and i wouldnt tell the lottery where i got the numbers from.

Reply #4

Coin Toss — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:52:52 GMT

Justxploring:

As I typed the above sentence, I saw Al Gore Rhythm. I'm sure I'm not the first person who thought of this (probably years behind) but it's 4:30 in the morning, so my brain is in overdrive. So maybe this is telling me Global Warming will have some effect on the Lottery and I should pick my numbers based on a series of random temperature readings.

And even at that, when you compare your numbers to those drawn, the drawing turns out to be a really inconvenient truth... [ More ]

Reply #3

Rick G — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:31:41 GMT

Stack,

Yes...I was once sold a QP for our 5/39 game:

32-33-34-35-36

So I don't think the QP's are filtered.

To answer Coin Toss' question, there's a fine line defining QP's. For example using an RNG to get your numbers but then filtering them for whatever reason kind of makes them not true QP's.

Here's a proposed definition of Quick Pick: A pick that uses randomness and nothing else.

Reply #2

justxploring — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:42:35 GMT

I checked good question because I really don't know. I think even numbers you pick off the top of your head or because you see a license or cash register receipt that looks good are quick picks, but that's too general a description. Numbers not based on some kind of system are random, right? Although when I think of quick picks from a terminal, I am assuming they were generated in some kind of random sequence using an algorithm.

As I typed the above sentence, I saw Al Gore Rhythm. I'm... [ More ]

Reply #1

Stack47 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:40:21 GMT

That depends if all the QPs are random. Have you ever had or seen a QP from a 6 number lotto that was 1-2-3-4-5-6 or 44-45-46-47-48-49?

It's possible there are filters that prevent combinations like that being sold as QPs. If that's true a lottery could filter out 1/3 of the combinations and cross their fingers the jackpot will roll.

POLL: Is this a Quick Pick or not?

Coin Toss — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:25:02 GMT

If you get your numbers from a RNG other than the lottery terminal, do you still consdier them a quick pick or not?

Whether they are from a Lucky Number weight scale at a truck stop, a Magic 8 Ball, a website (the quick pickes here at LP or another site), would you say they're QP's or not?

The lottery would not count them as such because you filled out the playslip and you marked the numbers, not QP on the slip, but are they really not a quick pick