Why they call it Scientific Games?

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time*treat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:46:34 GMT

Games like p3 p4 are difficult precisely because the total combination base is so small. The most recent numbers in the past one or two drawings cannot be just tossed out, like (sometimes) in jackpot games, because one number or another of them is always showing back up. Not knowing which one to keep drives up the combination count.

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RJOh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:17:04 GMT

Using science to to calculate odds and payout amounts to show a profit also includes setting payout amounts such that covering enough combinations to likely beat the odds doesn't pay either.

If it could be done, it would have been done already with the pick3 games. There's only a thousand possible combinations and if you're boxing the combinations there's only 220. With present payout amounts in most states covering 50% of the possible combinations and winning is a break even point, for s... [ More ]

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LANTERN — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:43:39 GMT

Yes, that is right, but even more, I think that there is everything scientific about lottery games, not just about the structure or make-up of the games and their odds either way, but also about the players increasing their odds of winning.

I didn't say About Winning , but About increasing to some degree the odds of winning .

I don't say that it is possible to win on all games and or all all the time on some or a few, but it should be possible for people to increase their odds of winning... [ More ]

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RJOh — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:11:51 GMT

People who run lotteries know there's a science to doing it so they show a profit, they don't come up with odds and payout amounts by trial and error.

Why they call it Scientific Games?

pumpi76 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:49:36 GMT

Yeah why do they call it Scientific Games? There is nothing scientific about the lottery...

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