Can lottery numbers be predicted?

Reply #22

pumpi76 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:02:33 GMT

are you that Indian dude from India on the internet who claims he has pin pointed the lottery numbers of major world lotteries? Because there is one guy on the internet from India, they even have his picture claiming he has won several world lotteries....Is that you? They even have a picture of him...I saw him while browsing for lottery/lotto secrets on the internet...

I notice your avatar is the same one a member that was here at lp earlier this year saying he was from China, i think it was

Reply #21

Amazing Grace — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:56:04 GMT

Mon, Sep 15, 2008 3-6-9

Reply #20

Amazing Grace — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:54:54 GMT

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heres the v-sum 11s i get looking for a match above

247,297,742,747,797

634,639,684,689, 733,738,,788

297 is a match

747 is a match

369 is a match

468 is a match

Reply #19

guesser — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:25:28 GMT

You need more research.

A 4x5 pays $100, not $10,000.

A 4x5 PLUS the PB pays $10,000... I have not hit that.

Reply #18

time*treat — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:30:16 GMT

I would say that with JP games there are so many possibilities to begin with that any given win can be attributed to almost anything. People have won with birthdays ages, paper patterns, fortune cookie numbers, letting their cat play with the lotto pen, letting the terminal pick the numbers, and even making a 'mistake' on their regular set of numbers.

Nothing is certain until after the drawing.

Reply #17

Jimhowlett — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:11:03 GMT

$110,000 in one year is not bad at all. But you're right: things have a way of evening out.

Reply #16

guesser — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:14:13 GMT

This is just the law of averages - you are doing better than most, and some do worse than most.

And, your time will come where the law of averages will start going against you, just as it did me:

in 2006, I got 4x5 White balls eleven (11) times, in 2007 only twice, and in 2008, none so far.

Reply #15

Lotto*Love — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:38:04 GMT

Ok, so...this is really upsetting me. The idea of predicting numbers based on either their due to hit or the numbers came to me etc. etc. etc. I'm wondering if to an extent, something deep down inside is trying to tell me something, or is horribly teasing me.

I've heard before of those who thought of numbers, but didn't play them and the damn numbers came up. Thus wanting to kick themselves. Or when they actually play the numbers, they either get NO numbers right, or are only one number away... [ More ]

Reply #14

Guru101 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:58:50 GMT

How are you going to see/prove those results?

You don't have to prove to others your system works. That's the beauty of it. It's the lottery. You only have to prove to yourself that it's working because you're the one who will be walking away with the money.

Reply #13

Jimhowlett — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:42:22 GMT

Damn Steve, you've been all over the world...you said at the beginning all you did was turn twelve pages of the calendar seeing 30 and 31 numbers on 12 pages...it seems significant...

And kidnapped...Jesus...from Mumbai no other...all the way here (for a reason I can't make out btw). Must have been rough. At least you got back.

But this is why we're here, I suppose, to help each other. Like Dr Phil if you want to put it that way. I said it before: I'm here to learn from others, but also to... [ More ]

Reply #12

skypekaitas6 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:45:04 GMT

Well thousands of apples fell and no one thought of gravity, but when it fell on newtons head, he was thrashed by his mum bitterly ... i from the age of 4 my mum says i did nothing but turning the 12 pages of a calender for 2 years, and this all this child wanted to do, however after two years of day and night seeing 30 numbers and 31 numbers on the 12 pages of a calender i am in Bombay India, I under the age of 7 I was kidnapped into USA by my neighbours in Bombay half of them settled in the US... [ More ]

Reply #11

bobby623 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:42:21 GMT

Playing the lottery is my main form of entertainment. But, I can't spend $100 a day like some of the LP folks say they do. My pockets are shallow!

It would be easy to be one of the $1 and a phone number pool players, but no fun in that.

I could buy quick picks, but, that wouldn't be fun, either. Just a lot of frustration.

I've always keep lottery statistics. Wasted lot of time in the early days because I didn't know what I was doing.

Well, one day I came up with a strategy, called G... [ More ]

Reply #10

Lotto*Love — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:14:43 GMT

Predicting numbers? Well....myself...I choose to think if one thinks this number will hit, or that mega ball will hit based on being due is just maybe strange luck mixed with alittle prediction from yourself. They can sometimes pay off. What if you were writing down your choices on the self pick sheet , your just about to fill in the 5 something tells you 8...pick 8! Predictions? Inner voice? Your deceased great aunt Violet telling you the numbers? Who knows. I want to believe its just a coincid... [ More ]

Reply #9

Jimhowlett — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:45:46 GMT

Agreed. Playing MegaMillions, I hit 3+1 every 30 drawings or so...and 2+1, 1+1 and 0+1 quite a bit more often. My problem remainst the 3+1 threshold . I can't just seem to ever hit over that. I've been playing for three years and regularly (i.e. every drawing) for well over a year. Still working on it...

Reply #8

grengrad — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:07:54 GMT

I guess that is a matter of opinion depending on what you consider satisfactory proof.

I have far exceeded the predicted win rate for the last 2 years in Powerball. I seem to do very very well with white balls, and normal with the powerball. 2 years may seem like a lot to a person, but in the grand scheme of things, when dealing with such vast odds, it does not prove anything from a hard statistics perspective.

Reply #7

Stack47 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:20:34 GMT

In Ohio they have signs saying Mega Millions tickets cannot be canceled, but I have no idea what happens if a player refuses to take them. If Virginia has the same rule, the clerk made a mistake in printing another 5 tickets because the lady could have refused them too and asked for a third set. Some stores know other players will purchase that ticket and simply print another ticket and other stores might refuse to print her another ticket until they sell the first one.

Reply #6

FiLUK — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:33:58 GMT

No they can't, even with my time machine.

I hopped into my time machine when one week into the future wrote down the winning lotto numbers when't back to present day to play those numbers but the winning result was different.

Somthing must of changed, maby the draw was taken a nano second earlier or later and changed the results.

Reply #5

kjs703 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:47:22 GMT

Here is a quick story about a prediction for last night's drawing. (and if I hadn't already trashed the ticket - I would scan it to show it)

Last night while fueling, I decided to purchase a five dollar quick pick ....

I entered the store and the poor clerk was being screamed at by an older lady, saying she wanted another ticket cause they (the store?) had produced a ticket that could not possibly win. The clerk ran another five dollar ticket for her and she stormed out. I told the clerk I... [ More ]

Reply #4

RJOh — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:16:17 GMT

It's not hard to prove to yourself that your system is giving you an advantage.

When your system pick a certain amount of lines to play, pick an equal amount of lines using a RNG like the one here at LP. If after several times of doing this your system doesn't do better than the RNG, then it's obvious your system isn't giving you an advantage.

I would want to do this for 10-20 drawings before coming to a final conclusion.

Reply #3

grengrad — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:28:31 GMT

I don't think this question can be answered with certainty.

Lets say you have a system that is 10% more likely to win than someone with no system.

How are you going to see/prove those results?

It would take millions of drawings to prove the system was winning more than normal.

I only play jackpot games. I have won more money from the lotty than I have lost. Does that mean I have a working system, or does that mean I am a statistical anomaly?

Even if my system was two or three... [ More ]

Reply #2

RJOh — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:48:06 GMT

Players predict lottery numbers all the time and odds are they are wrong most of those times. I do think strategies can be developed that improve the odds of one being right because all lotteries have fixed amounts of possible outcomes and winning combinations seldom repeat.

With jackpot games, it's unlikely a player would ever spend as much in a life time as he could win if he was right and won a jackpot one time so it just make sense if one is going to play to develop a strategy for pickin... [ More ]

Reply #1

four4me — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:33:04 GMT

Since the odds are stacked in the lottery's favor lots of people go to great lengths to try and predict the out come of a drawing. Pick 3 and 4 drawings have some variables that make it possible to come up with a group of numbers that might win.

Pick 5 and 6 games while considerably harder to predict the numbers that might win present a challenge to many folks who think that they have devised a system that just might make a win possible.

Wheeling certain numbers just might win a jackpot ga... [ More ]

Can lottery numbers be predicted?

Jimhowlett — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:24:31 GMT

To a degree at all?

The reason I ask is because it came up the other day on here.

If it cannot be predicted, what is the point in websites such as these, if winning the lottery is 100% luck and not based on careful observation and analysis?

I still believe that, fundamentally, one may be able to predict what numbers will be drawn, but never with 100% certainty. But to some extent by analyzing patterns and tracking drawing picks one may approach (but never actually hit) the holy grail of... [ More ]