Shouldn't a wheel generate non-overlapping numbers

Reply #5

Raven62 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:48 GMT

01 12 16 19 21 22 32 (7 numbers)

AA BB CC DD EE FF GG

01 12 21 22 32

AA BB EE FF GG

01 16 19 21 32

AA CC DD EE GG

01 12 16 19 20 21 22 31 32 (9 numbers)

AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II

01 12 21 22 32

AA BB FF GG JJ

01 16 19 20 31

AA CC DD EE HH

The more numbers You Wheel: Then You have more Combinations to Play.

Wheels are not Magic: They don't take losing numbers and turn them into Winning Combinations!

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Reply #4

RJOh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:32:41 GMT

A wheel will guarantee a certain size match if certain conditions are met and sometimes duplications of some combinations can't be avoided with that guaranteed. Download a copy of CoverMaster from Lotto-Logix and you can check or optimize a wheel if you think it has too many combinations.

Reply #3

jwhou — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:00:32 GMT

An example would be if you purchased two tickets with the numbers:

01 12 21 22 32

and

01 16 19 21 32

The two tickets would share the 3 number combination of 01 21 32 and the two number combinations of 01 21, 01 32, and 21 32. This means that purchasing these two tickets would give you 2 chances of hitting all five numbers, 10 chances of hitting four numbers, 19 chances of hitting three numbers and 17 chances of hitting two numbers whereas if you bought:

01 12 21 22 32

and

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Reply #2

Raven62 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:34:11 GMT

Have an example? Can't quite envision what is meant by the description given! Also what website are you talking about

Reply #1

time*treat — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:01:55 GMT

There's more than one way to spin a wheel.

Shouldn't a wheel generate non-overlapping numbers

jwhou — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:32:30 GMT

I came across a website with a wheel that generated 13 five number combinations from a user provided list of 25 and I noticed that several of the combinations shared two number combinations. Shouldn't a wheel generate combinations that do not share 2, 3 and 4 number combinations? That is, sharing a two number combination between two of the five number picks that you purchase only reduces your chances of getting a two number hit although it would increase the amount that you win should that two n... [ More ]