Combinations

Reply #3

Ramijami — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:22:53 GMT

Thanks winlotta and KY Floyd for responding.

KY Floyd, I am familiar with the odds as BobP is pretty clear that those are just odds and that ultimately it all comes down to the 13 million odd combinations. I am looking to play around with the sets of numbers to see if and how I can select the set (of for eg. 24 numbers) containing the 6 winning numbers. The way I figure is that it should be easier to select 1 from 103+ (in the case of 24 number sets/combinations) than it is to select 1 fro... [ More ]

Reply #2

KY Floyd — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:39:19 GMT

He's only describing odds, which in the case of 18 numbers is 1 in 753.28, period. There are no combinations to have.

For a 6/49 game there are 13,983,816 possible combinations to choose from using all 49 numbers. If you pre-choose 18 numbers and make all of your choices from those 18 numbers there will be 18,564 combinations you can choose from. Those 18,564 combinations are 1/753.28 of the 13,983,816 combinations possible with all 49 numbers. The chances that all 6 winnning numbers will be... [ More ]

Reply #1

Winlotta — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:24:02 GMT

Send BobP a personal message and ask him.

Combinations

Ramijami — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:02:35 GMT

Hi All,

In BobP's book he gives the odds of having the winning numbers amongst a reduced field. So for example in a 6/49 game the odds of having all the numbers in a reduced field of 18 is 1 in 753.28 combinations, for 21 it is 257.70 and for 24 it is 103.89. Does anybody have these combinations, is there a website where I can get it, or is there any software that can generate these? I've tried to use LottoDesignerXL but it doesnt' generate 24 number combinations, and with the lower number... [ More ]