Three number matches

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jimmy4164 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:43:42 GMT

I missed this when you first posted it.

Are any of the 18,424 three number combinations doing any better than their compatriots?

It's an interesting run to make, but I'm thinking you won't be able to draw any conclusions

until it runs its course. Do you agree? Also, if you do uncover any anomalies it may be very

difficult or even impossible to speculate on what caused them. If my questions tell you I

misread your description above, please advise.

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Clipper — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:56:08 GMT

Boy that sure seems like a lot of work to come up with some numbers to play. I only go back 31 games to determine what to play.

Think when Lotto started in Texas we had a 6/50 game. Canada 6/49 wouldn't be much different then that so I figured the numbers play similar to what they do in the 6/50. If that is the case you can eliminate up to 25 of the numbers each time and sometimes more if you watch what does/does not play from game to game.

I know too many people that track that think sinc... [ More ]

Three number matches

jwhou — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:57:48 GMT

OK, this is on the Canadian Lotto 6/49 because there's a lot of historical data, it goes back to 1982 and for the time being I'm in Canada rather than Texas.

The minimum that you have to match in the 6/49 is three numbers so I took all 2,734 draws and parsed them into the three number combinations from each draw then I have a script running through all 13.98 million combinations scoring them on how many three number matches they would've had, if the combination was one that matched all six n... [ More ]