Pick-5, pick-6 games number selection help

Reply #11

Fortuna — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:15:23 GMT

Garyo,

thanks for sharing the spreadsheet. I will try to add some of your stats to the web page.

Hopefully we can devise a game plan.

Fortuna

Reply #10

garyo1954 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:52:39 GMT

Here's a Texas Cash 5 Excel spreadsheet that might give you some ideas. This is based on the ideas RL was posting in that thread. It is barebones, no annotations. Just pulled out the program and started back on the concept yesterday. I've never played Cash 5, seldom play the Texas Lottery, and was just thinking, I've never even bought a Powerball ticket. Lame, huh?

http://www.box.net/shared/p3y3xb49vd

Be my guest, download it. Nothing fancy. Normally what I do is take a CVS file like thi... [ More ]

Reply #9

Fortuna — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:57:27 GMT

garyo and Lantern,

I had followed with interest RL's posts. That is what prompted the jackpot page.

The filtering I have included in the progam, even if not complete yet, generates a set of numbers that frequently contains the winning numbers.

Trying to generate a reasonable number of lines and deciding when to play is the hard part.

The back-testing allows me to have realistic expectations.

I will keep adding tools to my arsenal, time permitting.

Fortuna

Reply #8

garyo1954 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:43:09 GMT

Thank you for bringing this post back to mind Lantern! I spent the day going over all 46 pages trying to reassemble the ideas laid out.

RL did an amazing job of designing, and laying out, a very workable system. It's unfortunate that thread ended but reading it again jolted the brain which caused a chain reaction of searching for old files.

Fortuna, to your original question, filtering can be done in many ways. Even/Odd, High/Low, consecutive numbers, sum totals, last digit filters, repea... [ More ]

Reply #7

LANTERN — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:59:48 GMT

I have been thinking:

First, you are the only one that knows how you get the 19 to 20 numbers.

Then you said that in about 135 draws for the pick 5, 2 jackpot wins might be expected.

Any filters that people might use on the combinations produced by the 19 to 20 numbers would very likely void the 2 possible wins every 135 draws.

As on First above you would be the only one that might know which new filters might not void the 2 out of 135, if any filters at all won't void it.

This is... [ More ]

Reply #6

LANTERN — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:28:12 GMT

Well there are ideas, but I have no way of telling how good or bad they might be as I can not code workouts myself, but as you can see in posts such as this:

https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/214856/1663530

You can try to apply what you know about Daily games to jackpot kind of games.

Jackpot kind of games have way too many combinations, no reduction seems to be enough as maybe there might always be too many combinations left.

A Coder or programer can try very many things and in thi... [ More ]

Reply #5

Fortuna — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:09:25 GMT

Lantern,

you are absolutely right. I am trying to develop a strategy that applies to pick-5 and pick-6 games.

Pick-7 is a bonus (I had a request from Sweden to include pick-7 games).

Pick-5 is the easiest to find a matching set.

As you can see from the Match in set table, you can frequently match 5 numbers is a set of 19-20.

For clarification, the first row indicates the possible matches: 1 number, 2 numbers, 3, .... up to 7 for a pick-same game.

The second row indicates how m... [ More ]

Reply #4

LANTERN — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:39:41 GMT

Fortuna

Probably does not just wants this done for 1 state in particular, so just make an example for anyone of the many possible states so just gets the idea thru.

It is already known by many that the middle sums is where most of the combinations are at, but also because of that, little reducing comes out by not playing lower and higher sums.

Also take into account that it is possible that things (Patterns) that should not often happen, might.

Reply #3

CajunWin4 — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:41:05 GMT

With out knowing the state , I can not give you the sum total range to give you the best coverage. Plus you need to eliminate at sets with 4 odd and 1 even and 4 even and 1 odd sets.

Reply #2

Fortuna — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:20:17 GMT

All I can say is that I live in a state with a small pool of numbers.

http://lafortuna.info/calculator/Jackpot.aspx

Reply #1

CajunWin4 — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:48:29 GMT

What is your'e state ? To reduce the range of number sets you must use the sum totals.......

Pick-5, pick-6 games number selection help

Fortuna — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:29:24 GMT

I have done some backtesting for pick-5, pick-6 games.

I can reduce the numbers to play to 19-20.

In 135 draws, for pick-5 I get 2 jackpot hit, for pick-6 I get 1 jackpot hit.

How can I reduce further the set of numbers to play, so I do not break the bank?

Thanks,

Fortuna