Lightning Bolt 99 - How To Update Database

Reply #25

winsumloosesum — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:16:57 GMT

I wish I still had that book also.

I'm also looking for LottoPro book from 1987 lol

Reply #24

inittowin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:38:19 GMT

Hey Winsum-

Wow! What a blast from the past!

I do remember that it only worked off of the last 40 draws. I know that I have the book that accompanied the software and it explained somewhat of what each of the strategies tried to accomplish. But, I would have to find it.

The software was created by Dean Salisbury. I wonder if it would operate in Windows 7 64 bit. I have my doubts.

Good to see you posting again Winsum

Reply #23

winsumloosesum — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:18:00 GMT

Sage thanks for your information. Keep this in mind.

I also wanted to ask if anyone knows how each strategy is calculated to arrive at the combinations

Reply #22

Sage — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:21:17 GMT

Most of your hits are going to come from Strategies 1 and 2. Your straights mainly come from strategy 6. Doubles mainly come from strategies 7 and 8. Winsumloosesome Great Job! Lightning bolt really looks at the last 40 draws so anything past 40 other than strategy 4 you only need the last 40 draws to get accurate combos to play! Hope this helps

Reply #21

flossdog — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:08:35 GMT

I used to own the program, but when I moved, I can't find it. Don't remember if it came on a CD or floppy. Results were so-so. Nothing spectacular and too many combos to play.

Reply #20

Laterne — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:30:32 GMT

For the pick 3 game and:

Strategy #1 needs to work 40 or more past draws, so at least 40.

# 2 needs at least 40.

# 3 At least 2 past draws.

# 4 Needs 60 or more.

# 5 Needs 40 or more.

# 6 Needs 3 or more.

# 7 Needs at least 40.

#8 Needs at least 40.

#9 Needs at least 40.

#10 Needs at least 40.

So based on that 200 to 300 past draws should be enough if you also want to check the ranking, otherwise maybe 100 would do.

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For the pick 4 game

Reply #19

winsumloosesum — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:17 GMT

That is the same thing I found. I searched all over for tips using OpenOffice. I figured it was FREE and wanted to use OpenOffice Base and OpenOffice Calc to create the .db (database) files for Lightning Bolt.

Reply #18

Laterne — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:08:02 GMT

I could not find anything From to.db, only .db to - Whatever.

Reply #17

retxx — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:59:48 GMT

here we go again I hate this. When I opened it all the tabs were read only. How go i unlock it? thanks

Reply #16

retxx — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:43:59 GMT

would like the database for Mass pic 4 please thanks

Reply #15

paradisenow — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:41:42 GMT

thanks I will try it

Reply #14

merdis salley — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:32:09 GMT

I still have the file was given to me years ago. I just update my self using 60 past draws,still one of the best .

Reply #13

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:36:37 GMT

Well have to go now.

GoodNight EveryBody

Reply #12

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:34:55 GMT

I don't know, but maybe ABC Amber Paradox Conveter

Reply #11

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:27:48 GMT

Strategy # 8

200 X 8 = $1,616 spent

6 Straight wins = $500 X 6 = $3, 000

$1,384 Profit

Reply #10

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:23:46 GMT

For example 202 games-past draws checked

Strategy # 1, 71 bets X 202 = $14, 342 spent

19 Straight wins x 500 = $9, 500 won.

$14, 342 - $9,500 = $4,842 Lost

Reply #9

winsumloosesum — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:20:41 GMT

I tried OpenOffice Base but it will not export the Table to the correct .db (database). Matter of fact, OO Base will not even export a table at all. I tried Google search with the same question. Access 2010 no longer supports Paradox from what I read.

Maybe someone here at LP might suggest a FREE text to paradox (.db) program to use. I found a program called Data Quick 6.6 but it is buggy .

Reply #8

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:17:54 GMT

If you filter any of the numbers on a bet a person might not get the wins that are shown on the ranking.

Reply #7

paradisenow — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:14:35 GMT

Hi

I have Access 2010 .... so can I use open office Access instead... would that help?? what do you suggest

Reply #6

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:13:28 GMT

It might do better with some states than with others and also at times for a particular state might do better or worse than at other times, that is it might not always do the same.

Reply #5

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:06:51 GMT

Yes, I am looking at the program right now.

Ranking shows the 10 strategies

It shows how many bets each produces and how many box and straight wins each made backtesting

on a past range of draws.

While # 1 and 2 seems to produce more box and straight wins, they also produce more bets.

A person perhaps should only look at the straight wins and forget about the boxed wins.

This way you could perhaps try strategy # 8 or some other one instead of # 1 or # 2.

Reply #4

winsumloosesum — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:52:18 GMT

Reply #3

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:39:08 GMT

The program itself has an option for doing some back-testing on the ways that it makes predictions and it shows how it would do with each of them.

Reply #2

winsumloosesum — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:34:16 GMT

Thanks Laterne.

At least with the Excel file and Access I can back test easier by using a range of draws.

Maybe use a range 126 past draws for example. So in cell D4 I would enter 21 and E4 = 146.

Then create a new textfile and database. Or just delete 20 draws from LTB99.

At least now it won't be time consuming entering each drawing 1 at a time when you have a slew of drawings to update.

Reply #1

Laterne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:21:10 GMT

I don't remember how many past draws it uses.

When I tried it long ago, it didn't seem to be that good at making predictions, but maybe I didn't keep on trying it long enough to see if it would make a profit or not, in the short run it didn't predict good enough for me back then.

I only tried the pick 3 portion of it.

It does give some stats, I don't remember much about them.

Lightning Bolt 99 - How To Update Database

winsumloosesum — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:06:57 GMT

I figured out a way to quicky update any Pick 3 or Pick 4 database for an old program called Lightning Bolt 99. I beleive the software goes back to 1999. Not sure when it became abandonware . None of the update links work anymore.

I created 2 Excel files using Excel 2002. One for Pick 3 and one for Pick 4.

Here are the download links to the zip files:

Pick 3 Excel file download

http://www.box.com/s/moom12lxyuft7xyunhgo

Pick 4 Excel file download

http://www.box.com/s/zh9nk9ziobg... [ More ]