Backward engineering a winning pick.

Reply #23

SergeM — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:32:05 GMT

If you play 6/49 and 1 of 10 combinations came close with 5/6, for that line alone there were other 258 possibilities. For ten lines it is around ten times that much. 2580 others plus your 10 is 2590 combinations to be sure to get the 6 on one line. If you had that once in a year, with 52 games, you would have to invest C2590*$52, or $134680. With two drawings in a week it is $269360.

How close did you get that day? 1:2590

I wish you good luck with your approach.

Reply #22

SergeM — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:20:14 GMT

I had 5/6 with the complimentary in the same pool of numbers, scoring 5 in one line long ago, but it was not reverse engineering.

For Mega Millions I have doubts that a program does better than a good gambler guessing his numbers to play.

Reply #21

Stack47 — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:41:52 GMT

Every combination will eventually be drawn, but because the jackpot games have a large amount of combos, the odds are we won't see it in our life times. Getting 5 out of 13 to 18 on a 5/39 game is doable, but the cost of guaranteeing matching all 5 is pretty high.

If anything, I'd try to reverse engineer a winning circumstance like RJ's 5 out of 6. I matched 5 out of 6 several years ago in a 6/44 game by drawing all 44 numbers from a hat and putting them into combinations of 6. Probably just... [ More ]

Reply #20

LottoBoner — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:29:28 GMT

You are correct. I have come to the conclusion that sophisticated pattern finders are not really compelled to display their findings publicly on LP. (although the ego will challenge those conclusions at times)

How to pick the numbers is a matter logic and intuition. (And intuition is just logic too extreme and expansive for the human brain to calculate on paper, thats why intuition alwasy occurs in flashes, akin to the speed of light some might say)

And so for lottery players, Ye who has

Reply #19

SergeM — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:16:22 GMT

For backwards engineering, what patterns are you checking precisely

Reply #18

NightStalker — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:53:41 GMT

Sorry, I missed this post.

Do you have it in excel? That's what I have been using. I believe I have all the drawings since Jan. 22, 2007. But nothing from the old Super Lotto Plus. What was that matrix

Reply #17

BobP — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:55:56 GMT

If you're generating lines from a reduced number field and then playing every tenth line or something like that. I would suggest checking all the numbers are in play among those reduced lines and if not take the insurance of making up one more line that includes those missing numbers.

BobP

If your budget doesn't work for you, fire that budget and get one that does.

Reply #16

RJOh — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:32:24 GMT

For last night's drawing I couldn't get my system to work with 75 numbers since 8 of the new ones hadn't hit yet so I brought some AP(auto picks) just to be in the game. I should have saved my money and worked on getting my system to work instead. Hopefully I'll have something figured out for Friday.

Reply #15

Stack47 — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:42:16 GMT

With 5/39 and larger matrix games, reverse engineering will give large groups of combos. Most of the past winners had one to four even numbers and one to four low numbers. People use lots of methods for statistical analysis, but it usually shows the results are pretty close to probability. Past history shows some numbers were drawn a lot more than others, but for future play, the trick is knowing which numbers.

The MM jackpot is $400 million and I'm making a prediction; the majority of conver... [ More ]

Reply #14

LottoBoner — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:24:30 GMT

I think it might be better to forward engineer a winning pick as I cant wager for yesterdays game.

Reply #13

RJOh — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:23:02 GMT

I have the complete history of Ohio's Classic Lotto which include 1064 drawings and the complete history of the old Super Lotto Plus too.

Reply #12

RJOh — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:26:24 GMT

A quick pick is just not my style but if it works for you, good luck.

Reply #11

veganlife125 — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:15:53 GMT

Right On.

Reply #10

Uluska — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:14:31 GMT

In quick pick no one ever wins. Avoid.

Reply #9

RJOh — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:01:06 GMT

I only tried that for last night's drawing and it failed. My observations were for what could have happened had I been doing that from the beginning. I usually only play 10 lines or so, so wheeling is not possible with so many numbers. From now on I'll be picking 10 lines the way I usually did before last night.

Reply #8

NightStalker — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:41:23 GMT

If I understand you correctly, you are using the all the numbers that have been drawn within the last 9 draws.

I have been tracking numbers used within the last 10 draws for about the last 2 years. There have only been 46 times in that time frame (309 draws) that all six numbers drawn were from the less than 10 draws out.

How are you picking your lines from these numbers? Wheel

Reply #7

RJOh — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:28:23 GMT

Actually using the last 8 drawings would get even better at 6/38. I looked back at all 1063 drawings and had I done something like that from the beginning I would have been playing with a pool of 25-38 numbers and 70 of those times all six winning numbers would have been in the pool and 252 of those times would have included only five of the winning numbers.

Although last night try was a failure, it could lead to a whole new strategy for picking combinations to play in the future.

Reply #6

cash4ninja — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:08:01 GMT

Just buy a quik pic.

Reply #5

TooTallLuke — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:56:26 GMT

Interesting idea, I'll have to play around with it and maybe give it a try.

Reply #4

RJOh — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 05:27:37 GMT

I was talking about Ohio's Classic Lotto(6/49) which the previous 10 drawings for tonight's drawing contain the same 38 numbers that were in the previous 9 drawings before Monday's drawings. If you checked the predictions I posted for tonight's drawing then you know it didn't work. The best I did was a match2 and the combinations I rejected didn't do any better either.

Reply #3

SergeM — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:14:18 GMT

I am working out patterns, but don't have the time to program all of the ideas. It would take several days to finish it and I am busy with more important.

Reply #2

Stack47 — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:08:10 GMT

The numbers that had hit in the previous nine drawings for the last game were the same that have hit in the last ten drawings

That's because all six numbers were drawn in the last 8 drawings and were drawn again for Monday's drawing. If you use the same parameters for tonight's drawing and are correct, it will be a 6/39 drawing with odds of 3,262,623 to 1.

Reply #1

TooTallLuke — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:49:42 GMT

Can you give an example? Not sure what you mean when you say The numbers that had hit in the previous nine drawings for the last game were the same that have hit in the last ten drawings for tonight's drawing

Backward engineering a winning pick.

RJOh — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:11:31 GMT

I've been trying to match all six numbers in the local 6/49 game for almost a year and came close back in February with a five of six. Today when I was doing my work out I noticed the number distribution patterns were the same as they were for the last drawing only one draw longer.

The numbers that had hit in the previous nine drawings for the last game were the same that have hit in the last ten drawings for tonight's drawing and the ones that had hit in the previous 31 the last time have hi... [ More ]