What is the order of balls in Megamillions before they are dropped?

Reply #8

GoogilyMoogily — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:21:24 GMT

Thanks for the screenshot. Wipes that theory. Glad to see they do this.

Reply #7

JADELottery — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:34:45 GMT

The balls are randomly loaded each time to prevent bias in selection.

Reply #6

SergeM — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:08:56 GMT

You should view every drawing and note the positions of the balls, record which ball and position was drawn.

Example ball 1 was drawn on date X from tube 1, 2nd position from the bottom. (...)

If I follow the thought my way, you would try to find if there is a tube or position delivering more.

Making it more complicated, you would look if there is a relationship in drawn combinations.

Random set up, plus random drawing, should give a random result, but the randomness combined can als... [ More ]

Reply #5

SergeM — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:55:15 GMT

It looks like they are using a bucket to poor the balls into the tubes. The left side is filled up.

Reply #4

JADELottery — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:42:12 GMT

Reply #3

GoogilyMoogily — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:16:07 GMT

I watched a few draws but the resolution wasn't there for me to see what the order was.

Reply #2

Tialuvslotto — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:35:01 GMT

Why not look up some Mega Millions drawings on youtube? They often show the balls being loaded into the machine.

I'm not quite sure what difference it makes after they are mixed, though.

Reply #1

MrProgrammer — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:07:31 GMT

Perhaps.

What is the order of balls in Megamillions before they are dropped?

GoogilyMoogily — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:52:01 GMT

Preface: I prefer cold numbers by weighting them for low draw count or time since last draw being primary considerations in my calculations.

I noticed that the Megamillions machine holds the balls in eight columns. Ten balls in the first three columns, nine balls in the last five columns.

Are the numbers sorted like this: (ugh, the preview shows weird column widths and I don't know how to fix that)

10 20 30

9 19 29 39 48 57 66 75

8 18 28 38 47 56 65 74

7 17 27 37 46 55 6... [ More ]