Should I play hot or cold numbers? Came up with this...

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RJOh — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:11:38 GMT

You should play which ever wins. Check which ones has hit most in previous drawings and play them, that's what I've been doing without much success.

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SergeM — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:37:17 GMT

I believe that in SL they use average as measure. They even construct rules on that. Unfortunately that does not do it.

If you talk of hot and cold program wise, you have to define precisely what you mean. I just am guessing now that you divide the numbers in two groups, those who are out shorter or longer than the average. The proportions change.

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Tialuvslotto — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:09:05 GMT

I view hot/cold as I do any other split classification of lottery numbers like E/O or Hi/Lo -- most draws will have some of each.

Your proposed method sounds reasonable, however you might want to examine whether it is better to play against the trend or with it. In my experience, the trends in these big lotteries are long and slow to turn around, so you might want to play with the direction of the average, rather than to play for the trend to reverse directions.

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Should I play hot or cold numbers? Came up with this...

GoogilyMoogily — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 04:00:43 GMT

I have always preferred to play cold numbers in jackpot games, but this could apply to any type game. I have always based my calculations on the only two data points given, 1) number of times each number is drawn, and 2) number of draws since each number was last seen. I have my own weighting for each criteria to give a number it's coldness factor.

I've been thinking about MM a lot lately. I noticed that the average draws since last seen of all numbers is 14.0266. I suspect that the average d... [ More ]