Avoiding Sums in Pick 5

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cottoneyedjoe — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:40:35 GMT

I checked the last 600 draws of CA 5/39 and found 35.5% of the drawn number sets had at least one summing triple, which is very close to the theoretical proportion. I'm pretty convinced the CA Lottery's PRNG algorithm for 5/39 is nearly as random as ping pong balls so I've put aside most of my pattern tracking and statistical analysis.

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garyo1954 — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:31:06 GMT

Took a look at the TX 5/35 game data. Broke it into categories per the table.

First number + 2nd number equalling the 3rd, 4th, and 5th number.

First + 3rd equalling the 4th and 5th number.

Table is the same throughout.

Total is 661 in 1431 total draws for 46.2%.

3 4 5

1+2 134 49 28

1+3 106 42

1+4 119

2+3 58 54

2+4 56

3+4 15

Interestingly the first plus 2nd most often equal the third and the 1st plus 3rd most often equal... [ More ]

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dr san — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:58:26 GMT

hello COTTONEYEDJOE, on 35/5 tx5 you have from 02 to 34

5,456 central trios in 100% all you have to do is filter to get about 5% of these, then just add the numbers of the extremes

example = 12 16 31 = extremes 04 xxx 33

Avoiding Sums in Pick 5

cottoneyedjoe — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:09:57 GMT

I noticed I have a habit of avoiding summing triples when I try to randomly select my numbers for pick 5 type games, as in not wanting two of the numbers to add up to a third. Last night the 5 white ball numbers of CA SuperLotto Plus were 6, 38, 44, 45, 47, which contains a summing triple: 6 + 38 = 44. So, this is probably not a wise hang-up to have. I wrote a script to see just how many of the possible combinations I am unfairly discriminating against in various games.

5/35 (TX Cash 5) -- 3... [ More ]