"Know thyself"
I've been using 'organized guesswork' to pick my lottery numbers for a long time. I keep a record of my wins and losses.
Needless to say, the loss file is lot longer the than win one!
Every now and then, I take a close look at my choices and certain trends come to light. In many instances, I noted that I would have won had I added or substracted one, two, or more.
I finally realized, and accepted, that my 'initial' choices would probably be the wrong ones.
To compensate, I more or less decided that regardless of what numbers I generated, using my gap strategy, I needed to in corporate an additional step.
Thus, the 'Rx' line in the predictions I've posted here recently.
I could have closed my eyes, used the date, took Monday, multiplied by Tuesday and subtracted Thursday to come up with a 'R' number, but I decided to be a little more objective.
What I do, and I don't always use an R number, I determine the Sum of the last winning combination and use the Root as my R number.
For example, if the sum of the numbers is 78, the Root is 6, using lottery math. (7+8=15, 1+5=6)
I then add 6 to all, or some, of my choices.
My analysis often tells me that I'm pretty good selecting the As, Bs and Ds, but very bad with the Cs.
I, of course, accept whatever numbers are derived. This has improved my winning percentage greatly. But. at the same time, I sometimes convert winners to losers.
But, that what the playing the lottery is all about - winning and losing.
I'm confident that one of these days, an R number is going to make a big difference!!
As an aside, in some of my earlier predictions, I had a gap column headed with C. To avoid the possibility of confusion with the C numbers, I changed C to H.
Thanks for your interest,
Bobby