To help all walks of readers understand why the SIMPLE PICK 3/4 RUNDOWN TOOL ( 34Rundown.xls ) is " Password Protected ", I will gladly reveal some minor details about this issue.
A programmer instinctively protects their software creation work to keep it from being freely ripped-off or modified after so many hours are spent on the project, BUT, this particular intended helpful/experimental tool is mainly protected to prevent users from accidentally modifying and destroying the pre-programmed data beneath the scenes in the individual excel spreadsheet cells, and we are therefore preventing damage to the very basic and simple purpose of what the spreadsheet was intended to do for you.
This program has a one-track mind. You enter a draw combo in the RED BOX CELL AREAS where the spreadsheet is clearly labelled as " Enter Winning # 's ", and also, " One digit per box ", and the program reacts instantly with the mathematics performance that was pre-programmed and intended to provide an immediate ( Pick 3 ) -111 and + 123 rundown operation or the ( Pick 4 ) -1111 and +1234 rundown operation on the combo digits data entered...PERIOD.
To enter the digits properly in this tool, you must left-mouse click the RED cell boxes individually ( the ones specifically labelled as " Enter Winning # 's ", and also, " One digit per box " ) , one at a time, and enter your intended digit from the numeric keypad of your computer keyboard...Left-click the next RED cell box and enter another digit...when you get to the last RED cell box to enter the final digit of your combo into, left-click the last RED cell box, enter the digit, and then POINT TO A BLANK SPOT ON THE SPREADSHEET, and Left-Click the mouse to complete the final entry. This will change all the combo digits at the very top of the rundown columns.
At this point, you should visually check the very TOP of ALL Columns affected, and the very BOTTOM of ALL Columns affected by the combo data you have just entered into the RED CELL BOXES. All of the digits at the very top, and all of those digits at the very bottom of the rundown columns will be, or should be IDENTICAL and in the STRAIGHT order in which they were entered by YOU. You will understand why this is so as you learn more about whatdaheck rundowns are all about!
After your limited data entry is complete, YOU get to stare at the bewildering combo data which the automated rundown automatically provides in the columns as a visual " Rundown ", and YOU get to determine what it means for your particular Local Pick 3/4 Lottery Game! YOU are the analyst. YOU are the observer. YOU will reach the conclusions and note them, committing them to memory, or documenting your findings, and hopefully sharing your thoughts and inspirations with the rest of us at Lottery Post. A thousand thinkers might see something " outside the box " which one pre-occupied, or a one-track thinker can easily miss.
You must have a basic understanding of what rundowns and workouts are all about with regards to Pick 3/4 lotteries in order to appreciate the SIMPLE PICK 3/4 RUNDOWN TOOL. There have been booklets circulated for over 70 years on the subject, one of which inspired the creation of this tool...Prof. Hitts Ready Reference Rundowns and Workouts ( I'm not affiliated with the thing in any way whatsoever ). Many Lotto players have used various concoctions of rundowns and workouts by old-fashioned, long-hand, pencil and paper as they grasp for something useful or meaningful that just might produce the odd " Lucky " combo to bet on which hits STRAIGHT once in a while. The Lottery Post membership appears to throw these " RUNDOWN " ideas out there on a regular basis with different bends and twists and contortions from time to time.
This particular 34Rundown.xls Tool conforms specifically to only one of those ancient popular rundowns on a combo...the -111/+123 Rundown for Pick 3 games, and the -1111/+1234 Rundown for Pick 4 games. It makes use of the old " EGYPTIAN " or modern-day " LOTTERY MATH " where you do not carry ones, tens, hundreds or thousands into the adjoining columns being added to or subtracted from.
With this tool : 4 7 0 7 9 8
-1 1 1 + 1 2 3
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equals 3 6 9 equals 8 1 1
If you have the full-fledged version of Microsoft Office or MS Excel installed on your computer system, then you can make this work as intended. I suspect that if you have the Excel Viewer only, then you may have a problem interacting with this 34Rundown.xls
*** The SIMPLE PICK 3/4 RUNDOWN TOOL really is, and really was intended to be just a very simple basic Lotto Tool with only one purpose. This Tool only allows you to enter information into the pre-designated red boxes in the few cells of the spread sheet that were pre-programmed to accomplish the entering of the digits of a draw combo which the user wants to analyse with this mysterious rundown hocus pocus stuff.
The only changes a user is allowed to make to this particular spreadsheet, and again, only in the RED BOX CELL area, is the Entry of an Occurrence time interval in Days between draws, of from 1 to 7 days which also affects a floating calendar entry you can view on the spreadsheet ( a feature which I am going to do away with because it confuses users who have various draw times and dates that don't conform to the format which the .xls spreadsheet programmer imagined in her mind at the time...hey...she thought it was cool... :) ), and the only other operation available to the user in this Tool is the entry of digits for combos under test...PERIOD.
Me hopes everybody kapeesh now...
I am very aware that some Lottery Post members have expertise and experience in programming Excel spreadsheets, and may want to add their touch, or increased features and usefulness to this Basic Rundown Tool as it gets discussed and used or abused...I will be glad to provide you hackers with a password to use in order to break into this beast and tame it, and make it behave better as we feed it :) Let's hack Pick 3/4 together!
LottoHackJack
Philadelpia/Pennsylvania
