Finding the Florida 5/36 game too hard to predict?
How would you like to play a 5/9 game with the same prizes?
Did you know all numbers can be reduced to a number between
1 and 9 by adding their digits together?
For example: 23 becomes 2 + 3 = 5
A tough one would be: 19 = 1 + 9 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1
Here are all Florida 5/36 numbers converted to sum of the digits.
01 = 1
02 = 2
03 = 3
04 = 4
05 = 5
06 = 6
07 = 7
08 = 8
09 = 9
10 = 1
11 = 2
12 = 3
13 = 4
14 = 5
15 = 6
16 = 7
17 = 8
18 = 9
19 = 1
20 = 2
21 = 3
22 = 4
23 = 5
24 = 6
25 = 7
26 = 8
27 = 9
28 = 1
29 = 2
30 = 3
31 = 4
32 = 5
33 = 6
34 = 7
35 = 8
36 = 9
Here are their nine groups of four numbers.
1 = 1, 10, 19, 28
2 = 2, 11, 20, 29
3 = 3, 12, 21, 30
4 = 4, 13, 22, 31
5 = 5, 14, 23, 32
6 = 6, 15, 24, 33
7 = 7, 16, 25, 34
8 = 8, 17, 26, 35
9 = 9, 18, 27, 36
Here are the last ten Florida 5/36 draws converted and sorted.
01/10/2008 03-13-24-25-26 = 3-4-6-7-8 = 3-4-6-7-8
01/09/2008 06-13-21-25-29 = 6-4-3-7-2 = 2-3-4-6-7
01/08/2008 04-14-23-27-29 = 4-5-5-9-2 = 2-4-5-5-9
01/07/2008 15-19-22-31-36 = 6-2-4-4-9 = 2-4-4-6-9
01/06/2008 17-20-21-22-32 = 8-2-3-4-5 = 2-3-4-5-8
01/05/2008 01-04-19-30-35 = 1-4-1-3-8 = 1-1-3-4-8
01/04/2008 02-16-17-31-34 = 2-7-8-4-7 = 2-4-7-7-8
01/03/2008 15-17-21-25-32 = 6-8-3-7-5 = 3-5-6-7-8
01/02/2008 09-11-27-33-34 = 9-2-9-6-7 = 2-6-7-9-9
01/01/2008 01-13-25-28-29 = 1-4-7-1-2 = 1-1-2-4-7
See how more then one sum number can come from the same group, the odds of this happening are.
All five groups different roughly 36%
Two groups the same the rest different roughly 50%
Two and two groups the same rest different roughly 10%
Three groups the same rest different roughly 4%
Three groups and two groups the same roughly .5%
Four groups the same and one other roughly .1%
The following wheel guarantees a 3# prize when one winning number is in each group of four numbers. As only 5 groups or 20 numbers can contain winning numbers 20 numbers must be played.
The wheel uses 16 combinations. Compare to a 4if5 wheel with the same conditions requires 64 combinations; a 3if5 allowing 0,1 or 2 from each group requires 64 combinations and a standard abbreviated 3if5of20 wheel requires 32 combinations.
1 5 9 13 17
2 6 10 14 18
3 7 11 15 19
4 8 12 16 20
1 5 10 15 20
2 6 9 16 19
3 7 12 13 18
4 8 11 14 17
1 5 11 16 18
2 6 12 15 17
3 7 9 14 20
4 8 10 13 19
1 5 12 14 19
2 6 11 13 20
3 7 10 16 17
4 8 9 15 18
end 16 lines 3if5 guaranteed if 1 winning number from each group.
A quick survey of my software finds only Lotto Buster capable of
accepting a 5/9 lottery with duplicate numbers drawn. If you have
a more capable predictor that accepts the same please post a reply.
BobP