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• Stack47

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by BobP on Mar 9, 2017

  Hot, Cold and Average numbers matter if you want them to.
  
  First of all you need to look at draws from the sessions between ballset changes. 
  
  If  you take a completed ballset session usually about two years from start to finish date and compute the first half to rank the numbers from Hot through Average and to Cold and then look at the second half of the session you may well find the Hot numbers remained hot, the Average numbers remained average and the Cold numbers remained cold. 

  Next check how many of each appear in winning draws.  You may well find the most common combination is Two Hot, Two Average and two Cold.  The next most often will be various one up or down from 222.

  This means you would be well advised to make sure most combinations to be played include some Hot, Average and Cold numbers.  If you use a wheel, map the wheel so you place numbers to drop into the combinations in such a way as to include some of each.
  
  The distribution of Hot, Average and Cold numbers matter as much as any other early filter you may choose to use to strip out a large quantity of combinations. 
  
  BobP

  "Hot, Cold and Average numbers matter if you want them to."

  

  It depends on which numbers in which game they are talking about too. In pick-3 a number drawn once in 1000 drawings is average and once in a ten thousand for pick-4 games. A MM number is average if it's drawn once in 15 drawings and one in 8 for 5/39 pick-5 games.

  IMO hot and cold applies more to the digits in pick-3 and pick-4 games whether it's used in a digit position or in any position. If a pick-3 digit isn't drawn in four drawings, it's cold making the digits that were drawn in its place hot. Years ago I used a running 30 drawing chart to track hot and cold digits in each digit position and combined, but at the end of the day it just showed which digits were hot and cold and not which digits would be hot or cold in the future.

  Hot and cold is useful in pick-5 5/39 games by tracking tracking and creating a ratio of hot, cold, and average in every drawing. That was actually the basics for the Lottery Expert for Windows 3.1 system.

  It should be obvious any system that works is useful no matter how the numbers are picked.
• eddessaknight

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Mar 9, 2017

  GiveFive, Are you choosing 17 every time you play?? If not, what rule do you use that tells you when to play it?
  I would wager that separate stats for each day of the week will produce different results.

  Pretty much, although there are times when I deliberately don't play #17.  I would guess that I play it on 95 to 98% of the lines I buy.  I typically buy five or ten lines when I play Take5, (I don't play it every day) and some times I play it on all of my lines, and sometimes I only play it on a few of them. One reason why I might choose not to play it at all is because it repeated or double repeated. (It was drawn in three consecutive drawings immediately prior to the upcoming drawing)

  As for the results I've obtained by playing it frequently, I wouldn't say they're great, but I wouldn't say they were bad either.  While I don't track how often I've won $$$$ by playing #17, my guess is that I probably have a 3/5 win (which pays around twenty bucks) twelve times per year, or an average of once per month. 

  I took a quick look at Texas Cash 5, and in the 313 drawings held in 2015, #16 was the top hitter with 55 hits, and in 2016, #7 was the biggest hitter with 56.  That's more like what I'd expect to see in NY's Take5. I don't know if #17 hitting the most times for three consecutive years is chance without significance or not, but it sure is weird! I would also point out that on the other end of the spectrum with Take5's lowest hitters of the year, I don't see the same number year after year. The least hitting number of the year changes every year.  That seems normal to me. Why that hasn't happened on the other end with the big hitters of the year seems odd. IMHO it shouldn't happen, but it did.  G5

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• Uluska

  

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  They play role at times. Also, if you are playing hot numbers, play also cold, separately, then also mix them together and play and also play all the rets numbers as separate tickets. :)
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  They play role at times. Also, if you are playing hot numbers, play also cold, separately, then also mix them together and play and also play all the rest of the  numbers as separate tickets. :)
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  Quote: Originally posted by Uluska on Apr 10, 2017

  They play role at times. Also, if you are playing hot numbers, play also cold, separately, then also mix them together and play and also play all the rest of the  numbers as separate tickets. :)

  Well Put Uluska-

   

  PLAYING HOT And Or Cold Numbers???

  Doesn't change the odds and yet the probability of outcome can play a significant prediction role.

   

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• RJOh

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on Mar 13, 2017

  "Hot, Cold and Average numbers matter if you want them to."

  

  It depends on which numbers in which game they are talking about too. In pick-3 a number drawn once in 1000 drawings is average and once in a ten thousand for pick-4 games. A MM number is average if it's drawn once in 15 drawings and one in 8 for 5/39 pick-5 games.

  IMO hot and cold applies more to the digits in pick-3 and pick-4 games whether it's used in a digit position or in any position. If a pick-3 digit isn't drawn in four drawings, it's cold making the digits that were drawn in its place hot. Years ago I used a running 30 drawing chart to track hot and cold digits in each digit position and combined, but at the end of the day it just showed which digits were hot and cold and not which digits would be hot or cold in the future.

  Hot and cold is useful in pick-5 5/39 games by tracking tracking and creating a ratio of hot, cold, and average in every drawing. That was actually the basics for the Lottery Expert for Windows 3.1 system.

  It should be obvious any system that works is useful no matter how the numbers are picked.

  Unless one defines Hot, Cold and Average, what ones says is little better than a guess.  I do know that depending on the number pool size, most winning combinations are mostly composed of numbers that appeared in the previous 10 winners.

   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *