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DrDavidBowman

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Apr 12, 2018, 11:49 pm

For example is there any website that will show me

1) All the Powerball numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

2) All the Megamillion numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

3) All the Pick4 numbers that was bought for a particular state and date ?

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Apr 15, 2018, 8:24 am

Quote: Originally posted by DrDavidBowman on Apr 12, 2018
For example is there any website that will show me

1) All the Powerball numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

2) All the Megamillion numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

3) All the Pick4 numbers that was bought for a particular state and date ?

Kind Regards

I don't think lotteries release those information. The only thing that I saw was revenue information - nothing about purchased numbers.
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Apr 15, 2018, 7:43 pm

Quote: Originally posted by DrDavidBowman on Apr 12, 2018
For example is there any website that will show me

1) All the Powerball numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

2) All the Megamillion numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

3) All the Pick4 numbers that was bought for a particular state and date ?

Kind Regards

The one website that shows the total number of combinations sold per PB and MM drawings have figures of ten millions plus. That's a lot of data to mine.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
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Apr 15, 2018, 8:08 pm

Quote: Originally posted by DrDavidBowman on Apr 12, 2018
For example is there any website that will show me

1) All the Powerball numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

2) All the Megamillion numbers that was bought for a particular date ?

3) All the Pick4 numbers that was bought for a particular state and date ?

Kind Regards

Just click on the lottery's official "Contact" link on their website and simply ask them. I did a similar thing years ago before I had a computer. I won $3,000 in the pick-3 due to this effort. I wanted to know what Florida pick-3 numbers have not drawn since the inception of the game, so I asked for every number that showed from the beginning. It cost me like 15 bucks I think.....So it took me three days to write out all numbers from 000-999 on a sheet of paper...then cross out every number that showed...lol....There were three combinations that didn't show in 14 years. At the same time, I thought to myself, well....if in 14 years these combos still haven't showed, it could take a year or more to show, but I still played them for about a week and gave it a break so I can think more about this.

Long story short, another system I bought pointed to one of the three combos as a very high probability of winning so I played 984, 6 tickets for a buck each and won $3,000. I was initially willing to drop a C-note, but chickened out...lol
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Quote: Originally posted by amber124 on Apr 15, 2018
Just click on the lottery's official "Contact" link on their website and simply ask them. I did a similar thing years ago before I had a computer. I won $3,000 in the pick-3 due to this effort. I wanted to know what Florida pick-3 numbers have not drawn since the inception of the game, so I asked for every number that showed from the beginning. It cost me like 15 bucks I think.....So it took me three days to write out all numbers from 000-999 on a sheet of paper...then cross out every number that showed...lol....There were three combinations that didn't show in 14 years. At the same time, I thought to myself, well....if in 14 years these combos still haven't showed, it could take a year or more to show, but I still played them for about a week and gave it a break so I can think more about this.

Long story short, another system I bought pointed to one of the three combos as a very high probability of winning so I played 984, 6 tickets for a buck each and won $3,000. I was initially willing to drop a C-note, but chickened out...lol

It certainly would take longer than three days to write out the more than twenty five millions possible combinations of PB or MM. With knowledge of a computer language you may be able to reduce the time to an hour or so. While millions of the combinations probably were played, only a few thousands of them have ever been drawn. You may even figure you had more information than you needed with just the history of past winners.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
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There is usamega.com. I haven't really used it that much, however, there are stats and stuff you can check out.

This site search will do too.

ISO of content generation for anything.

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Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on Apr 15, 2018
It certainly would take longer than three days to write out the more than twenty five millions possible combinations of PB or MM. With knowledge of a computer language you may be able to reduce the time to an hour or so. While millions of the combinations probably were played, only a few thousands of them have ever been drawn. You may even figure you had more information than you needed with just the history of past winners.

When I wrote this, I wasn't expecting him to go thru all those numbers. I don't believe he's even trying to do what I did, but rather wants info on all the combos BOUGHT by people for those games. I have no idea what he is going to do with that very large group of numbers, but my main point was to let him know that he could contact them and maybe they'll indulge him.
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Apr 20, 2018, 12:27 am
I think OP is not asking about draw history. He is asking about the combinations people bought

For example:
- On a PB game day, how many people had 01 or 02 or ... 70 in their tickets(EP/SP)
- pick-3/pick-4 how many people bought 0-9 in first digit, second digit, third digit or fourth digit - or combinations as box/straight bought by all people who played.
He is not asking about draw history - He is asking the player's played data history. Except revenue information Lotteries don't publish any other number specific information.
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Apr 20, 2018, 8:38 am

this was asked by you before

Is there place where I can get all the 6 numbers bought by everyone per draws

answer is basically the same

You're likely not going to get that information.

You'd have to beg the state lottery for that kind of info; which they probably do have and not willing to hand out.

It must exist in some form, otherwise they wouldn't be able to regurgitate the fact that 70-80% of combos played are Quick Picks.

Also, you might discover some trend that's not for the public eye.

Good Luck with that though.

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Apr 20, 2018, 8:14 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JADELottery on Apr 20, 2018
this was asked by you before

Is there place where I can get all the 6 numbers bought by everyone per draws

answer is basically the same

You're likely not going to get that information.

You'd have to beg the state lottery for that kind of info; which they probably do have and not willing to hand out.

It must exist in some form, otherwise they wouldn't be able to regurgitate the fact that 70-80% of combos played are Quick Picks.

Also, you might discover some trend that's not for the public eye.

Good Luck with that though.

Exactly.

Why would they give it out? For auditing purpose they will provide those information and even more.

Even though the OP gets this information(impossible), he/she will end up with a count that falls within the reach of statistical probabilities. May be he/she is trying to do some kind of prediction or projection saying on 3rd of a month or on Wednesdays of an year people chose a particular number and it came after so many days and similar after draw predictions using draw history and this data.
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Apr 21, 2018, 11:54 pm

70% of tickets purchased are QP, so for that part of it you can approximate the numbers chosen by writing a computer program to pick random numbers millions and millions of times. The fact that your computer doesn't pick the exact same numbers that thousands of QP terminals did in the past means nothing.

The other 30% tend to have more 7's ("good luck"), fewer 13's ("bad luck"), more 1-12's (months of the year), and more 14-28/29/30/31 (days of the month past the 1-12 month range), than QP's, given that dates are used often when choosing numbers yourself.

This information will not predict what future winning numbers will be, but it is useful to avoid having to share the jackpot.

In other words, the probability of you winning the jackpot is exactly the same regardless of what numbers you choose, but you do have a little control over the probability of having to share the jackpot with another winner. If you like sharing, pick 7 and don't pick 13. If you are greedy and don't want to share millions of dollars :) , do not pick 7, do pick 13, and make the rest 32+. The probability of sharing the jackpot doesn't drop that much, but it is a small drop, and best of all... it's a strategic move that costs you nothing! :)
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Apr 22, 2018, 12:29 am

aint bad. If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be.

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Apr 22, 2018, 1:20 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JADELottery on Apr 20, 2018
this was asked by you before

Is there place where I can get all the 6 numbers bought by everyone per draws

answer is basically the same

You're likely not going to get that information.

You'd have to beg the state lottery for that kind of info; which they probably do have and not willing to hand out.

It must exist in some form, otherwise they wouldn't be able to regurgitate the fact that 70-80% of combos played are Quick Picks.

Also, you might discover some trend that's not for the public eye.

Good Luck with that though.

They definitely have that info for the Pick 4 and Pick3. How else would they be able to say a number is Sold Out on a particular drawing?
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Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Apr 22, 2018
They definitely have that info for the Pick 4 and Pick3. How else would they be able to say a number is Sold Out on a particular drawing?

They will have it. They won't publish it. They will show that information during audits. To my knowledge It's not available publicly. That's too much unnecessary information.

I am not sure whether anyone has asked any state lotteries for those details. May be somebody in LP already tried it. They can let us know.