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• Coin Toss

  

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  How would you say you play?

  Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners. 

  

  There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
• AllenB

  

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  Excel Obsession,  Occasionally Play
• Hydromaln7

  

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  Strategically and systematically using excel as my number cruncher.

  But at the same time counter intuitively, never follow the crowd consensus on what strategy to use, always develop my own from first principles and following the trails of bread crumbs that I find within my strategy.
• Big Joey

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  I treat my lottery tickets like legal documents as soon as they are printed, and I play hoping to win.
• Soledad

  

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  I play like Jerry used to sing. If I had a nickel, the blind leading the blind.

  Sometimes you do the right thing just because it’s right.

  Life's a game of mathematics, if you can't figure that out I don't know what to tell you.
• weshar75

  

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  I will play a little here and there for the rest of this month and then a lot less in October through December of this year.  Probably only when the jackpots reach $500 million or more this year and then back to every drawing in the new year.-weshar75

  
• partlycloudy07

  

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  obsession is more with numbers and how they flow than actual lottery (math nut) I can go months without playing and then spend months playing more than I should sometimes (I've gotten better over the years) ......like the other poster I usually slow way down around oct to dec and pick back up in jan 

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  _{^{Throw it against the wall and see if it sticks (every time I send a deal to the banker  )}} 

    "Wherever there is number, there is beauty." -- Proclus

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• Hydromaln7

  

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  Update on my approach, Bayesian probability, didn't even know I was doing it .

  Tried putting a Wiki link in but the AI told me off... Google it yourself.

  Hope that link is allowed, it most accurately describes my method and evaluation of all probabilistic outcomes. However I have a head's up in that I know the current position of my probability attached to each variable. This is then tied back to an intensity.

  All I need to do now is to use that information to deduce which variable has the greater probability based on past actual and non actual results, in other words what did and did not happen. 

  If the correlation between the 2 is strong than I can tie that probability back to an actual number and so far am modelling anywhere between 60% to 100% accuracy in the future prediction.

  So for a 6/45 I reduce it down to a ~6/20 with a hit rate of between 4 to 6 numbers in each game.

  Not being able to play 20 numbers is my current Achilles heal so I am endeavouring to define further probabilities at deeper levels in an effort to reduce the max number play set. I have some glimmers on the horizon but nothing definitive.

   

  It's all very large...
• grwurston

  

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  In response to Hydromaln7

  Quote: Originally posted by Hydromaln7 on Sep 20, 2018

  Update on my approach, Bayesian probability, didn't even know I was doing it .

  Tried putting a Wiki link in but the AI told me off... Google it yourself.

  Hope that link is allowed, it most accurately describes my method and evaluation of all probabilistic outcomes. However I have a head's up in that I know the current position of my probability attached to each variable. This is then tied back to an intensity.

  All I need to do now is to use that information to deduce which variable has the greater probability based on past actual and non actual results, in other words what did and did not happen. 

  If the correlation between the 2 is strong than I can tie that probability back to an actual number and so far am modelling anywhere between 60% to 100% accuracy in the future prediction.

  So for a 6/45 I reduce it down to a ~6/20 with a hit rate of between 4 to 6 numbers in each game.

  Not being able to play 20 numbers is my current Achilles heal so I am endeavouring to define further probabilities at deeper levels in an effort to reduce the max number play set. I have some glimmers on the horizon but nothing definitive.

   

  It's all very large...

  You could not post the link here because you are still a new member.

  Read the Helpful Rules for New Members thread so you don't get in trouble. 

  

  List Pick 3 singles by low sums, high sums. Separate each sum row by consecutive pair and non consecutive pair combos. These 3 pair groups. 14 17 47, 25 28 58, 36 39 69 are in 63 combos. 54 combos do not have them. Which sums do the 3 pair groups appear and not appear? Look at root sum groups 147, 258, 369. Play accordingly.
• Dk637204

  

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  My approach is simple..I play the pick 3 , found a number , 721 , that hasn’t hit straight in 20 years so I’m gonna put 20 bucks a day on it so I can lose over 7k a year for about the next 10 years...but when that sucker comes out I’ll say I told you it was due and then I’ll go blow it on strippers and roulette
• Hydromaln7

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Sep 20, 2018

  You could not post the link here because you are still a new member.

  Read the Helpful Rules for New Members thread so you don't get in trouble. 

  Thanks GRW,

   

  Learn as I go i guess, not trying to hijack a discussion or anything just tried to post a relevant link.

   

  No problem from my side.
• LottoLucy

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Sep 14, 2018

  How would you say you play?

  I consider it my hobby.  I have a lot of fun playing, collecting tickets from different states, and researching different aspects of winning.  Some of the things I have researched over the years, like estate planning and investment stuff, has been helpful in real life.

  I also have an unshakable belief that I will win a largish amount of money.  Maybe not $100,000,000 but maybe enough to pay back what I have spent over the years.

  Lotto Lucy
• kingrobert2

  

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   We really need to win the lottery, please help My name is Richard King and I live in Atlanta