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• PrisonerSix

  

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  I just finished another study of Lottery Post vs Terminal quick picks. Similar to my Louisiana Lotto study, over the course of 20 drawings, I played a terminal quick pick and a Lottery Post quick pick side by side to see what the results would be. One thing that made this study different was I was actually watching 2 sets of numbers, the five white balls and the red Powerball. Here are the results of my study.

  The average number of white balls matched per drawing was 0.2 for Lottery Post and 0.1 for the terminal. The median and the mode for both was 0. In other words, a majority of the drawings for both methods ended up not matching any of the white balls.

  The Standard Deviations were 0.410391 for Lottery Post and 0.307794 for the terminal, not a very big difference.

  As for the Powerball, the Terminal quick pick hit 4 times while the Lottery Post quick picks didn't match it at all. 20% of the terminal quick picks hit the Powerball and 0% of the Lottery Post quick picks did.

  For the white balls, the Lottery Post quick picks appear to have had a slight edge, but not by much over the Terminal quick picks. For the red Powerball, Terminal quick picks did much better.

  I'm not sure what to conclude from this other than it appears that the Terminal quick pick has a better chance of winning a lower tier prize by matching the Powerball than Lottery Post does. The results of my Louisiana Lotto study were actually quite different showing Lottery Post with the edge. One thing to note on this is Powerball is still using ball drawings while Louisiana Lotto is using computerized drawings. I wonder if there is a connection between the differing results, or if it is simply the odds, or something else.

  I'm planning another study like this on MegaMillions and will post the results when I get it done.

  I hope this is interesting to all of you and I look forward to your comments.

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• Todd

  

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  Nice!  Love reading about your RNG studies.

   

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• weshar75

  

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  I can get a hit off of terminal QP's now and then so that is what I like to play since I just play one or two tickets for powerball and mega millions.  Granted it will usually be just the powerball so I use the multiplier with it for extra money.-weshar75

  
• Artist77

  

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  Love the studies.  I have been very informally tracking 3 lp generated picks against the winning numbers. I have had the best luck with cash for life and seem to get 2 winning numbers in the same row for 2-3 drawings in a row then it stops for a few days to a week.

  
• lekker

  

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  Your studies are interesting. I have been wondering if odds are better purchasing a QP ticket from a gas station/convenience store versus from a vending machine in a supermarket. Any thoughts on that, or is it too vague/general? Thanks.
• PrisonerSix

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by lekker on Nov 21, 2022

  Your studies are interesting. I have been wondering if odds are better purchasing a QP ticket from a gas station/convenience store versus from a vending machine in a supermarket. Any thoughts on that, or is it too vague/general? Thanks.

  Your question is similar to mine, is another quick pick generator better than a lottery terminal? In my case it's the LP quick pick generator I'm testing while in yours, it's the vending machine quick pick generator.

  If you wanted to study that, it would be easy to do if you're willing to buy 2 tickets for each drawing. Just buy one at a gas station and one at a  vending machine and track the results in a spreadsheet. If you don't have Excel, you can download LibreOffice for free.

  Some people say never buy from vending machines while some say always play the same numbers. The only way to find out if there is anything to it is to test it and track the results.

  i hope I've answered your question. If you have others, just ask.

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• lekker

  

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  Interesting idea. I don't buy enough tickets to do that study.

  Another thing I wonder about is have there been Power Ball or Mega Millions winner of jackpots from vending machines, and have any won huge jackpots (say, over $100 million) with a vending machine ticket?  I don't think this is something you tested but if you have seen any threads/messages about this topic, can you post a link?

  On July 29, 2022, my daughter-in-law sold a Mega Millions 5-out-of-5 winning ticket in the supermarket where she works. The winner got $4.2 million. That was an exciting day at the supermarket.
• PrisonerSix

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by lekker on Nov 22, 2022

  Interesting idea. I don't buy enough tickets to do that study.

  Another thing I wonder about is have there been Power Ball or Mega Millions winner of jackpots from vending machines, and have any won huge jackpots (say, over $100 million) with a vending machine ticket?  I don't think this is something you tested but if you have seen any threads/messages about this topic, can you post a link?

  On July 29, 2022, my daughter-in-law sold a Mega Millions 5-out-of-5 winning ticket in the supermarket where she works. The winner got $4.2 million. That was an exciting day at the supermarket.

  I've never seen any threads about jackpot tickets from vending machines so I don't know. We have lottery vending machines in my state, but not many, so it wouldn't be easy for me to that study because I don't frequent the few places that have them.

  The most common method to buy tickets is the terminal quick pick. The point of my studies is to try different methods of picking numbers to see if another method might get better results.

  There are so many different ways to pick numbers and beliefs and superstitions about how to pick numbers I want to try and find out if there is anything to them.

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• lekker

  

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  Thank you!