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Newkids06

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Apr 7, 2026, 11:57 pm

Working on border of DC-MD I can play both but DC is full of it right now. Where are the quads and Triple Pairs cause what you guys have done is crazzzzyyyyyyy. One in 200 million odds on the pick 5. Please give us customers a chance and play like 66661 or 77771 or 22228, 22229 or a quint please. Cause this is highway robbery 16 draws in a row with a 30% chance of that number landing in a single draw.

pick 3 folks that's equal to having a double number Example 224,115,911 coming out 14-15 times in a row 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. An this is Random. I know with Iran War yall holding on to all the profits but please be a little fair gas is expensive 😢😢😢

Pick 5 for DC is the new Power or Mega with the odds they bringing out.
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Apr 8, 2026, 9:57 am

Sorry, but I don't understand what you're getting at.

The odds of hitting the pick 5 straight is 1 in 100,000.
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Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Apr 8, 2026
Sorry, but I don't understand what you're getting at.

The odds of hitting the pick 5 straight is 1 in 100,000.

The have played all singles which is 5 different digits Ex 12345 these different digit numbers make up slightly over 30,000 of the possible 100,000 numbers. So odds of getting that unique combination is 30.24% just to be exact. So on average 3/10 draws you should see that. They've drawn all singles 16 times in a row now. Just think like this, say you make a single bet that you have a 30% chance to win and you win that bet 16x in a row.

Or to make it easier it's equivalent to flipping a coin and landing Heads like 27x in a row.

So when you break down the math as I let Chat GPT do. Odds of what they did is 1 in 200 million. That's not random, that's controlled.
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Apr 8, 2026, 11:11 am

I see what you're saying. ChatGPT has extremely limited analytical capability. This is yet another example of where it fails. Anyone can calculate 0.3^16. It has no value.

Odds are for future unknown events. Odds have no meaning for past events.

If you are trying to prove their drawings are not random, you need way more than 16 drawings for a statistical proof. Pick 5 hasn't been around long enough for that amount of data. After 100 years of drawings then you can do statistical tests.

The outcomes of the last 16 drawings of 5 digit numbers is just random. Some people may have won and others not.
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Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Apr 8, 2026
I see what you're saying. ChatGPT has extremely limited analytical capability. This is yet another example of where it fails. Anyone can calculate 0.3^16. It has no value.

Odds are for future unknown events. Odds have no meaning for past events.

If you are trying to prove their drawings are not random, you need way more than 16 drawings for a statistical proof. Pick 5 hasn't been around long enough for that amount of data. After 100 years of drawings then you can do statistical tests.

The outcomes of the last 16 drawings of 5 digit numbers is just random. Some people may have won and others not.

"Odds are for future unknown events"

YOU really don't know which side of the Probabilistic fence you wanna be on... You've just confirmed whut Ole Stat$ haz claimed & prooven

Probability Math predictz future unknown eventz

In my Dave Chapelle'z voice

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Quote: Originally posted by Newkids06 on Apr 7, 2026
Working on border of DC-MD I can play both but DC is full of it right now. Where are the quads and Triple Pairs cause what you guys have done is crazzzzyyyyyyy. One in 200 million odds on the pick 5. Please give us customers a chance and play like 66661 or 77771 or 22228, 22229 or a quint please. Cause this is highway robbery 16 draws in a row with a 30% chance of that number landing in a single draw.

pick 3 folks that's equal to having a double number Example 224,115,911 coming out 14-15 times in a row 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. An this is Random. I know with Iran War yall holding on to all the profits but please be a little fair gas is expensive 😢😢😢

Pick 5 for DC is the new Power or Mega with the odds they bringing out.

Let me take a wild guess....It computer draw/ random number generator....🙄
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Apr 9, 2026, 9:13 am

Quote: Originally posted by Newkids06 on Apr 8, 2026
The have played all singles which is 5 different digits Ex 12345 these different digit numbers make up slightly over 30,000 of the possible 100,000 numbers. So odds of getting that unique combination is 30.24% just to be exact. So on average 3/10 draws you should see that. They've drawn all singles 16 times in a row now. Just think like this, say you make a single bet that you have a 30% chance to win and you win that bet 16x in a row.

Or to make it easier it's equivalent to flipping a coin and landing Heads like 27x in a row.

So when you break down the math as I let Chat GPT do. Odds of what they did is 1 in 200 million. That's not random, that's controlled.

But here's what happened before that run of Singles.

Doubles and Double/Doubles were the ones hitting

Drawings tend to even out after awhile.

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Apr 9, 2026, 4:43 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Newkids06 on Apr 7, 2026
Working on border of DC-MD I can play both but DC is full of it right now. Where are the quads and Triple Pairs cause what you guys have done is crazzzzyyyyyyy. One in 200 million odds on the pick 5. Please give us customers a chance and play like 66661 or 77771 or 22228, 22229 or a quint please. Cause this is highway robbery 16 draws in a row with a 30% chance of that number landing in a single draw.

pick 3 folks that's equal to having a double number Example 224,115,911 coming out 14-15 times in a row 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. An this is Random. I know with Iran War yall holding on to all the profits but please be a little fair gas is expensive 😢😢😢

Pick 5 for DC is the new Power or Mega with the odds they bringing out.

It's like in the Pick 3 when 16 doubles are drawn for the month and 14 of them are on the same drawing. It's crazy but it still happens.

Nothing you can do about it. You can either use it to your advantage or sit it out.

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.
Newkids06

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Apr 17, 2026, 2:26 pm

This needs to be audited at this point. This is impossible but it's happening. 35 draws straight of all different digits. With a 30% of it happening once and you do it 35 straight
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Quote: Originally posted by Newkids06 on Apr 17, 2026
This needs to be audited at this point. This is impossible but it's happening. 35 draws straight of all different digits. With a 30% of it happening once and you do it 35 straight

Randomly drawn numbers have no memory of the previous drawing and then say "oh, we need a double this time, it's been too long". They're random.

There are so many possible patterns humans can observe that, given enough drawings, the chances of observing some kind of pattern are guaranteed.
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Quote: Originally posted by Newkids06 on Apr 17, 2026
This needs to be audited at this point. This is impossible but it's happening. 35 draws straight of all different digits. With a 30% of it happening once and you do it 35 straight

Yeah I tend to agree. The draws are computer generated.

D.C. Midday & Evening draws for Pick 3 have not had a double in a while. Only singles in April. The late draw seems ok.
D.C. Midday & Evening draws for Pick 4 have not had a double in a while. Only singles in April. The late draw seems ok.
D.C. Midday & Evening draws for Pick 5 have not had a double in a while. Only singles in April. There is no late draw for Pick 5.

Back in Aug 2007 Tennessee Lottery for Cash 3 and Cash 4 had a programming error that prevented a duplicate number from being selected. So it has happened before. From July 28 thru Aug 20 only singles were drawn. There should be a story about it posted here on LP.

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/172158
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Apr 17, 2026, 9:57 pm

"If you are trying to prove their drawings are not random, you need way more than 16 drawings for a statistical proof. "

You also need to know the number of tickets sold for each drawing. I don't see that in what looks to me to be mostly indecipherable gibberish.

"Anyone can calculate 0.3^16. It has no value. "

It has a small value (1 in 232,305,731.3, or more likely than winning PB or MM with a single ticket) but if there's a 30% chance of something happening it's the 70% chance of not happening that matters for deciding how likely the result is. The chance of not happening in 16 tries with a 30% chance is about 1 in 301. Unlikely, but vastly less than 1 in 200 million and more than 3 times as likely as winning P3 with a single ticket.

Why do so many lottery players thing that fairly likely outcomes are an indication that the outcome isn't random?
Newkids06

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Apr 18, 2026, 2:48 am

KY it's simple math just multiplying fractions example 5 over 10 times 5 over ten is 25 over 100 which equals 25%. That's just after 7 draws the odds .0002 is 1 in 5000 so keep multiplying and that's how u get the true odds. Flipping a coin is 50/50 way higher than 30% and your still not getting 36 heads in a row.

They are literally Playing in our faces right now
Newkids06

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Apr 18, 2026, 2:51 am

Omg Jim that may be the issue. They need to be audited immediately cause this sounds like the same thing happening. Digits can't be duplicated. Omg I have thrown away majority of my tickets
Newkids06

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Apr 18, 2026, 3:11 am

Thank you Jim I made another discussion on this topic and credited you with bringing this to my attention. I really think the same thing is going on because it doesn't make sense and mathematically impossible

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