Some years ago, I read a book (the title and author of which escapes me) where the author suggested playing the Pick-3 lottery by using the geographical coordinates of a location where a newsworthy dvent occured.
This came to mind recently, and I decided to check out the system using the drawings of September 11, 2001, and the coordinates of New York City (40-42-51 N, 74-00-23 W).
If I remember correctly, the system worked by placing the coordinates in sequence in a single line, then breaking them up into three digit segments, so the numbers that would be played in this case would be 404-042-425-251-517-174-740-400-002-023.
There were 45 Pick-3 games that day, counting mid-day, evening and Pick-4 games that allowed a pick-3 option. There were 2 straight wins, 2 boxed wins, 5 where 2 out of 3 were correct when played straight, 18 where 2 out of 3 were correct when boxed, and 18 that weren't close at all.
The data:
AZ 873
CA 099
CT 017 (2/3 straight)
CT 265 (2/3 boxed)
DE 123 (2/3 straight),
DE 860
DC 030 (2/3 boxed)
DC 835
FL 719 (2/3 boxed)
GA 181
GA 888
ID 423 (2/3 straight)
IL 174 (straight win)
IL 914 (2/3 boxed)
IN 703 (2/3 boxed)
IN 950
IO 174 (straight win; same number as IL)
KS 235 (2/3 boxed)
KY 575 (2/3 boxed)
KY 700 (2/3 straight)
LA 656
ME 968
MD 368
MD 985
MA 7070 (2/3 boxed, first and last three)
MI 075 (2/3 boxed)
MI 309 (2/3 boxed)
MN 585
MO 663
NJ 352 (2/3 boxed)
NY 038 (2/3 boxed)
OH 304 (2/3 straight)
OH 327 (2/3 boxed)
OR 1715 (2/3 boxed first three, boxed win last three)
PA 952 (2/3 boxed)
RI 5984
TX 738
VA 230 (boxed win)
VA 255 (2/3 boxed)
WA 075 (2/3 boxed)
WV 560
WI 688
Thoughts? Opinions? Has anyone ever used this system?
