Since deciding to go with only the power ball from here on, there have been 0 wins (not even the red ball).

But the value is there... for $4 I get a multiplier I opted into and a second chance on the double draw (which I also opted into). So for the price of $12 a week, I get the license to daydream.

Still using the app I made to try different picks, but the plan has been simple, pick a line through the followers and compare their positions on the classifier page.

The slide rule test did not result in anything different, only it was much more work on the spreadsheet side, so back to the app. Super easy, since followers do not work on their own, get 1 pick and play the same combo for 3 draws... then pick a new combo.

The concept of prediction is out the window, the app is more of a statistics displayer anyway... the total pick process is done on the Android version of the app and takes less than 10 minutes (per week!). The only thing that would be quicker would be to add a QP generator to the app. But for the same near zero chance of winning, I will go with what I have.

Lost, however, is the dream of "cracking the code" and "beating the system"... leaving my app as my "magnum opus" of my involvement with trying to impose order on chaos. I have converted all of my former lottery development time into this bioinformatics pursuit. I have solved 18 of 103 coding challenges in the "Bioinformatics Stronghold" at rosalind.info, and the work I had done in python trying to "solve" the lottery problems has been directly applied on several challenges.

It figures that I reach the end of the search just after solving how to automate draw updates... so much for reverse engineering randomness...