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My take on math and ball lotteryReply
The lottery ball machine (or RNG) doesn't decide in advance what the draw sequence will be. Draw sequence is something you can evaluate after the numbers have been drawn, but it's useless information. You don't win more money by betting on numbers to be drawn in a particular order. Any order will do. The machine does not choose numbers that were randomly selected in the last drawing, nor does it try to avoid choosing numbers that were randomly selected in the last drawing. It just picks numb
Dec 19, 2025, 8:24 am - Tucker Black - Mathematics Forum

My take on math and ball lotteryReply
Clearly you don't know how the lottery works if you think a fair drawing is not random.
Dec 20, 2025, 5:40 pm - Tucker Black - Mathematics Forum

Very interesting articleReply
The article discusses the usage of a probability concept towards complex things, like science or life events. I prefer to use the term likelihood rather than probability in those cases. A lottery drawing is so incredibly simple, there is no question that the probability of an outcome can be calculated precisely. Even for more complex games, such as blackjack, the house edge can be calculated exactly, but only for the first hand of the deck. To estimate the house edge for the average hand
Jan 8, 2026, 12:11 pm - Tucker Black - Mathematics Forum

Very interesting articleReply
I haven't even checked my list, because it's pointless as I did not buy one ticket. I only posted a list because you and Lotterologist wouldn't stop bugging me about it. I stated that publishing a list for pick 3 is pointless, so I finally just did the same myself. It is extremely unlikely that if you buy over a hundred pick 3 tickets, twice a day, for weeks on end, you will not lose . I looked up his California numbers one time, and sure enough, his list was a loser. Either you're g
Jan 9, 2026, 10:15 am - Tucker Black - Mathematics Forum

Covering Designs - MM and PBReply
Tokecap, The way I am reading these covering designs, they are not for PB or MM. I read them as games that are: 1) 69 or 70 balls covered in the design 2) 12 Balls are drawn each drawing 3) Coverage of at least one 3 ball hit guaranteed (assumed 100% coverage) 4) If 3 balls are in the 69 or 70 balls covered. CoverMaster says it takes about 30 lines of 5 numbers to reach a 100% 12,5,3,3 cover (12 numbers in each one of your lines). How are you planning to put these
Jun 3, 2026, 10:14 pm - IAmABadOne - Mathematics Forum