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Probability of Repeats, Subsequent DrawsReply
Thanks Colin and RJOH . This is a TUFF game. It hurts my little.... Pea- Pickin' Pick3 head. The odds are just toooo much for me to use in my little methods. In the Pick-5 games ....I always picture it as me against the odds of about 10 college football stadiums ....each one of them holding about 50,000 people. During halftime they call out the winning ticket number at all 10 stadiums .......Yeah! it's me. I can handle that easy. ha ha. OK, I can dream that high ...one in 500,000. But......
May 14, 2004, 6:49 pm - WIN D - Mathematics Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Quote: Originally posted by wiseone2 on May 06, 2004I only attempted to use math (however inaccurately) to mainly save a lot of people some money. I personally don't think math and the lottery go together. It that were the case, the greatest mathematicians in the world would be winning the jackpots all the time.The greatest mathematicians in the world would know their odds of winning or losing a lottery. They would tell you if you told a person buying a ticket for a pick3 game that he would n
May 6, 2004, 9:03 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions 2004-04-27Reply
These are my picks for tonight.FILE : MM042704 1. 03 18 24 38 40 +32 2. 17 26 35 36 47 +20 3. 16 22 27 30 43 +24 4. 01 07 11 20 39 +30 5. 21 25 32 34 41 +40 6. 02 13 19 50 52 +09 7. 08 14 15 33 45 +44 8. 04 09 10 12 44 +14 9. 05 23 28 37 51 +15 10. 17 23 31 42 48 +08 11. 19 22 29 38 49 +07 12. 01 06 43 45 46 +25 13. 10 18 30 34 35 +22 14. 04 08 11 26 50 +29 15. 03 06 16 25 36 +05
Apr 27, 2004, 9:54 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball 2004-04-28Reply
Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on April 27, 2004Quote: Originally posted by prob987 on April 27, 2004You could spend 53 dollars and have a 100% probability of getting the powerball, simply by playing 53 tickets, each one having a different powerball. In this case you would save $101 dollars in your quest to have a three dollar (or possibly more) winner.You are confusing PowerBall with MegaMillions, it would only take $42. In the last sixty drawings, the powerball have have repeated in 35 dra
Apr 27, 2004, 12:16 pm - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

Number 2 as mb this week ?Reply
Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on April 21, 2004It has been 194 drawings (almost 2 yrs) since 2 came up as a megaball and you are suggesting that there is a 99% chance it may be another 237 drawings (over 2 yrs) before it comes up again? I think all 52 balls will have come twice in that amount of time if the present format last that long.RJOhThere is a finite, but small, possibility that it will never come in our lifetimes. The odds of winning the mega-millions is of course 1 in 135,145,920.
Apr 21, 2004, 1:02 am - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball 2004-04-17Reply
Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on April 17, 2004I didn't play tonight but if I had these would have been my picks.FILE : MM041704 12 22 26 37 52 +17 03 08 41 47 53 +24 04 09 16 27 32 +14 10 35 36 45 51 +29 13 14 31 44 49 +18 16 28 45 46 47 +27 13 23 32 37 51 +37 08 14 26 36 46 +12 03 09 12 35 44 +16 04 22 23 31 53 +04 10 12 14 28 41 +08 03 16 27 49 52 +13 10 28 37 46 53
Apr 18, 2004, 12:21 am - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball 2004-04-14Reply
These are my picks for tonight although I'm not actually playing. I'm waiting for a couple of more rollovers before I take my December tickets back to Indiana to cash them in.FILE : PB041404 08 10 39 43 46 +01 10 12 13 17 38 +02 04 16 18 28 47 +03 16 23 24 39 40 +04 11 31 41 44 47 +05 01 03 25 48 52 +06 09 11 22 35 43 +07 16 27 32 44 50 +08 06 10 22 34 47 +09 18 24 29 42 48 +09 09 26 37 39 4
Apr 14, 2004, 7:01 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

bot by billyloco for MM 4/6/04Reply
I used these parameters which covered 75%+ of the numbers in the MegaMillions history file.pos1 01 to 17pos2 06 to 32pos3 14 to 35pos4 21 to 49pos5 39 to 52range 21 to 50gaps 1 to 26sums 85 to 18551% of all previous drawings fell completely within these parameters. I added these additional parameters when picking combinations and comparing them to the previous 197 drawings.matched one 60-76matched two 7-17matched three 0-1The five numbers will have appeared in the latest 23 drawings a total of
Apr 6, 2004, 7:10 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Lottery programsReply
I agree with you all.MikeK,The results are more or less common probability results, but if there are certain results you don't want to repeat like combinations of 4's and 5's, you need to check the previous data, besides a sampling of the data will give you these results a lot faster than going through all the probability calculations. I've never seen any combinations of 4's or greater repeat back to back.Apagogeas,I agree, if after you figure something using paper and pencil and you want to kno
Apr 2, 2004, 7:41 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

The Virginia Syndicate - CA Fantasy 5Reply
Poet,I remembered that group being featured on the TV show How They Do That after they won. At the time the cash value of the jackpot was more than the odds of winning, so it was a good investment if they were the only winners. They managed to play 80% of the possible combinations by having exclusive use of several 7-11 stores terminals. Virgina changed their laws later to prdvent any one group of person having exclusive use of any terminals. As far I know any group or person can still buy
Mar 31, 2004, 2:24 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum