Maybe you should loose the sunglasses and grow a few brain cells. Adam's location is easy enough to confirm.
Rj's system fail was not from using to few numbers, IMHO. Not putting him down, just the method he was using.
He seems to have gave up and jumped on the jimbozo train of thought.
OK, now with that said, lets dig into the many reasons that playing a subset is a good idea. Example, lets say that
two people decide to play the lottery. P-1 randomly selects 5 numbers from a list of 39 numbers. The odds for each
prize is listed below.
match 5 = 1 in 575757
match 4 = 1 in 3386.8
match 3 = 1 in 102,6
match 2 = 1 in 9.6
match 1 = 1 in 2.48
match 0 = 1 in 2.06
P-2 plays a single line from a sub-set of 30 randomly selected numbers. Since 30 numbers will wheel into 142,506 lines
we can divide 575757/142506 and get 4.04 or 25% of the total matrix. From this we can conclude that safely assume that
1 of every 4 draws the winning set will come from the 30 number group. Since any 5 number combo can be drawn the odds
never change but on the draws where the 5 winning numbers come from the group of 30 numbers then we can calculate new
odds for any prize level hit.
match 5 = 1 in 142506 4.04xbetter
match 4 = 1 in 1140 2.97xbetter
match 3 = 1 in 47.5 2.16xbetter
match 2 = 1 in 6.19 1.55xbetter
match 1 = 1 in 2.25 1.10xbetter
match 0 = 1 in 2.68 <- the odds for not getting a single number in increased while prize paying matches go down.
Before the drawing both players have the same exact odds of 1 in 575757 but once the numbers have been drawn then
P-2 will have much better odds then P-1. Since 30 numbers have almost a 100% chance of matching 4 of the 5 winning
numbers the chances of matching 4 numbers do suffer but are not eliminated.
Question 1. Prove to me how playing all 39 numbers is better. Seems that you and your brain trust need to go back to
school. Remember, the person playing 5 numbers from the full pool and the person playing from the 30 number pool both
have the same exact odds for winning a prize before the drawing. This goes for any set of 5 numbers chosen.
jimbozo use to dance around this problem and would sidestep the issue every time he was asked to consider more than
one drawing. Bate and switch and then use straw-man arguments was his favorite trolling tactics, well that and when
successful he never failed to leave a demeaning comment trying to make his target look bad thinking it made him look
smart. I pity the people who fell into his snare.
Now, your the one that should hang up and go away.
RL
