Lotto randomness

johnph77

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higgy said:
A link to a free download on "When Are State Lotteries a Good Bet"
It was in 1993 an Australian consortium tried to buy the Virginia and Florida
state lottery winning tickets.............
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3620/is_200101/ai_n8950541/pg_1
Yep -they attempted to purchase tickets with all possible combinations to ensure themselves a jackpot win. But the risk they took is that, if there were multiple jackpot winners, the money would have been equally divided between them. The consortium, having bet millions of dollars, might not have won enough to cover their bets.
 

tomtom

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t.lawler said:
I would bet that in a pick 3 lotto the house sets the pay out percentage at close to 50% of the
money bet.

Truly all I am saying is that the house sets the pay out and that is why they get x%.

sorry TL,

I was wrong about this game since I was looking at the pick4 game, and therefore was thinking that the same rules are for the pick 3 you were talking about...and you are right...it seems they may have different rules...since , it looks pick 3 IS an obviously 50% prizes payout game, with a shared money among winners in a prize category..

well, I think you may have also a possibility to see a draw on the net if you are interested...

quite a few good facts around it in my opinion, including somewhat not any bad odds for a try...
 

tomtom

Member
tomtom said:
sorry TL,

I was wrong about this game since I was looking at the pick4 game, and therefore was thinking that the same rules are for the pick 3 you were talking about...and you are right...it seems they may have different rules...since , it looks pick 3 IS an obviously 50% prizes payout game, with a shared money among winners in a prize category..

well, I think you may have also a possibility to see a draw on the net if you are interested...


quite a few good facts around it in my opinion, including somewhat not any bad odds for a try...

And, it seems that , because it is a game of chance, prize cold be much higher than expected …could be a bit lower though, since fluctuates around $500 for a straight win, and other amounts for other prizes respectively…

But, it would be quite nice if lucky enough and experiencing winning something like $700 for $1 bet while odds are 1:1000….not sure any many lottery games at any lottery retailers in the world would have such good prize for the odds…

Quite a nice and interesting game for a try , imho ...:agree:

Is it offered online ?
 

acquah

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Charts and comparisons for winning 5/90 lotto

Hello,
I live in Ghana and over here 5 numbers are drawn from 1 to 90.For so many years now I have never won this lotto game,please help me with charts for winning this 5/90 lotto.I am trusting you to help me.Thanks alot.
Acquah
 

Skoaler

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Originally Posted by johnph77
Interesting quote. To add fuel to the fire, 70% of US PowerBall tickets sold are quick picks, and 70% of the drawings have been won by quick pick tickets.....

On the other hand I like doing the analyses and comparisons.....


But could this be because the (vast) majority of the tickets sold were quick pics? And only a few use smart pic systems-or random?.. If say out of 1 million players and 790,000 of them were quick pics and the other 210,000 were random or smart pics then obvious logic would conclude that 70% of the winning tickets were by quick pickers. These reports are like how the media does stuff.. They make it sound as if 50% of the tickest sold were quick pics and the other 50% were random pics "And lo and behold! the quick pickers beat the random pickers by 70%" Do not give up the smart pic,everybodys seen it..a cold number out for 20,30 days depending on what game..and you watch it come up..There's nothing random about it -that number (has) to come up..and that tells you..thankx that most play quick pics,cause out of that 70% most also loose.:santa:
 

Skoaler

Member
If you are rich and do not care about money you can win at every draw. You just need to spend ca. 14 million per draw and you will always win no matter what machine they use.

I always thought this would make the coolest movie..A super rich person hires a large staff to fill out tickets all generated into a central computer covering almost all aspects of the number spread and have another staff of people go into 7-11's all over the state to cash in.. and thus eventually he wins everytime becoming the Grinch that stole the lottery! :santa:
 

zeloc

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Dennis Bassboss said:
But I agree 100% with that text (and link)that is stating that basically it is not good to play quick picks....Only luck or ''flukes'' can make you win with these... :agree:
Nobody on earth has the same DNA ...besides twins...An error in ramdomness...??? And there are many twins (repeaters)in many lotto to this date if not all...And there is always going to be that way otherwise it wouldn't be ramdom...
This reminds me of a guy once talking about the U.F.O. phenomenom...another very religious person started to give up these arguments trying to prove that it doesn't exist...
1- We never saw one before
2- The distance involved to and from another world is too far...
3- There's no water outside of earth...Therefore no life..
4- It's only in people imagination....
The first guy said ...''Then why do you believe in god???''
:lol: My point is that I can use these same arguments you are using to go into another direction....Prove to me that I can't hit... :lol:

No two persons have identical DNA because they are so many possibilities, probably trillions, that even with total randomness there will not be two persons who are identical. There are repeaters in lotteries with total randomness because the number of possibilities are not so great. Randomness only implies equal probabilities, or that there is no relationship between a past drawing and a future drawing.

Even if lotteries are not totally random (because it is very difficult to achieve true randomness), why would this imply that there is a relationship between past winning numbers and future numbers? I see persons with long lists of past winning numbers looking for a relationship, but if you consider the machine that determines the winning numbers, why should there be any relationship with the past, and if you are considering individual balls, well these balls are changed frequently by the lottery people so that 33 in a past drawing may not even be the same 33 in the current drawing. This is why I do not see the point in looking at patterns from old numbers as a means to predict the future. The other thing I find strange is the idea of "hot" and "cold" numbers and the fact that the winning set tends to be a combination of hot and cold numbers. You could assign any arbitrary name to 2 different kinds of numbers, and assign them totally randomly, so that hot numbers actually have no increased frequency and cold numbers don't have a decreased frequency, in the past. Lo and behold, you will find that there are a equal number of these "hot" and "cold" numbers in the winning ticket. It is the nature of random number generation and has no meaning whatsoever. Whatever kind of labels you give to numbers and from whatever means of assigning them, it will turn out that there is a mix of 2 different kinds, and this has no meaning.
 

jack

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aleatorio

Hello in lottery can only be mathematically predict with confidence with up to 70%
The 30% will then be in a random lottery of 49/06 can be expected until 3-4 numbers
The rest is sort of a bet (random)Ouvir
 

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