[This is the continuation of a discussion about lottery prediction that originated on my reviews of lottery systems page. It was getting too long there so I’ve brought it over here to a new post for reply]
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Lottery Prediction: Can Numbers Be Predicted?
I am interested on UK Lotto & Euromillions lottery prediction, but I am not successful. I not interested in syndicates at all.
Pls help me.
I think you need to actually read the post Bazlur..! 🙂
Hi ,
I’ve been following this post and want to comment on lottery prediction. I’ve seen a ton of systems if not at least looked into most or all them on predictions, and it is my opinion there is no such thing! No one can predict the lottery and there’s been a lot of money made from these scamsters stating they can.
1st, if they could, do you really think they’d expose it?? Why? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
2nd, the lotteries would go broke, anyone ever watch Bruce Almighty? If you have then you get it.
Now I can go on and on about it but won’t. There are systems that can possibly reduce your odds I will say that, but that’s it, also
(I’m really throwing in a wrench here) I know for a fact because I’ve kept data for several years now on my lotteries that they due to tend to have patterns. And that’s as close as you’re going to get, they follow certain trends, and repetitions, and if you can predict the trend, and time it right you can win something. I’ve done it so I know it works, you have to do your homework and the average person just doesn’t want to take the time and effort to put into it! Cash 3 was stated as a waste of money and time, I disagree totally! I win consistently small and occasionally hit a straight I then use that money to pay for the larger games by using “their money”.
I was with you right up to the wrench 😉
Thing is you can’t have it both ways. If you can’t predict the results then you can’t predict patterns either. This sounds to me like one of those cases where it seems to work for a while, then it doesn’t. It’s just vague enough to convince you there’s something there, when actually it’s just down to luck.
Same with Pick 3 – I certainly don’t doubt your honesty, but I suspect you’re either not tracking the full story or on a short term profit due to luck. That’s why I say it’s the same as playing a slot machine – it tempts you with enough wins to keep you interested, but it all goes back in and the house always wins. And just like with slot machines, it leads you to remember the wins and be a bit more forgetful of the times you didn’t. If it were possible to profit from Pick 3, the lotteries would go bust there too – or withdraw the game.
Hi
I can understand your point, but I forgot to mention one thing.
Discipline! I don’t play every night, I’m one of those who have learned you have to patient and pick when to play, I think this is a BIG mistake lottery players make, I’d like to know how many times someone may have won a small prize they get excited and immediately go back and try again? You have to exercise patience, (back to the pattern thing) when I see a pattern forming is when I’ll study the past and see if I can predict the future. That has worked for me.
“OK – but I wouldn’t describe it as my opinion :-).”
Pretty arrogant there guy. Why is it that the less you know the more sure you are that you are right about everything?
First of all, your basic OPINION is wrong: there is no such thing as randomness. Randomness is an imperfect perception of a perfect world. It’s basically a cop-out that results from a small intellect conjoined to a large ego. The ego is making an excuse. The illusion you call randomness is actually the accumulation of so many forces acting on a object that they cannot all be accounted for. This is one of the basic assumptions of scientific inquiry — if you can control the factors affecting an outcome, you can repeat an experiment.
Now that you have been properly humbled, your conclusion is RIGHT. The lottery’s system of choosing numbers is meant to stay ahead of the players and be as unpredictable as possible.
One of the commenters wrote that she thought that the weight of the balls could affect the outcome. She obviously understands “randomness” better than you do, and for all our sakes, so does the lottery. They change the balls regularly.
Maybe if you’d read more of what I’ve written Steve you wouldn’t have been quite so quick to misunderstand 🙂
My ‘opinion’ was that prediction is not possible, based as I said on the evidence. Not that lotteries are perfectly random. I’ve always maintained that lotteries are ‘random enough’ as to be unpredictable.
But thanks for the contribution anyway 🙂
“The world is full of genuinely brilliant scientific, engineering and mathematical minds who have not won the lottery. Food for thought?”
They have good jobs. The lottery is a tax on the poor.
A good job doesn’t create the same freedom of work or play as a lottery jackpot.
(Yes, people on low incomes are disproportionately represented, but the other half of players are not on low incomes)
But the point being of course… why haven’t those brilliant minds predicted the results and collected a jackpot, if it were possible.
“the lottery is a tax on the poor”
I disagree completely! A tax is not my choice to pay. Buying a lottery ticket is. No one is telling me “buy a ticket or go to jail”. They do say pay my taxes or go to jail.
The Pick 3 can be predicted kind of in a sense, for example if the number is 305 within 2 weeks it’ll be another 30 or 05. Just about picking the right other digit, I hit a lot doing that. Not 100% guarantee but it works.
It would be great if it did work – but I think what you’re really seeing here is just luck at play, probably together with a bit of misperception (remembering when it works – YAY!, and not remembering when it doesn’t – just human nature and easily done unless you meticulously track everything).
You’re actually ‘covering’ 20 different combinations for anywhere from 12 to 48 draws (if I understood correctly & depending on where you live) with this rule, so chances are pretty good that you would be right by pure luck. But you’d still lose more than you won – always the end result with Pick 3.
Hi,
There is too much mumbo jumbo about how maths etc might help you win the lottery. Nobody is ever going to come up with a system to win on six numbers.
—But————
If the lottery was on a daily basis there are ways to predict 2 or 3 numbers simply by pattern.
I do the 49’s bookmakers lottery twice a day. Same as the lotto, 1-49 numbers. I’ve been doing it for 20 years and have had some “biggish” wins simply by following that 2 or 3 numbers come out on certain days more than others. It’s not fool proof, what is, but one example I will give is that there is an 80% chance that 33 will always come out on a weekend and 38 for some reason seems to like Thursdays, lol.
Just my own little system and it might seem mad but I have had good little wins by numbers liking certain days.
Here is my sure-fire method for winning lottery millions, which is bound to work just any day now. 1) Take the right hand from a corpse that has been hanged at the crossroads at midnight. 2) Get three fresh feathers from a local Dodo bird. 3) At the stroke of midnight on a night of the New Moon, wave the feathers over the hand while praying to Euclid, and recite your chosen numbers. 4) When this works, send me 25%.
I’m struggling with the fresh Dodo feathers Seth – will frozen do? 😉
I believe there is more chance of the lotto guys rigging the system to make it jackpot all the time, as the game stops taking bets at least 2 hours before the game is drawn – it would only take a weighted ball to change the draw.
You’ll enjoy my post about the Nick Perry Lottery Scandal Jon 🙂
Hi LG,
Thank you for your informative comments.
It all helps for the beginners and veterans to understand the name of the game. The people behind the lottery set up won’t be in business if there is no profit. Simple.
Their Mega computers makes sure that of all the numbers chosen by players, a short list of numbers for that particular Draw (event) is drawn up that effectively
gives the Lottery the winning edge in staying in business. I have drawn up 3 lines of 15 numbers = 45. Never to be changed.
The best I can do is wait for a possible 4 or more in one line. Not too long ago 7 numbers came up in the 1 line of 15 numbers and with the filters in place the best I could was 30 hits with 3 full 5’s