[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?
Sorry I’m not convinced AT ALL by the Liam explanation’s given for being Rigged! The methods given for the possible rigging of the ball’s is like living in the 50’s!
It’s far better and more sophisticated than that.
One question?
How long have you worked for them?
I blame the aliens.
There needs to be a like button under comments. I couldn’t agree more with you Hugh.
Absolutely. See, it was the aliens.
I’ve been playing ever since they started the lottery. I been playing the same numbers over and over. I probably hit about three times out of 4-5 years. And right now if I was to hit it still won’t make up for the money I already spent. So my problem is can someone help me find some good numbers to play. Please help.
Hi John
I think you need to look at the big picture of your overall strategy first (get my course here – it’s free). And remember that fun is part of the point of playing 🙂
I agee about all these softwares being junk – simple reason THEY CANNOT see what we see or feel what we feel therefore what you get is 100’s of combinations based on your numbers you put in wheeled to best possible outcome if two constants hit.
Heck I can do that on my own. Pick out my current hot groups of numbers using my charts, at least have 15 numbers now on seperate pieces of paper. Wheel key numbers, like maybe I see number 40 and number 19 in same pattern as before and they both compliment each other as in favorite pairs.
So I see also last draw that very possibly a switch back to higher half, 30 – 42 but I wouldn’t hit all 6 I figured to have a double digit in 1st number slot and # 1 came in… however if I made my 15 plays for $30 I would have several tickets with 3 numbers or 4, and maybe 5 numbers which pays $1000.
That’s what I’m focusing on, the lower prizes which are far easier to win than trying to hit pick 3 numbers which only pay $500. I could play 200 numbers daily for a month and never win! That’s $6000 dollars gone. How can I recover that loss?
I also know how to gather the forces in the universe to train my brain to live my life as if I’m already wealthy!
NO DEBT house in perfect shape and shiny new car in driveway.
Laters all.
Target 6 out of 40 on my Island.
I have been analysing the results, and could not see any pattern to enable a proper prediction of the lotto results.
I have reduced the numbers to half. For sometime, I regularly won 3 out of 6. After some months with winnings, I no longer win anything, except rarely a 3 out of 6. Buying a lot more combinations increases the chances, but it means throwing money in the drain for most people.
The Law of probability may not be useful when there is no pattern to follow!
I have one question: How on a small Island with a rather small population, does somebody win the jackpot nearly every 4 weeks!? 6 out of 40.
Can Foreigners play the USA LOTTO?
Cheers! Good Luck.
Lottery is a random game. If you are lucky, you could win.
If lottery is random, explain this . I get a lot of free tickets ( 2 numbers right) on Fantasy Five in Florida. When I go to cash them in, I always get some of the numbers on the ticket that was on the ticket I turned in. If I think I /have good numbers for the next draw , I cash in my free tickets after I play my tickets for the night. The computer always includes some of the numbers I picked for the draw.
Weird, but true.
People win ALL the time due to the amount of people playing and betting. Lottery is all about the Law of Large Numbers.
If you’re relying on statistics and technology to win the lotto for you and spending thousands to hit big just once, how much have you really won? Hmmmmm get real people! luck L-U-C-K! is what its all about, oh yea fun too!
I agree with you on the luck point – luck will ALWAYS be the deciding factor.
But if you only spent ‘thousands’ to ‘hit big’, I think most people would be extremely happy with that 😉
LG
One time the men who run the lottery in Pittsburgh fixed the game. They put weights in nine of the balls and they got caught and went to jail.
Sure did – I actually did a post about the Pennsylvania lottery scandal here which you might find interesting. It was back in the 1980’s.
I need a three digit powerful number a four digit powerful number a Powerball powerful number and a Mega Millions powerful number.
What do you mean by a ‘powerful number’..?
And why so many different games?
Hi, I have been reading the comments on here about number prediction. I do understand randomness in numbers and how “impossible” it is to actually predict the next number in a sequence.
However, in my approach, I take a slightly different angle on prediction. I have noticed from time to time that numbers for a lottery ball quite often form a (rough) sine wave when plotted – i.e. if a number is quite low for that ball, the next one will be higher and then lower, higher, etc.. So, my approach is to do a visual prediction on a graph of roughly where the ball is likely to drop in a range of numbers. E.g. If the last few values drawn were 28, 18, 26, 17, 30 (for ball 3 EuroMillions a few weeks back) – then I would look at the chart at numbers below 30 (expecting the next one to be lower), then select a random number in the area where it “looks” like dropping following the wave pattern. Lo & behold, the next number was 23!
Even if the numbers do not form a sine-like wave, you can still visualise where the next number “should” go even by just tracing my finger along the curves and seeing where my finger logically wants to go next! (Is that laughter I hear?) I have been very close on many occasions with my predicted numbers being 1, 2 or 3 out or bang on the money. Sometimes, of course, it defies my finger logic and goes where no lottery ball should… but that’s the “…%*&@ that shouldn’t have happened …” moment.
I have put all of this into a windows program which tells me where it “believes” the next ball will land – usually a range of 5 – 8 numbers and then it selects a random number within that range. I only look at the last 15 draws to get a handle of the wave and it selects the correct “next area” around 60%-75% of the time. So instead of tring to predict 5 numbers out of 50, its predicting 1 number in 6 or 7 possible numbers for each of the 5 balls. I’m not sure I would call it a system but just a different approach.
Interesting approach for sure, but I can’t help wondering if this is very close to that old friend “it seems to work”. Which usually translates into being all too close to ‘stuff that just happens in randomness’.
The other way to look at it is – why would the numbers behave in this way, what about the way the balls bounce around in that plastic drum would cause this effect.
Sounds fun though.
I agree with the sine wave (or similar) analogy, it seems that in a fair game, that the number occurrences will tend to even out over time so it gives the impression of a wave-like “motion” as some numbers tend to “catch up” so that given the draw history one would think that the wave “period” could be extracted and provide groups of likely numbers that can be selected to reduce the number of combinations required to win a prize. At the moment, I’m trying a different approach as I don’t have the math skills yet to determine that statistical wave length, currently, I’m wheeling all 45 numbers (Australian Tattslotto) with a 2 from 6 guarantee giving me 22 games (AUD$16/week), although you need a minimum of three numbers to win something, this has won one or two of the lowest three divisions in nearly half the draws on average (since Nov 2022 when I started using this method) (18 wins out of 34 games) although the prize isn’t enough in most cases to cover the ticket cost, it does offset the cost of playing while I try other experiments which is a lot of fun! I don’t know if my wheel is optimal (I used an old Covermaster program to generate it) so it is possible that a more economical wheel could do better, but an algorithm that would provide similar results with fewer combinations (i.e. a smaller pool of numbers to wheel) would get me closer to my goal of frequent small wins that return more than the cost of entry!