Originally posted by djvexd
Also if you are not mathmatically inclined stick with your same numbers...don't do quick piks. You lessen the odds somewhat.
Not according to the Powerball people, (I am trying to find out how they draw the numbers) they say;
www.powerball.com...
WHICH HAS THE BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING: COMPUTER PICKS OR PLAYER PICKS?
About 70% to 80% of purchases are computer picks. About 70% to80% of winners are computer picks. Perhaps just one of those weird coincidences?
Okay, back to trying to find out how the numbers are drawn. Now I am curious if it really would be possible to determine if some balls are
statistically more likely to be drawn.
Edit to add; I actually wrote a question to the powerball people and asked how they draw the numbers.
They are really drawn like you see on TV. We use hard rubber balls in a gravity-based machine. The machine does not blow the balls around.
They are mixed in a drum. The balls are too heavy to be blown around.
Not that there is anything wrong with computer RNG numbers (if it is built correctly). We do use a computer RNG to pick the Power Play number. This
is an RNG that we built ourselves, and had tested by an independent firm. We also build and sell the RNG to a dozen lotteries. Our RNG is unique in
that it is a TRUE-RNG. It contains radio-active material and a Geiger counter. The random numbers are based on the unpredictable release of protons.
It is the only one like it in the lottery world – all other machines are PSEUDO-RNG.
The machines were manufactured for us by Smartplay International. They are a custom design, but very similar to the Halogen line of machines.
They are quick answerers.
I also found this on a website that was debunking lottery winning system scams and outlining possible ways to actually do better. They already had my
assumption in the mix, here is their take on it.
www.solidsoftware.com.au...
4. Use of Past Winning Numbers
Some people base their games on sets of past winning numbers. Their subjective reasoning goes like this: if there is any bias in the balls or the
machinery used to draw them, then the most biased numbers will be amongst the winning ones more often. Some people then, simply put on the last X
winning combinations of six numbers.
As an example of people probably doing this, look to Draw number 916 (Tuesday, 29th January 1991) in the NSW database. There was an extraordinary high
number of First Division winners, 85 of them! As it happens, the same 6 winning numbers (1, 6, 29, 30, 40, 42), were the winning combination back in
Draw number 817 on Monday the 19th of February 1990, less than a year earlier. [This earlier draw is not in the NSW database on the disk, as it was
the earlier GoLotto game which had only one supplementary number rather than the current two.]
This was a fun topic. I learned a lot of stuff, and I will have to try out all my new knowledge, (which basically says that there really are no good
systems) on Wednesday.
[edit on 12-1-2009 by Illusionsaregrander]
