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To: Vermont Lt

Though the effects — bias, insufficient stirring, etc — were there they weren’t enough to get one wheel I constructed for the Texas Lottery to “win” more than 1 dollar for every 6 spent (had I bought the tickets, iirc it would have been $45 a play). The problem is, succinctly, that if you have enough numbers to get bias to really work for you a triplet wheel too easily absorbs them into unproductive combinations while a doublet wheel quickly becomes far too expensive. Insufficient stirring or avoiding extremes of combined number value helps a little but not enough ... even then it’s just luck is choosing what numbers form any given triplet (or doublet).

I would point out that the 5+1 powerball prevents such wheel tactics as triplets or doublets ... though the powerball itself disproportionately seems to fall in the 60s the only time I checked.

Lotteries are taxes on people who don’t understand math. If you do understand math you can go broke a tiny bit less slowly though.


13 posted on 04/29/2020 8:42:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

Mistype ... a tiny bit less quickly...


14 posted on 04/29/2020 8:44:07 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I would point out that the 5+1 powerball prevents such wheel tactics as triplets or doublets ... though the powerball itself disproportionately seems to fall in the 60s the only time I checked.
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Thanks for the tip...I am waiting for Powerball jackpot to grow...$43 million is not big enough...


16 posted on 04/29/2020 8:49:01 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
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