My horoscope for this week

[nigel]

My horoscope for this week, according to one Sunday tabloid, reads:

"This is not the time to wait patiently for that big opportunity. You
have to go out there and create luck yourself. It's important to be
totally switched on now. The stars are giving you the green light to put
plans into action and some astounding results can be yours. So be
adventurous. The bigger your expectations, the more you'll get."

I didn't read that until after I started converting one of my 6/49
systems into a 5/50.

Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:
1,14,22,26,34?

Evil Nigel

[nigel]

Winning Numbers: Yes, there were some :)

And I could have spent the Greek National Debt on tickets and my chance
of a 6-match would still have been zero.

[nigel]

Based on yesterday's exchange rate, a Euromillions ticket bought in
Euroland would cost you £1.59p. No wonder the Euromillions Raffle fund
is overflowing - 18 tickets to be drawn on Friday.

Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:

4,11,16,18,38?

Evil Nigel

[Rich]

What are the jackpot odds ?

[nigel]

Hi, welcome back.

Strange timing. I'd just given up posting forecasts for the Canada 6/49
draw because I thought no Canadians were around.

I've pasted the table below from
http://www.euro-millions.com/prizes.asp. No doubt the fomatting will be
all screwed up, but it's 1 in 116,531,800, with an estimated jackpot on
Friday of £51 million.

Evil Nigel


Match % Prize Fund† Odds of Winning Lowest Ever Prize Amount Highest
Ever Prize Amount Average Prize Amount Per Draw Lowest Ever Winners
Highest Ever Winners Average Winners Per Draw
5 + 2 32% 1 in 116,531,800 £12,000,000 £164,761,000*
£42,710,217 0 3 0.3
5 + 1 4.8% 1 in 6,473,989 £80,505 £3,314,251 £342,600 1 16 6.0
5 + 0 1.6% 1 in 3,236,995 £17,661 £308,364 £48,448 3 33 11
4 + 2 0.8% 1 in 517,920 £649.50 £7,227 £3,250 16 327 71
4 + 1 0.7% 1 in 28,774 £74.70 £217.10 £143.87 511 3,101 1,215
4 + 0 0.7% 1 in 14,387 £41.00 £108.30 £70.60 928 6,375 2,439
3 + 2 0.5% 1 in 11,771 £14.70 £72.10 £44.21 994 8,973 2,981
3 + 1 2.2% 1 in 654 £6.30 £15.50 £9.92 23,816 141,269 53,326
2 + 2 2.3% 1 in 822 £6.20 £21.50 £13.99 15,059 99,416 42,035
3 + 0 3.7% 1 in 327 £5.70 £11.40 £8.24 46,509 299,580 106,627
1 + 2 6.5% 1 in 157 £3.70 £11.50 £7.48 78,837 502,744 218,974
2 + 1 17.6% 1 in 46 £4.00 £8.30 £5.48 357,242 2,104,930 756,641
2 + 0 18% 1 in 23 £2.20 £3.50 £2.75 752,029 4,463,502 1,515,458

[Rich]

On 16/05/2012 2:12 PM, nigel wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>
>> On 16/05/2012 1:01 PM, nigel wrote:
>>
>>> nigel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Winning Numbers: Yes, there were some :)
>>>>
>>>> And I could have spent the Greek National Debt on tickets and my
>>>> chance of a 6-match would still have been zero.
>>>>
>>>> nigel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:
>>>>> 1,14,22,26,34?
>>>>>
>>>>> Evil Nigel
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Based on yesterday's exchange rate, a Euromillions ticket bought in
>>> Euroland would cost you £1.59p. No wonder the Euromillions Raffle fund
>>> is overflowing - 18 tickets to be drawn on Friday.
>>>
>>> Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:
>>> 4,11,16,18,38?
>>>
>>> Evil Nigel
>>>
>>
>> What are the jackpot odds ?
>
> Hi, welcome back.

Thanks, I have been lurking.

>
> Strange timing. I'd just given up posting forecasts for the Canada 6/49
> draw because I thought no Canadians were around.

I have been looking at your posts, you seem to be getting lots of
hits(3's & 4's). Are you doing better than you did in the World Lottery
Championship ?

>
> I've pasted the table below from
> http://www.euro-millions.com/prizes.asp. No doubt the fomatting will be
> all screwed up, but it's 1 in 116,531,800, with an estimated jackpot on
> Friday of £51 million.

Here in Canada we have Lotto Max. Right now the jackpot is $50 million.
Odds are approx. 1 in 86,000,000
Costs $5 Cdn. for one play(get additional 2 computer-generated plays).

Odds for Euromillions is quite steep. My advice is to get someone else
to go in with you on the ticket(50/50). Cut the cost in half. That's
what I do with Lotto Max.

[nigel]

I'm running the system on four lotteries now and on all of them it's
slightly outperforming expectation. Even after the abysmal result on
Saturday the CA 6/49 version is best by a fraction of a percent.

>
>>
>> I've pasted the table below from
>> http://www.euro-millions.com/prizes.asp. No doubt the fomatting will be
>> all screwed up, but it's 1 in 116,531,800, with an estimated jackpot on
>> Friday of £51 million.
>
>
> Here in Canada we have Lotto Max. Right now the jackpot is $50 million.
> Odds are approx. 1 in 86,000,000
> Costs $5 Cdn. for one play(get additional 2 computer-generated plays).

That wouldn't interest me. Why pay for three tickets when you only get
one 'decent' ticket and two probably inferior tickets? The only
beneficiaries are the operators.

I hate having to pay for the Euromillions Raffle entry as part of the
cost of buying a Euromillions ticket since there's absolutely no
opportunity for skill.

> Odds for Euromillions is quite steep. My advice is to get someone else
> to go in with you on the ticket(50/50). Cut the cost in half. That's
> what I do with Lotto Max.

I'm too much of a control freak to share :(

Evil Nigel

[nigel]

nigel wrote:
> My horoscope for this week, according to one Sunday tabloid, reads:
>
> "This is not the time to wait patiently for that big opportunity. You
> have to go out there and create luck yourself. It's important to be
> totally switched on now. The stars are giving you the green light to put
> plans into action and some astounding results can be yours. So be
> adventurous. The bigger your expectations, the more you'll get."
>
> I didn't read that until after I started converting one of my 6/49
> systems into a 5/50.
>

The UK's Health Lottery also has a 5/50 format.

Their website (http://www.healthlottery.co.uk/) has the draw results in
ascending order (http://www.healthlottery.co.uk/results/draw-history),
but they also post a link to videos of the draws on YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthLottery). There's a youtube facility
to show in sequence all 37 videos from user HealthLottery (there are
three adverts amidst the results videos). In Google Chrome I clicked on
'play all'.

After finding 28 bugs (some of them minor formatting errors) and getting
random videos displayed after halfway rather than sequential (no, I
han't clicked on 'shuffle'), I gave up and hunted for the vids individually.

Google, never knowingly testing their crappy software.

Anyway, I now have a complete set of Health Lottery results with the
numbers in drawn order. Oddly enough, I still have no inclination to
actually play this lottery, it's just an intellectual exercise.

Whoopie Dooo,

Evil Nigel

[Manfred]

On 16 Mai, 20:12, nigel <use...@nospam.com> wrote:

> ... snip

> Strange timing. I'd just given up posting forecasts for the Canada 6/49
> draw because I thought no Canadians were around.

> ... snip

Nigel,

I watch your CA postings and the results are better than expectations
for a random number generation. We should have the result for 100
drawings.

Following is a summary of your predictions.

You have now on average 3,06 numbers right numbers per drawing
(without bonus number).
The mathematical expectation is only 2,45 right numbers
for a random number prediction of 20 numbers.

Good luck, Manfred

CA 6/49 14th March
Fortune750: 20***,47BBB,48,18,25,12***,34,28,4,23,6***,
22,42,8,10,15,17,16,19***,14
Winning numbers: 6,9,11,12,19,20 bonus 47
Result: 4 right plus bonus number

CA 6/49 17th March
Fortune750: 35,26,33,25,31,24,2***,7,11,36,16,17***,47,46,30BBB,37***,
6,9***,40,15***
Winning numbers: 1,2,9,15,17,37 bonus 30
Result: 5 right plus bonus number

CA 6/49 21st March
Fortune750: 11,15,39,31,2,43,10,22,35BBB,8,21,27***,
9,26,20,49,42,16,46,37***
Winning numbers: 23,27,32,37,38,45 bonus 35
Result: 2 right plus bonus number

CA 6/49 24th March
Fortune750: 15,11***,43,3,39,34,2,28,1,45***,
47,19,10,26,31,29,37,22,32,6
Winning numbers: 11,20,23,28,40,45 bonus 14
Result: 2 right

CA 6/49 28th March
Fortune750: 24,16,6,29,12***,33,2,14,28,45***,
7,27,19,42,39,37,47,26,30,20
Winning Numbers: 5,10,12,18,25,45 bonus 15
Result: 2 right

CA 6/49 31st March
Fortune750: 20,12,4,35***,26,23,7,22,13,39***,45,34,48***,36***,
24,25,41,28,27,5
Winning Numbers: 33,35,36,39,48,49 bonus 42
Result: 4 right

CA 6/49 4th April
Fortune750: 45***,1,38,32,22,27,36,35,15,11,4,13,12,34,30,10***,
40,8,29,9
Winning numbers: 10,23,25,26,45,48 bonus 16
Result: 2 right

CA 6/49 7th April
Fortune750: 45,38,26,35,27BBB,14,19,43,11,23,34,13***,
30,31,28,15,18,39***,32***,6
Winning Numbers: 2,13,16,32,39,44 bonus 27
Result: 3 right plus bonus number

CA 6/49 11th April
Fortune750: 35,24***,41,16***,45,38,36***,
9,27,25,29,15,22,28,3,8,26,40,46,17
Winning Numbers: 1,2,16,24,36,49 bonus 33
Result: 3 right

CA 6/49 14th April
Fortune750: 35,23,42,22,11,7,29,49,34,33,24,18***,44,43,16***,
48,3,32,1,27
Winning Numbers: 14,16,18,20,26,47 bonus 13
Result: 2 right

CA 6/49 18th April
Fortune750: 36***,9,40,15,42BBB,38,5,1,18,23,32***,26,6***,
34,28,27,46,22,29,3
Winning Numbers: 6,10,11,16,32,36 bonus 42
Result: 3 right plus bonus number

CA 6/49 21st April
Fortune750: 21,40,13,44,23,30,9,31,45,43,18,20***,8***,34,10***,
7,41,3,14,26
Winning Numbers: 2,8,10,20,28,38 bonus 29
Result: 3 right

CA 6/49 25th April
Fortune750: 9,42,19,35BBB,14,31,8,20,29,36***,
41,4,38,30,13,44,16,26***,2,39***
Winning Numbers: 15,18,26,33,36,39 bonus 35
Result: 3 right plus bonus number

CA 6/49 28th April
Fortune750: 1,6,37,41,3,9***,13,2,32,18,19,24,29,26,48***,42***,
14,44***,36,15
Winning Numbers: 9,21,22,42,44,48 bonus 28
Result: 4 right

CA 6/49 2nd May
Fortune750: 36,49,43,47***,22,30,8,14,25,44***,13,33***,
12,31,4,5,15,24,45,48
Winning Numbers: 18,19,33,40,44,47 bonus 10
Result: 3 right

CA 6/49 5th May
Fortune750: 32***,21,23,36,2,20,38,45***,39,11,43,24,9,31,29,46***,
16,8,30***,6***
Winning Numbers: 5,6,30,32,45,46 bonus 41
Result: 5 right

CA 6/49 9th May
Fortune750: 13,5,45,16,14,30,10,6***,29,12,24***,
34,3,8,39,42,18,32,27,37
Winning Numbers: 2,6,15,19,24,38 bonus 9
Result: 2 right

[nigel]

Manfred wrote:

> On 16 Mai, 20:12, nigel <use...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
>>... snip

>>Strange timing. I'd just given up posting forecasts for the Canada 6/49
>>draw because I thought no Canadians were around.

>>... snip
>
>
> Nigel,
>
> I watch your CA postings and the results are better than expectations
> for a random number generation. We should have the result for 100
> drawings.

I wouldn't want to draw the attention of the religiously anti-scientific
faction which is currently ranting about someone posting Ontario 6/49
predictions.

I'll post more CA 6/49 forecasts if others join in too. Rich? Jack?

Evil Nigel

[nigel]

nigel wrote:

>
> Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:

> 4,11,16,18,38?
>

Winning Numbers: None of the above.

The beeb's logic continues to defy me.

Q: Shall we show the Thunderball draw or some clips of anonymous,
irrelevant dancing girls?

A: We're a taxpayer-funded public service broadcaster so we'll show the
dancing girls!!!!!!!!!

Evil Nigel

[Hot Wired]

nigel <use...@nospam.com> wrote in news:Da-dnSJLYsGY6CrSnZ2dnUVZ8h-
dn...@brightview.co.uk:

I'm very interested in your forecasts too!!

[Hot Wired]

Hot Wired <iam2g...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:4vPtr.2415$9Q6....@newsfe18.iad:

Any other Canadian lottery predictions? such as Western Canada 649?

[nigel]

Hot Wired wrote:

>
> Any other Canadian lottery predictions? such as Western Canada 649?

There are several, if not many, types of randomness. I haven't found
anything yet which adequately reproduces the type of randomness produced
by physical balls in a physical machine.

Western Canada 6/49 uses computer-generated numbers. I would expect that
systems devised to exploit the type of randomness produced by physical
machines wouldn't necessarily be effective against computer-generated
lotteries.

In any case, the system I use has performed only marginally better than
expectation so it certainly wouldn't be much help towards winning a
jackpot.

Evil Nigel

[nigel]

nigel wrote:
> nigel wrote:
>
>>
>> Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:
>> 4,11,16,18,38?
>>
>
> Winning Numbers: None of the above.
>

They claim an estimated jackpot of Ł58 million on Tuesday, but since the
unwon Friday jackpot was Ł53 million I suspect they've underestimated.

Are these 5 main numbers going to do well?

5,15,34,43,44

Evil Nigel

[nigel]

nigel wrote:
> nigel wrote:
>
>> nigel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Should I nip out and buy a Euromillions ticket with main numbers:
>>> 4,11,16,18,38?
>>>
>>
>> Winning Numbers: None of the above.
>>
>
> They claim an estimated jackpot of Ł58 million on Tuesday, but since the
> unwon Friday jackpot was Ł53 million I suspect they've underestimated.
>

Ł60 million jackpot but no winners. Ł70 million estimated for next draw
but probably more like Ł75 million.

> Are these 5 main numbers going to do well?
>
> 5,15,34,43,44

No!

Evil Nigel

[Nick UK]

Nigel (best pronounced 'niggle') wrote..

>>
>> Are these 5 main numbers going to do well?
>>
>> 5,15,34,43,44

> No!
>
> Evil Nigel

...........................................................

According to Colin, you are a decrepid, lonely, attention seeking Walter
Mitty idiot, who post 20 numbers without enumerating the lines played!
Tut-tut, Niggle! :-)

And why the heck weren't you aware of this..

> The only way you can claim the bonus number for UK payouts is to have
> 6 numbers correct in a line which means all combinations of six
> numbers amounting to 38,760 lines must be played. A 5 + B win at about
> £100,000 would be more than canceled out by the six draws with no wins
> costing £232,560.

What a lotto bollocks! My Gawd! Does this guy really takes the worst
gambling bet on the Planet - seriously?

Maybe he thinks that one day (with all his superior numbers knowledge) he
will win a Jackpot? Gawd forbid! If that happened, we'd never hear the end
of it!

Anyway, your latest 5-pick (5,15,34,43,44) didn't do well at all, but these
numbers in tonite's (22nd May) EuroMillions..

16-31-32-37-41.. did very well !!

Pity you hadn't picked 3, 4 or all of those numbers, Niggle: it might have
muffled the infinitely superior claptrap? Well, for a while at least! :-)

[nigel]

Nick UK wrote:
> Nigel (best pronounced 'niggle') wrote..
>
>>>Are these 5 main numbers going to do well?
>>>
>>>5,15,34,43,44
>
>
>>No!
>>
>>Evil Nigel
>
> ...........................................................
>
> According to Colin, you are a decrepid, lonely, attention seeking Walter
> Mitty idiot, who post 20 numbers without enumerating the lines played!
> Tut-tut, Niggle! :-)
>
> And why the heck weren't you aware of this..
>

Because he said that aformentioned person was posting predictions for
the Ontario 649?

>
>>The only way you can claim the bonus number for UK payouts is to have
>>6 numbers correct in a line which means all combinations of six
>>numbers amounting to 38,760 lines must be played. A 5 + B win at about
>>£100,000 would be more than canceled out by the six draws with no wins
>>costing £232,560.
>
>
> What a lotto bollocks! My Gawd! Does this guy really takes the worst
> gambling bet on the Planet - seriously?
>
> Maybe he thinks that one day (with all his superior numbers knowledge) he
> will win a Jackpot? Gawd forbid! If that happened, we'd never hear the end
> of it!

Those who can, do. Those who can't, preach.

>
> Anyway, your latest 5-pick (5,15,34,43,44) didn't do well at all, but these
> numbers in tonite's (22nd May) EuroMillions..
>
> 16-31-32-37-41.. did very well !!
>
> Pity you hadn't picked 3, 4 or all of those numbers, Niggle: it might have
> muffled the infinitely superior claptrap? Well, for a while at least! :-)
>

I actually played the numbers I posted, more fool me!

The trouble is that there is very little by way of 5/50 historical data
on which to base the system, so I've been using data from random.org
instead. I know the periodicity means it's probably not random at all,
but the poor results are confirmation of what I've found elsewhere, that
data from random.org is dissimilar to the sort of randomness produced by
ping-pong balls and tumble driers.

Evil Nigel