From: Jinks@Totopoly.co.uk   
      
   "nigel"  wrote in message   
   news:BP6dnan2FLI1oOr5nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...   
   > Hi MJ,   
   >   
   > Marmaduke Jinks wrote:   
   >> Hi Nigel   
   >>   
   >> I haven't looked at combinations in that way.  I'm sort of drifting away   
   >> from looking at the Lotto too deeply.   
   >>   
   >> My last big idea was to look at the Lotto like it was a Connect 4 board   
   >> (10*6 though).  Plot the last 4 or 5 draws on it and see where the   
   >> missing   
   >> hole was. I won some money using the Hotpicks Pick 2 - (combinations here   
   >> though like you said?).  Then the next time I wasn't so sure and did my   
   >> 11   
   >> as Hotpick1s and won £6 but a loss overall.   
   >>   
   >> Having downloaded the Nick Koutras spreadsheet and adapted it for the   
   >> 6/59   
   >> game this tells me what pairs are low. But I have the attention span of a   
   >> gnat these days.   
   >>   
   >> The Nick spreadsheet shows these as only having come up once (6/59 game)   
   >>       43.50   
   >>       2.26   
   >>       4.25   
   >>       24.54   
   >>       6.18   
   >>       33.38   
   >>       21.55   
   >>       53.55   
   >>       10.43   
   >>       28.28   
   > I must be misunderstanding - I thought you meant pairs in the same draw.   
      
   No that's overall   
      
   >>       19.25   
   >>       15.28   
   >>       24.59   
   >>       2.24   
   > Most of those aren't close to totalling 60, whereas 2&54 are. Do other   
   > popular pairs sum to close to 60?   
      
   No.  The 60 is 59 numbers and a space, it's not a sum.  Imagine a mix of   
   Connect 4 and Battleships. Play where there are gaps.  This newsgroup   
   doesn't do Binaries otherwise I'd upload a picture.   The gaps, where a   
   Connect 4 counter might have gone, gave 19 and 33 last night.  The player   
   could have made a Hotpicks2 success with that last night.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> But the top combo 2&54 has come up 18 times and we've had 797 draws of   
   >> the 6/59 game.   
   >>   
   >> Is there any mileage in it?   
   >>   
   >> MJ   
   >   
   > Given that the new lottery operators are allegedly planning to junk 6/59   
   > and go back to 6/49, probably not :-(   
      
   I'd not heard that.   
      
   >   
   > Nigel   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "nigel"  wrote in message   
   >> news:CuOdnUqblrcMy_L5nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...   
   >>   
   >>>Hi MJ,   
   >>>   
   >>>I understand you've experimented quite a bit with numbers of past draws   
   >>>and how likely they are to contain all the balls drawn in the next draw.   
   >>>   
   >>>Have you ever tried looking at it from a different angle, studying   
   >>>combinations to see whether some are more likely to lead to repeat   
   >>>numbers   
   >>>than others?   
   >>>   
   >>>Nigel   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Marmaduke Jinks wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>Jink's strategy was to take the last 4 draws (add in a number or two to   
   >>>>make   
   >>>>it to 24) and then randomly sort it.  That "variable" did win one year,   
   >>>>but   
   >>>>crashed badly this.   
   >>>   
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