Lottery Tools

The first record of a Lottery game was around 200 BC, during the Han Dynasty in China. At various times throughout history, lotteries were used as a means of raising money for defense or to fund a war effort. In fact, the Continental Congress used a lottery to raise funds to fight the Revolutionary War back in 1776. In every case, as long as the game was fair, every player had the same chance of winning. But, historically, the games weren’t always fair. As a result of this checkered past, lotteries were outlawed in the US for many years. Then in 1964, New Hampshire created the first lottery of the 20th century. This begins, what has been called, the modern era of the lottery.

Lotteries have now become so popular that they have spread around the world to nearly every country. People the world over love the lottery and ticket sales number in the Billions each year. And with this growth, we’ve witnessed a cultural phenomenon. Historically, cultural changes evolved slowly over centuries. But, no longer. Within the span of one lifetime, the world has gone from no computers to nearly everybody having access to a PC. This has serious implications for our society overall, but my focus is the lottery.

Some people still rely on their reasoned beliefs that were formed before computer power was available to them. Many old well reasoned ideas and beliefs, have not kept pace with the rapid advance of technology. Many old beliefs have become myth and fiction. Old truths have transitioned to lies, cultivated by misconceptions and misunderstandings. Old ideas and thinking die hard. It’s time to reevaluate the validity of old beliefs in the revealing light of the computer age.

In the old days, no one had access to a computer, but, today, your PC has more computing power than an IBM 360 mainframe computer had in 1965. It would be simply naive to assume that a computer and some good Lottery Tools could not shed some light on our favorite, mathematically rich pastime; the lottery.

That’s the topic of my next post.

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Winning the Lottery

As those of you who have been following my blog are probably aware, an exciting new lottery concept evolved before your very eyes; your Lottery Footprint. The idea came to me as a result of writing this blog, it germinated here and grew into a new lottery tool that will be included in the next generation of the Lottery Number Advisor. The lottery is fertile ground for new concepts and ideas and being a part of the evolution of lottery software is very exciting.  It’s been said, ‘Don’t tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!’  We use these words to inspire our R&D efforts to find new and better Lottery Tools so that LONA™ continues to evolve and improve.

Some of you have asked if the Lottery Footprint can be applied to other lotteries? In my examples, I used the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery but the Lottery Footprint is a universal tool applicable to any lottery. So here is an example of the Lottery Footprint being applied to a 5 number lottery; specifically the Florida Fantasy Five 5/36 lottery.

For convenience, LFP formula is repeated here.

LFP = tickets purchased /# of possible wagers in Millions

For the FL536 lottery the denominator (# of possible wagers in Millions) will be smaller than the TX654 lottery.  In fact the number of possible wagers is 376,992. This is considerably smaller than the 25+ million for the TX654 and, as should be expected, the size of the lottery jackpots are considerably smaller also.

If you buy 1 tickets, your LFP is 1/0.376992 or 2.65. This is the lowest LFP for the FL536 lottery. If you buy 25 tickes, you have increased your LFP to 66.31.

But, being a Serious Lottery Player, you want to improve your coverage even more without spending more money.  So, the first thing you are going to do is develop a reduced Play List. In this example, you reduced the Play List to 28 numbers which reduces the number of possible wagers to 98,280.  The result is that your LFP increased to 25/.0928 or 269.40. Not bad.

Of course, you can do even better by applying Restrictions as I have demonstrated in previous posts.

So, if you think you’re a serious player, the sky isn’t the limit anymore. Wherever you want to go, the Lottery Number Advisor can take your there.

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