Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Random Lottery Number Picker Strategies

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There are two schools of thought with people that prefer to pick their own lotto numbers. The first is the school of thought of picking numbers that have sentimental meaning, like birthdays or other special dates. The second is the school of thought that you should pick random numbers. The debate of which method is better goes beyond the scope of this article. Rather, this article dwells into the second school of thought and provides some random lottery number picker strategies.

There are many different strategies you could use to pick random lottery numbers. Here are just a few:

  • Using a toy lottery ball machine. You must have seen these before. These are the toys where you shake up the balls and allow six of them to drop down, just as a real lottery ball machine would, except that it is a toy. You could usually find these in the dollar store.
  • Using a random number generator on the internet. There are many websites that you could find, just by querying a search engine, that could choose random numbers for you.
  • Using random numbers that come to you in real life. There are many possible ways to do this. For example, I write a blog about lottery winners and once wrote a story about a woman that used the first six numbers that appeared on the front page of her local newspaper to use as her lottery numbers. Guess what? She actually won the jackpot.

The above methods of choosing lottery numbers are purely random because you have no control over what numbers come up. Of course, there are many other random lottery number picker strategies that you could use, just be sure that they are purely random. If you have any control, whatsoever, as to what numbers come up, it is not random.


Thursday, June 14, 2012

Can a Lottery Algorithm Help You Win a Random Jackpot?

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By nature, lotteries are set up to be random. That is, each number has an equal chance at being drawn. Yet, there are many people that believe that there are lottery algorithms that can help you win the big jackpot. Is this for real? Can a lottery algorithm help you win a jackpot that is purportedly random?

First off, the definition of an algorithm is "a set of instructions for solving a problem." In this case, the problem to be solved is how to win the lotto jackpot. If there is an algorithm for this, then that same algorithm should apply to other random events, such as a coin toss. You know that if you flip a coin, there is a 50-50 chance as to which side it would land on. So, said algorithm should be able to predict how many times that coin would land on heads if, say, it was flipped 100 times. But that sound preposterous, doesn't it? So why should we believe it when it comes to lotteries?

There are many theories as to how to predict future lottery numbers. The most popular of the theories are the hot-number theory and the cold-number theory. I won't explain the gist of the two theories, but I could assure you that they are just the way they sound. Think back to the coin toss. Would you bet that in the future, the coin would land on heads a lot more times than tails just because in the past few tosses, heads have been hot? No, of course not. Why? Because coin tosses are random, just as lottery balls coming out of the machine are random as well. No algorithm can predict future lottery numbers.