Let's Win the Lottery

[LaSexorcisto]

I am fully aware that this will sound like absolute bat shit crazy talk, so I figured GFY is the best place to ask it.

I've been developing an app that analyzes millions of lottery data points and has gotten very close to detecting patterns in my lottery drawings. The problem is I don't have nearly enough computing power to analyze the billions of data points needed to make feasibly accurate predictions. I only have 12 computers used to process right now. That is not nearly enough to perform the billions of calculations needed.

Cash is the only issue. I don't have thousands to spend on Google or Amazon compute services. I've already tried a Threadripper 96 thread from MojoHost but I need many more computers than that.

If anyone knows someone with a lot of servers available who may consider partnering with me to run my program on sufficient computing hardware, please ask them to mail me at [email protected] and I will show them how it works and discuss working together.

[k0nr4d]

Originally Posted by LaSexorcisto

I am fully aware that this will sound like absolute bat shit crazy talk, so I figured GFY is the best place to ask it.

I've been developing an app that analyzes millions of lottery data points and has gotten very close to detecting patterns in my lottery drawings. The problem is I don't have nearly enough computing power to analyze the billions of data points needed to make feasibly accurate predictions. I only have 12 computers used to process right now. That is not nearly enough to perform the billions of calculations needed.

Cash is the only issue. I don't have thousands to spend on Google or Amazon compute services. I've already tried a Threadripper 96 thread from MojoHost but I need many more computers than that.

If anyone knows someone with a lot of servers available who may consider partnering with me to run my program on sufficient computing hardware, please ask them to mail me at [email protected] and I will show them how it works and discuss working together.

May I ask what sort of 'data points' there are besides the numbers that are drawn? The number of winners, the number of tickets sold, etc cannot possibly have an impact on the drawn numbers so what are you using since analizing the frequency of the drawn numbers would be an operation that takes a few seconds on a 386? Humidity in the room where the numbers are drawn? Wear on the balls?

[Publisher Bucks]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Humidity in the room where the numbers are drawn? Wear on the balls?

Actually made me LOL

[k0nr4d]

Originally Posted by Publisher Bucks

Actually made me LOL

It could actually affect it - if one ball is made of slightly more pourous material, it could potentially absord slightly more water thus making it slightly heavier and by extention affecting it's bounciness and thus making it more (or less) likely to be selected. However you don't know the temperature or humidity in the room where the drawing happens - only the outside conditions in the city it's in.

However - even with that said, we still come back to the main data point - the frequency with which specific numbers drop, and this data is freely available https://www.usamega.com/powerball/statistics

Data across various lotteries would be useless because the balls would be different. There's no correllation in the results between two different machines running two different sets of balls in two different places. If I were to put 69 numbered balls into a bag in front of me right now, it would have no impact or correlation with what numbers are drawn in powerball.

[Publisher Bucks]

Oh I agree, the variables far outweigh the constants, air temps, machine temps, ball weights, dimensions, time between selections, etc…

[LaSexorcisto]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

May I ask what sort of 'data points' there are besides the numbers that are drawn? The number of winners, the number of tickets sold, etc cannot possibly have an impact on the drawn numbers so what are you using since analizing the frequency of the drawn numbers would be an operation that takes a few seconds on a 386? Humidity in the room where the numbers are drawn? Wear on the balls?

Given that very few lottery games use actual physical balls anymore these days, no physical characteristics are considered. No hocus pocus nonsense like astrology is used either. In the beginning I used to analyze the number frequencies but this did not yield good results given how random the drawings are. I've developed a way of comparing one drawing to another that has shown to yield the best results of the 30 or so methods I've tried.

The fact that nobody I shared this with can really seem to understand how I did it tells me that I've developed something unique that is far from of the usual methods passed around on the Internet.

[fuzebox]

I tried this 20+ years ago. It didn't work.

[k0nr4d]

Originally Posted by LaSexorcisto

The fact that nobody I shared this with can really seem to understand how I did it tells me that I've developed something unique that is far from of the usual methods passed around on the Internet.

Or it means your idea doesn't really make sense.

[LaSexorcisto]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

I tried this 20+ years ago. It didn't work.

Thank you. I was waiting for that exact quote from someone.

"I tried it already and it didn't work for me, therefore if I can't figure it out, nobody can."

If I tried this method 20 years ago when lottery odds were much better, this definitely would have worked.

[LaSexorcisto]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Or it means your idea doesn't really make sense.

Yup, you know what also didn't make sense? Constructing a 600LB vehicle made of metal and wood that defied all known laws of physics and magically flies through the air. Well now here we are.

[k0nr4d]

Originally Posted by LaSexorcisto

If I tried this method 20 years ago when lottery odds were much better, this definitely would have worked.

How have lottery odds changed? The number range has not changed so the odds have not changed. The number of people has increased so presumably more lottery tickets sold and with that higher jackpots - but the actual odds to land the 6 numbers have not changed.

[LaSexorcisto]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

How have lottery odds changed? The number range has not changed so the odds have not changed. The number of people has increased so presumably more lottery tickets sold and with that higher jackpots - but the actual odds to land the 6 numbers have not changed.

Oh, the odds have absolutely 100% changed in most lotteries. They change on average around every 6-10 years according to my analytics. For example in 2015, Powerball increased the pool of white balls and decreased the number of red balls pulled during a drawing. The chances of winning the jackpot shrunk from 1-in-175-million to 1-in-292-million.

The Mega Millions last changed their odds in October 2017 from 1-in-258-million to 1-in-302-million.

Most lotteries change their odds as more people play to control the frequency at which people win.

[fuzebox]

Originally Posted by LaSexorcisto

Thank you. I was waiting for that exact quote from someone.

Enjoy being broke.

[LaSexorcisto]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

Enjoy being broke.

Spoken like a true winner in life.