Lotto Decades: Software, Reports, Analysis, Strategies
By Ion Saliu
Published on July 8, 2003 later updates.
SkipDecades5.EXE - Free lotto software for registered members.
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SkipDecaFreq5.exe - Lotto software for 5-number lotto games: Strategies and systems based on skips, decades, frequency.
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Software category: 5.1.
Looks like a large number of lottery players show a strong interest in the so-called lotto decades. Some lottery players, including users of my software, have contacted me on the topic of lotto decades. I responded privately and publicly. Eliminating entire decades from lotto numbers seems to be very tempting. The action can reduce the odds by factors of magnitude. Problem is, players look at decades the same way they look at other pseudo filters: in a static manner. Au contraire, I always analyze everything from a dynamic perspective. Accordingly, the lotto decade elimination can be only applied in conjunction with dynamic reporting. The report must show how the decades fared in past lotto drawings.
If you set one decade to 6, the program generates 210 combinations (lotto-6)! Don't blame the lottery commissions for cheating! Such wacky occurrences are natural. You can take advantage of them. Other wacky situations are represented by 5 lotto numbers from the same decade. SkipDecaFreq6.EXE will generate a sequential lotto output file. You can purge it safely in MDIEditor And Lotto WE better off with the inner filters disabled.
The above lotto software combines the decades with skip and odd/even, low/high, increase/decrease strategies. First, the software generates the reports for past drawings, including for decades. As with all LotWon lottery software, the user analyzes first the reports and creates strategies.
The next step is generating lotto combinations based on the filters in the reports. The combinations can be either sequential (in lexicographic order), or random (open-ended and with some repeated lotto combinations).
I publish here a decade report for Pennsylvania Lottery 649 lotto game. In the lotto 6 game, there are situations when 5 decades can be eliminated while losing one number only! In the lotto 5 game, there are situations when 2 decades can be eliminated while hitting all 5 winners! That's a reduction of 19-20 numbers out of 39!
We could have eliminated all the numbers from the decades 2 and 4 (the lotto numbers 10 through 19 and 30 through 39) and still hit the jackpot (5 winners). There are also situations when eliminating 20 lotto numbers assures a 4 out of 5 hit.
Other wacky situations are represented by 5 lotto numbers from the same decade. SkipDecaFreq 5/6 will generate a sequential lotto output file. You can purge it safely in MDIEditor And Lotto WE version 4.0_Final better off with the inner filters disabled. The LotWon DOS lottery software can also purge the output files generated by the Skip-Frequency-Decades programs. Or, vice versa: The lotto decade programs can purge output files generated by LotWon or MDIEditor.
This string in the lotto decade report:
1 4 9 12 13 19 39 2+ 3+ 0- 1 0-
can be easily interpreted.
The composition of the drawing 4 9 12 13 19 39 consists of lotto numbers from the following 6/49 lotto decades:
= 2 numbers from decade 0-9
= 3 numbers from decade 10-19
= 0 numbers from decade 20-29
= 1 numbers from decade 30-39
= 0 numbers from decade 40-49
The + (plus) sign indicates an increase in the amount of lotto numbers drawn from the same decade, compared to the previous drawing. The - (minus) sign represents the opposite.
With a fast computer, you can generate all possible combinations for various decade strings. The amount of lotto combinations is always the same for the same decade composition. Keep in mind, the lotto decades are pseudo-filters, NOT true lottery filters.
If you are diligent and patient, these two pieces of lottery software are true road-pavers to riches.
The skip-decades lotto software does not require huge data files. But larger lottery history files can offer you valuable hints. For example, there was a drawing in Pennsylvania lotto 649 game when the six winning numbers came from the same decade (40-49)! It could and it should happen to other lotto decades as well ...
The lotto combinations generated by the decades can be very safely purged, especially all 6 winners and even groups of 5 winners from previous drawings.
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You might want to look for those situations with 4, even 5, lotto numbers from the same decade. In the lotto 6 game, look for 5, even 6 numbers from the same decade. Those conditions deal a devastating blow to the odds. Such situations do occur, I don't have to tell you about it
What's even better: There are quite long gaps (skips) between such occurrences. Translation: A much-reduced cost of play or COW. Holy cow, I also applied this method to pick-3 and pick 4 lotteries. Yes, the 10 digits can be divided into decades of sorts. Actually, small groups of digits.
Here is a (very) real life situation: Pennsylvania lottery, the lotto 5/39 game (known as Cash 5). The strategy takes into consideration only the decades and the frequency groups. We make the strategy tight as far as the decades go. But we make the strategy loose regarding the frequency: Let only the least frequent numbers come out, for they are the most numerous (50% of the field). These are the pivotal settings of the strategy:
Here is the entire report of the strategy checking function in my dearly secret piece of lottery software.
The strategy hit 6 times in 1000 drawings (less than three years time). You can see that the lotto strategy required just 5 combinations when it was successful. That particular lotto 5/39 strategy generated 75 lotto combinations to play on one occasion. But I can tell you that on several occasions the strategy does NOT generate one single lotto combination! The average number of combinations to play (tickets) is 26.
Let's say you want to play each and every drawing in the lotto 5 game conducted by the Lottery Commission of the great state of Pennsylvania. What I present here is valid everywhere, including the great state or nation of yours.
Playing in all 1000 lotto drawings makes no sense (look at the skips between wins), but let's suppose we do so. The value of the COW (not the Koran main book, but cost-of-winning) would reach $26,000 for $1 per ticket (up to $5 bets available). The jackpot prize is listed at $100,000. The jackpot reaches over $250,000 on occasions, but also $50,000. Let's stick with the listed lotto-5 jackpot of $100,000. Winning 6 times amounts to over half a million dollars for a risk (cost) of just over a quarter of a thousand hundred dollars. The return ratio reaches over 23. It's extremely rare to see such a return ratio in traditional investing. Not to mention that lower lottery prizes would have been won several times during that length of play!
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Lotto-5 Decades Report by Drawing
File: \PA-LOTTERY\LOTTO5
Draws Analyzed: 200
The numbers in each column show how many numbers from the decade
listed in the header came out in the corresponding drawing; e.g.
1 in the 1st column and 2 in 2nd column: 1 of the numbers in the draw
was between 1 and 9 inclusively; 2 numbers were from decade 10 - 19; etc.
Line Draw Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Total
no ings 1-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 combinations
1 2 7 19 24 38 2 1+ 1- 1 0 0 36000
2 3 4 23 24 36 2+ 0- 2 1 0 0 16200
3 11 17 23 25 35 0 2+ 2+ 1- 0 0 20250
4 19 29 31 33 36 0- 1 1 3+ 0 0 12000
5 8 19 27 33 35 1 1- 1 2+ 0 0 40500
6 8 13 18 28 30 1- 2+ 1- 1+ 0 0 40500
7 3 6 15 20 25 2+ 1- 2+ 0- 0 0 16200
8 11 14 15 18 36 0- 4+ 0 1+ 0 0 2100
9 1 3 10 11 17 2+ 3 0- 0- 0 0 4320
10 12 14 15 26 36 0- 3+ 1- 1+ 0 0 12000
...
Decade_1: 1
Decade_2: 4
Decade_3: 0
Decade_4: 0
Decade_5: 0
Decade_6: 0
Frequency_1: 0
Frequency_2: 0
Frequency_3: 5
Skip-5 Strategy Checking For Lotto 5 of 39
Date: 02-24-2007
*** Strategy Composition ***
*** If the MAXIMUM level of a condition is set to 0 ***
*** and therefore the condition was disabled ***
*** the program sets as defaults very high values ***
Any_1: 0 - 999 Any_2: 0 - 999
Any_3: 0 - 999 Any_4: 0 - 999
Any_5: 0 - 999
POT: 0 - 9999
Ver_1: 0 - 9999 Ver_2: 0 - 9999
Ver_3: 0 - 9999 Ver_4: 0 - 9999
Ver_5: 0 - 9999
COL: 0 - 99999
HiLo_1: 0 OdEv_1: 0 InDe1: 0
HiLo_2: 0 OdEv_2: 0 InDe2: 0
HiLo_3: 0 OdEv_3: 0 InDe3: 0
HiLo_4: 0 OdEv_4: 0 InDe4: 0
HiLo_5: 0 OdEv_5: 0 InDe5: 0
Decade_1: 1
Decade_2: 4
Decade_3: 0
Decade_4: 0
Decade_5: 0
Decade_6: 0
Frequency_1: 0
Frequency_2: 0
Frequency_3: 5
Inner filters: N (disabled)
*** Frequency of the Skip-5 Strategy in 1000 Draws ***
*** HITS: 6
* Skips: 177 239 308 71 41 46
* Sorted Skips: 41 46 71 177 239 308
* Median Skip: 177
Drawings in \LOTTERY\CASH-5 satisfying the strategy:
4 11 13 17 18
6 10 11 15 17
8 10 12 15 19
7 12 13 14 17
5 11 13 14 15
6 11 12 13 14
Skip-5 Strategy in the Past
File: SKIP5.1
Line Any Any Any Any Any POT Pos Pos Pos Pos Pos COL
no 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Med. 1 1 1 2 3 11 4 1 14 22 113 138
Min2. 4 1 1 2 1 10 2 1 9 13 99 113
Max2. 0 11 9 3 15 21 11 28 72 41 202 202
178 2- 21+ 0- 0- 1+ 21+ 2- 31+ 56+ 0- 52+ 56+
418 4 0- 8- 2+ 15+ 15- 4 0- 72+ 166+ 99+ 166+
727 1- 4- 1- 2+ 29+ 29+ 37+ 4- 1- 13+ 274+ 274+
799 2- 11+ 1- 2+ 0- 11+ 2- 28+ 14+ 22+ 202+ 202+
841 0- 1- 9+ 3+ 8+ 9- 11- 1- 9+ 23- 138+ 138+
888 4+ 1- 10+ 3+ 3- 10- 5+ 1- 72+ 41+ 113+ 113+
Skip-5 Strategy in the Past
File: SKIP5.2
Line L/H L/H L/H L/H L/H O/E O/E O/E O/E O/E
no 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
1 means LOW = 1 to 19 1 means ODD = 1 3 5 etc.
2 means HIGH = 20 to 39 2 means EVEN = 2 4 6 etc.
178 1 1 1 1 1- 2+ 1 1- 1 2
418 1 1 1- 1- 1- 2+ 2 1 1 1-
727 1 1 1- 1- 1- 2 2+ 2+ 1 1-
799 1 1 1- 1- 1- 1 2+ 1 2 1-
841 1 1 1 1 1- 1 1 1- 2 1
888 1 1 1- 1- 1- 2+ 1 2+ 1 2+
Skip-5 Strategy in the Past
File: SKIP5.3
Line D r a w i n g D/I D/I D/I D/I D/I
no 1 2 3 4 5
1 = DECREASE or EQUAL TO
2 = INCREASE from previous draw
178 4- 11- 13- 17 18- 1- 1- 1 1 1
418 6+ 10 11- 15- 17- 2 1- 1 1- 1
727 8+ 10- 12- 15- 19- 2 1- 1- 1 1-
799 7+ 12- 13- 14- 17- 2+ 1 1 1 1
841 5+ 11+ 13+ 14- 15- 2+ 2+ 2+ 1- 1
888 6+ 11- 12- 13- 14- 2+ 1- 1- 1- 1-
Skip-5 Strategy in the Past
File: DECA39.5
The numbers in each column show how many lotto numbers from the decade
listed in the header came out in the corresponding drawing; e.g.
1 in the 1st col and 2 in 2nd col: 1 of the numbers in the draw
was from 1 to 9; 2 numbers were from the decade 10 to 19; etc.
Line Draw Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Total
no ings 1-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 combos
178 4 11 13 17 18 1 4+ 0- 0 0 0 1890
418 6 10 11 15 17 1 4+ 0- 0- 0 0 1890
727 8 10 12 15 19 1 4+ 0- 0- 0 0 1890
799 7 12 13 14 17 1 4+ 0- 0- 0 0 1890
841 5 11 13 14 15 1- 4+ 0- 0 0 0 1890
888 6 11 12 13 14 1 4+ 0- 0- 0 0 1890
Skip-5 Strategy in the Past
File: FREQ39.5
The lotto numbers in each column show how many numbers from the
frequency group came out in the corresponding lottery drawing; e.g.
2 in the 1st column and 3 in 2nd column: 2 of the numbers in the draw
came from group 1 (hot); 2 of numbers were from the 2nd group; etc.
Line Draw Group #1 Group #2 Group #3 Total
no ings 5 numbers 14 numbers 20 numbers combos
178 4 11 13 17 18 0 0- 5+ 15504
418 6 10 11 15 17 0- 0- 5+ 15504
727 8 10 12 15 19 0- 0- 5+ 15504
799 7 12 13 14 17 0 0- 5+ 15504
841 5 11 13 14 15 0 0- 5+ 15504
888 6 11 12 13 14 0- 0- 5+ 15504
Total combinations for HIT situations:
20 5 25 75 5 30
Average number of combinations: 26
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