The New BRIGHT3.EXE: High-Powered Integrated Pick-3 Lottery Software

The downloading is easy (if you are a registered member), but the installation might be a little tricky. The INSTALL.BAT file was designed for Windows 95/98. The best method is to go to the command prompt (Win 2000 and later). Create a directory (folder); e.g. C:\BRIGHT3. You can do that in Windows Explorer as well. Download BRIGHT3.EXE to C:\BRIGHT3. Click on BRIGHT3.EXE to decompress the file automatically. Read the README.TXT file. For the best results, work at the command prompt in C:\BRIGHT3. Type 3 or b3 (in Vista) to start the main menu. You might want to preserve your less potent Pick332.EXE installation.

Start by creating a pick-3 data file. It is the easiest possible step. Open a text editor, including Notepad. Type 3 digits per line, exactly 3 digits. Separate the digits by a comma, or by a space (at least one blank space). Press Enter at the end of the line. Continue typing the next three digits which, in fact, represent the previous pick-3 lottery drawing. Make sure there are no blank lines in the file — none whatsoever. When done, save your file always in text format (no formatting whatsoever, just pure numbers). It is best to save your data files in the same directory (folder) as the Bright programs and utilities (e.g. C:\BRIGHT3\). You can give your pick-3 data file a name like DATA-3. Actually, any name would do; just remember it when you need to open the file! Again, my lottery software requires that the data (results) files for the pick-3 lottery game have exactly 3 digits on each line; the lottery digits are separated by blank space(s) or commas. Got it, newbie?

The programs in BRIGHT3.EXE require pick3 data files of at least 100,000 (one hundred thousand) lines. Of course, you don't have that many real drawings in a 3-digit lotto game! So, you create an additional file of randomly generated lotto-3 combinations. The additional file is usually named SIM-3 and is created in seconds by the 'Utilities' function (application name: Util332.EXE). The 'Utilities' function also creates the D3 file: The final file used by the report generator and the pick-3 lottery combination generators.

Next, you need create the reports: The W3 + MD3 files. Function name: 'Generate W3 Reports' (press function key F5). You analyze the W3 reports in order to establish filters for future drawings. This represents the biggest headache for yours truly. People want gazillions of details on how to pick the filters (creating the strategies). I would need to live one hundred lives to satisfy just one user of my lottery software! I can only advise: READ, READ, AND THEN READ SOME MORE! There is a lot of information right here, at this website. A very good starting point:

When you came up with a strategy (a group of filter settings), you can check how that particular strategy fared in the past. That is, you can see how many times the strategy had hit in previous lottery drawings. Your strategy checking is more successful if you generate the W3 reports for 1000 pick-3 drawings. Press the F3 function key to run the 'Strategy Checking' function.

You use the strategy to generate pick 3 combinations. You can generate combinations even without checking for strategies first. You just type the filter values at the screen prompts. The function keys F6 and F7 start the combination generators. The first one generates combinations in lexicographical order. The F7 key generates pick 3 lottery combinations in optimized random order.

The combination generators have a multitude of functions:
~ purge lottery combinations from an output file (previously generated lotto combinations);
~ generate pick-3 combinations based on favorite digits;
~ the user can enable or disable the new type of inner filters.

The 'Check strategy hits' (F4) is a great application. It will tell you how many combinations a particular lottery strategy would have generated in situations of past hits.

The following is the right sequence in order to check the strategies and strategy hits.

1) You generate first the W3 and MD3 reports (function key F5);
2) Next, check for a strategy (function key F3); it creates very important files (ST3.000, ST3.HIT and ST3.REP);
3) Then, run 'Strategy hits' (function key F4) for the files created at step 2. The procedure also updates ST3.REP (open it and look for the info at the bottom of the report).

In order to achieve accuracy, you must use the same D3 file, the same W3 and MD3 reports, the same strategy file, the same strategy report, and the same ST3.HIT file. Thus, any time the D3 file changes, the reports must be done again for the updated D3 lottery data file.

• • I just included three programs highly requested by LotWon users:
GridCheck.EXE
SkipPairs.EXE

GridCheck332.EXE and SkipPair3.EXE deal with my lotto pairing theory. Truthfully, it is a very difficult topic. I am still unable to fully grasp the complex mathematics of lotto pairing. But the attentive user can discover very useful things in the lottery pairs reports of SkipPairs.EXE. The reports show what pair indexes came out in rapport to the previous lotto drawing. The program was highly, highly requested by the mathematically skilled users of LotWon lotto software. The programs are not documented — documentation for those applications is a very difficult task. You can read useful facts at this site:

Just one of my (many!) secrets. I found a very useful form of strategizing: Reverse strategy. I look at those filter settings in the W report files that show skips above the median. The chance is very good the strategies won't hit the next draw. So, I add them to the LIE files. The LIE files contain combinations with unlikely probability to hit. Well, everything is turned upside down — that's why I named this method 'reverse strategy'.

I wrote in more detail about 'reverse strategy':

Lotto, Lottery Strategy in Reverse: Not-to-Win Leads to Not-to-Lose.

You will be up and running with these awfully powerful programs in a short time. Then, you will — and will need — spend time on looking for strategies. You must start with this mindset: I am the only one who can find good strategies for myself. After a while, you'll realize it is pretty stupid to share your strategies with others, especially playing the same games as you! I did such a costly mistake with my horse racing strategies! Somehow, I made similar mistakes with horse racing long-shot trifectas. I don't want competitors for the same prize! The prizes go down, while I am left with just cursing!

There is an issue with the filter ION3, the maximum level. The problem occurs only in the random generating programs (function keys F7 and F8). There is no programming bug or error. It is related to the compiler (PBCC). The same filter runs as normally in MDIEditor And Lotto WE. For now, my advice to you is to leave alone the maximum value of the ION3 filter (the one based on the Fadic addition).

Best of luck!

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