Yes exactly.
Thanks for MFB for the clarification.
The best case scenario is I work for a lottery corporation and hack into their servers and run a batch to see what everyone picked in the last drawing...
However, that is not feasible so I can only deal with the information I have.
What I...
It is a better pick because if you take a look at the statistics, the may 5 drawing shows that there are much less winners than the june 30 drawing.Using your dice roll analogy:
If you rolled a 5 and you found out 400 other people picked 5 and you had to split the jacpot 400 ways...
If you...
Let me illustrate the problem:
Lotto 649:
In both drawings the prizes and sales are roughly the same. about $3.1million jackpot and about 11million in sales.
However, the number of winners is vastly different. In the May drawing, we have a total of 60 winners that matched 5 or 6 of the...
Now, most lottery corporations publish their numbers picked and the number of people who matched them. They also publish their total sales as well.
e.g. numbers A B C D E F G
Match all 6: A B C D E F G = 2 winners
Match 5 of 6: A B C D E F, A B C D E G, A B C D F G, etc = 10 winners
Match 4...