The Lottery Solution, Revised Edition [Paperback]

William L. Atwood (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Rivercross Publishing; Pap/Dis Re edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094495796X
• ISBN-13: 978-0944957967
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,645,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Atwood Lottery System, May 23, 2001

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Dr. Herrera (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lottery Solution, Revised Edition (Paperback)

William Atwood has written a very exciting book using the latest data on lottery research. Usually, lotto books will use various formulas based on personal opinion and personal bias. Many other lotto books use mystical thinking as a substitute for genuine mathematical reasoning. Atwood uses mathematical reasoning to show step by step how the lottery system is designed and how the quick pick is designed to deliberately create a false probability relationship and that the quick picks tend to be mathematical illusionary because of the lack of numeric understanding of the total numbers at play in a given game. Atwood major problem is that the number of systems needed to play at optimal level is never revealed and consequently you are not sure of the number of systems to be played to increase the winning sequence. Atwook refutes the chaos theorist who believe that the game cannot be broken due to the random numbers given at a single drawing. However, Atwoods analysis is state of the art and will give you a very honest understanding of the nature of the lotto games. Can he guarantee that you will win? This is a question that supercomputer can probably answer in the near future.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars as bogus as any other "system", December 8, 2005

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J. Lehman "stat geek" (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lottery Solution, Revised Edition (Paperback)

Mr. Atwood's Matrix certainly improves the chance that you'll have every winning number represented SOMEWHERE among your number-combinations, but it does not improve the chance that all winning numbers will be combined within a single number-combination (i.e., make you a jackpot winner). Frankly, I believe that Mr. Atwood must know this, yet he still chose to publish two editions of this "solution."

In the appendix data, Mr. Atwood shows how many lines are defeated by a single number due to what he calls "random creep." He conspicuously opts *not* to show how Matrix passes this same test. If you spend only a couple minutes looking for yourself, you'll see that Matrix has just as many lines defeated by a single number (sometimes more) despite the complete absence of "random creep."

Random creep is just a neat term Mr. Atwood coined to make his ideas sound authoritative. There's nothing statistically valid about this concept (at least not as concerns lottery numbers). Using Matrix, Mr. Atwood's software, or the book's advice won't improve your chances of winning any prize.

HOWEVER, the book does have some redeeming value (despite really poor writing throughout). One of the final chapters details a conspiracy theory about how lottery operators might be allowed to hold-out certain permutations of all numbers when a player chooses the "easy pick" option. Atwood says that independent auditing firms oversee only the DRAWING OF NUMBERS. Interesting and possibly worth some investigative journalism. (Still, with the decades-long existence of lotteries in America and no such claims becoming public as yet, it seems *unlikely*. . . but something worth considering.)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, August 8, 2008

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Jackocds - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lottery Solution, Revised Edition (Paperback)

I have owned and used this system for years it is the only book out there that really addresses the problems generated by random choice and debunks alot of the hot cold number theories.