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The Lottery Solution, Revised Edition

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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.

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.)

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.

Maths theory bags lotto jackpot
October 25, 2006 12:07pm
MOST of us believe winning lotto is down to the luck of the draw.
But a syndicate of university professors and tutors in Britain thought it could also be related to the principles of mathematical probability.

And their theory was spectacularly vindicated this week when they matched all six numbers and scooped the $13 million lotto jackpot.

The syndicate, made up of 17 staff members at Bradford University and College, bagged the big prize by using two boxes, 49 pieces of paper and a large amount of brainpower.

But it was far from an overnight success.

Syndicate leader Barry Waterhouse, 41, who works at the design and printing section of the university, explained that the syndicate had been doing the National Lottery for eight years without conspicuous success after it started in 1994 with each member picking his or her own line.

"We just weren't winning with the numbers being picked that way, so we thought of a different method which would mean all 49 numbers would be used,' Mr Waterhouse said.

The syndicate then set up a computer program to check the numbers every week.

It took four years and a total outlay of $8700, but on Saturday, the formula succeeded.

Matching the winning numbers and the bonus ball, they hit the jackpot.

"We just thought that if all the numbers are in use, we must have a good chance of winning and it has proved so, though you never really think it will happen to you, "Mr Waterhouse said.

Fellow syndicate member David Firth, 63, said: "We have won tenners and the odd 70 quid in the past, but now this is the big one."

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