Hi Halfbee,

I have another request, sometimes I happen to over shoot the draws used and it gives me this error ie "Ball number 10 does not have 5 skips".

So instead off having to exit from the program and restart from typing in balls drawn, max number and future draws, can I just correct the draws used and carry on with get skips?

Thanks

Ok, download the 1d version again. When I put in the check for not enough skips I forgot to stop all the other processes after that point. Was more concerned with avoiding the nasty blowup. Now it should still give you the warning about not enough skips to collect and just return to main program screen waiting on input. New version should show 1.01d2 at bottom of main screen.

Hi All,

Here's my latest results with patterns for Treasure Hunt 5/30:
The pattern produced the following numbers:

2 3 5 6 10 12 15 18 19 20 23 24 28

Winning Lottery Numbers: 8/23/08 for Treasure Hunt (5/30)

2 15 24 28 30

Four out of Five!!! Not bad

I made some niggerly mistakes in my pattern program which I corrected
and compared by manually loading the patterns into an Excel spreadsheet
and verified. I'm ignoring 'Detailed' filter in Winnalotto and just using
patterns to make my picks.

-BP

Hmm... what type of mistakes? And what corrections and comparisions did Excel provide? 4 of 5 is good (looked like a smallish pool) so how about a few extra details...

Niggardly is what I meant (cheap or miser mistakes).
Excuse me I meant no offense to anyone. The mistakes were
in my sort routine and counts when a pattern changed. I discovered this
by using the same data in an excel spreadsheet. Now they both agree.
I used patterns that occured 4 or more times from the skips created.
I picked key numbers based on Winnalotto filters ( very hot numbers,
Springbok2, 'N+X>=H', 'Median Due' and 'Rebal Perc'). These had to match
numbers selected by the patterns. Let's see how this works with the
next drawing.

-BP

Was just trying to find where your mistakes were. I didn't really follow much of your original program other than the general theory so I think I've got it right. Perhaps with the copy to clipboard for Excel I added, someone will let me know if the results are verified. I've been working on my other program using Hit Frequency and positional sequences so haven't really done any checks using the patterns yet.

Hi BP

Could you post your pattern program since you made your changes.

Thanks Halfbee, but after I got the error, it still show even when I reduce draws used.

And aside from the above, I don't think I have been using the program correctly. When I enter draws used, it uses that many draws to create patterns rights? For my case I am using 130 draws for 6/52 game, I don't understand why when I enter 30 draws used, the program prompts me the error that ball number so and so does not have 5 skips and yet when I enter 1 in draws used, the program is able to create the patterns?

Btw the format for my result.csv is first column, serial no in descending order, second column I put 0, and the rest of the columns are my draws numbers.

Any advice?

Hi Black Prince,

Some patterns that occured less than 4 times do hit, so I was wondering what is the reason behind using 4 or more.

flexalong

flexalong

The number 4 is not a universal count. It just works with my pattern
counts. I focus on patterns that come more often and in Treasure Hunt it
seems to be patterns that are 4 or greater 75% of the time. Yes there
are numbers that come less than 4, but the percentage is much lower.

For those curious about today's numbers from my patterns:

01 04 08 09 11 13 14 16 21 22 26 28 29 30

Today's winning Treasure Hunt 8/25/08:

01 03 11 22 30

This is very good for second day:

BTW, 03 came from a pattern with 1 occurance.

-BP

Tommorrow's numbers from patterns for Treasure Hunt 8/26/08:

01 03 04 06 08 09 11 13 16 18 22 24 26 29

Wish me Luck

-BP

Best of luck

Hello HalfBee

I am trying to use your program but my data file will not load. It is the Florida 6/53. My file looks like this:
8/20/2008,2,11,12,39,42,43

It doesn't like the date. Says cannot convert integer. can you help?

Thanks
turtle0747

Yep, you picked one of the states with an odd format in how they let you download the history. I really didn't like their 3 column format (either pdf or html instead of plain text). It sounds like you've done most of the work already, there is one more step you need to do...

There needs to be a 'draw number' field before the date. Load it into Excel and insert a column before the date field. In the first cell put in a large number (say 3000 or such). Just below it enter the formula =A1-1 then copy the formula down the column (highlight and Control-D) so you have a descending value all the way down the column. Then just resave it as CSV format and it should work fine.

Hello HalfBee

Got it working. What size history file do you suggest to start off with to test? My file is 900 draws. Is that too large?

thanks
turtle0747