I have just bought my first lottery system 'Advantage Plus' by Gail Howard. I would be grateful for any tips you have on this system.

Welcome to the Forums Catriona,

Gail Howard's is excellent software for stats, study the manual for good tips. One shouldn't rely solely on her Smart Picks tho, don't know which game you play but that feature hasn't worked well with Canadian lottos I've tried.
There are a few other players here using the same program, you can post either here or in the Software section, we'll try to answer,

Cheers

The only type of software you need is one that will allow you to exclude certain types of combination's rather than software that picks them for you based on previous results for instance, one thing you must undrestand is not to take into consideration popular drawn numbers or cold number, or hot numbers and other such rubbish.( i could go on forever )

You really need to read a book i can recomend first and understand why most software lottery programmes are pretty useless and then you will understand why most people are wasting their time using such programmes.

The book is called 'How to win more' and the ISBN is
'1-56881-078-4' and was written by NORBERT HENZE and HANS RIEDWYL.

I have actually emailed NORBERT HENZE on two occasion's and he has replied both times, he is a big cheese in the world of mathematics and head of a german maths university department, so get the book, read it, then gate back to me if you need anything explaining.

Tim.

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Tim, can you give us a synopsis of this work?

I guess I should stop playing that 20-43 combo for our lotto Not

Link for Table of Contents...

[url]http://mspcdip.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/personen/henze/howtowinmore.html[/url]

Maybe you need some dancing lessons Snowy.... if not this author needs some badly..

I think you need a lesson in odds and mathematics. I could provide you with a whole list of rules to follow if you so wish, but remember this, if you are playing the lottery for a bit of fun then ok but you are wasting your money and time and are under some sort of illusion if you think you are going to win the jackpot by trying to improve your chances using silly wheeling tpye systems and information from previosly drawn numbers, using statistic's of any given set of previously drawn number's is the biggest error most lottery player's make, that is why you only ever get a very small number of winners, lottery companies love people like you, and you might aswell spend the money on holidays and beer because it will give you better value for money. - tell me, what's the most you have ever won and how much have you spent on tickets since you started doing the lottery/lotto................? And can you also tell me why you never get a 20-30 jackpot winners?? Hmmm...
If you havn't won 5000 or more at any one time you are under a sad illusion.

This is what I was saying....You need some lessons pals I am a mth teacher in real life and I have won many 5,000$ prizes already...The dancing set busted many lottos already....And I have some very good working theories that you are unaware off...Stick around we will teach you...And you will improve a lot...

Mathematics, i'm been more on the physics side myself for the last 23yr's so my work does involve an enormous amount of equations and lot's of board work.

Are you interested in the work going on at the momment in proving goldbech's conjectures, we have been working on it for over 7months but the costs involved in carrying on the work are geting harder to fund, here at oxford we have a feedback group every week to discuss our work as it goes on and have ourselves actually put in £100,000 out of our 'Eternity' win but as you would probably know that £100,000 doesn't go far when you are doing research.

Have you any thought's or comment's on the subject.

p.s
No question's on 'Eternity' please, our work has been well documented, and did infact involve a bit of luck, all i will say is i dont think we would have solved it in my lifetime without the aid of a computer and good old 'VB'

I'm wondering...
You study "goldbech's conjectures"...
but yet you spell his name wrong?

A link for these problems...

[url]http://primes.utm.edu/links/theory/conjectures/Goldbach/[/url]

He doesn't study them Nick - just trying to impress us cerebrally challenged lotto players

Thanks for the link to these "problems". Now we can be prepared for the rest of the "conjectures"

no disrespect intended here, but why exactly are you on this forum? to try and get strokes for your mathematicaly based ego? Are you trying to dissuade us from playing? I mean really, why are you here? If you really believe what you wrote then you have nothing to learn here right? so then why are you here?

Ok rebeckah, you can improve the odds of winning dramatically but you need to forget about past draws because they have no influence on the outcome of any other draw, all you need to do is think up as many possible reasons to exclude certain types of combinations, the most important factor is to make sure that the combonations you choose have no pattern to them, in other words they have to look as random in appearance as possible.
Do this and you can exclude around 75% of the combinations imediately.

I can give you a list if you like to make it easier
get back to me
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To Snowy

Nice idea of using numbers that "look as random in appearance as possible" but how do you define randomness? That is the question.

Out of the 6 combinations listed below, could you indicate which ones you would define as random in appearance:

A ) 01 -- 02 -- 03 -- 04 -- 05 -- 06
B ) 01 -- 08 -- 15 -- 29 -- 36 -- 43
C ) 02 -- 03 -- 11 -- 14 -- 47 -- 48
D ) 02 -- 08 -- 20 -- 24 -- 25 -- 37
E ) 02 -- 11 -- 13 -- 19 -- 21 -- 38
F ) 22 -- 27 -- 32 -- 37 -- 42 -- 47
G ) 38 -- 43 -- 44 -- 45 -- 46 -- 47

If possible, could you give us a rating for each combination of its chance of winning (let's say an A for likely, a B for moderate chance, a C for not likely and a D for very unlikely to win). That could help me set up a pattern for eliminating numbers.