Lottery DATA Lab

As the CFR predicted, in OH Rolling Cash 5, we've seen four of the six draws without a single digit in them. I will continue those types of picks while adding NO numbers above 30, in the next 6 days. 

We started strong with the Pick 4 with 3211, and also 4114, also predicted by CFR for 11xx. So good for that. Still looking for 55xx, and also 66xx, with my cards having a few of 666x, like 6668, is one I'll be playing. 

Pick 3 slowed with double digits, as was expected due to so many last month.  But, from today forward, I'll have several double digits in play, 00x looks promising (700), and 55x better hit soon too, might be ready for a trip.  So play on.  From a data perspective 7 in first slot for Pick 3 has crossed the trigger point, so I have many 7xx combos. In the Pick 4 game, data says, Play with a 6 at the start, in fact, 66xx looking good, as you see above I'm in on that.

First, due to my own lack of awareness, I missed my goal of daily posts in July, due to getting a time out and a warning also. In Aug., my goal is a twice a week post goal.  Maybe I can hit that one. 

I am posting DATA from July draws in OH, although the group tracks almost all state lotteries (we don't bother with WY, ND, MT, NM, SD and a couple of others), you can use these OH data points to compare your own state's draws, fair enough? 

In July, OH Pick 3 had a WHOPPING 38% of DOUBLE DIGITS far above the national avg. of 27%, and way beyond my 20%.  The CFR (COMBINATORIAL FREQUENCY REDUCTION) did predict July would exceed the norms. So congrats if you played those in wheels.  I, personally, lost in July, the group did better, around break even...but as a reminder, I am Kenny Rogers sitting at the table, and don't count my money until the dealing is done.

Which means we reconcile our books in JAN. after a year of betting and so far have a decade long streak of being in the black. My hope is, in testing the CFR, I  don't end that streak, YIKES. So, in Aug. I will cut back to the 20%, one in five, of double digits in the pick 3 OH game.

There were 4 SEQUENCES; 897, 576, 534, 435.  And seven ADDS: 963, 426, 523, 761, 437, 448, 178.  This was almost twice the monthly avg. for the last year. The most drawn was 12 in first digit slot, the least was 5 in third slot with only 3 draws. 

Rolling Cash 5 had 16% (below avg.) of draws with NO SINGLE DIGITS, so in Aug. I will have more wheels without a single digit (1-9) in them.  It had 4 with 3 single digits, 2 with three teens, one with three 20's, 4 with 3 30's and most would play COLD or three 20's, but CFR says play the ones with four, time will tell. 

In the Pick 4 game, three with trips; 2666, 3383, 0555 and three with pairs; 5775, 3443, 8338.  Most hit was 0 in the fourth slot with 14, least hit was 6 in first slot with just ONE. Double digits with four, 55xx, and 11xx had ZERO in July, so in Aug, I'll be hitting the 11 and 55 heavy to start. There was one sequence; 1290.  37 of 62 had doubles in the picks. 

So that is the summary for JULY, for OH, you can compare those tracking ideas with your own state. See you in Aug. OH, wait, see you later in the week.

"I was a bad boy." 

That a catchphrase of the great Lou Costello of Abbot and Costello fame.  I was put into time out, and hopefully, my bad boy shenanigans are past. Anyhow, that is why I haven't posted but instead of going back and posting those yesterday thoughts, today...just sort of a here and now. 

With 21 double digits (66x, etc.) in 58 draws so far in Ohio, it is a whopping 36%, well above a 27% avg, and wayyy above my 20% rule of thumb. 

Go back to my July 2 post where I wrote about the Pick 3 games and ended that post with the thought: "when it rains, it pours", and indeed it has been raining double digits here in OH.  On July 8, I gave a first week summary and wrote that I would be playing 33x and 77x.  Since then  433 on the 17th, 772 on the 12th, 077 on the 26th, and 313 on the third, showing, so far, this combo has come up 4, out of the 21. 

Players wheeling a lot of 66x have really cashed in too. 6 doubles of 66 this month. 

And from now on into Aug.  I'll be heavy on NO SINGLE DIGITS in the Rolling Cash 5 game.  Anyhooo....hope to be back up and running tomorrow, and hopefully the good boy will be in control of the blog.

This is to let you all know, that the AI report is mostly pseudo scientific jargon that came up with NOTHING new, just a bunch of phrases describing things in a different, seemingly techno, sort of way...that's the truth of entering 40 years of lottery data looking for an edge in playing lottery games. 

Dual bounded interval filters.  Huh?  It was like this through 150 pages of what in my mind was obfuscation, making things confusing and hard to understand. AI is great at this. 

Anyone using AI quickly learns it is a boot licking sycophant. It kept telling me how great I was, how good my prompts were, how thoughtful, intelligent, and what a wonderful guy I was.  I told AI, "I don't need some dumb machine to tell me this, my mirror already fulfills that role." 

So what good really came out?  CONFIRMATION.  No new systems, a lot of nonsense in math and jargon and confusion.  AI reminds me of my Ol Uncle, who would rather climb a tall tree to tell a lie than to stay on the ground and tell the truth.  AI climbed a lot of tall trees. 

Go ahead, ask today. Any AI you choose and they ALL will tell you tonight's drawing is a stand alone event, and nothing in past has any influence on it, and that is one truth which it will tell over and over. 

Did you know that card counting is not illegal, but it is banned in every casino, only because it increases by .05 to a possible 1.5 "edge" to the player who knows how many high vs low cards are left.  A 1% edge, very small percentage, yet enough to tip the scales. 

And AI is right about stand alone draws, but the DATA did come back with enough confirmation that some of the reducing the field, tips the advantage to the player.  Such as eliminating the single digits in the Pick 5 of 39 draws like the Rolling Cash 5 in OH. 

Yes, of course, yesterday's draw can't influence tonights, but the history of the game sez that 20% of the time it will happen and the longer it goes, the more likely it will happen, in this game the TIPPING POINT is 9 draws. So, after five or six draws, we start playing more wheels (matrices) which do not have a single digit in them. 

It is important for you the reader, to understand the CFR isn't anything new, it is AI jargon given to lottery methods in use since the games began. What it really did was give us a framework of how to count cards in the lottery casino. 

And although paper tests have shown promise, when we put our money where AI's jargon spewing tree climbing mouth is, only with money on the table does it count...and that is what I'm testing. 

Don't let the AI obfuscation (fun word to say) jargon tree block the forest right in front of your eyes

It has been my experience with blogs and forums since 1993, when they get more eyeballs, newer readers won't go back and read old posts.  That is why so many forums peaked and went down, because members tired of seeing the same old questions that had been answered many times before.

Since this is a brand new blog, gaining readers daily, there aren't too many posts one has to read to catch up. 

This will be an overview entry so you don't have to do that (but it is smart if you do).

The blog is about DATA, DATA which we collected over a 40 year period and we asked AI last year if it could beat us in lottery play. Thousands of hours of time went into getting prompts and questions refined to the point we got an answer to our question, AI said YES I can beat you, and here is how: 

It spit out a 150 page report full of math, formulas and exact methods on how it was going to beat us (and we've been successful over the decades, having never had a losing year). 

It came up with the COMBINATORIAL FIELD REDUCTION via NESTED STRUCTURAL FILTERING and ABBREVIATED WHEELING MATRICES (CFR).  We started testing with "Monopoly" money, on paper, the first six months of this year. 

We had four groups; low dollar players like myself, 150 to 250 per month, mid level from 250 to 500, high rollers up to 1k a month to WHALES, over 1k a month. 

In July, we went live, using real money to see if the CFR had any legs to it, we'll do a bottom line eval at the end of the year, just like we have always done.  Month to month isn't important spend wise, but dollar wise, we want to be in the black come next year. 

I started this blog to document my journey with CFR.  As of today, I have nothing to sell you. Maybe I never will, but if it shows any promise, I may write a low cost specialty report, as has been my bread and butter online for a couple of decades.  But it has to be showing some promise, meaning, I need to be cashing in myself before I even start to write the report, if I ever do. 

So, you have the short version of this blog, my mission, and hopefully, a couple of reasons to follow along. Now, if you want, go back and read the first 22 posts (I missed 2 days  because I pushed the wrong button). 

And if you have questions or comments, feel free to ASK and post, I'll do my best to see them and answer when I can. Thanks for reading this redundant post.

P.S. It is recapitulate, which I speeled wrong in the headline.

Early last year (2025) we asked AI a simple question; can you beat us at playing the lottery?  And we chose several different AI and in defense of free AI, the paid ones gave us better answers in the beginning, but as we got deeper and deeper into it, both Chat GP and Gemini and others returned information just as useful as paid AI did. 

What we got back from that initial question, were better prompts, better questions to ask.  Paid AI wanted to know what we were doing so as to compare, free AI just pretty much said the same thing, babble babble NO. 

As our questions got better and better, and wanting to know how to MAXIMIZE our wagers, and feeding all known systems and methods into AI (because over the years we had them all)...it finally got us to get to prompts that allowed AI to give us the idea of NESTED STRUCTURAL FILTERING. 

See, all AI kept repeating that any given draw was stand alone, and had no relation to past draws, and that is true. However, by feeding 4 decades of DATA and asking for it to see any given structures, it had an AH HA moment. 

And although it warned us that on any given day, it was a stand alone draw, it conceded that we could reduce the field of play through filtering. 

The final output, along with a ton of math (that I don't really care about, but some do) and formulas it created COMBINATORIAL FIELD REDUCTION via NESTED STRUCTURAL FILTERING and ABBREVIATED WHEELING MATRICES. 

The testing began this year, playing on paper and trying to refine the CFR and the first 6 months showed us, that YES, it could beat us at playing the lottery, at all levels of play. So this month we all went live, and splitting the group into a control, those using pre CFR methods, and those USING CFR methods, and a mirror group was installed. 

If a low money player, like myself, used CFR, then a low money player in the control group would match the dollars wagered. Same for mid and high money players. 

Although TEST data gave positive results, we won't know for sure until the end of the year when we have 6 months of live money where are mouths are results. 
Then we conclude on whether or not AI can play the lottery better than we could on our own. 

I'm betting on AI  and the CFR advantage.  And believe DATA driven methods will beat the old world ways of all the lottery gurus selling systems prior to AI. 

So that is how we started, a simple question.  Now we'll find out. DATA vs Gurus.

One thing AI taught me about DATA is it isn't due until a tipping point, and even then, could never come up.

I had my own confirmation bias, having tracked the OH lottery for over a decade, I would scour the charts looking for what I thought was an IT'S DUE number, and spent a lot of money thinking cold numbers had to come up. Over a decade, sure they do, over a month, even a year...may not. 

What the DATA analysis did tell us, a hot number, those picked 4 times in a month, is actually more likely to come up again before the cold due number.  I had a hard time to overcome my bias on this idea, it feels counter intuitive. 

And I wish I could say I follow the data, but take this evenings Pick 4 in OH, 8338 where both 33 and 88 have come up four times this month as 11 was due, Guess which I played. Yeppers, the losing 11. 

Knowing what data tells you you should do, and actually doing gets lost in the bias we all have around. Well, now I'm going to double down on 11 even though 00 has also been drawn 4 times in July so far. 

Having learned my lesson this evening, 0011 will be on my cards with several 11xx and 00xx too. Data does say that once a double digit in this game hits 5 times, it may still hit yet again this month. 

But my gut says 11, and I now know better than to listen to it...but I'm still playing in spite of myself. Such is the strength of our own biases.