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Originally Posted by fuzebox
When I first started gambling like twenty years ago one of the first things I did was download all the lottery results (even back then there was a csv going back to the 80s with a thousand results). I analyzed the winning numbers, selected the ones with more jackpots, and then spent a few months tracking to see if my magic numbers would win. Did not come close and it was clear there was no bias or predictability.
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You have to be careful when using that many historical drawings. Most lotteries change their range of numbers every 10 years or so. So any data you have collected prior to the latest change becomes invalid.