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Lotto? Again?? Well, thanks to the high jackpot in Germany, that topic is popular – number 1 also in my search request statistics (after my fun post about certain pantiless antics got kicked out of Google’s index [for a few days]). And some enlightenment can’t hurt… in brief:
Lotto numbers cannot be predicted!
More precisely: If your predicted numbers are drawn, that’s just coincidence, because the drawings are random. Those who claim otherwise, please try to prove it…
I came across another specimen of prognoses on miracles.ch (German) – based on “numerology” (Wikipedia article). Or what’s been made to look like it. In addition to horoscope-like spesifications based on date of birth etc. and “lucky numbers” derived from the name you enter (1 for A, 2 for B,… 26 for Z 
), this site with a web design from the last millennium also offers a “lotto number prognosis” for German and Swiss lotto. Quote (my translation, trying to reproduce spelling mistakes 
):
The Lotto Miracles Predition, is unique and Fantastic. Here you can have your personal and current lottonumber prognosis according to numerology generated every week and again and again new Miracles Lottonumber prognoses for the next Lotto 6/49 drawings.
At least that stuff, unlike the similarly useless Global Scaling prognoses, doesn’t cost anything – except time, typing work (and some of your brains), because you should, as the description goes, preferably enter 20 times combinations of three numbers from the previous drawing – the little program is said to take “5-40 seconds” – and then play the numbers that appear most often. Even better, let them run through the “Lotto Tracer” first, which performs numerous random drawings in order to find “the best combinations”. As if the drawing balls would listen to the random number generators in web browsers…
You notice there already that this can’t be a professional programmer, since all that combination stuff could be done comfortably with the program… and when you take a closer look at the page and the Javascript program, you also see a lot of trast whose visible components are located on the right hand side outside the little window that’s opened by default (when you limit yourself to that); probably relics from the “Tracer” program.
So what does the program do? It calculates six random numbers from 1 to 49, and if three of these are the same as the three you had entered, it stops with a success message – at least on the Internet-Explorer, on Firefox it vividly keeps calculating random numbers and only stops (with totally different numbers, of course), when you close the message window! 
Did I already say something about the programmer’s abilities?
Wait, simply three more random numbers? But why all the efforts around that? And what about that is numerology??
Well, numerology, as many other pseudosciences, blithely adapts its definitions to whatever’s currently useful, so neither these methods nor all that window-dressing around it are really surprising. End result again: Practical use = zero. As if the drawing balls would listen to the random number generators in web browsers…
Into the trash with it.
And I like to repeat again: The lotto balls have no memory, the chances for 6 correct numbers are the same for each drawing, 1 : 13,983,816 per tip (and for the main prize, the “super number”, the last number of the playing form, must match, too). Beyond statistics, a specific lotto number prognosis is impossible according to all respectable, accepted and verified mathematical knowledge, anyway.
Photos: Lotto Baden-Württemberg (Presseseite)
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Posted on 2007-11-28 at 10:42 by cimddwc — 30561 views total, 7 today 
Category: Mysticism&Religion, Science
Tags: anti-science, lotto, numerology
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Anonymous1 2008-03-03 at 11:45
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Anonymous 2009-04-05 at 9:25
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cimddwc3 2008-12-02 at 13:23
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Es gibt offenbar Kommentare, die es ohne die Möglichkeit, anonym zu kommentieren, nicht gäbe…
Anonymous4 2009-01-29 at 11:11
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Frank5 2009-03-01 at 10:22
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Despite your leggit opinion dielottozahlen.com has a lot of traffic. I’m curious how much money did those guys made.
roller6 2009-03-23 at 15:49
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Habe letztes Jahr sechs richtige erzielt nach drei Monaten wöchendlichem spielen. Nun werde ich weiter mit dem miracles lotto Programme spielen. Die lotto Programme von der miracles.ch webseite waren für mich jedenfalls ein riesiger Erfolg. VIELEN DANK AN DAS MIRACLES TEAM UND MACHT NUR WEITER SO UND LASST BITTE DAS PRORAMM ONLINE BESTEHEN.
cimddwc 2009-03-23 at 16:22
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Dann hast du ja Glück gehabt. Nur hat das miracles-Programm definitiv nichts an deinen Chancen geändert oder irgendetwas “vorausgesagt” – wie jeder andere Zufallszahlengenerator eben auch.
Anonymous7 2009-04-10 at 20:04
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cimddwc 2009-04-10 at 20:29
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Das Diskussionsniveau zu diesem Beitrag ist nicht allzu hoch, scheint mir…
wie auch immer 2009-05-28 at 12:35
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ich würde mich garnicht erst darauf einlassen cimddwe…
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Anonym scheint ja noch in den Kindergarten zu gehen was die Bildersprache deutlich macht
Ich wünschte ich hätte soviel glück wie roller, dann währe mein Leben um einieges leichter
Anonymous8 2009-05-23 at 10:14
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ich bin der
du bist ein
Anonymous9 2009-08-01 at 12:14
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wie auch immer10 2009-08-01 at 17:13
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He Anonym mal erlich wie alt bist du?????
de11 2009-08-31 at 16:31
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Also diese website ist unnötig wie lotto spielen selber.
ich gehe jetzt erstmal mein schein abgeben.
Werner12 2009-09-07 at 14:36
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haha ich hab ne lücke bei lotto entdeckt
so nach drei wochen wen nicht vier werde ich reich!!!!!!! 
cimddwc 2009-09-07 at 15:10
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Dann hast du sicher nichts dagegen, in 5 Wochen von dieser Lücke zu erzählen? Auch wenn’s doch nicht geklappt hat?
Thomas13 2009-09-22 at 9:04
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leider hat alles nicht für ein größeren Gewinn gereicht als 10eur.
beim lotto gibt es kein sytem.
Gewinner ist nur lotto und der von lotto spenden bekommt.
undfür alle anderen heist es warten,warten bis der arzt kommt oder der 6 IM LOTTO.oder nicht
Anonymous14 2010-05-28 at 20:43
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hi
Anonymous15 2010-05-28 at 20:47
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ich habe fast jeder woche ein lottoe gekauft aber überhalb nicht gewünsch und jetz habe ich noch 8 euro in tastschengeld so wünsche mich diese mal
cimddwc 2010-05-29 at 19:03
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Tja, wünschen bringt beim Lotto o.ä. halt nichts… (und rechnen auch nicht)
Master of Desaster16 2010-09-30 at 16:09
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Alles ist möglich und man kann es schaffen und irgendwann löst die Menschheit das zufallsrätsel ^.^
Master of Desaster17 2010-09-30 at 16:12
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Doppeltest. User Agent Faker
Kalle18 2010-11-14 at 12:32
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Hallo alle zusammen.
Versucht es doch einmal mit Pendeln, konnte selber 2 mal 4 Richtige gewinnen.
cimddwc 2010-11-14 at 19:29
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Witzig. Und wenn 2 Leute unterschiedliche Zahlen pendeln?
bala19 2010-11-19 at 17:56
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either u r utterly wrong about numerology or decided to spread falsity to protect ur investmaent. guys if u want to win, then the only way is maths. maths is everywhere as Pythagoras put it . either u know the secret and making people avoid the truth of winning consistently for sure!
cimddwc 2010-11-20 at 11:29
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Oh, I wrote about some silly attempts to use statistics for lotto prediction, too, but mostly only in German (since that’s my main target audience). Look, there is simply no way to predict/calculate future lotto numbers, neither with magic nor with math. If you’re trying that, you’re only wasting time and money. Maybe you should read up on Gambler’s fallacy, independence and linked topics…
Brian20 2011-04-21 at 5:15
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A friend used a numerology system to get us both a 1/2 share of over $48,000 in the 80′s in one year. He died and left me with the system. I did not use it for 24 years and then found it again in a drawer when we moved. I tried it again and won $8,600 in the second week. No luck myself since for 3 years but I have used it on family and friends and they think I am a Lotto genius. I make no claims except that it does not stay lucky for one person continually, but MOST have good results in Lotto early after using it. I am thinking of setting up a web site to help people get their due luck from selected numbers, but I need to charge a fee and I am afraid of being labelled a fraud. I think $50 to get you $8,000 or more would be fair, as it involves lots of input. What do you think?
cimddwc 2011-04-21 at 11:06
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There are so many people trying so many systems that it’s very likely that some are actually lucky and win. (And those are the one you hear about, who brag about it.) But that doesn’t mean it’s because of their systems.
Just imagine you’d restarted a few weeks later – you’d have won nothing for 3 years (and probably quit already). And you’re using different numbers for other people? For the same drawings? Yeah, that’s a good way to incease your chances that at least someone wins – and of staying blinded, thinking your system works. I guess you never calculated the probability that all your results are pure luck and not your system’s merit…
Well, if you believe in it, it may not be intentional fraud, but you definitely can’t guarantee those $8000 or whatever, and offering “objectively impossible” services (as it’s called in German law, I think) just like any other fortuneteller, astrologer, etc. certainly isn’t a nice thing to do…
Hillary21 2011-11-03 at 2:51
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You are right about that there is no magic system to produce random numbers to win the lottery. great post I love the facts presented.