In lottery 6/49, I always hear the fact that EVERY combination is possible. That 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is just as likely to occur as 12, 19, 23, 24, 33, 45.
But I always had this belief, if you ask me to choose between those two and assure me one of them will win, I will choose the latter. Because yes, while it is equally possible for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to win, but it is less realistic to expect it to. That is because (I believe) there are more random looking combinations than the otherwise, so statistically, random looking results will occur almost all the time.
Now, everytime I hear people saying to buy ALL combinations. I always felt that is really stupid, not because of the usual reasons, but why would you buy all the funny combinations that won't hit? Why not remove all of them to waste less money, and be left with all the reasonably random looking combinations? Unless somehow you believe you're ed enough that on that very day you decided to spend millions of dollar on the lottery, that's the day the results came out funny.
So anyway, my quest here is, how would you go about discovering, defining and removing from the pool all the combinations with funny patterns? What qualifies for funny patterns would be...
Sequentials : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Odd/even : 11, 23, 27, 33, 39, 47
Same range : 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29
Multiples : 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42
Additions : 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30
Others : 12, 21, 23, 32, 34, 43
Others : 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 49
Others : 4, 11, 22, 33, 44, 48
Let's also include results that have appeared in the history of the lottery, let's say about 3000 results since it started.
Also, note that as long as more than 2 numbers are in a pattern, the result qualifies to be removed
Meaning even something like, 4, 7, 20, 33, 34, 35 qualifies to be removed.
Another example would be, 13, 31, 14, 41, 23, 32. They are in different groups of patterns but it still makes it unlikely.
Well, I don't know what else to add, let me know if I missed something out.
So yeah, how many combinations would be left if you removed all these?
Would it be just 1% of 13 million? Or could it actually be about half?