If you are a Pick 3 or Pick 4 lottery player, have you noticed how helpful the official local state lottery websites have become in offering free information to help players find winning numbers? Some official state lottery sites offer software capabilities that allow players to find lucky lottery numbers to play with. A recent web browsing adventure led me to the official website of the Delaware Lottery. This lottery website provides lottery players with a frequently updated list of Pick 3 digits and Pick 4 digits that have been drawn. This frequency list is automatically updated after each drawing. The frequency filter based on the history of all numbers drawn in each lottery game tells players which of the ten digits (0 to 9) has been drawn the most and least times, and ranks the ten digits from the most drawn up to the minimum drawn by the actual number of pictures and the related percentages.
This frequency filter is used by Pick 3 systems and Pick 4 systems, particularly in software programs, to help lottery players produce the most effective list of potential numbers to play and win. Knowing that certain digits are drawn more than others leads to the belief that these more powerful digits will increase the chances of winning by playing these better performing digits. Mathematicians using typical bell curve analysis suggest that all numbers, except for a technical skew created with a particular drawing system, should be drawn the same number of times over time. Generally, the total number distributed in random draws is very small in the overall picture of total draws. What is the actual meaning of the percentage of .003663 between the most drawn digit and the least drawn digit as in the case of the Delaware Play 3 game based on 186 / 50,778 draws? It is similar to an 80-year-old man saying to a 35-year-old man, “In human history, we are roughly the same age.” The actual percentage per count is 10.1816% for the most extracted digit and 9.8153% for the least extracted digit.
Can a barely perceptible signal on the positive number radar screen really have any real meaning to the lottery player when choosing to play one digit over another? The Delaware Play 4 frequency table was not much different. It produced a difference of 0.003246 between the most drawn digit and the least drawn digit of a total number of 61,300 drawings. Based on this presented data found on the official Delaware State Lottery website, are the resulting percentage differences from the digits significant enough to create a real choice for lottery players? Can the frequency charts in general make any difference when using the total number of draws from the first day of the particular lottery game, either Pick 3 lottery or Pick 4 lottery, when the difference is reduced to three thousandths of a percent of total drawings?
Like looking for a needle in a haystack, splitting hairs as thin as these numbers suggest, picking one digit over another, particularly in the mid-range of the bell curve, makes it an even more impossible task for even the most dedicated lottery and engaged. Players who are willing to spend time doing their research to find the next winning Pick 3 number or Pick 4 number to play.