Pinch Paxton

There is a guaranteed £10 win for 163 lotto lines, but you have to do an exact sequence of numbers, with a certain spacing of numbers apart from each other. No matter what Lotto numbers are drawn, you will win £10, because you have all cases of three numbers from any 6. Pincho.

What I mean is that you have to put all 163 tickets on in one go. £163 to win £10. You don't have to make a profit, you just have to win £10. Pincho.

There is a guarantee that you would win. So far its 163 tickets that guarantee a £10 win, but I think it should be less. Edit: What I mean is that you have to put all 163 tickets on in one go. £163 to win £10. You don't have to make a profit, you just have to win £10. Pincho.

Yes I know that the odds are 56.7 to 1, but does that mean that if you make 57 tickets for the Lotto you are guaranteed to win? I am trying to find the minimum number of lines to guarantee a win. It's a different type of mathematics. That is the problem. I think it has something to do with spacing the numbers by groups. So the first line could be.. 1,7,13,19,25,31 The second line... 2,8,14,20,26,32.... etc... It would require using the same numbers as few times as possible, I think! Thanks! Pincho.

I found this. It uses 42 balls instead of 49. It has the maths for the odds, but does it help with the minimum number of lines? Consider a lottery where there are initially 42 balls, and six are drawn. What are the odds of getting exactly three numbers correct (out of the list of six you selected)? Something like the following will happen: The first ball is not in your list (chances are 36/42) The second is in your list (6/41) The third is in your list (5/40) The fourth is not in your list (35/39) The fifth is not in your list (34/38) The sixth is in your list (4/37) Overall odds of this exact sequence occurring: (36.35.34.6.5.4)/(42.41.40.39.38.37) = 0.001361092504 However, there are other orders in which the balls might have come out, 19 of them in fact - the number of combinations of three items taken from six is 6! / 3! 3! = 20. Therefore the chances of getting three numbers is 20 times the above or 0.02722185008. You will note that irrespective of the order of drawing, the numerator will be 36.35… for wrong balls, and 6.5… for correct ones. For example, a different order of drawing would have given (36/42)(35/41)(34/40)(6/39)/(5/38)(4/37) - but the product is exactly the same. So we can multiply the calculated chance of a single sequence by the number of different sequences (20) that will lead to the same overall result (three hits). The above should be clear enough, but it is possible to write down the equation in factorial form. Let B = Total number of balls (42) D = Number drawn = Number selected (6) H = Number correct ('Hits') (3) The probability is (read on only if you have no fear of equations): B-D! D! B-D! D! P = --------------------------------------------- B-2D+H! D-H! B! H! D-H!

The order does not matter. The numbers are not replaced in the drum. You can choose any 6 numbers. You just have to get 3 of them right. Odds = 56.7 to 1 of 3 from 6. How many lines before you are guaranteed £10. Somebody has posted 163 (Not 168) on another forum. I don't know my math's signs so ^ just confuses me. I need the full explenation in +-*/ these signs. Well I suppose I could just type your maths into my computer and it will sort it out for me. Pincho.

I don't know much about catapults, and things, but I do know about personal observations. Throwing stuff! Anyway, if you have an heavy object, and you are a human, with your two arms, legs fingers, you have quite a useful catapult. How would a human throw an heavy object to his best potential? Well, from observation, and years of evolution, he would probably use the Hammer method. I am talking about the hammer on a chain, that you spin around with, and let go! I have never seen a catapult that uses this method of throwing stuff. I think that it would be an interesting experiment to make one. So to conclude... A good catapult method would require a spring mechanism, that winds down to full strength, with an outstretched arm holding the projectile inside a cloth, on the end of a rope, or chain. The entire structure of this catapult would be pulled backwards against yet another spring, to give it forward momentum, as well as its spinning momentum. (A Hammer thrower travels forwards, whilst spinning the hammer.) Now, how do you make the catapult let go of the projectile at the right moment? You would definately want it pointing forwards when it lets go. I'll let you figure that out! LOL! Pincho.

The Lotto is 6 numbers from 49. A line of numbers would be 1 set of 6 numbers. Line = 6 numbers. A ticket! 168 tickets required to Guarantee £10??? I thought that 57 tickets guaranteed £10 so I am confused by that. What maths can be used to work this out? Pincho.

I need the help of a math's wizard, because I am confused by something.... The odds of winning £10 on the Lotto are 56.7 to 1. Ok. But I have been told that if you write 57 lines of numbers, no matter what they are, you can't always win £10. In fact I have been told that you need 168 lines of numbers to guaranty £10. Could anyone explain the mathematics behind this in simple terms please. I am trying to write a computer program to find the smallest number of lines possible. I also want someone to be able to type 6 numbers into the computer, and the computer will make the smallest number of lines using those numbers. Pincho

Don't listen to that guy with the crappy avatar! J/K!

None of these theories sound right to me. If Oswald was there with a rifle, and also two other guys, that means that there were two assasination attempts on the same day. That's possible, but it still means that Oswald was guilty for attempting to assasinate the president, therefore his arrest was the correct policy. If his assasination attempt was on this general guy, then he could have chose a time when the General was an easier target. Generals are not usually surrounded by body guards, and can be shot alone for some parts of the day. This tipping of the head due to splash back from liquid, sounds possible. I think it is a valid point. Pincho.

Oh by the way, I'm just explaining the theory of evolution, I don't actually believe in it. Yeah, and it's a bigger jump from nothing to a God, than it is from nothing to a chair!

Beggings is a mis-spelling.

Well it's a long list from the big bang to a chair. It's a long list from the transformer to the computer. I can break the list down a bit to the creation of a chair. Big bang..strings...electrons...atoms..gravity...Planets...water.. ameba .. germ... ant.. (Strings probably come before the Big Bang..I don't know how accurate my list is.) When we get to ants or before that, things start to get made by the simplest forms of intelligence....ant hill. But the intelligence is still part of the building structure of the universe.. electric energy. So in a way, even intelligent life is part of the building of the universe...... ....human...chair! Pincho.

If he had a penis attatched to his head it might be determined as an artistic statement of his personality!

I was just doing a bit of chaotic thinking because I like turning things upside down. Do you suppose that a mouse feels that another mouse is more alive than a human?

Sometimes you have to ask the question.. "Are We Alive!" Some people think that when you die, you are truly born.

There is little sound in my dreams, a few lines of word, probably less than Arnold Schwartzenegger had in Terminator! LOL! So not much room for personality there. Most of my thoughts seem to work properly though. I can have a coherent conversation with my inner self. Pincho.

Some research has showed that people who do not have a breakfast before school get worse results than those that do. That is just a statistical analysis, not really a scientific test. Pincho.

I've had dreams about Lottery numbers, and written them down twice, but none of them came up!

I'm 40 and I am a genius!

I've done lots of tests in my dreams. I have lucid dreams. Iv'e picked things up to see if they are 3D or not. I've fallen from great heights, and hit the floor, I just broke all my bones, and had a jelly-like body. I've pinched myself, but I felt it so that didn't help. I've walked around the block in my dream to check out the differences between a walk in a dream, and a walk in real life. In my dream there were far less sounds, but the rest of it was perfect. As for solving problems in your sleep, well I think that we multi-task, and have subroutines running all the time. So we can solve things in our subconcious. Pincho.

It's a good enough answer being as the question was.."Is Blood blue?" Pincho.

I think that things can travel faster than the speed of light, I think that relativity is flawed, there must be a better understanding of these things. Someone needs to come up with something better than reletivity. Pincho.

Syringes don't contain air do they? So syringed blood is the true colour of blood inside the body. Syringed blood is dark red. Pincho.