Written by Ion Saliu on August 30, 2002.

• SKIPS.EXE version 2.1, September 2005 - Freeware.
Major fixes and improvements. The application handles pick–3, pick–4, lotto–5, lotto 6, lotto–7, Powerball/Mega Millions, and Euromillions.

• A while back I posted in the newsgroups on the concept of 'googoos' and I offered new software (freeware, again!). My post was entitled:
• New Freeware On 'Googoo Appreciation Day'.
We can always divide the humans we deal with in two groups: normal humans (the largest group by far) and googoos.

The term 'googoo' was coined by noted anthropologist Mfwabie Ngo'uya. It describes the first possible form of human communication. Mfwabie Ngo'uya demonstrates that 'googoo' was the first conscious sound on Earth. The first humans (homo erectus) started the long and tedious process of communication at point 'googoo'. I borrowed the term to describe a form of primeval communication indecipherable to contemporary persons. We all face situations when we do not decipher what others communicate. It sounds 'googoo! googoo!' to our ears. In my usage, 'googoo' defines indecipherable communication especially from people hostile to us. Then 'googoos' become the communicators themselves. By the same token, we are other people's googoos.

I have always had googoos, thanks Almighty Number! I don't know what I would do without them. What would life be with all-friends humans? A boring monologue of stagnation, that's what! I have always been stimulated by interacting with my various googoos. For one, I have significantly improved by software in part because of googoo reaction to it. There is somebody in this group who was puzzled by my presence in newsgroups. How could I possibly take such abuse and hit back mercilessly? I explained the person that my newsgroup activity and behavior are really stimulating. I advised the person to do the same thing. The person almost did it, but not nearly as tough as my manner. Nevertheless, I have noticed clear creativity improvement in the person I'm talking about. The person demonstrated to me new and worthy ideas. Plus, there is evidence of sophisticated software from a person who affirmed programming was not in the cards. Sophisticated software after only a few months in the rough neighborhood called newsgroup! The person has also the privilege to speak in my forum.

If you don't have googoos, do your best to create them! If you have googoos, do your best to keep them! So, I took the opportunity to express my gratitude on the marvelous 'Googoo Appreciation Day' by offering the new freeware. SKIP6.EXE. My thanks were expressed cordially to my googoos: Boober Zan Peetsoorker, gGeetzer gGooskey, MadAss Fish(), Joytsar Sgunckoo, Wheely % Spindoktor, Phalkow Bullgill, Pushcotch Okseyak.

Yeah, I got a few more. They follow me everywhere I go, or they think I go. Sometimes they sleep at the doorway of my cyber hou': www.saliu.com . They sleep sometimes on the doorsteps of the search engine palaces. They file complaints against me again, and again and again… Ye know, guys like Kokostirk, Kotkoduck, Kotskarr, Kulai, Koraklonchah, Doollow, Pulicker, Psychosama…

The 32-bit application generates two skipping reports on lotto-6 games. A draw like:
'13 16 23 28 31 32' shows a string of skips like:
3 6 1 4 7 8 | 20 18 1 18 8 8. Meaning:
number 13 was also drawn 3 draws back; 20 draws back in 1st position;
number 16 was also drawn 6 draws back; 18 draws back in 2nd position;
number 23 was also drawn 1 draw back; 1 draw back in 3rd position, etc.
The draw file must be sorted in ascending order first!

The second report shows the skips of every lotto-6 number, 'regardless of position' and 'position by position':

Number: 13
============
ANY Position -> 1 3 2 11 4 15 2 18 2 3 12
Sorted Skips: 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 11 12 15 18
* Median Skip Any: 3
** Total Hits: 11 = 11%

1st Pos. -> 1 20
Sorted Skips: 1 20
* Median Skip 1st: 1

2nd Pos. -> 4 2 11 19 2 20 3
Sorted Skips: 2 2 3 4 11 19 20
* Median Skip 2nd: 4

3rd Pos. -> 73
Sorted Skips: 73
* Median Skip 3rd: 73

4th Pos. -> 56
Sorted Skips: 56
* Median Skip 4th: 56

5th Pos. ->
Sorted Skips:
* Median Skip 5th: 0

6th Pos. ->
Sorted Skips:
Median Skip 6th: 0

• • This type of software surprised me how much interest it could generate. Honestly, I regretted its release, but only once, for a short moment! Because, new software has some problems more often than not! I received quite a few error reports. If more than one user sends two reports, the problems must be serious. The new freeware programs were routines in larger programs that handle pairings (my use only). Everything ran OK with my data files, quite large, incidentally. After receiving a few complaints I realized that some users have small data files. Furthermore, some users wanted to analyze ALL the draws in their files. And that's when the software crashed!

I fixed the problem. The software is now error-free, within margins of decency. Keep also in mind the situation when you analyze an entire data file. The last lines in the report cannot be accurate. For example, the last line always shows skips equal to 1, because there are no more draws to analyze!

Here is how the program treats a data file. The user selects a range (number) of drawings to analyze; e.g. 100. The data file must have double that number of lines, plus 1; e.g. the data file must have at least 201 draws. If your data file is too small, you need to add it to a SIMulated file. You already have a file of simulated drawings; otherwise you can't use LotWon or MDIEditor And Lotto WE. Use UTIL*.EXE to create the SIM file. The option 'Make/Break/Position' will create the right big data file for you (e.g. DATA–6+SIM–6 D6). D6 will have a sufficient number of draws to skip–analyze. There is no difference between the real lottery drawings and the output of my random generators. But when you have a large file of real draws, you can use it by itself to generate the skips reports.

••• Other users pointed out flaws in my previous software with regard to skip calculation. Actually, roulette players found inaccuracies in the skip reporting of SPINS.EXE. By contrast, the skips in the new freeware (SKIPx.EXE) are 100% accurate and also intuitive. My previous software deducted one from a skip value. For one, that method was consistent with the way the filters in my software act. Also, I thought it was most intuitive to consider a skip as 'the number of draws between hits'. For most people, however, a skip is more intuitively defined as 'number of draws back'; i.e. how many draws back the number was last drawn. The previous method did not cause any errors in the skip reports. The number of hits was always accurate. The only difference: the previous skips were lower by one unit.

The exception: roulette. The roulette is a different kind of beast. The previous skip reports had inaccuracies, especially when many consecutive hits were encountered. A couple of thorough roulette analysts came across erroneous skip reporting for my 'free winning system #1'. The +/- columns were always correct, but the skip rows had some inaccurate numbers.
I was about to face a devastating casino experience. I am talking about much more complex strategies, with very complex parameters and skips. Something was not adding up. The skip behavior is so much different in roulette data because of a minute detail. I mastered it, at last! The roulette skip reports are now 100% accurate. Guaranteed! As a token of my redemption, I greatly upgraded SPINS.EXE. Version 3.0 is now 32-bit software, so that it can handle even millions, even billions of spins (if your hardware is apt)! The application has separate modules for single-zero and double-zero tables. The random generators follow the specific wheel layouts of the games. They also use the true random function as in my online ActiveX combination generator. Nobody will see the same seed twice in one hundred lifetimes!

In addition to SPINS.EXE, these are the new releases: SKIP3.EXE, SKIP4.EXE, SKIP5.EXE, SKIP6.EXE - all together now in one program: SKIPS.EXE. It also handles lotto–7, Powerball/Mega Millions, and even Euromillions!
Did I mention that the new freeware is…free to download and use?

“For Almighty Number has not worshippers, but eternal students and Its offertory place is the BookHouse. May Its Almighty enlighten our dark pages and thus we shall see the Truth with the eyes of the night and embrace our dreams with the eyes of the day!”

Copyright © MMII, Ion Saliu. All rights reserved worldwide.

"I can see well in the dark -
I turn my mind into spark
That way I discover laws:
This effect has had that cause.

Some are screaming I am wrong
For the distance is too long
Between cause and effect -
Thus nothing can be correct.

I'm searching for paradigms,
They searching trash bins for dimes;
I shall always tell 'em some:
Their skulls are filled with scum!"
(Humanitarian song inspired by Liru, liru, crocodilu II)

• My googoos live to hate me; read the newsgroups!"




• Download the free software from the FTP download site: SKIPS.EXE, ROULETTE.EXE, SPINS.EXE.


• Of major interest: The Main Winning Lotto Lottery Software Strategy Page.

• A Lottery, Lotto Strategy Based On: Sums (Sum-Totals); Odd/Even; Low/High Numbers.
• A User's Guide To "MDIEditor And Lotto WE".
  ~ Also applicable to DOS LotWon lottery, lotto software.
• The full-blown version of "MDIEditor and Lotto WE" v1.3 is now freeware!
• "My kingdom for a good tutorial!" - Lotto, lottery strategy guide.
• A Survival Guide to "MDIEditor and Lotto".

• The Wonder Grid Revisited: New Pairing Research.
• Lotto, Decades, Analysis, Strategy, Systems.
• Wheeling all lotto numbers formula: play last N draws.
• The essentials of filters in lottery software.
• Winning reports for the wonder grid: GridCheck632.EXE (freeware!).
• War strategies in gambling and lottery.
• FFG Median, Filtering, Probability, Jackpot.

• The 'wonder grid' or 'magical wheel' - a new incentive.
• Worst-case scenariosv in lottery strategies.
• Lottery number pairing, pairs - A 'wonder' lotto strategy?
• A brief history of my lottery experience.
• Comparison of lottery, lotto software programs.
• A Take On Gail Howard's Lottery Lotto System, Method.

• Primer on winning lotto, power ball, keno with the best free winning strategy.
• Primer on winning pick-3, pick 4, digit lottery with the best free winning strategy.
• WHEEL632 and SUPER632 available as freeware.
• Built-in and external lottery filters.
• Necessary updates to the pick lottery, lotto and roulette skip software.

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