• SkipSystem.EXE: Free software to automatically create lotto, lottery, gambling systems derived from skips.

I created a special system for Powerball, by running software to generate skips and automatically generate a system based on skips below the FFG median. I wrote on that corresponding web page:

Two things were noticeable. My lottery strategies do not stress groups (pools) of numbers. Secondly, the Powerball/Mega Millions/Thunderball games fall way behind in attention; I treat other lotto/lottery and gambling games with a whole lot more interest.

My philosophy is that the combination is the fundamental element. The lotto or lottery game draws combinations (or sets in the pick games). The players also play combinations or sets. Therefore, the most natural way for software is to generate lotto, lottery combinations in the native format of the game. I decided the other day to do a test for the Powerball 5/53/42 game. I have the complete results (drawings) file - from the beginning of the game format through September 16, 2005. Of course, I don't do many things without software! I used in-house software similar to the latest version of SKIPS.EXE (but with more bells and whistles).

Well, perhaps it wasn't nice to tease people with the “bells and whistles” concept. I came to the conclusion that I should release the software to the public. Still freeware, of course - for the sake of fairness. Perhaps for the sake of redemption as well. I mean, I was again in the unpleasant situation to hear from users that my software, MDIEditor And Lotto WE, had bugs!

Look, this redemption thing has been on my mind for some time now. The subject is profoundly philosophic. Can humanity advance without devouring? Think of Bill Gates and Microsoft. He devoured the software industry! Microsoft literally destroyed any trace of competition in the software business! The result is, undoubtedly, you become the richest human in history. Then, the urge for redemption strikes you. The best way to redemption is to pay - kind of a payback, but in a positive sense. For example, pay for the vaccination of all humans who can't afford to pay for vaccines and vaccination.

”Billy, Blitser, crocodile
You devour in grand style:
First, you vaccinate your prey,
Then, for redemption you pay.” ¹

SkipSystem.EXE handles the following lotto and lottery games: pick-3, pick-4, lotto-5, lotto-6, Powerball/Megamillions (5+1), and Euromillions (5+2). It also works with trifectas in horse racing and roulette.

The program needs a data file (the file with the results, drawings) in a game. It is recommended to use a D* type data file: a real draw file on top of a SIMulated file of combinations. The reason is the size of the file. If your real draw file is small (like under 100, even under 200 combinations), the skip analysis may not be totally precise. If your real results file has in the neighborhood of 200 drawings, you can get an accurate skip report.

The heart of this system is the SKIP, more precisely the last two skips for each lotto/lottery game. The skip is simply the number of drawings between two hits of a particular number (digit). The skip is calculated here as number of drawings back. If, for example, a lotto number hit in the very last drawing and previously in drawing #3, then the skip is equal to 2: 3 - 1 = 2. We can say that the lotto number hit last time 2 draws back.

This method of calculating the skip is slightly different from the method applied in MDIEditor And Lotto WE and in the DOS LotWon lottery software. In LotWon, the skip is calculated as the absolute number of draws skipped between hits. In the example above, the skip is 1. The LotWon skip is always less 1 than the skip calculated by SkipSystem.EXE.

The difference is well thought out. The skip in LotWon acts as a filter. In SkipSystem.EXE, the skip represents a probability parameter calculated by the Fundamental Formula of Gambling (FFG)

These are the first two values of the skip report that starts every lotto, lottery numbers. For example:

Number: 4
Any Position -> 3 5 17 3 7 7 10 5 3 11 1 6 6 = the skips

The first two entries are 3 and 5. Those are the most recent skips for lotto #4.

The main lotto, lottery strategy page starts with the simplest of lotto systems based on skips and pools (groups) of numbers. There are also other systems out there (very expensive, though) based on the first skip or the two most recent skips. For example, you might have read recommendations of this nature. Select lotto numbers that hit within the last five or so drawings and also hit in the last 10 draws or so. In this case, you would select lotto numbers with the first two skips in the form: 3, 5; or 4, 5; or 2, 1; or 4, 3; or 5, 5.

Well, such a strategy is not standing on strong mathematical grounds. It doesn't explain why the magical numbers 5 and 10?

That's where the Fundamental Formula of Gambling (FFG) steps in. The FFG has discovered that each and every lotto number repeats, in 50%+ of all its hit situations, after a number of draws equal to the FFG median.

I went one step further. It is one of my discoveries in casino gambling. I look at the first two skips (the two most recent skips). Instead of selecting numbers that show each of the two most recent skips less than or equal to the FFG median, I add the skips. In the previous example, lotto #4 started with the skips 3 and 5. Each skip is under FFG median. One possible lottery system will select #4 as being playable. The lotto #4 is also playable because 3+5=8; the result is less than the double amount of the FFG median. Double FFG median is equal to 12 for the lotto 6/49 game.