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- Wheeling Options:
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- The program will first ask you whether you wish to wheel a Pick 5, or a Pick
- 6 game. It will then show you a chart of available wheeling options.
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- A typical choice looks like this:
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- Cost # TC/C P/G
- A> $ 7 7 1.00 6/6
- B> $28 8 1.00 6/6
- C> $ 3 8 .107 5/4
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- Cost is figured at $1.00 per ticket. '#' is how many numbers being wheeled. You
- can wheel up to 18 numbers. TC/C is short for total Cost (# of tickets) divided
- by combinations possible. A '1.00' here indicates that this is a 'complete'
- wheeling system, as opposed to an 'abbreviated' system. For example, looking
- at the chart above, in playing a Pick 6, and using 7 numbers, you can only
- fill out 7 tickets - since there are only 7 different ways to combine 7 numbers
- in groups of 6. Now, notice wheeling system 'C', the TC/C is only .107 - this
- means that even if you have chosen all 6 numbers correctly out of your 8-number
- wheel, you only have about a 10% chance of holding a ticket with all 6 numbers
- on it... since there are 28 different ways to combine 8 numbers in groups of 6, and you have only bought 3 tickets out of those 28 possibilities.
- 'P/G' is short for 'pick/guarantee'. In 'A', if you pick all six numbers, you
- are guaranteed to have one ticket with all 6 winning numbers on it...
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- Notice that as the number of 'wheeled' numbers gets larger, the systems are all
- 'abbreviated' systems, as they allow the greatest possibility of a win, while
- not driving you towards bankruptcy by playing all possible combinations. For
- example, you can spend $42 dollars playing a total of 18 numbers on a Pick 6/49
- game, it would lower your odds of hitting all 6 numbers down to 753 to 1. Quite
- a difference from 13,983,816 to 1 odds!! And if you won that 753 to 1 bet, you
- will have at least one ticket with a minimum of 4 of those winning numbers on
- it. Actually, when buying 42 tickets, you will most likely have up to a dozen
- (or more) winning tickets... and you STILL have a very small chance (.2%) that
- one of those tickets has all 6 winning numbers on it! (Although a much LARGER
- chance than you would have if you had bought only one ticket!)
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- Please study this section carefully, if you are not 'wheeling' your numbers,
- you are not lowering the odds against you in the lottery!
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