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- Lotto Prophet by DataMicro Registration $ 15.00
- MISC DEC90 STATE LOTTO PROPHET DATAMICRO GAMBLE GAME
- FILES: lottopt3.sdn
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- New to SDN
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- L O T T O P R O P H E T
- by Gene P. Davis
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- PHILOSOPHY OF LOTTERIES
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- ARE THE ODDS REALLY AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU PLAY LOTTO ?
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- First, let me state that this section is my opinion of
- lotteries and how they operate. The figures and odds given
- here are my opinion and do not necessarily represent the odds
- available in any given lottery.
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- How many times have you read about what a sucker bet playing
- a lottery is, or that the odds are 10 million to 1 against
- you, etc....
-
- Well, let's tell it like it really is. If the state lottery
- pays a return of 50 cents on each $1.00 collected, it sounds
- to me like the odds would be 1 to 2 against you, not 10
- million to 1. The doom and gloomers only quote the odds on
- the top prize of lotto. They forget about the 2nd, 3rd and
- 4th prizes.
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- Maybe you think odds of even 2 to 1 against you would begin
- to get the best of you after awhile! What if the state
- decided to have a reverse lotto and for every $1.00 collected
- it would add another $1.00 to the pot, thus making the odds 2
- to 1 in your favor? WOULD YOU PLAY ?
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- YOU WOULD ? ? ? Then why don't you ?
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- EXAMPLE: (using averages and round figures) Let's say that
- in a normal weekly drawing $2 million worth of tickets are
- purchased and the payoff is 1/2 of that or $1 million, but
- there are no winning tickets. Then the $1 million would be
- rolled over to the next drawing etc....
-
- For the purpose of good conversation let's say that the
- carry- over pot has reached $3 million. For this drawing the
- state has collected another $2 million. The payoff, if there
- is a winner, is $4 million.
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- Let's figure the odds. If $2 million is bet and the payoff
- is $4 million, it sounds to me like the odds are 2 to 1 in
- your favor !
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- "HOLD ON", you say, "Someone had to put all that money in the
- pot."
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- "THAT'S TRUE! But it was not you or I." (only play on
- rollover !)
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- As we travel together through the LOTTO PROPHET program and
- documentation we will try to uncover other ways to have the
- odds in our favor when we play.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- LOTTO PROPHET was developed for the IBM Personal Computer and
- operates properly on most compatible computers. The system
- requirements are very simple:
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- 1. MS-DOS or PC-DOS, Version 2.1 or later.
- 2. At least one 360K floppy disk drive.
- 3. A printer, for producing the reports and Prophet Cards.
- 4. The program will operate much faster from a hard disk.
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- DataMicro's LOTTO PROPHET is a sincere attempt to increase
- the interest and the pleasure of individuals and groups who
- like to play the lottery by helping keep a record of numbers
- picked as well as recording the previously called lottery
- numbers.
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- The LOTTO PROPHET has the ability to maintain all of the
- State, Canadian 6/49 and Australian Gold lotteries at one
- time.
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