What type of random number generator is used to pick the Lotto quick picks. With a quick pick, the player lets the Lotto terminal randomly pick your numbers rather than selecting your own.
Are these numbers truly random? If you can have several plays on one playslip. Would it be possible that the same exact numbers on one play will be found again on the same playslip? Does the Lotto have some built in mechanism that prevents the same numbers from repeating on the playslip?
2006-07-15 09:01:40 · 7 answers · asked by PC_Load_Letter 4 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
I don't mean the same number repeating on one play. I mean the same group of numbers repeating on another play. If the game you have 50 numbers to choose from and you pick 6 per play:
One quick pick gives:
7, 16, 23, 27, 38, 43
will the same play(group of numbers) be repeated on a different play but on the same ticket.
2006-07-15 18:56:21 · update #1
You can't win with those things.
2006-07-19 13:43:07 · answer #1 · answered by CottonPatch 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Lotto Quick Pick
2016-09-28 07:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by mcclister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1986 a software program was created and is registered with a copyright in the Library of Congress. TX 6-523-604. Copy of this random quick pick lotto program is named Gizmo and is on record.
Others used this program to establish quick pick lotto machines which generate the hard copy for users.
2006-07-17 22:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by www.denar.com 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what type of system they use, but I know that within computer science, generating truly random numbers can be difficult. It is a rather large problem for computer security because the system used to generate network traffic uses random number systems to prevent people from hijacking secured traffic streams. Despite a lot of work by some very smart people, hackers discover patterns within the number generation and security holes develop. So, all of that is to say, I doubt the quick pick can be truly random in a mathematical sense. It almost certainly will generate some numbers more than others over time. However, it is probably random enough for its job.
2006-07-15 09:11:32 · answer #4 · answered by Josh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it really makes a difference. Some people like to play the same numbers with the hope that their numbers will eventually come up. I look at it this way, if you're going to win it'll happen whether you've picked your numbers or not. The odds are still the same. I prefer the quick picks because I don't have to take the time to select the numbers each time I play.
2016-03-16 00:19:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are random, but so are the lotto numbers. The chances of the same two random numbers being picked is (I think) smaller then my pick matching theirs.
2006-07-15 09:06:54 · answer #6 · answered by heather k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
say your lotto has 50 numbers, the computer picks one number, then picks another from the remaining 49, then one from the remaining 48, and so on, until the card is full. its pretty straight forward.
2006-07-15 12:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by jeff6683 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋