Match Winning Numbers Filter

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This filter allows to compare your tickets with the complete winning number history or with only a subset of previously drawn numbers and find the given match.

The filter removes from the package or leaves in the package tickets matching winning numbers selection in the given count of numbers. You can select the winning numbers subset using the controls in the left hand part of the filter window. The ticket will pass the filter if it matches at least one ticket in the winning numbers database in the given count of numbers.

For example, using this function you can leave in the package only tickets that did not win any first, second, third and fourth prize during the last 60 draws.

Example [Expert Lotto 6/49]:

65 tickets passed the filter for the 1st condition, 3 tickets passed the filter for the 2nd condition.

Note: Leaving column Min blank is equal to 1 to <max value>; leaving column Max blank is equal to <min value> to infinity.

Note: Match selection means searching for the exact count of matching numbers only. For instance checking option to remove Match 4 will remove only tickets matching winning numbers in exactly four numbers. The filter will ignore tickets matching in 5 or more numbers and tickets matching in 3 or less numbers. To remove tickets matching in four and more numbers you must check options Match 4, Match 5, Match 5+1 and Match 6.

In the example above (option B) we ask for the removal of tickets that match in 4 numbers at least two and at most four winning numbers tickets from the last 60 draws. It means that tickets matching only one and/or 5 or more winning numbers tickets are left in the package.

It is solely up to you how to use this function. E.g. after analyzing the winning numbers database you can decide to bet only tickets matching the last 30 draws at least once in three numbers but no more than in four numbers.

It is very likely that no lottery drew the same winning numbers again during its history. So it is probably safe to remove from the package all tickets equal to any of the previously drawn tickets.

When the winning numbers tickets did not match each other in five numbers for a long time we can expect that such a match is likely to appear in the next lottery draw. Then you would prefer tickets matching any winning numbers tickets in five numbers. A strict mathematician will oppose that we are trying to statistically assess events, which are not statistically related and that each lottery draw is an individual event unrelated to the other drawings. However some correlations do exist. One that we know for sure is the usage of the same lottery drawing machine. (That's why some lotteries publish also the type and name of the used drawing machine).