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Patterns in the Lottery Game bers coinciding with those in geometric patterns is rather small). Second, if all the other players also mark their numbers in geometric patterns, then the probability of them applying the similarly modified (broken) patterns is mini- mal. Thus we can deduce that in their minds, the probability of other students choosing their numbers based on the same geometric pattern was lower than the probability of the overlapping of randomly chosen numbers. Based on the results we can assume that the role of the numbers and the location of their combinations play an important role. Some of the “losing” players told us in the course of the evaluation of the results that they had con- centrated more on the numbers themselves than on their actual location. In con- trast, the owners of the winning tickets placed a larger emphasis on the pattern and place of the numbers marked on the lottery ticket. We presume therefore that in the case of the “hidden lottery” – playing against intelligent, consciously thinking competitors, in keeping with the pre- defined rules of the game and in the frame of the symmetrical layout of the 7x7 lottery ticket – the most effective strategy is that of the conscious, ordered choice in which the player marks the numbers in some sort of modified geomet- ric pattern as opposed to simple random choice. Our hypotheses are based on the results of the evaluation of the 18 “hidden lottery” games played to date, thus at this stage they are hunches, the results of “more than interesting” coincidences. Of the millions of possible combinations7 in the 6/49 type game, the almost 500 person sample is still too small to enable us to draw significant deductions from the winning strategies. In addition to determining the correctness of our presumptions, further data and analysis can also be used to decide whether the identified geometric patterns – especially the modified (broken) patterns – are present in addition to otherwise random choice or whether they are really the results of conscious decisions. A further question to be posed is whether the symmetrical structure of the lottery ticket used (7x7 layout) attracts the geometric patterns, i.e. whether or not the ordered pattern influences the strategy chosen. We shall conduct further research to prove our presumptions and hypothe- ses. Future participants shall be asked – after having filled in the lottery tick- et – to explain (in writing or orally) the thought process that resulted in the choice of the numbers marked. We also plan to change the layout of the lottery ticket (e.g. by using an asymmetrical layout) and the order of the numbers to obtain further answers to the question whether players concentrate more on the numbers themselves or rather their position, i.e. whether it is the pattern or the number that is more important. By removing the geometric frame, we wish to determine to what extent the strategy applied in choosing the numbers is influenced by the ticket as a structuring principle. In order to study this, in the 7 In the 6/49 lottery game, the total number of possible combinations is 13,983,816. 67PDF Image | PATTERNS IN THE LOTTERY GAME
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