How to Select Numbers

In the long run all eighty numbers should show up with equal frequency. Now, this might never happen, but the longer the game is played, the more equal the distribution of these random numbers will be.

A player might enter the casino, follow the keno board for two hundred plays and see that the numbers 1, 15, 26, 38, 42, 43, 56, 61, 67, and 76 haven't hit more than once or twice in all that time.

So he plays these numbers, and they still refuse to show, or a couple of them hit at different times, but not enough times to cause a payoff on his ticket.

What this player doesn't know and cannot know is that these same numbers might in fact, in the course of a hundred thousand games at this particular keno board, be way ahead of the other numbers, and that other numbers have to come up hundreds of times more to catch up with the numbers he's playing in a vain attempt to take advantage of the law of averages.

Even if he had kept a record of all these hundred thousand games, that still might not be enough information for this player to predict the next winning ticket.

If the game had gone on for ten million plays, all the numbers wouldn't be equally distributed but would be closing in on an equal distribution. The game is so random in nature that there's no way to predict anything based on the past.

The last method, which might be the best, is to continually select numbers that have shown board after board. I've personally, observed the same numbers appearing on ten straight boards, and after a while I almost was sure that they would show again.

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