Numbers and Win 4

What to play, and why

This game is a string of digits in fixed positions, so the line below is one digit per position — read it left to right.

1. Numbers269
2. Win 42694

• No column of this game favours a digit. Each of its 7 columns — the columns of both games in one file, since the New York feed holds Numbers and Win 4 together was counted over 2,000 draws and each was tested against a flat one-in-ten: the worst column sits 2.4 standard deviations from even, and the worst chi-square gives p = 0.163. Digits behave.
• And the digit drawn last time does not come back. Matching the previous draw column by column gives z = +1.91 at its worst — nothing.
• The line avoids the strings everyone types. No digit repeats and no two are adjacent in value, because 000, 111, 1234 and 7777 are the entries that come in by the thousand.
• What that is worth. Choosing digits cannot change the chance of a match. Where a prize is shared, avoiding the crowded strings means fewer people to split it with; where it is fixed, nothing about the digits changes what a win pays. In both cases the only lever you hold is how many lines you buy.

A draw with no memory cannot be predicted. This is a choice about sharing, not a forecast, and the page says so because the measurement says so.

What is held

What its numbers say

This game is played as digits in fixed positions, so it is tested where each draw happens: within a column. Every column is counted over its own set of ten and tested against a flat one-in-ten — 7 columns across 2,000 draws. Gathering the digits into one list would answer a question nobody asked.

Read it the way it should be read. The worst column of all 7 sits 2.4 standard deviations from an even spread of its ten digits (Win 4 column 1), and its chi-square gives p = 0.163. Ten outcomes watched across several columns will always throw up one that looks a little odd — that is what chance does, and it is the same finding every game here gives: no column is favoured, and the digit drawn last time does not come back.

Disclaimer

This site is a model and its own backtest. It is not advice and it is not a promise. The backtest on the worked example says the model cannot predict a draw, so nothing here improves the chance of matching one: every set of numbers has the same chance as every other set, and the only thing a choice changes is how many people share the prize.

Every lottery named on this site is a losing proposition by design. A ticket always costs more than the prizes it can win, in every game, on purpose — that is how the money for the prizes is raised. Lotto Max returns about $0.50 of every dollar staked and Encore about $0.51, and the same shape holds for the others. Play only with money you would not miss, never to recover a loss, and never on credit. You must be of legal age where you live — 18 or older in Ontario — and in a jurisdiction that allows you to play. If it stops being fun, ConnexOntario can help — call 1-866-531-2600.

No responsibility is accepted for any loss, in any game. The operator of this page is not responsible for a losing ticket, for a missed draw, for a misread selection slip, for a number copied from this page wrongly, or for anything done or not done because of it. The lines here are worked examples of a choice, nothing more. Check your numbers at the counter before you pay, and keep the printed ticket — it is the only record of what you are playing, and the slip is not.

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What this page is not. It is not gambling advice and it is not a prediction service. It cannot tell you what will be drawn — it says so above, in numbers. A lottery ticket is a bad bet and this page will not pretend otherwise. If gambling stops being fun, the Ontario problem-gambling helpline is 1-866-531-2600, free and open at any hour.