RULE 3: Do Not Play Numbers with Only Odd or Only Even Numbers.

This rule is similar to the previous rule because the chance for a PICK 3 number in which every digit is EVEN (with the digits 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8) is 1 in 8. So also here rules: Only every eighth drawing (on the average) has only EVEN digits.

Let’s use absolute numbers. Out of the one thousand possible combinations, twenty-five have EVEN digits. In terms of percentages, that means that 12.5% of all PICK 3 results have only even numbers.

The same works for PICK 3 numbers with only ODD digits (1, 3, 5, 7, and 9). Every eighth drawing (statistically) consists of a ODD digits number.

Of course, like the EVEN digits, only 125 out of the 1000 possible combinations have numbers with ODD digits, or 12.5 percent.

Together only ODD digit numbers and only EVEN digit numbers make up 25 percent of all drawings. In 75% of the cases (or in three out of four drawings) the PICK 3 result contains EVEN and ODD numbers combined.

This rule alone would eliminate 25% of all the numbers from your WINNING number pick list.

In three out of four games your chances would increase form 1:1000 to 1:750 for STRAIGHT BET.

All three of the rules you have seen up to now are strictly based on statistics. If you combine all of these rules in almost 50% of your game entries, you can improve your chances to win the big prize from the original 1:1000 to 1:492. In other words, you can cut the chances in half! For BOX wins in those cases you can look at a 1 in 82 chance to hit (which is also a bit lower than half of the usual 1:166.6).

Up to now we have not even looked at the previous game results.

The following table provides you with a reduced version of the previous table. It does not contain any only even and only odd digit numbers any longer. The table contains the result of combining the three rules. From the original 120 numbers table, we have whittled our way down to 82 numbers. That looks much better than choosing a 3-digit number from 1000 possibilities.

Table 3: The 82 Reduced Winning Numbers