The technique of splitting your ticket to provide more diverse ways to play can be applied to more complex tickets as well as the simple ones that we examined last week. So suppose that you are playing the 12 spot way ticket grouped 3-3-2-2-1-1. You can see that this ticket has 1/12, 2/11, 3/10, 6/9, 7/8, 8/7, 10/6, 8/5, 7/4, 6/3, 3/2 and 2/1 and 63 total ways. If we split one of the groups on this ticket (either a 3 or a 2) we will end up with a new ticket of 127 ways. It doesn’t matter which group, a 3 or a 2 that we split, we still get the same number of ways. If we split a 3, our new ticket is 12 spots grouped 3-2-2-2-1-1-1 and we have 1/12, 3/11, 6/10, 11/9, 15/8, 18/7, 20/6, 18/5, 15/4, 11/3, 6/2 and 3/1, for 127 ways. If we split a 2 then we get 12 numbers grouped 3-3-2-1-1-1-1, and the breakout is 1/12, 4/11, 7/10, 10/9, 15/8, 18/7, 18/6, 18/5, 15/4, 10/3, 7/2 and 4/1, also for 127 ways. Choose your weapon. Take the ancient combination ticket 9 spots grouped 4-3-2. I am keeping this simple. This old ticket (which was somewhat popular back in the day) has 1/9, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 for 7 ways total. If we split a group we expect to find 15 ways on the new ticket. Indeed, splitting the 4 into 2-2 we get 3-2-2-2, and we now have the same 9 spots, but we have 1/9, 3/7, 1/6, 3/5, 3/4, 1/3 and 3/2. It should be noted that you can also split a four spot in a different way, 3-1, and this produces the ticket 3-3-2-1 with 15 ways also, though they are slightly different ways, 1/9, 1/8, 1/7, 3/6, 2/5, 2/4, 3/3, `1/2 and 1/1. You "pays your money and takes your choice." You can take this technique as far as you want. If you split a ticket twice you will end up with roughly quadruple the number of ways to play on it. Needless to say this can rapidly become quite expensive in the way that king tickets can quickly become costly. Splitting is just a technique to add interest to your play, but is perhaps best used in moderation. It’s hard to go back to the older simpler ticket sometimes. Well that’s it for this week, good luck. See you in the lounge! contact KenoLil@GMail.com
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