Winning Number: 0000

Does anyone know how Jumbo Cactpot work in term of coming up with the winning number?
Do the system pick 4 random number or does it pick random purchased ticket, because the chance of 4 zeros' come up with all 4 digits is while possible I find it hard to swallow because of how improbable that is. This week (25 March 2018) draw on Kujata is apparently 0000.

I think full random rather than pick a randomly purchased ticket because you have weeks of no winners. 0000 combination though unlikely is the same likekihood as any other combination of numbers. Lucky for anyone who forgot to fill in their numbers this week and just hit confirm on the default which is 0000.

9999 appeared on masamune a few months back so...frankly I'm not surprised. It's just that one chance in a million to happen but still a chance.

I don't know where or how the rumor started in regards to it picking a numebr from those that have been picked.
It's not a blind box draw, it's a powerball type thing. It's literally archers shooting arrows at giant spinning number wheels, you can see them do it.

It being a completely random number is what makes the most sense.

For the record it was 0222 on Hyperion. I'll never win!

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Originally Posted by XykeVayaris

9999 appeared on masamune a few months back so...frankly I'm not surprised. It's just that one chance in a million to happen but still a chance.

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Its 4 digits, with 10 options each. So 1 in ten thousand, not one in a million. I know its a saying, but that bothers the math part of my brain just a little bit.

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Originally Posted by Ghald

Does anyone know how Jumbo Cactpot work in term of coming up with the winning number?
Do the system pick 4 random number or does it pick random purchased ticket, because the chance of 4 zeros' come up with all 4 digits is while possible I find it hard to swallow because of how improbable that is. This week (25 March 2018) draw on Kujata is apparently 0000.

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the chance of all 4 digits each coming up zeros is 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10, which is 1/10,000. every single number is equally improbable.

and the system absolutely does not pick from purchased tickets because if it did every week would have a winner and we know that to not happen.

I found that double digits tend to be most common winnable combinations 2253 or 4408

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

and the system absolutely does not pick from purchased tickets because if it did every week would have a winner and we know that to not happen.

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that would also lead to an abuse where the whole community will buy the same number and all are winners \^^/

That further proves that SE's rng is very chain like. Have you guys ever crafted? You either miss 4 80% in a row or you don't miss any in the next 15 steps.

Once on Leviathan it was 1337. We had several winners that time.

Well, everyone's math on probability looks correct. (Part of my job is doing statistics) However, the elephant in the room here is the computer -- they aren't really random. I think we've all seen that were the RND seems to "clump" or "chain" as others have described.
The reality is " surprising as it may seem, it is difficult to get a computer to do something by chance. A computer follows its instructions blindly and is therefore completely predictable."
Thus the "random" in any computer game is really pseudo-random, and if you know the seed and algorithm it is completely predictable. See https://www.random.org/randomness/ if you want to know more. If you want real random then you play a game like Warhammer where you roll real dice.
I guess I know behind the scenes thats how it works and just live with it.