The amount of possible segment patterns throughout the 11 columns ranges in the 100's of millions. This amount of course is substantially reduced due to the limiting factor of the total possibilities of the lottery game that you are playing such as a 5/39, 575,757 combinations or a 6/49, 13,983,816 combinations. After each and every drawing the WNH will change and the segment patterns within the 11 columns will change also but, still limited by the total amount of possible combinations in the lottery game you are playing. So if you are playing a 5/39, out of the 100's of millions of possible segment patterns only 575,757 segment patterns will pretain to the next drawing and most likely never the same.
Working with the Multiple WNH Segments Filter we know that it is already difficult due to the amount of possible combinations in the lottery game we are playing and we are limited by the amount of columns that can be used in Excel for analysis. So I got to thinking about our objective and the parameters that we are going to be working with and I came up with an idea. If you were to look at all of the possible combinations of the lottery you are playing before any filtering, all 11 columns segment patterns would be unique but, we are only going to be working with the first 6 to 8 columns. We are looking for segment patterns that produce a single ticket combinations within columns -5 to -7 and there are many repeating segment patterns within the first 2 to 5 columns but, the closer you get to columns -5, -6, and -7 the fewer the repeating segment patterns there are. Segment patterns that repeat beyond column -7 most likely can be left out.
Now what we need to do is look for the unique segment patterns within the first 6 to 8 columns and then look for the segment patterns that produce a single ticket combination within columns -5, -6, and -7. If you have Excel here is the way to find the unique segment pattern
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010346261033.aspx?pid=CL100570551033. My best suggestion at this point is to use your best safe filtering to lower the amount of combinations before moving on to multiple WNH segments analysis.
One other thing that we need to look into is makeing the movement of data between CSV, Excel, and text easier. One problem I have is moving data from Excel to a text file leaves spaces that have to be closed and commas that have to be placed for the Multiple WNH Segments filter to read the data entered correctly, if anybody has a solution to this please let us all know.
I hope I have explained this well enough for everybody to understand as I had a hard time trying to explain the idea.
Good Luck!