Wingo prediction: what a predictor can and cannot know
A predictor claims to know the next result. See what luck alone does to a record like that, and the check that tells a predictor from a lucky guesser.
A prediction is a claim about a result that has not happened yet. You cannot check it in advance, but you can check a predictor’s past calls against luck. A hit rate of 60% over 100 calls is something blind guessing reaches 2.84% of the time, so a record like that proves nothing about the next call.
In 100 calls luck alone moves a hit rate by ± 10.0 points, so a rate of 60% sits inside what guessing produces. Some blind guessers always get lucky, and about 28 of 1,000 would match a rate like this one. The one you hear about is the one that did. To tell skill from luck you need a long record written down before each result.
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Common questions
Can a predictor know the next colour or number?
Not if rounds are drawn at random and independently, as fair rounds are. A result that has not happened cannot be read from anywhere, and earlier results do not change the next one. We cannot see inside any platform, so this describes fair random rounds.
How likely is it that a predictor’s record is just luck?
More likely than most people think. A blind guesser gets 60 or more right out of 100 about 3 times in 100. The tool above works out the exact chance for the record you enter, so you can see how unusual it really is.
Why does some channel always seem to be right?
Because there are many of them. If a thousand channels guess blind, a few will have a good run, and those are the ones whose screenshots get shared. The ones that guessed wrong go quiet.
Does anything I type here leave my phone?
No. The tool runs in your browser and works everything out on your own device. Nothing you enter is uploaded, and there are no accounts.
Does this page predict the next result?
No. It cannot, and it is built to show why. It makes fair random rounds and counts what happens, and the chances it prints are worked out exactly. Nothing in it looks ahead.