Component for Reducing Instability in an Interactive and Participatory System

A computer system comprising:

• at least one server computer configured to interact with user terminals that are physically distant from said server computer and from each other, wherein the at least one server computer is configured to interchange data with said user terminals across a computer network;
• wherein the at least one server computer includes one or more processing devices and one or more memory devices containing software instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processing devices, results in the implementation of operations relating to computer-assisted selection of combinations for a game based on selecting combinations of numbers, the operations comprising:
• a) offering to one or more users of the user terminals configurable options in an interactive mode to enable the one or more users to select individual configurations by which to form subsets of combinations from which final combinations will be selected;
• b) evaluating statistics based on individual configurations selected by the one or more users based on the configurable options selected in the individual configurations;
• c) assisting the one or more users in the formation of subsets of combinations by searching the subsets with weak instability;
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• d) presenting at least a portion of the combinations, statistics, or both for display on a display of at least one of the user terminals.