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how far back do you go.Reply
In random drawings, all numbers should be drawn an equal number of times. For example, if you have a lottery consisting of a pool of 48 numbers, and six numbers are picked from each drawing, then after 80 drawings every number should have been picked ten times: (6x80/48=10). If a number has been picked more than ten times, that number is said to be a "hot" number. A number picked less than ten times is said to be a "cold" number. In a true random drawing, the long-run odds of a cold numbe
Jul 1, 2006, 11:44 am - Raven62 - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM increases by only 2 million
Wow. Sales must be really down. This much be the smallest increase Mega Millions has had in many many years. Brad
Jul 1, 2006, 10:26 am - Bradly_60 - Jackpot Games Forum

MM and PB predictions 2006Reply
LOTTOMIKE, With 20 WB + 5 MB/PB you would increase your coverage 516%, but saying you could and actually doing it are two different things. Maybe you should start posting such a group in the LOTTOMIKE MM/PB challenges and see what happens. Good luck to you.
Jun 25, 2006, 4:22 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball cash optionReply
The cash option has been like this ever since PB went to 5/55 + 1/42, because they restructured the annuity so payments increase each year. Therefore, they can get a higher annuity than they could under the equal payments method from the same cash amount. The cash value has not decreased; the annuity has simply increased. However, it is also true that less than 30.28855% of sales is going to the cash jackpot, because the states can deduct up to 2% of sales for the cash reserve to pay the set
Jun 25, 2006, 2:33 pm - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

would you still play?Reply
Good luck retiring from winning a lottery game with less than half a million combinations. I suppose you could if you won it twenty times in a row, but it's impossible if you only beat those odds once. The whole point of Powerball and Mega Millions is to have to beat such astronomical odds to win the top prize, but if you beat them just once you can retire. Despite the recent low jackpot wins in Mega Millions, I don't see it increasing its matrix anytime soon so long as it doesn't let in any
Jun 17, 2006, 5:20 pm - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

No delusion-100% winning methodReply
NY Result for midday was 6343. No hit. That's okay. I was half expecting it being that I reduced my playable numbers. I will increase playable numbers for Pick for to account for extra number.
Jun 16, 2006, 1:34 pm - Kola - Lottery Systems Forum

Protecting your numbersReply
Your making one key mistake, in this game we are talking about a truly random sample. In, lets say horse racing, your argument would hold up. There could easly be people who know more about who will win than I would be about to predict, thus giving others an advanged on the race. The basic notion of The 'Group' is buying numbers they believe will hit would be a wrong approach in PB/MM because how can you know what numbers are more likely to hit the jackpot? You dont, but you can look in
Jun 13, 2006, 8:22 pm - Visar - Jackpot Games Forum

Protecting your numbersReply
Quote: Originally posted by Prob988 on June 13, 2006 I use a similar strategy. For many years I kept a file on certain types of lottery drawings and wrote a computer program to process them, accounting, among other things, for their frequency in drawings that resulted in higher than average numbers of winners. No such program is infallable, since the majority of tickets sold are quick picks, but you can increase the liklihood that if your numbers come up, you will win alone. This is called ra
Jun 13, 2006, 6:27 pm - Visar - Jackpot Games Forum

Protecting your numbersReply
I see what you are saying, but instead of buying multiple tickets with my same numbers i would MUCH rather pick 1 set of numbers that I fell that no one will pick. I completly understand that someone could QP my same numbers or even come up with them the same way I did by random chance(by the way I dont use ANY method that have I seen on any site/lotto program to further try to pick a truly unlikely set). I fell that if I wanted to buy 10 tickets for lotto draw then I would probally spread the
Jun 13, 2006, 6:27 pm - Visar - Jackpot Games Forum

The Vertical String SystemReply
@ Pac I also noticed that there are 20 duplicate numbers in the set of 240, so that either reduces the cost to 220 per draw, or it would increase your wins if one of those duplicates hit. I would prefer to reduce the cost myself.
Jun 6, 2006, 4:44 pm - cps10 - Lottery Systems Forum