I won Pick 5 a few years ago (Matrix 38 or 39 I think) playing 2 boards. I don't like matrix changes because not only increasing the odds again but wrecking my best algorithms and having to start a new draw history. After I won the 5 the matrix changed I never got above 3 numbers. By the time my prg. gets a grab on it they change it again! I would rather see more 20M winners than a few per year 200M winners. More people would play if there were more winners at least close to where they live sometimes.

Hopefully at some point, every State will be either PB or MM so there will be no more of this lame excuse when adding a new State to make the game more difficult. I think Florida is the last one of that size that didn't belong to anything.

PS: Warning- in case you are unaware, HOT Lotto is COMPUTERIZED.

Just play the first 55 numbers. the other 4 numbers won't be out very often maybe  6.9362% of the time.

Well you could say any 4 numbers won't come out (on average) more than 6.7797% of the time.  But by that logic, playing the first 51 would give you an advantage as well since the last 8 should only show 13.559% of the time :)

Good Point!

   Here is the 2008 Powerball Results _ 36 of 89 Drawing had a number draw 50 or above,

53 drawing had no numbers above 50

Jan - 3 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Feb - 2 of the 8 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Mar - 1 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Apr -  4 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

May - 1 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Jun -  5 of the 8 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Jul  -  7 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Aug -  4 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Sep -  5 of the 8 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Oct -  4 of the 9 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

Nov  - 0 of the 2 Drawing had a number 50 or higher

710 total number only 45 numbers were 50 and above and this counts multi 50+ number in each drawing