By far, Howard's LM Guide is the best overall book on the lottery out there. If you read this one book, and truly understand it, all of it, you won't need to purchase any lottery software from anyone (Pick 3,4 games excepted).
Call me weird, but I enjoy rereading it from time to time because I get a kick out of how the book quantifies the kinds of characteristics some to most lotteries manifest that I then see occurring in the Cash 5 and Pick 6 games I play.
Howard's Chart #4, illustrated in the book, is imitated by most other lottery software packages yet you can replicate that chart on paper as she invites you to do without ever spending a cent on any software package, including her own.
I used Chart #4 alone to win about 4-5 four out of six number Pick Six prizes over a period of about 12-16 months some time back.
The problem is that people expect to win the lottery just by purchasing a software package or a book, or a book of wheels. That might be a symptom of the instant gratification society we live in. If you have no interest, or desire, to study patterns, then spending money on a lottery software package, whose ever it is, is just not rational. Purchasing software or a book or whatever will not help you win; knowing how to USE such WILL help you win. Please don't surrender your thinking, your analysis of the numbers to software alone. You have to know how to use it to aid or guide you.
Even the great Warren Buffet, who made his billions studying patterns, believes in staying with your "selections" for the long haul. But he will tell you that he carefully evaluates beforehand which stocks to buy. Similarly, when you purchase a ticket with numbers you selected, hopefully you put some thinking some thought, some science into your selection.
This book will teach you how numbers form patterns, the types of patterns out there, and how to anticipate which numbers might hit or are more likely to hit.
For those of us who like playing wheels, you can plug in numbers from your study of those patterns (see most of my previous posts) into those wheels. This book even gives you several examples of Pick 5, 6, 7 and Pick 10 wheels so you don't have to buy any wheels from anyone if you don't want to.
Is anything guaranteed from the purchase of a book or a software package? Absolutely not.
And I have no fiduciary relationship with the author, in case you are wondering.
Even though I do not spend a lot of money weekly on the lottery, I derive a lot of enjoyment from the study of the aforementioned patterns and trying to "anticipate" or intuit which numbers might hit as a result of that study. It's a lot of fun for me.
I haven't hit the big one yet. (Actually, I have, but I have not yet happened upon that day in the future!) hehe
Well, that's my two cents. The other four hundred cents I will be putting down on a lottery Friday night.
Good luck to everyone!