I play quick picks almost every draw for Powerball. For most winners, quick picks have led to winning jackpots, but the most I've won is $7. I decided to check out all the quick picks I've purchased since Jan of this yr and the winning numbers of that day. I understand why there is a petition to eliminate quick picks!! There is no way Im going to win the lottery using the quick pick option!  It seems to me that the same combo of losing numbers are being picked that don't even come close to winning. I don't know about anyone else, but I just think quick picks aren't an easy way to win. I think it's set up to give us the worst possible quick picks to generate more $. Anyone feel the same or have a better prospective of quick picks? I'd love to hear a good logical reason why so many people buy losing quick picks.

The reason so many people buy "losing" qps is that there are approximately 142 million losing combinations each drawing.  (odds of a winning combination are something like 142 million to 1 )

The only thing I've ever hit with in PB are qps or just my own random numbers. As far as I'm concerned, its a waste of time trying to figure out the numbers that will fall unless you are looking to wheel and spend a lot of money on a drawing.  And as one of the recent winners of PB found out, it only takes one ticket to win.  That's all he bought.

Most people buy losing tickets, but they're not really losers until the numbers have been drawn. Prior to the drawing any ticket is a potential winner.

From the Powerball website FAQ page:

WHICH HAS THE BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING: COMPUTER PICKS OR PLAYER PICKS?

About 70% to 80% of purchases are computer picks. About 70% to80%of winners are computer picks. Perhaps just one of those weirdcoincidences?

I don't know why so many people come to LP complaining about playing the lottery and not having won. It's lottery, you're not suppossed to win. You may get extremely lucky and be one of the very few that do, but to complain about your QP / birthdays / anniversary / square rooting your weight, adding the sq root to your height, and multiplying by Pi not producing any jackpot winners is ridiculous.

I don't recall there being a petition to eliminate quick picks. I know there was a petition to stop computerized drawings.

Most people buy losing tickets, but they're not really losers until the numbers have been drawn. Prior to the drawing any ticket is a potential winner.

If that's true, why is it that I can go up to anyone buying a PB ticket and say "You just wasted your money on a losing ticket" and only be wrong once in 36.6 times?  Prior to the drawing every ticket is a potential loser, only one in 36.6 get lucky and escape that fate.

 You think quick picks aren't an EASY way to win powerball? there is no easy way, your supposed to lose just like me and everyone else trying to buck near impossible odds. In my opinion there is no "worst possible quick pick" , it's just 6 random numbers that are just as good as any numbers you might conjure up yourself. I find it kind of silly when people claim to have "systems" to predict the random numbers that will be drawn.  just because a particular number has been drawn 5 weeks in a row it's just as likely to be picked as any other number the following week.

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Because if you ever encounter that person that did hit a jackpot, to that person, the $ millions they won will offset the number of people you could tell they wasted their money on a ticket for the rest of this lifetime and the next ten or more.

Otherwise no one woulld play, we wouldn't be here on LP, and lotteries wouldn't even exist. But they do and here we are.

That one person in 36.6 that actually win something ($3-jackpot) doesn't change the fact that 35.6 tickets won nothing even if he wins the jackpot.  Besides, I'm likely to have said that to 146,107,962 PB players before meeting that one jackpot winner.

I've got nothing against playing lotteries, I play and spend $20+/wk on MegaMillions, I'm just trying to keep it real.  I usually win $2-$3 for every $25 I spend.

FYI, I was just voicing my opinion about quick picks, I wouldn't say I was complaining! Im sure you have voiced your opinion about something as well and you didn't consider it ridiculous. Unless you are one of those people who think that their thoughts and opinions are more important than anyone else's.

To be honest, when I first started playing PB, I thought that QPs were an easy way to win, but after a while of playing, I realized that there is no easy way! I don't use any system bc I don't believe they work. I usually just play QPs and every now and then I pick my numbers.