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Here are the two followers sets where all the numbers last night appeared:

MM MM
F16
4/29/2005	2	5	7	28	46	21
F16 C1
10/12/2004	4	18	19	39	51	13
F35
3/15/2005	14	26	27	34	44	27
F35 C2
9/17/2004	3	16	25	38	49	4
F40
5/13/2005	21	23	27	33	39	8
F40 C3
12/26/2000	4	29	32	35	44	19
F49
4/26/2005	18	22	33	34	42	16
F49 C4
9/28/2004	1	18	39	42	50	35
F50
6/14/2005	1	10	29	48	49	36
F50 C5
5/31/2005	5	13	22	37	38	11
F34
5/31/2005	5	13	22	37	38	11
F34 C6
2/22/2005	15	18	28	41	45	27

 

PB MM
F16
6/8/2005	10	36	40	42	43	42
F16 C1
12/1/2004	3	28	36	38	44	1
F35
5/21/2005	2	5	7	10	30	23
F35 C2
9/3/2003	6	9	19	24	40	31
F40
6/11/2005	3	10	14	24	46	37
F40 C3
3/16/2005	11	19	25	38	50	35
F49
5/18/2005	7	13	17	20	35	35
F49 C4
2/16/2005	21	25	27	41	48	25
F50
6/4/2004	7	16	38	44	48	18
F50 C5
4/27/2005	11	13	18	32	42	4
F34
4/23/2005	8	9	13	15	50	9
F34 C6
3/6/2004	9	17	46	49	51	9

 

That would have left 31 unique numbers that hit on both lists:.....

2	14	21	32	42	51
4	18	23	38	48	50
3	15	28	35	46
1	16	27	36	44
5	10	25		49
7	13
8	19
	11

Gonna have to play a larger wheel or find a better filter.

Jack

 

 

 

 Hmmmmm.  For beginners.... PB last night:

5

8

10

16

24

5

Last 10 times 5 has hit as redball on MM and PB.

1/18/2005	10	23	28	39	51	5
3/17/2004	7	15	20	24	43	5
1/10/2004	2	13	19	27	50	5
1/24/2003	16	31	37	40	41	5
11/23/2002	15	16	19	21	49	5
11/22/2002	11	16	19	22	46	5
9/17/2002	7	10	19	26	44	5
1/19/2002	21	23	35	41	49	5
11/30/2001	7	8	20	21	42	5

It usually isn't quite so cute.

Looks as though the followers method I was using last nit works okay, but I was trying to refine it down too far, and I was using a requirement they appear on all four sets to get the numbers down to something manageable.  24, 10 and 5 appeared on all four sets.  8 and 16 only appeared on 2.  Fortunately, the same two.  I screwed up on 10 and missed it as one appearing on all 4 lists because of my defective brain and a lot crowded into a little time.

So, maybe it's just a matter of dropping back using those two, which will increase the number of numbers to between 20 and 25.... at least it would have last night.  We'll see.

But I  probably wouldn't have picked 5 using my method last night, comparing red hit histories to my filtered set.  It wouldn't have looked good without 16, 10 and 8 in the mix.

Anyway, I dunno if anyone's interested in all this.

Got a couple of anecdotes in mind I was going to include by way of introducing some human insanity, but I'll maybe get them later.

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bought an abbreviated wheel for tonight... 50 some tickets with Powerplay, based on the followers condensed to this:

7	11	27	35	41	50
5	18	28	38	44	51
	14	23	33	43
		24		42

 

Split the red ball up with a few 7s, the rest 22 and 40.  Didn't have time to do a complete workup on the various possibilities for RB, so I just winged it.

Last draw used roughly the same wheel with Powerplay multiplier.... didn't hit the red.... made back about 30 bucks on 110 or so in tickets.... but if a person can hit the red ball on any kind of consistent basis it ought to be fairly smooth going.

Jack

This might give you some ideas about who you ought to pat on the butt and send off on the same train:

6/7/2005	7	14	28	46	47	25
6/3/2005	4	6	14	28	47	42
5/7/2005	21	23	39	44	47	19
5/3/2005	7	17	42	46	52	47
4/19/2005	5	6	14	42	47	3
4/12/2005	15	20	43	47	50	24
2/5/2005	11	34	37	44	47	23
1/28/2005	25	31	39	47	52	43
1/26/2005	5	32	43	47	48	33
1/14/2005	15	19	24	40	47	50
1/1/2005	22	23	26	44	47	12
12/31/2004	10	14	45	47	51	20
12/17/2004	16	34	38	42	47	1
12/10/2004	22	23	37	42	47	15
11/27/2004	16	28	35	36	47	31
11/24/2004	3	19	47	49	53	4
10/9/2004	1	3	10	47	48	27
8/27/2004	5	25	38	46	47	14
8/24/2004	2	5	21	47	50	46
7/31/2004	14	31	35	45	47	35
7/3/2004	3	8	12	30	47	23
6/4/2004	4	16	18	41	47	46
5/1/2004	1	10	34	39	47	33
4/23/2004	8	22	25	47	48	27
4/10/2004	2	9	30	47	48	40
4/2/2004	8	17	25	46	47	13
3/24/2004	18	20	39	43	47	31

Jack

 

 

 

You are probably already doing this.  But you might want to look at it if you aren't.

Next time 14 hits, consider whether there appears to be a pattern that ought to bring:

1	18	22	33	48	50
6	16	25	37	40
		26	38

onto the same card with it.

Here's why:

6/15/2005	14	29	22	39	44	14
8/27/2004	5	25	38	46	47	14
2/21/2004	15	22	26	48	53	14
11/21/2003	14	26	28	36	42	14
10/18/2003	22	25	33	34	35	14
9/2/2003	22	26	27	32	39	14
11/8/2002	17	19	37	47	48	14
8/6/2002	2	6	38	40	50	14
6/26/2002	6	9	17	23	24	14
4/27/2002	1	9	12	18	33	14
3/16/2002	10	16	37	38	45	14
9/28/2001	1	9	16	21	25	14
7/31/2001	4	6	8	22	28	14
6/16/2001	2	13	17	44	45	14
6/13/2001	9	32	34	36	41	14
4/3/2001	4	5	25	39	45	14
9/16/2000	1	19	40	47	49	14
8/16/2000	15	16	27	44	47	14
8/5/2000	13	28	32	33	38	14
3/17/2000	17	29	37	41	50	14
1/8/2000	7	28	35	40	48	14
11/2/1999	6	10	30	31	35	14
9/1/1999	9	32	36	37	39	14
8/14/1999	1	5	6	39	45	14
5/15/1999	4	24	27	30	38	14
5/8/1999	25	28	30	34	47	14
4/28/1999	5	7	12	18	42	14

Jack

 

The Great Escape

 

Call yourself a cop

I’ll call myself a robber

Corner me in an outhouse

Call in your backups

Talk to me through bullhorns

“Come out with your hands up

We know you’re in there

Watching flies strafe dust particles

In sunlight shafts

Savoring the odor and the old news

“Come out or we’ll come in after you!”

Tension builds.  No answer.

Anti-climax hero cop makes a perfect photograph

Eyeball peeking through a knot hole

Too late.

I’ve escaped

Down the hole

Into the real world.

From Poems of the New Old West

Copyright 2002 Jack Purcell

 

 

You know my batting average.  If you don't, scroll down.

Don't play them.

 

7	11	27	35	41	50
5	18	28	38	44
		23	33	43
				42

Jack

 

 

Executive Privilege

Human brain Fido

Inside his chain-link fence

Joins full-moon sky concert

With Rufus, and Poochie

Down the block

On their chains,

Cock their ears

And wonder, wonder

Why the faint coyote calls,

Why a whiff of rotten elk-meat

In the garbage

Drives them wild.

From Poems of the New Old West

Copyright 2002, Jack Purcell

 

 

Based on a string of absurd, far-fetched premises, I'd say the MM numbers for tonight will be included in the following 24:

7	10	21	35	44	51
1	13	27	34	49
6	16	29	31	48
	17		33	41
	18		38	47
	11		37
			30

With these 15 being 'best' (if they happen to hit... otherwise they're only worth their face value, depending on what Eurodollars are going for and the Japanese Yen)

7	10	21	34	47	51
6	18	27	35
	13		30
	17		31
	11

 

I wouldn't put a lot of money on them.  Neither should you.

Jack

 

Back tests of the 'Followers' method described a couple of posts earlier:

6/11/2005	3	10	14	24	46	37
6/10/2005	14	29	31	37	50	34
Follower 14
6/7/2005	7	14	28	46	47	25
F14 C 1
3/18/2005	2	9	28	29	48	33
Follower 29
5/20/2005	3	6	27	40	44	9
F 29 C 2
12/31/2004	10	14	45	47	51	20
Follower 31
3/15/2005	14	26	27	34	44	27
F 31 C 3
3/15/2005	14	26	27	34	44	27
Follower 37
3/1/2005	1	8	18	39	48	1
F 37 C 4
11/30/2004	10	20	22	28	52	4
Follower 34
4/29/2005	2	5	7	28	46	21
F 34 C 6
8/24/2004	2	5	21	47	50	46
Follower 50
5/31/2005	5	13	22	37	38	11
F 50 C 5
5/31/2005	5	13	22	37	38	11
6/15/2005	14	20	22	39	44	14
6/14/2005	1	10	29	48	49	36
Follower 1
3/11/2005	18	19	31	35	36	17
Follower 10
3/8/2005	8	14	15	22	31	13
Follower 29
5/20/2005	3	6	27	40	44	9
Follower 48
3/22/2005	6	11	27	37	43	34
Follower 49
4/26/2005	18	22	33	34	42	16
Follower 36
10/26/2004	14	25	39	43	49	27
F1 C 1
3/4/2005	7	10	13	35	39	21
F10 C 2
3/8/2005	8	14	15	22	31	13
F29 C 3
8/13/2004	14	31	41	45	48	20
F48 C 4
10/8/2004	16	17	21	33	41	6
F49 C 5
4/26/2005	18	22	33	34	42	16
F36 C 6
10/26/2004	14	25	39	43	49	27
5/28/2005	5	7	24	28	39	36
5/27/2005	7	17	22	34	50	24
F 7
5/20/2005	3	6	27	40	44	9
F 17
5/6/2005	7	12	25	50	51	19
F 22
4/29/2005	2	5	7	28	46	21
F 34
4/29/2005	2	5	7	28	46	21
F 50
4/15/2005	25	26	37	39	49	29
F 24
5/27/2005	7	17	22	34	50	24
F 7 C1
5/20/2005	3	6	27	40	44	9
F 17 C2
5/6/2005	7	12	25	50	51	19
F 22 C3
12/28/2004	18	29	32	38	43	50
F 34 C4
4/29/2005	2	5	7	28	46	21
F 50 C5
4/15/2005	25	26	37	39	49	29
F 24 C6
5/27/2005	7	17	22	34	50	24
4/30/2005	8	15	17	32	48	24
4/29/2005	2	5	7	28	46	21
F2
3/22/2005	6	11	27	37	43	34
F5
11/16/2004	9	10	27	28	30	18
F7
4/1/2005	11	19	28	32	45	10
F28
4/5/2005	4	19	45	51	52	22
F46
8/31/2004	14	15	25	42	44	3
F21
3/8/2005	8	14	15	22	31	13
F2 C1
3/22/2005	6	11	27	37	43	34
F5 C2
8/27/2004	5	25	38	46	47	14
F7 C3
1/7/2005	2	8	14	15	51	38
F28 C4
12/3/2004	12	32	37	41	52	13
F46 C5
5/18/2004	2	36	44	46	51	45
F21 C6
3/8/2005	8	14	15	22	31	13

Jack

 

Sometimes all of them will show up on the historic MM/PB draws for that date, also.  More frequently about half of them will.  In this instance, not so good:

5/27/2005	7	17	22	34	50	24
5/27/2003	10	11	17	20	26	3
5/27/2000	2	22	29	30	44	36
5/27/1998	2	15	27	33	46	27

Jack

 

 

I don't have a clue why this often works, but maybe it will help you.  I call them 'Followers', and 'Column Followers', for lack of a better label.  I haven't counted the unique numbers on these twelve "Followers" draws, but it's not unusual for this to get you down into the 20-27 numbers range, including the ones that will be on your draw.

Take a look at the last PB draw before the one you are interest in, for instance:

PB 5/25/2005

27

29

31

42

46

33

 

Go down the histories of draws and look at what followed 27 last time it hit.  Then look at 27 last time it hit in Column 1.  Do the same with all the numbers of that draw.

Okay, so you're interested in the MM draw for 5/27:

MM 5/27/2005

7

17

22

34

50

24

 

Here are the Followers and Column Followers for PB on the previous draw:

Follower 27
PB 5/7/2005	21	23	39	44	47	19
Follower 27 Column 1
PB 5/1/2004	1	10	34	39	47	33
Follower 29
4/13/2005	6	13	37	51	52	25
Follower 29 C2
5/18/2005	7	13	17	20	35	35
Follower 31
3/12/2005	7	23	40	46	52	41
Follower 31 C3
11/20/2004	4	29	45	48	50	1
Follower 42
4/30/2005	8	15	17	32	48	24
Follower 42 C4
7/24/2004	2	3	13	29	52	25
Follower 46
4/6/2005	5	11	14	22	51	17
Follower 46 C5
4/23/2005	8	9	13	15	50	9
Follower 33
4/2/2005	5	9	11	17	46	39
Follower 33 C6
1/29/2005	11	16	20	29	41	12

You can frequenly figure on 4-6 of the numbers that will show on the next MM draw to be among these. 

Just something else to put into the bag of tricks, for those of you who aren't already using it.

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone who calls him/herself Anonomon hitched a short ride on the LP Lottery Forum a while back:

His/her claims give a lot of reason for pause for thought for all of us.

Tennessee Lottery Alert

If what Anon says is true, if it isn’t merely an attempt to discredit Tennessee scratchers and the officials running the game, it’s probably worth thinking about how a person could come to be where he/she is.  Anon was evidently on intimate terms, possibly friendship terms with the other individuals involved.  Those people evidently trusted Anon enough not to guard their words and allowed Anon access to documents that would have proved criminal conspiracy to defraud, as well as proving a profound betrayal of public trust.

The two positions possible to a person in such a situation that would allow the ethics to remain intact are,

1) Denouncing the conspiracy privately to the others, but (assuming friendship is involved) turning a blind eye to it, thereby remaining loyal to the friends.  We’re all sometimes faced with such choices in life, seeing friends, family and others we care about involved in matters illegal.  I tend to set a higher value on personal loyalty to friends over loyalty to some ‘higher’ principle.  When the two find themselves at odds, I’ll always take the route of not betraying a friend.

2) If friendship’s not involved, (or if Anon didn’t subscribe to my views about friendship and loyalty) a visit with the proper authorities as soon as it became apparent what was afoot would have been a sound move.  The authorities might have asked Anon to spy, collect evidence, bug tables, or they might have handled the investigation themselves and trapped the conspirators in the act of being themselves.

Evidently, Anon tried to take a middle course, didn’t denounce the conspiracy in private and continued to hold the trust of the conspirators while he/she gathered evidence, but didn’t take that evidence to the authorities.

Most of us would see that course as dangerous and untenable, risking getting caught bugging conversations of friends, being on such intimate terms with felons during the commission  of a felony that we might be accused of being a part of the conspiracy if law enforcement officials became aware of what was happening.

Why, we might ask ourselves, would a person  do such a thing?

Several possibilities come to mind: 

Plea bargaining in the event of discovery is one, betraying the others in order to get reduced charges or dismissal of charges for the person with ironclad evidence to convict the others.

Blackmail, extortion, or a bargaining chip for a larger piece of the action.  These are the most probable explanations that come to mind.  Everything else, jockeying for a better job, trying to get the boss fired so’s to be the hero who trapped him and get his job,  seems weak, considering the risk.

I suppose another possibility might be that Anon was a TBI or TN State Policeman accompanying high officials, being part of the good old boy network, but not part of the conspiracy.  If so, Anon was surely well enough versed in how to interrupt a felony in progress to get the evidence into the proper hands.

The fact that Anon was, by his own admission, paid a ‘fat retirement’ as hush money, that he got away with the evidence intact, that he’s offering that evidence to anyone who wants it, instead of to the proper authorities, suggests there’s a great deal more to the story than Anon has confided to us.

If any of it is true.

 We all do a lot of lousy deals in life, make a lot of choices we might do differently if we had it to do again.  Sometimes we can even backtrack in such a way as to repair the damages created by our earlier choices.  I certainly don’t envy Anon his fat retirement check for his part in what’s happening in Tennessee. 

My old Mescalero bud used to always tell me you can't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.  He's probably right, but I'm damned glad I don't have to walk in Anononnom's shoes or try to sleep in his conscience.  He has a lot of years left to enjoy that fat payoff and wonder where he went wrong.

Jack

 

 

Someone who calls him/herself Anonomon hitched a short ride on the LP Lottery Forum a while back:

His/her claims give a lot of reason for pause for thought for all of us.

Tennessee Lottery Alert

If what Anon says is true, if it isn’t merely an attempt to discredit Tennessee scratchers
and the officials running the game, it’s probably worth thinking about how a person could
come to be where he/she is.  Anon was evidently on intimate terms, possibly friendship
terms with the other individuals involved.  Those people evidently trusted Anon enough
not to guard their words and allowed Anon access to documents that would have proved
criminal conspiracy to defraud, as well as proving a profound betrayal of public trust.

The two positions possible to a person in such a situation that would allow the ethics to
remain intact are,

1) Denouncing the conspiracy privately to the others, but (assuming friendship is
involved) turning a blind eye to it, thereby remaining loyal to the friends.  We’re
all sometimes faced with such choices in life, seeing friends, family and others we
care about involved in matters illegal.  I tend to set a higher value on personal
loyalty to friends over loyalty to some ‘higher’ principle.  When the two find
themselves at odds, I’ll always take the route of not betraying a friend.

2) If friendship’s not involved, (or if Anon didn’t subscribe to my views about
friendship and loyalty) a visit with the proper authorities as soon as it became
apparent what was afoot would have been a sound move.  The authorities might
have asked Anon to spy, collect evidence, bug tables, or they might have handled
the investigation themselves and trapped the conspirators in the act of being
themselves.

Evidently, Anon tried to take a middle course, didn’t denounce the conspiracy in private
and continued to hold the trust of the conspirators while he/she gathered evidence, but
didn’t that that evidence to the authorities.

Most of us would see that course as dangerous and untenable, risking getting caught
bugging conversations of friends, being on such intimate terms with felons during the
commission  of a felony that we might be accused of being a part of the conspiracy if law
enforcement officials became aware of what was happening.

Why, we might ask ourselves, would a person  do such a thing?

Several possibilities come to mind: 

Plea bargaining in the event of discovery is one, betraying the others in order to get
reduced charges or dismissal of charges for the person with ironclad evidence to convict
the others.

Blackmail, extortion, or a bargaining chip for a larger piece of the action.  These are the
most probable explanations that come to mind.  Everything else, jockeying for a better
job, trying to get the boss fired so’s to be the hero who trapped him and get his job, 
seems weak, considering the risk.

I suppose another possibility might be that Anon was a TBI or TN State Policeman
accompanying high officials, being part of the good old boy network, but not part of the
conspiracy.  If so, Anon was surely well enough versed in how to interrupt a felony in
progress to get the evidence into the proper hands.

The fact that Anon was, by his own admission, paid a ‘fat retirement’ as hush money, that
he got away with the evidence intact, that he’s offering that evidence to anyone who
wants it, instead of to the proper authorities, suggests there’s a great deal more to the
story than Anon has confided to us.

If any of it is true.

 We all do a lot of lousy deals in life, make a lot of choices we might do differently if we
had it to do again.  Sometimes we can even backtrack in such a way as to repair the
damages created by our earlier choices.  I certainly don’t envy Anon his fat retirement
check for his part in what’s happening in Tennessee. 

My old Mescalero bud used to always tell me you can't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.  He's probably right, but I'm damned glad I don't have to walk in Anononnom's shoes or try to sleep in his conscience.  He has a lot of years left to enjoy that fat payoff and wonder where he went wrong.

Jack

 

 

 

Hokay..... the down side of wheels?  You have to spend 6 hours filling in dots on strips of paper, voiding them when you make a mistake.

I don't want to come across as a whiner and complainer, but a country that used to be able to put a man on the moon, a country that could invent ballpoint pens and hydrogen bombs, a country, I was going to say, where bifocal sunglasses are becoming the norm,

A country like that ought to have lottery tickees a person could run through a printer and chug them out quick like damn. 

Or a country like that ought to have a capability of running a set of numbers through a faxlike machine, shoot them down to the local convenience store by magic, and be able just to go down there in a while and hand the guy $100 and pick up the tickees he's been keeping warm in his steam table full of dried out tamales.

Innovation.  Customer service.  Gambling addiction.  That's what this country needs.

Jack

 

Yeah.  I know.  I have to keep posting pictures of dead critters to keep you coming back: