Anatomy of a Small Hit:

It was a rainy wet day in the Carolinas today. I'd been in all day with a little 3 year old guy who was battling a cold. When his mother came to pick him up, he was well rested from a long afternoon nap and seemingly feeling a little better.

I had no intentions of going out to play the lottery, but my mom had missed that 567 and was sure the 321 would not be far behind. I told her over the phone that I would probably not go out in the damp weather but if I did, I would play a couple of her pet combinations for her too.

I did go out after hunger started messing with my brain and I had no desire to cook. A quickie to Arby's, then to the QT to pick up some non al-ky beer and it would be straight home again.

Of course I was glad I did when I read that 715 on the NC tread. I had gotten it str8, but played it as a box, and I had gotten it as an X15 back pair.

$65...no big deal. I usually play .50 cent boxes unless I'm chasing straights. Tonight I was just putting in a few combos since I was going to be playing for someone else.

Where did I get the 715?

Well, actually the same place I got the 588 that I posted on the predictions board on Dec 1 for NC.

Since the # was a double. I posted it as : 558, 858, 855, 858

Of course I posted its mate too.

I had gotten this little workout from the lottery post some years ago, and of course revised it later to match some new rules I encountered to enhance it.

So here's what you do: you take the last three lottery drawings, add the digits across--using root summing, then add the digits going down--using root summing, then add the sum of those digits--using root summing--to come up with some combinations to focus on.

A little vague, ok, for example, b4 the 715 fell, the three preceding combos in NC were 927-567-220

Add these up going across--that's the first line of the addition, then add the digits up going down, using root sums only and that's the 2nd line of the equation. The final line is the adding up of the two combinations just created.

220=4

567=9

927=9

499

715

215

You can also stretch out each of the resulting three combinations by adding a plus one or minus one for as many times as desired, ie 499 might be expanded to be

497-498-499-500-501

the 715 as

713-714-715-716-717

the 215 as

213-214-215-216-217

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Of course I played the 499 and its mate 494 too.

So where did the X15 pair come from?

Well, for some time now I have been looking at the "7 day" previous draw to see how they re emerge given that 7 represents a natural cycle in nature.

So here is what fell last Sunday

I find that often you can get your pairs from the previous "7 day" draws, ie look at the same day draws that happened exactly one week prior. Usually you will see a combination that is totally different from the previous week day's draw and one that has a set of the pairs to re-emerge. In this case the 927 which fell in the afternoon was pretty much the completely different digits, so I was anticipating my pairs would come from the 094 and 153 combinations from the week b4 drawings.

Because the little workout above had given me a 49 pair and the 15 pair, with the 15 pair showing twice, I decided to play those two pairs front and back, ie X49, x94, 49x, 94x and x15, x51, 15x and 51x. My reasoning was that if none of my other combos hit, this would be a good catch all to at least get my money back.

But unlike the 558 and the 858 posting, I actually played the 715 and the X15 in the live drawing.

And what was most interesting is that each of the two times I have used that little workout, something hit from it. Why it came to mind to use it, I can not say, but I suppose I'm just guided like that.

Taking the time to post this in case it helps someone in NC. With the 588 posting specifically to the NC board, I have to confess that the double 8X8 had also been been predicted from the 929 system and was also a draw #1 hit using that system's pairs. I love it when you can use more than one workout to come to the same combination. 

For more details on the little strategy and how it might be used, do a google search on Julian Calendar workout.

Good Luck Player!