Which is your school of thought?

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CASH Only — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:05:16 GMT

School of hard knocks

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emilyg — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:39:57 GMT

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Rip Snorter — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:43:51 GMT

What I said in an earlier post about people making their own fortune cookies is rolling down the time-line. Scrub those pots and pans.3. Rolling your own SushiOne of the most popular eating styles of today is Sushi. Interestingly enough it is amazingly healthy, raw fish being filled with the Omega 3 oils that stop aging, and keeps you slim.I found a good site which will tell you exactly how to roll your own Sushi. I notice he has a problem with Salmon, which I have not experienced in Cape T... [ More ]

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AriesMoon — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:57:00 GMT

There is such a thing, good folk, as Divine Intuition. I firmly believe that if you tap into it long enough and hard enough, eventually, winning numbers can be seen, perceived, felt, intuited, KNOWN before they play. I've come really, really close this way. Particularly with the pick 4 and pick 5. I've just been one number off(pick 4) and two or three numbers off (pick5). I EXPECT that one day soon a HIT is bound to happen!peace.

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Miss Ant — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:19:52 GMT

If the lottery is fairRhythm happens there too,like other things on earth

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CASH Only — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:34:22 GMT

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pacattack05 — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:49:12 GMT

Don't knock quick picks...they hit approx. 40% of the time.

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Rip Snorter — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:05:17 GMT

Takes a bit of practice to get good with QPs. Since you're over at the library you could brush up your skills by walking over to the card catalog, drawing a random card, and going back into the stacks to see if the book is checked out.You spend a few days doing that, next thing you know you'll be a ball of fire with those QPs.Jack

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CASH Only — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:10:26 GMT

I just don't play QPs.

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LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:43:47 GMT

same here four4me,i never ever win with quick picks.picking my own numbers i'll win a couple times a month straight on average.....

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four4me — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:29:55 GMT

I bought a guick pick 3 number every day for the midday drawing for two years running and give it to the lady that punches in my numbers for me. Amount won so far nada zip zilch. On the other hand i pick my own numbers and hit 20, 30, 40 times a year or more with my own picks

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Rip Snorter — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:25:37 GMT

Depends. If a person's into the fortune cookie routine it might save a lot of money to have a bachelors in home economics, so's you could cook up your own fortune cookies without running the risk of scorching the slip inside.Never can tell in this life when a degree's going to come in handy. That's the whole justification for lotteries..... helping people to get degrees so they can make their own fortune cookies.Jack

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rabbitfoot — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:24:19 GMT

Well at least someone has their head on straight. Trying to make more out of buying a lotto ticket than the simple act of asking for a quick pick is fruitless. On the other hand, if you enjoy entertaining yourself trying to pick some winning numbers- enjoy.

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CalifDude — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:21:37 GMT

When I used to buy my Pick 3 tickets at a local convenience store, the lady that was always at the register would talk Pick 3 with me. She would show me her winning ticket from the day before and she hit a LOT. I asked her how she did it and she said that she would look out the window at the cars parked in the parking lot and get the 3 digits from the license plates. I don't know how many she played each day, but she almost always would show me her winning ticket each morning! She doesn't wo... [ More ]

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rabbitfoot — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:14:46 GMT

Playing the lotto is a no brainer and doesn't require any level of education other than being able to ask for a quick pick.

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JAP69 — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:24:31 GMT

I have been to the forum where I got my 3/4 software. There is a person there who is in to the four game. He stated on one post that when he goes to the lottery office to turn in his winning ticket the people at the lottery office knows him by name as he has been there so frequently.Sounds like he has something figured and he has made some post there about how he does his research.

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four4me — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:30:10 GMT

i'm surprized nobody said what i'm about to say. When i wake up in the morning or the night before when i am making my predictions for the day i look at my spread sheets and all the excel crap i have and say 000 is going to hit today and it dose. Did i predict the number, or guess the number. Prediction is forcasting. A lot of people predict numbers on lottery post every day and many of them repeaditly hit every day what do you call it if it's not predicting.

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SirMetro — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:40:55 GMT

I predict (dare I say with 100% absolute certainty) that if I played 219 boxed numbers out of a combination of 220, I would still have the wrong number.Sir Metro

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konane — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:37:08 GMT

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Rip Snorter — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:30:02 GMT

Seems to me there was one a while back. I don't recall the exact results, but mostly our educational backgrounds seemed to be confined to somewhere between quitting school in the third grade to having a PHD or two. You might check the threads from May or early June... wasn't that long ago.Jack

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lchoro — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:17:25 GMT

Speaking of schools, has there been a poll on the level of education attained for those playing the lottery

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ayenowitall — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:00:48 GMT

Notwithstanding all the arbitrary definitions of prediction, it still holds true that money talks and BS walks. Everybody gets their numbers from somewhere, and if you're cashing tickets with your numbers, you're doing fairly well. If you're cashing for a true profit, you're doing very well. Without an effective betting strategy and sound money management, predictions are about as useful as a three-legged horse. Luck can either make you or break you. The bottom line is that it's very hard to a... [ More ]

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sirius — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:25:53 GMT

How's this... maybe some winning combinations are theoretically possible to predict but no one has figured it out yet. Perhaps other winning combinations are totally predetermined and fixed from the beginning of time but known only to a race of superbeings residing in the 9th dimension. Other winning combinations are in a chaotic swirling state of probability flux and cannot possibly be known untill the nanosecond the last ball is drawn. There's probably even a winning combination that got ove... [ More ]

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Rip Snorter — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:40:20 GMT

Guess I might as well give voice to what Tricky Dixon referred to as the Great Silent Minority:I think there's a middling chance they're entirely predictable. But if it happens to be true, it shouldn't take anything away from the majority who believes it isn't. And if it isn't true, nothing's lost in having believed it might be.Jack

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Teufellj — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:57:30 GMT

Hello there,My summerization is that unless you are one of those entities from Mt. Olympus (a god) prediction is not possible. Making plans (a matrix of some sort) for me anyway, is laying a field trap of digits and/or digit groups whereby the possible outcome can be triggered for a winning combination. I have won the pick 3 many times and I have lost too!Having a chance at winning any game, the player must have a well balanced strategy. Long time players know what I am referring to. Predictabil... [ More ]

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Maverick — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:57:02 GMT

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Rip Snorter — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:50:19 GMT

Maybe. People aren't a lot more predictable than numbers, most times.Jack

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Maverick — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:41:39 GMT

Predictable to an extent.

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Rip Snorter — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:08:10 GMT

Evidently about a third of the people posting believe the numbers are predictable (poll). Just keeping silent about it. A third's higher than I'd have guessed.Jack

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MADDOG10 — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:45:26 GMT

There are too many variables to predicting, and while i still think that trends play an important role in the outcome of numbers, the bottom line is that predicting is very unpredictable. you can study till your exhausted and without the element of luck behind you, it aint going to happen...

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RJOh — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:20:04 GMT

Some day someone is going to say they can predict the outcome of a lottery, get lucky and win a lottery jackpot proving it. Until that happens, I will continue to believe that the results of a lottery drawing can't be predicted.RJOh

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takeitez — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:41:08 GMT

Instead of trying to 'predict' a pick-3 number I try my best to find the best 'probable' number to appear. Like when the sum has been an even sum for 5 times running then I play only odd sums. If a string of high digits (389, 578) 5 or more in a row, then I want numbers that contain at least 2 small digits. The same with an even, odd or low string. If a straight comes (657) then I won't play a straight for a day or so. I also don't put up my buck to win a $80 box when I can get $150 for the... [ More ]

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JimmySand9 — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:15:22 GMT

This is my theory. No piece of matter has the exact same molecular stucture. And while that may seem negligible, when it comes to a air-mix machine, it could mean all the difference. When the chute is opened on that machine, it's a race. And if anyone has seen a race of any kind, just the slightest boost can win the race. A boost like a tiny, microscopic hole that causes air resistance. Or just being a thousandth of an ounce lighter. It may not be enough to really make a noticeable effect, but i... [ More ]

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Tx_Mega_Player — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:52:24 GMT

RJOH, I completely agree with your statement.It's possible to correctly guess the numbers, but it's not possible to predict the numbers. These two things are not the same. If you have ever won by picking your own numbers then you guessed correctly. If it were possible to predict winning numbers, then you would need to only play one set of numbers because you would know (for sure) which numbers are going to hit.So using a system, or a wheel, or a mathematical formula that gives you more than one... [ More ]

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RJOh — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:43:25 GMT

If you're just talking about the 3 numbers and not their order then you're only talking about 220 possible combinations, that's the reason a boxed hit only pays $50 in a pick3 game.

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RJOh — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:35:20 GMT

Lotteries are totally random and unpredictable events if they are honest,RJOh, I don't exactly agree with this statement. Certain groups of numbers where the majority of numbers are likely to appear ARE predictable at particular times!LottoVantage, picking a group of numbers that may contain the winning numbers is guessing to me, picking just the winning numbers is predicting. Picking a small group of numbers that actually contain the winning numbers is good guessing and is almost as hard as on... [ More ]

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dvdiva — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:52:02 GMT

I'd rather be looking at a winning ticket thinking, how did I get these numbers correctly than looking at a loosing ticket at think, why am I always loosing . I don't think there is a way to predict winning numbers. You can see certain combinations in former winning numbers but that doesn't mean that those combinations will come up when you play them.

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lottaloot — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:11:02 GMT

I think that you can significantly reduce the odds by keeping a close eye on combinations pairs that have come.There are only 1000 ways that the 3 digit number can appear so you may not predict the order in which the number will hit but you certainly can predict the combination.

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LottoVantage — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:49:17 GMT

Lotteries are totally random and unpredictable events if they are honest,RJOh, I don't exactly agree with this statement. Certain groups of numbers where the majority of numbers are likely to appear ARE predictable at particular times!The predicament in dealing with this phenomenon is in wheeling the potential groups of numbers, and keeping it economical enough to work.The easiest and generally most accurate way to eliminate excess numbers from a potential group is to utilize average sums . Exa... [ More ]

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RJOh — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 14:29:53 GMT

Lotteries are totally random and unpredictable events if they are honest, however lotteries have a fixed amount of events and players try to guess which one will happen next. Those fixed amounts determine the odds of the players guessing correctly. Some players believe by observing how some of those events happened in the past they can guess which ones are more likely to occur next. That's what I do and I haven't won a jackpot yet.RJOh

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LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:11:06 GMT

i think its unpredictable most of the time.

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LANTERN — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:51:45 GMT

Let us not call it prediction, but an accurate guess.And yes, you can accurately guess the winning number, but more often than not, not by itself, but among a group of combos, that you might call the most likely combos according to you and your system(s).

Which is your school of thought?

Hyperdimension — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:25:38 GMT

Hi, Just an update of the schools of thought in Lottery Post. Regards