Lottery Urban Legends

Reply #46

Pick3forSC — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:21:58 GMT

Too funny

Reply #45

Pick3forSC — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:20:13 GMT

AMEN!!! I dont have a system, but i do have a method of madness.

Reply #44

tiggs95 — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:57:06 GMT

ridge he sounds like a real winner..Hit's jackpot then get's shot...NEXT!!!...

Reply #43

Coin Toss — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:59:25 GMT

Well I'm proud to be an Okie who wins lotto

While I'm at it let me say five jackpots overall

You just got to know what the drawing will show

And know you picked right, ball after ball.........

Reply #42

rdgrnr — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:08:19 GMT

Uh oh, the system guys are all gonna get big heads now.

And how is tiggs gonna explain this

Reply #41

Coin Toss — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:39:07 GMT

Nope, Oklahoma. I got the e-mail a few days ago and deleted it because thes tory is so hoakie, but a search for professot shot for lottery system on Yahoo turned this up, from buzzle.com

The Price of Winning The Lottery 3 Times in a Row!

Do you thinkyou would feel lucky winning the lottery 5 times? How lucky do youthink you would feel if 3 of those times were right after one andother? Would you still feel lucky if you were shot for not telling howyou did it until now?

That was the fate

Reply #40

sully16 — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:48:43 GMT

Texas lol

Reply #39

rdgrnr — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:40:38 GMT

I think it's more likely that happened in Kentucky or Arkansas.

Oklahoma people usually aren't that looney.

Reply #38

Coin Toss — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:11:29 GMT

A professor in Oklahoma or somewhere was chased by some guys and shot in the foot because he didn't want to tell them how he won the lottery three times.

Reply #37

Coin Toss — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:07:05 GMT

Excellent, joker.

No matter ho hard people try to prove it , it just doesn't work.

If it did there's enough people here at LP that we could form a pool and hit JP after JP.

Reply #36

joker17 — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:41:25 GMT

I got another one which is both mine and cointoss's favorites.

The odds of the JP are reduced greatly by reducing just a few combos....lol

If there are a million combos, and you bet 100 combos, the odds are now..?...lol

NO!.....NOW THERE ARE 999, 900 COMBOS THAT STILL HAVE THE CHANCE OF COMING OUT.....!

It sounds better when the math patrol intervenes and says the new odds are now 1 in 10,000, but we all know even 1 in 10,000 is still bad. Not to mention the 999,900 possible outcomes... [ More ]

Reply #35

joker17 — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:10:28 GMT

Higher numbers hit more often because there's more paint on the balls.

No.

If it were true then 6 and 9 would have equal chance.

My favorite is, I'm gonna win the JP because somebody usually wins every week .......

That one just kills me...lol

They never focus on the millions of losing tickets for that one ticket to win. I have a few co-workers who keep saying this to me every couple of months...lol

Reply #34

tiggs95 — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:22:23 GMT

pepper sweety are you from this planet?..

Reply #33

pepper1 — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:58:13 GMT

She not letting this number come today, are she switch the number. People think the lottery director is

controlling the number. They think she sitting there

Reply #32

Coin Toss — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:24:46 GMT

The odds are the same regardless of the jackpot. Waiting 'til the jackpot exceeds the odds assumes a solo hit, for one thing. If you did hit and split with even just one other person, the jackpot is halved, so much for the jackpot exceeding the odds.

Reply #31

bomatt — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:09:28 GMT

How is that an urban legend? It is simply a better return on investment.

Reply #30

eddessaknight — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:21:33 GMT

Ah yes, but you can't cheat an honest man....

~W.C. FIELDS

Eddessaknight

Reply #29

johnph77 — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:16:16 GMT

JADELottery, amongst others, has posted a chart on Pick 3 sums for all possible combinations. For the latest, see this thread: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/209210

Reply #28

M0money$ — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:46:28 GMT

Actually that happened to me yesterday, savagegoose. I had done my workup the night before, and had my pick3 playslips all filled out and posted my predictions on LP. It was a busy day and I never got around to buying my tickets. Wouldn't you know it...I missed out on a hit! It was a box, but I'd still have happily taken it. Rats

Reply #27

Coin Toss — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:49:34 GMT

Good one! And oh how true

Reply #26

savagegoose — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:15:15 GMT

if you didnt put the ticket ontoday the numbers are %100 guranteed to come up

Reply #25

Longarm — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:21:27 GMT

I meant to suggest that there's some truth to the statement, but that it isn't quite accurate. 15 will come up more often than 4 or 22, but not usually. It should be the sum of the numbers in about one of every 14 draws. I certainly agree that once in every 14 draws isn't usual, but there is truth in the idea that some sums will be more common than others.

I don't believe that's helpful, though, because the sum will be as common as the number of combinations that will produce it (if more comb... [ More ]

Reply #24

eddessaknight — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:24:29 GMT

Hey Coin-

THE FLEA CHORUS:

Oh Lord, Please let me break even today......I need the money!

EddessaKnight

Reply #23

Coin Toss — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:09:16 GMT

Longarm,

Granted, some sums will show more than others, but the aerticle I had read said the sum of a Pick 3 drawing is usually 15.

Looking opver results for Illinois, it's about 20% of the time. I don't think 20% is the same thing as usually.

That would be about the same as saying a .200 hitter in baseball usually gets on base.

Reply #22

Stack47 — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:40:53 GMT

Never play consecutive numbers combinations: 1-2-3-4-5-6 etc. If it hits, you'll have to split the jackpot many players.

Never play combinations like 5-10-15-20-25-30 because again, many players use them.

Doubles never hit in Tennessee (oops actually happened in the pick-3 and pick-4 for over a month

Reply #21

Longarm — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:50:07 GMT

The first one, about pick-3 sums, has some truth to it, but isn't quite accurate. Some sums are more likely than others. Consider that there's only one way to get a sum of 0 or to get a sum of 27. The odds of either of those is 1:1,000, the same as the odds of a straight match, since only one combination will produce either of those sums.

Only 000 produces a sum of 0. Only 999 produces a sum of 27. Three combinations produce a sum of 1 (001 010 100) or 26 (998 989 899). Sums toward the middle... [ More ]

Reply #20

Hermanus104 — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:56:40 GMT

I used to think that my birthday (1/04) would win the lottery more often on days that

- I went to the doctor's

- I ate from Subway

- I did something that pertained to music

There was also a slew of times around the turn of the millennium where my birthday came up when I got sick.

- 11/01/1999, I had a sore throat and had to stay home from school, 104 hit in Delaware.

- 11/20/2000-11/21/2000 - I had bronchitis or pneumonia, 104 hit in Kentucky on November 21.

- 03/05/200... [ More ]

Reply #19

Coin Toss — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:08:53 GMT

Good one, BobP. Not to mention that people that do that are assuming a solo jackpot, and if that's not the case and the jackpot gets divvied up it blows that theory to smithereens twice

Reply #18

johnph77 — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:03:03 GMT

The most common sums in a Pick 3 drawing are 13 and 14. 12 and 15 are the second most common sums.

Reply #17

jrosina — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:42:42 GMT

Allways Pick 3 odd and 3 pairs when picking 6 numbers For The Jackpot.

Reply #16

JADELottery — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:56:25 GMT

Higher numbers hit more often because there's more paint on the balls.

This might be true if Computer Generated States had any 'Balls'.

Reply #15

MzDuffleBaglady — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:29:02 GMT

lol

The sum of a Pick 3 drawing is usually 15.

Not in Illinois, I know that much!

Illinois, 4/30/2010 744, lol, 7+4+4=? lmaoooooooooooooooo

Missouri, evening, 719 4/30/2010

Missouri, midday, 179 5/01/2010

Is this random drawing? by a computer? whatever, I don't think so, I think they repeated the same number, because, the payout, last night was big on the pick 3 and the pick 4.

This is not theory, it's factual.

And, I'm peed off, because, I said, it was going to come... [ More ]

Reply #14

jarasan — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:20:05 GMT

Such and such a number is due.

Everytime I play I hit.

My such and such friend/relative/whatever hits all the time.

Reply #13

Coin Toss — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:20:37 GMT

Lottery Post is a bunch of people who have all won a jackpot.

Evidently some people think so, consier how many times someone new joins and says, Can you guys tell me how to win?

The number _ has been out for _ drawings, so it has to hit today.

_ was the Powerball or the Mega ball last drawing, it won't be again for this drawing.

Reply #12

sully16 — Sat, 01 May 2010 10:47:48 GMT

Scarychick, thats got to be number 1.

Reply #11

tiggs95 — Sat, 01 May 2010 10:15:03 GMT

Mega Think Tank hit the Mega Millions and Power Ball the same weekend..

Reply #10

BobP — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:19:43 GMT

Don't play until the jackpot exceeds the odds.

BobP

Reply #9

Dead_Aim — Sat, 01 May 2010 06:54:21 GMT

Amen Sister

Reply #8

Coin Toss — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:49:39 GMT

You played what? Those are my numbers!

No harm comes from hitting a jackpot and not remaining anonymous.

I bet more than I win but come out ahead all the time.

I hit three numbers on Little Lotto and it paid $47.52

(People have actually told me that. 3 of 5 pays $10 and that's it.

Reply #7

rdgrnr — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:08:09 GMT

If you want good luck, rub your ticket right here.

Faster...

Faster...

Faster!

I don't fall for that one anymore.

Reply #6

ThatScaryChick — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:24:06 GMT

Computer drawings are completely random and can't be tampered with.

Reply #5

rcbbuckeye — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:03:22 GMT

fifteen years worth of incredible info, mindblowing stuff you never knew about the lottery (M-TT)

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. LOL.

Reply #4

sully16 — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:36:03 GMT

play it for 10 days and it will come in, been playing 861 for six months. WHERE THE HE## IS IT

Reply #3

jarasan — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:35:24 GMT

They know who is going to win.

Reply #2

MzDuffleBaglady — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:45:14 GMT

Only play, mega or power, when the jackpot is big, lol,

Reply #1

dr65 — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:36:26 GMT

I have a system...

Lottery Urban Legends

Coin Toss — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:28:33 GMT

We might have done this before, I'm not sure, but let's put some here for fun.

Things you've heard others say and you know are just not true, or things you might have tried and found out were not true.

Here's a few:

The sum of a Pick 3 drawing is usually 15.

Not in Illinois, I know that much!

Don't play a jackpot game the day of the drawing.

Total baloney!

Only play a jackpot game the day of the drawing.

Also baloney!

Higher numbers hit more often because there's m... [ More ]