More Whacky Ways of Picking Numbers

Reply #45

New York — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:42:05 GMT

I use addresses most of the time. Social security numbers, also area codes (718, 347, 917, 646, etc.)

1326 Madison Avenue, 1148 5th Avenue, 1641 3rd Avenue, etc. (Upper East Side, Manhattan)

Works most of the time, lol.

Reply #44

Coin Toss — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:04:10 GMT

Wheeler,

Sometimes I play area codes of where I've lived in the Pick 3.

Here's another 'whacky way' to play, cash in a bunch of coins and play the total.

Reply #43

Ronnie316 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:40:52 GMT

I used to fly into LAX all the time, til I figured out that SNA was closer to my destination.

Reply #42

haymaker — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:25:52 GMT

so atlantic city = ACY = 137

heres 1 for ronnie316, los angeles = LAX =316

Reply #41

Wheeler — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:30:08 GMT

I asked a friend at work what time it was. It was 3:34 pm. So I went to the store played the 334. Lost. Have any of you used your zip codes for numbers

Reply #40

noise-gate — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:25:32 GMT

Colin- If only we had a back to the future moment where we could travel back in time to retrieve that lottery almanac and when BIGTIME... today.

Reply #39

yoho — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:20:10 GMT

I leave my fate to a computer randomly generating (losing) sequences for me.

Can't get wackier/crazier than that.

Reply #38

Coin Toss — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:13:25 GMT

SergeM,

Wow, mathematically and binary whacky!

Here's anopther approach, airprt codes are three letters. Major league baseball teams are three letters on socreboards, such as LAA (Los Angeles Angels) and LAD (Los Angeles Dodgers.)

Use the pythagorean numerolgy chart to convert the three letter codes to Pick 3s.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

A B C D E F G H I

J K L M N O P Q R

S T U V W X Y Z

Reply #37

SergeM — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:41:03 GMT

I propose that you do the coin tossing.

Flip coins! Head is zero and tail is one. Write down the binary number and calculate the decimal number to play. Use the windows calculator, switch to program from standard. There is a function in Excel too. Another idea is to use a dice. Write down the numbers and calculate base seven to base ten. You would miss the zero, so you would have to use base 6, substracting 1 from the outcome of the roll. I have the calculation on one of my webpages.

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Reply #36

Coin Toss — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:15:38 GMT

During baseball season when I see five or six players standing together and you can see their uniform numbers I play them.

Also I pick a team and play the Runs Hits and Errors final from the box scores on the Pick 3 or 4, or the last three digits of the attendance.

Reply #35

helpmewin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:24:40 GMT

Reply #34

Ronnie316 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:07:58 GMT

Have a good night everyone.

Reply #33

Ronnie316 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:05:00 GMT

Im going back to random numbers pulled from the grocery sack. lol.

Reply #32

Ronnie316 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:02:12 GMT

Thanks, I see patterns based on past results and think I can win. It may be a fallacy but I hope I win anyway.

Reply #31

mcginnin56 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:38:06 GMT

Good luck with that fallacy .

Reply #30

Ronnie316 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:55:31 GMT

I predict numbers based on The gamblers fallacy

Reply #29

mcginnin56 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:53:17 GMT

I play numbers based on the the number of marriages, divided by the number of divorces, subtracted by the number of sex changes in a given year.

Reply #28

Ronnie316 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:33:18 GMT

I pull numbers out of my grocery sack.

Reply #27

Ronnie316 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:30:50 GMT

I will take mine Pumpkin.

Reply #26

Uluska — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:27:44 GMT

Double task. Start loosing weight and use numbers down to the grams.

Reply #25

rdgrnr — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:51:50 GMT

I like apple.

Reply #24

LottoPerro — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:15:31 GMT

How about playing somewhere in the infinite matrix of Pi

Reply #23

Uluska — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:09:39 GMT

rdgrnr, how many fish you have?:):)

Play on difference in time at different time zones.

Reply #22

Freedom777 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:23:51 GMT

I got lunch at 1 PM yesterday; the cost was $4.44. I thought... wow, triple 4s At 2:20, received the lottery text that the winning number was 4404. Spent 2:20 PM - 5:29 PM trying to figure out why the number 4404 was familiar. Finally at 5:30 PM realized that I should have added a 0 to the cost of my lunch to get the winning number

Good grief..

Reply #21

sully16 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:27:33 GMT

I didn't get mine until I was 47, I only need them to read, I know they are delibrately making letters smaller, so people spend lots of money on glasses, it's a conspiracy, lol

Reply #20

aux8b — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:41:50 GMT

Hi, well check out yesterday winners the cash ball for ky.I played 1-18-19-20+15 numbers won 1-2-16-19+4 got 2 right, won an 1.00. with my glass off lol

Reply #19

rdgrnr — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:58:44 GMT

The dam fish keep eatin 'em before I can count 'em.

Now they have to be punished.

I'll teach them to mess with me...

Reply #18

Uluska — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:48:32 GMT

Take fish food in a box, shake a bit out, and count how many grains fell out. Repeat. You might fish out something good.

Reply #17

Artist77 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:13:42 GMT

lol I need to try this as well. The only test I ever failed was a vision test when I went to apply for my learners pemit at 15 1/2. They said look through this thing and read the signs....I said what signs?....lol. I cried for a week about my life being over with glasses then was glad when I got them because I could see the leaves on the trees. lol

Reply #16

d1nnl2 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:24:38 GMT

we live in nj but my wife works in ny. so she called me last saturday, 1/20/2013 and told me she got 172 reading twice on 2 different patients. no idea what she was measuring but she asked me to play the number. i did but i forgot to ask her to play it in ny. it came out on their win4 that night, 2107.

Reply #15

sully16 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:52:08 GMT

I usually put my glasses on, but maybe I'll take them off and just scratch 5 boxes, anything has to be better then the way I pick numbers for powerball. Thanks Aux8b

Reply #14

aux8b — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:42:14 GMT

I wear very thick glasses all most bline my doctor said. so i take my glass off cannot see any numbers and mark 5 little boxs, and play those, I get 2 right

most of the time.

Reply #13

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:44:21 GMT

nothing big just a few free tickets......

Reply #12

Coin Toss — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:27:00 GMT

Play your area code + phone number as the Mid-day Pick 3, Evening Pick 3 and Evening Pick 4

Reply #11

helpmewin — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:03:08 GMT

Reply #10

Set4life — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:25:14 GMT

The BEST ones are the ones that travel lol

Reply #9

Pick4ologist — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:12:49 GMT

I take my blood preasure. And wheel the 5. Digits. Into 5 pick 4 numbers. Example.

126/90. Id play 1269 1260 1290 1690 and 2690

Reply #8

helpmewin — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:50:52 GMT

thats a good one, have you ever won

Reply #7

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:48:08 GMT

The number's on the back of the Semi Trucks.....

Reply #6

savagegoose — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:38:22 GMT

I have watched the keno draw, and written down the numbers, 1-80 drawn but just keep the ones below the max drawn number for lotto in my case 45.

Then fill out my coupon. In order drawn, untill im happy.

Reply #5

helpmewin — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:21:30 GMT

Reply #4

Coin Toss — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:17:02 GMT

How about when theeres' a three or four digit Roman numeral in a crossword puzzle, play it?

Today's L.A. times crossword has an answer, CMLI, 951.

Reply #3

Artist77 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:44:33 GMT

I have been noting numbers I see on the way to work (did it twice actually for the hot lotto drawing...got 2 numbers). For example, someone holding a newspaper on the metro where a number jumps out, the number of the subway car, etc. I need to do this again.

Reply #2

sully16 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:40:39 GMT

Sometimes I play the cost of gasoline or my grocery total, or change amount, I hit on my change total once a very long time ago.

Reply #1

HoLeeKau — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:09:10 GMT

I went thru a streak where I didn't match any numbers ever on PowerBall. So I decided to try to use that to my advantage.

I took a play slip and started marking numbers that I thought would hit, kept marking until there were 5 white and 1 red number left unmarked. Played those. None of those hit either.

More Whacky Ways of Picking Numbers

Coin Toss — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:48:02 GMT

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