Coincidence or ?

Reply #6

Think — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:29:00 GMT

I don't know how many years ago I looked into how easy picks are generated on the terminals but somewhere on an official site the answer was the terminals use both time of day and past numbers run through the individual terminal... I haven't checked to see if that's still how they do it.

I must look superstitious to the clerks when I ask for an easy pick first before they run my slip as the whole reason I get easy picks is so they don't resemble my numbers.

Reply #5

Justing618 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:36:44 GMT

This would happen to me when PB and MM was a buck. I used to pick my own numbers. And the Qp's would look simular. I found it odd.

Reply #4

Coin Toss — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:55:53 GMT

I wasn't whining just stating facts. For you to say stop whining is ironic and hilarious. Whining is your forte not mine.

Reply #3

Tucker Black — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:13:26 GMT

It's probably just random variation. But if you don't like the QP generator, then pick your own numbers instead of whining about it.

Reply #2

Coin Toss — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:14:04 GMT

I've bought plenty of QP single tickets from that machine for that game. It's a 5/45 progressive game and most often a single QP from that machine spits out a first number in the 20s.

Reply #1

Tucker Black — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:02:19 GMT

You bought two lines, one with your numbers and the second one QP?

But if you buy QP only, it always gives you high numbers? Okay, but how many single QP tickets have you bought? You can't make any conclusions about the QP generator off two data points.

Coincidence or ?

Coin Toss — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:58:29 GMT

Played evening draw Illinois Lucky Day Lotto today, used a playslip

my numbers 5 10 15 18 24

under them QP 6 7 15 28 39

put the playslip in lotto vending machine, usually if you just play a QP with this machine you get somethiing like

28 31 37 41 42

tjhis is a 5/45 game and the sirst nunmbe ius usually not that high.