Best way of picking PB numbers

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golotto — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:40:50 GMT

One of the most recent

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rundown99 — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:43:02 GMT

GaryCongratulations on winning the $3000. I think that your friend is right. If you just look at the white balls, the odds of getting all of the white balls right is still 1 out of 3 million, so you are not guaranteed to get all of them right. But, if you catch all of the red balls, at least you have a shot of getting 4 white balls with the powerball and winning $5000. In my opinion, I would play Powerball, because there are less powerballs (42) than mega balls (52). I think that Hypersoniq... [ More ]

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Todd — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 14:35:31 GMT

Gary,Either way yo

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gary — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:54:06 GMT

RJohThanks. I will do that and see which method will be better.Orangeman:I want to see if mathematically, if my method is any better. with PB, you can pick 5 numbers and do a QuickPik on Powerball.

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orangeman — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:46:32 GMT

Gary:Philosophically, you are on the right track. Either play one dollar or $25,000, but nothing inbetween. It is the five and 10-dollars players to are the lotto's bread and butter. I suggest concentrating on winning the Pick 5 part of the game and using quick picks for the powerballs. Don't know if that is even possible, it is in Texas. I'll find out dventually. Powerball is coming to Texas. Don't know how it will affect the Texas Lotto, but I'm sure it won't be pretty.Orangeman... [ More ]

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RJOh — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:01:45 GMT

To Cash,If you consider the players that didn't win the MA lotteries lucky then the non-player are more lucky, because they didn't win and it costed them nothing.To Gary,If you are planning to wait until the jackpot size reach a certain amount, you have time to play both methods on paper and evaluate them before you actully play. A few years back, before I retired, some of my co-workers and I did the same thing quitely because some of them didn't want their wives to know how much we were spendi... [ More ]

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hypersoniq — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:46:52 GMT

congrats on the win!If you could wheel the white balls for the powerball into about 50 lines ($2100), you could play each line with each powerball number... (50 5-ball combos each played with PB 1 thry 42)to win would be cleaning up! ...match 5 white balls on ANY of the 50 lines and you are guaranteed not only the jackpot but also 41 tickets worth 100,000 each (6/4 drawing would then be worth 52.1 million!match 4 white balls on any one line and make $9100match 3 white balls on any one line and m... [ More ]

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CASH Only — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:40:43 GMT

Gary:Be thankful the two of you did not hit the MA 6/49, as both of you would be receiving annuity payments. (both MA 6/42 and 6/49 still annuity-only

Best way of picking PB numbers

gary — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:35:44 GMT

My firend and I won 3000 bucks in the Mass Millions game. We want to buy PB or Big game depending on the jackpot size with this money.We can buy 2400 tickets for one draw or pick 2 days in which we want to play. We decided to play twice. But now we have an argument.I proposed to select 25 non-powerball numbers and generate a wheel of say 60 combinations and select 20 numbers for PB/Mega ball and play the 60x20 combinations for 2 days.My firend thinks that this is not a smart move. He wants to pl... [ More ]