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Knowing the Unknowable Future NumberReply
When all four digits are even for two drawings, there are only five digits they could be Here are 5 All Even Pick 4 single combos. They are 0246-0248-0268-0468-2468. What's unusual is is to have the same combo hit 5 times in a row when an AE combo was drawn. How unusual? In my states entire history of AE P-4 singles, besides the 5 in a row I posted about, the next most times the same AE combo hit in a row was 3. And that happened 3 times out of 306 AE drawings.
Jun 13, 2025, 3:47 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Why do so many in CA win powerball?Reply
Besides CA having about 1/8 of the US population, all jackpot wins are statistically unusual and there aren't enough of them expec that the number of winners per state should match what probability suggests. Thinking that CA has had an unusually high number of PB winners is like flipping a coin only 10 times and thinking that the results have to be really close to 50/50.
Sep 1, 2025, 8:31 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Outrage! Oklahoma holds digit 3 out for 20 daysReply
I used to keep track of Virginia's 3-ball fairly religiously, and there was always a three-digit combo that hadn't won in exact order in at least 6,000 drawings. Divide 6000 by 100, and you get 60, which is the number of non-shows by the number 3 in the Oklahoma Lottery (20 Pick-3 drawings). So, I do not find the number 3 not showing up for twenty drawings unusual.
Jul 3, 2025, 12:07 am - Hermanus104 - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
I would say most winners are self picks if your state lottery powerball play slip was organized with 5 rows of numbers per ticket for the white balls for an easy pattern to play. Lots of Keno players play patterns so not unusual. Someone should tally all the state powerball play slips that won and see how many have 5 rows of numbers for easy pattern play. Look at Florida Powerball play slip which is the anti play slip for pattern selection with lots of rows for white ball selection.
Apr 30, 2026, 2:06 pm - jimjwright - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
Do you have any credible evidence to support this claim? Given all the pick 3 lottery games played every day, you're always going to find something unusual like no #5 drawn for a while. That's not a statistically valid conclusion, it's just you noticing randomness in the numbers drawn.
Jan 31, 2026, 11:30 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Most Essential Skillset To Beat The LotteryReply
Matching 2 or 3 of 6 numbers is not that unusual. Random numbers have patterns. However, the patterns are random.
Dec 17, 2025, 11:22 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

2026 lottery headlines you hope to seeReply
All of this business of her keeping a low profile came from advice given to her by the attorney And what did he say was the reason to keep a low profile? There's no question that a small minority of people will specifically target you for a scam if they know you've got an unusual amount of money, but kidnapping for ransom is very rare in the US. If you're the kind of idiot that wants to be the poster child for problems after winning the lottery and do things like leave a few hundred gra
Feb 12, 2026, 4:05 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Outrage! Oklahoma holds digit 3 out for 20 daysReply
Its not unusual for skip count to reach 20+. This is the current skip count for pick 3 games. Any digit has 271 straight combinations which has an expected skip count of 2.69 draws. I personally think its better to play some event that is transitioning from say 2x to 3x skip count versus playing outliers. But does it really matter its all random and you are only tracking 1 event.
Jul 2, 2025, 1:57 am - jimjwright - Lottery Discussion Forum

I know that this is technically not a lottery question, it's about PCH Sweepstakes bankruptcy .Reply
He said this left him financially ruined and he can't find a job as he hasn't worked in roughly 10 years and is an older man. He said he blew his PCH Annuity payments frivolously Poor decisions can lead to all sorts of problems. If he's lucky some of that frivolous spending resulted in assets that can be sold, such as more house than a guy with a modest fixed income (he probably qualifies for social security) needs, and Walmart might give him a job as a greeter. What do the wronged PCH
May 26, 2026, 12:18 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

You Can't Lose If You Don't PlayReply
47 days, 2 drawings per day, that's 94 drawings. With an expected hit rate of 0.286, you should expect 0.286*94 = 26.884 hits, which we will round off to 27. If the expected value is 27 and the actual is 22, you should not be pleasantly surprised. That is worse than average. The reason there are so many straight hits is because you're betting on a large proportion of the total matrix for lots of drawings. This would be a very expensive and very bad way to play the game. The standard devi
Oct 8, 2025, 11:43 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum