jeff....man i hope you quit playing there...seriously....by now you know that they got it tilted in their favor....just started to work again...70 hours a week...i was in a situation similar to yours in that i had a big hit lived good off it for a good while...the mistake i made was i spent too much at one time...my gal just had a baby and that right there convinced me to control my spending.....i'm down to 10 bucks a day on pick 3 and 3 bucks on powerball..i might spend 5 on the lotto five and thats it......at my peak i did some heavy spending which made me realize one thing...i didn't win again so i thought i might as well spend 3 bucks a drawing as opposed to a couple hundred...the odds are in the millions anyway and i figure i'm not gonna do much better spending a couple hundred anyway than i would three bucks......as for your four number game i honestly believe you would've hit by now had you been playing in another state....preferably a ball drawing state........