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• JKING

  

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  How many times have you read about people betting using these two general methods (picking new numbers every time or alwayssticking with the same numbers). What's really better?

  You are a slave to the choices you have made.  jk

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• MillionsWanted

  

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  I do both. On VikingLotto 6/48 I am using new wheels and numbers each week.
  
  On the norwegian lottery 7/34 I am using the same wheels with the same numbers all the time.
  
  
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  i stay with the same numbers....
• Todd

  

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  I used to Pick, but now I stick.  (adding the occasional pick)  Makes it fund to root for a certain number set.  However, the question should really be aimed at a certain game type, because I use different strategies for different games.

   

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• rabbitfoot

  

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  It really doesn't matter!  However, I do switch from one to the other.  I emailed MegaMillions and asked which way won the most.  He/she replied that, " Two thirds of the tickets sold were quick picks and two thirds of jackpot winners came from quick picks."  To me, it looks like results are based strictly on LUCK.

  I play to dream and dream of winning a major jackpot!
• kbcherokee

  

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  Tso-gali-I

  If all of you would use the "Bell-Curve" you could see the numbers changing all the time. And yes, there are times certain numbers will "hit' again and even again at times. two times in a row is not unusual. Three times very seldom. But the Bell-Curve lets you see where the numbers are going, so you can see within a certain frame of what numbers will "hit' the next game. The Powerball works in the same manner.

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• MADDOG10

  

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    the powerball and mega games are tough enough to hit let alone stand on a certain set of numbers in my opinion.in pick 3 and pick 4 games the game itself developes certain patterns or trends, but in the pick 6 and larger games the numbers are more apt to hit and run so to speak. there are occasions where certain numbers have a tendency to repeat, but the percentages of that happening is small. there are certain numbers that follow another numbers when they are drawn, but to stick with a certain set of numbers and hope they hit certainly increases the odds against you.so, my choice is to pick...!  
  
  
  
  

                                             

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• Hyperdimension

  

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  nice dog MADDOG

   I'll change numbers according to the strategy of my software
  
  

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• flaboi

  

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  always change..
• bobby623

  

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  I use to change numbers after each drawing - replacing numbers that came up with numbers I didn't play, due to financial limitations.

  Recently, I did some analysis and learned that I would have won a few bucks if I had struck with the same numbers.

  So, I constructed some combinations to provide as much balance as possible. I then used the multidraw option. Sadly, I haven't won a thing!

  I agree with rabbitfoot, it's all a matter of luck!!

   
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  stick with those numbers and you'll be well rewarded somewhere down the line.
• MMGuy

  

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  I use the same numbers, as well as some quick picks. I also use numbers that I do some research on.