Hey, Sirius:
I don't know any more about it than you do, but I'd make a fairly conservative wild guess that those numbers are coming in from a parallel universe. Maybe. Or they're counting the number of items that get sucked into the nearest black hole. Or they have something to do with crop circles.
Only about half-to-3/4ths joking here.
Seems clear those numbers are coming from somewhere, that they're measuring something, or a manifestation of something we aren't noticing..... or they vary with the full moon, the position of the sun, sunspot activity, something.
They're too non-random, too 'systematic' not to be the product of some influence or other.
So having said that, what about these hunches we have?
I'd bet we are sensing whatever is influencing the numbers when we do that.... that we haven't noticed the correlation on a conscious level, but the old mind is taking it all in, matching it all up and making connections without consulting us.
Or it might just be we're viewing time from a different angle.
But as to your first question: Man, I hate to admit this, but there's a growing body of evidence that the numbers that are going to win are already fixed...and I'm half-believing that evidence.
.. By win, I mean win a jackpot. I can't get my mind wrapped around that far enough to understand what I ought to think about it.
Jack