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Since you've started playing lotto, are you 'obessed' with numbers?

Well, much more aware of them.

[ 16 ]

[ 36.4% ]

Car tags = Pick 3/4

[ 9 ]

[ 20.5% ]

The ater bill is my Pick 4 until the next one.

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

No, not me - this is choice FOUR

[ 4 ]

[ 9.1% ]

I play the times my phone messages came in

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

I'm aware, but still play QP's

[ 2 ]

[ 4.6% ]

Aware of what?

[ 7 ]

[ 15.9% ]

Other - please explain

[ 6 ]

[ 13.6% ]

Total valid votes

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Discarded votes

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Coin Toss

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Aug 18, 2006, 7:20 pm

Just for fun - since you've started playing lotto are you more aware of numbers that we see evereywhere?
Coin Toss

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Aug 18, 2006, 7:33 pm

Option 3 above should be water bill, not ater bill....
Typo # 2674 for me on this board thus far.
Rick G

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Aug 18, 2006, 7:42 pm

Coin Toss, good poll.
When I first started this game seriously about 7 years ago I did become obsessed with pick 3/4 digits to the point of dreaming about them and seeing them in every license plate. Thankfully, after a prolonged losing streak in those games that obsession has ebbed somewhat Now I dream more about systems than numbers...when I see the numbers manifest themselves during the day and they fit with what I came up with during morning coffee it's mildly encouraging.
This game is more fun when you're not betting a cent on it.

Posted 4/6: IL Pick 3 midday and evening until they hit: 555, 347 (str8).
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Aug 18, 2006, 8:15 pm

No, not at all. The only numbers that interest me are the ones being drawn for the lottery I'm playing. I have never been able to associate numbers from other lotteries, car tags, mailboxes and etc. with the lotteries I play.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
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Aug 18, 2006, 8:15 pm

I think I might have a slight obession with the numbers I play. But I don't look for numbers everywhere I turn.
Rip Snorter

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Aug 18, 2006, 8:34 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Aug 18, 2006

Just for fun - since you've started playing lotto are you more aware of numbers that we see evereywhere?

I can't say I am more so than previously.
When I used to spend a lot of time on long road trips, long before the lottery, I amused myself doing constant time and distance calculations from each mile marker, memorizing the makes, models and license numbers of all the cars I saw, and combining it all in various ways. I'd watch government vehicle tags and estimate how much gas they burned from the first location I saw them until they exited the freeway. Calculate the numbers of gallons per passenger per mile of freeway.
Calculate the amount of tax money going into government gas and government vehicles along the stretch of road I was traveling within some given time period.
That sort of thing with a lot of permutations.
Now mostly I just interest myself with random numbers as they manifest in lottery draws.
J

Absorb the good, ignore the bad, weigh the ugly.
It's about number behavior.
Egos don't count.

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Coin Toss

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Aug 19, 2006, 1:04 am

Rick G
That's funny about the dreams and the license plates. (I've had similar ones about numbers)
We have some people in Illinois folks that have license plates that are three numbers followed by four numbers, just like phpne numbers (why are these people driving around with other people's phone numbers anyway?)
When you see one, such as let's say 888 1234, it's almost like a Pick 3 and Pick 4 begging to be played.
PS
Glynis McCants, "The Numbers Lady", says 8 is the prosperity number. So when you see an 888 is that an indicator to play the four numbers following it?

Rip Snorter
I did things like that constantly on long drives and on all night duty in the Army.
I was also into shortwave radio, and this is odd, some people say it was DEA broadcasts, or NSA or who knows, but there was a station, maybe still is, that broadcasts nothing but numbers all the time, all in German. And it's always a female voice.
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Aug 19, 2006, 1:46 am

I'm obsessed with numbers almost to the point of where i may cut the 8 x 10 sheets of paper i put numbers on into shards and put spaghetti sauce on it.
justxploring

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Aug 19, 2006, 1:51 am

When I hear numbers, I often think of songs. For example, when cashiers tell me my total I might relate to a song. A few weeks ago she said "$18.14 and I started humming "In 1814 we took a little trip...down the Mississip" Then once I was ask for $8.67 and starting singing "Jenny Jenny who can I turn to?" However, if I see I number that's very unusual, I do think of the lottery, although I don't bet it. (I already spend more than I should.) One day everything I bought ended with the same 3 digits, 666 (no joke) and I didn't know if I should bet it or just stay home with the doors locked. LOL
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Aug 19, 2006, 4:51 am

No, I don't think of lottery numbers when I see house numbers or whatever.
Perhaps superstitious people do, but I don't see those connections when seeing numbers whenever or wherever.
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Aug 19, 2006, 6:44 am

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Aug 18, 2006
Option 3 above should be water bill, not ater bill....
Typo # 2674 for me on this board thus far.

I'll deal with this poll later. Right now, I need to run out and place a big bet on 2674 straight in the Pick Four game. I've got a feeling it's going to hit.
aye'
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Aug 19, 2006, 10:59 am

no doubt every number i come into contact turn into a lottery number, new phone numbers,birthdays,paycheck amt,what time i get to the store,you name it,my friend just moved and she gave me her new #,sure enough the next night 470 straight in the ny lgame, but stupid me played it the wrong way lol 740 ,eh 40 bucks is still good

mike
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Aug 19, 2006, 4:44 pm

it works well for some people like ecwcaps, but not for me.I think it also has something to do with a belief in the superstition. I know some people who actually hit a couple of times from playing license plates, phone #'s, etc. If you believe in it enough numbers will start to come at you from all kinds of places to help you hit the lottery.
So many ways to come up with possible winning numbers...

"The happiest moment of your life will be the moment it ends...thats because it doesn't end but goes on in ways so magnificent, so full of peace - wisdom - and joy, as to make it difficult to describe and impossible for you to comprehend"
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Aug 25, 2006, 1:57 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Aug 19, 2006

Rick G
That's funny about the dreams and the license plates. (I've had similar ones about numbers)
We have some people in Illinois folks that have license plates that are three numbers followed by four numbers, just like phpne numbers (why are these people driving around with other people's phone numbers anyway?)
When you see one, such as let's say 888 1234, it's almost like a Pick 3 and Pick 4 begging to be played.
PS
Glynis McCants, "The Numbers Lady", says 8 is the prosperity number. So when you see an 888 is that an indicator to play the four numbers following it?

Rip Snorter
I did things like that constantly on long drives and on all night duty in the Army.
I was also into shortwave radio, and this is odd, some people say it was DEA broadcasts, or NSA or who knows, but there was a station, maybe still is, that broadcasts nothing but numbers all the time, all in German. And it's always a female voice.

Rip Snorter
I did things like that constantly on long drives and on all night duty in the Army.
I was also into shortwave radio, and this is odd, some people say it was DEA broadcasts, or NSA or who knows, but there was a station, maybe still is, that broadcasts nothing but numbers all the time, all in German. And it's always a female voice.

Coin Toss:
There are still some things similar to that on shortwave, both in English and German.
Then there's the time-ticks.... woman's voice giving constant Greenwich time down to the second.
I suppose there's a piece of the world out there where GPS satellite broadcasts haven't yet been discovered.
Strange stuff going on numbers-wise. I'm betting there are thousands of people in the world sitting around listening to time ticks and not even wondering why they're doing it.
(I've done it myself..... deadens the thought processes after a while and assists in inducing sleep)
J

Absorb the good, ignore the bad, weigh the ugly.
It's about number behavior.
Egos don't count.

Dedicated to the memory of Big Loooser
Coin Toss

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Aug 27, 2006, 12:37 am

Oh yeah, I remember the time ticks now that you mentioned them.
That and hearing, "This is radio Canada....ici Canada...."

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