Thanks for the input. Groups of three, (for 5/39) gives patterns that are 13 digits long for eg. 1000101100100 for 5 digit draw. Possible patterns if only one hit in any 3 group is from 0000000011111 to 1111100000000, approx. 16,000 combos. possible, why bother, just use single numbers. Sirmetro, this is a methodolgy, look at any game, 5 of 39, 6 of 39, whatever, as long as it is less than forty numbers, you will see repetitive patterns where the numbers fall into regularly. I don't care about graphs, skips, dips, hits, combinatory symetry, etc. too much food for thought. I GAMBLE that a pattern that has shown before, regularly, will occur again, and increase my ODDS by using more than one of the recurring patterns.
When you go to Mega or Power, the patterns, if you go by 1-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-54,56, the spread is too wide and you can't see discernible patterns, there are too many it is 6 places, tonight pball was 8-11-12-26-53 a pattern 121001 has shown only once in the past 100 games, tonight dc 6 drew 4-10-11-19-21-36 pattern 1311 has shown 13 times in the past 100 games the most recent 4 games prior, check it out dc6 11/04/06 draw 6-15-18-19-27-32 guess what same pattern 1311 shown 12 times in the past 100 games. I hit 4 of 6 tonight with 4-11-16-21-26-36 (pattern used 1221) and 3 of 6 on 4-10-11-13-28-33 (pattern 1311 used).
http://www.dclottery.com/WinningNumbers.aspx?GameID=11
There are days when every ticket I play has a winner on it. I scan those days for non-believers. I played $12 tonight 24 lines 4 differient patterns for a total win of $12.00 YEEHAAAAAH! (Howard Dean inspired) one more # $500.00 two more #'s $166,000.00 post tax apocalypse. One day the glass will come full I've been refining only since July, I've been gambling long time, so I've combined a strategy with some randomness built in, 'cause bottom line is, luck has to play a part, it is the GORILLA in the room, I don't beat myself up when I lose, it's part of the game, it's fun.
No matter what system you use, what works for you, works, my system doesn't make my eyes feel like they are going to bleed or give me headaches when I'm done. This works for these types of 40 digit or less games, works even better for less than 35 digit games.
I like lottomike, he has great insight, he got lucky (4 of 5) just like the rest of us a few weeks ago on a prediction that was 3 or 4 days older than the drawing date on MD Bonus 5. If I get a complete miss I'll repeat, and sometimes get lucky, but I change plays almost daily, at a time cost of less than an hour, I spend more time on LP.
PS. I use a couple of Dbase programs to discern some of this stuff, like active, average, passive to reduce the pool of numbers. This system typically yields within it the complete set of drawn numbers, I don't have the time to do a full wheel a couple of nights in a row 'cause of the slips, but I have next week off, I might do it for grins and go fishing for numbers and rockfish if time permits.
LOL jarasan