I believe the MAJORITY of people who play the lottery would classify themselves as "lottery losers" or in a loonnnnggg non-winning slump. I always note those winners who care to share how they won who say they either didn't play regularly and decided to just buy a ticket (usually a QP) while at the C-store or those who say that had just decided to replay an own pick combo again and it hit that draw. The conclusion I draw from this is you just never know when you might have purchased the winning ticket...but you cannot win if you do not purchase a ticket. So I never take a break as long as I have $$$ to buy lottery tickets. I would say that I am now more so in the QP camp than I actually was when I first joined LP...I find it more refreshing playing QPs than own picks because with own picks you pretty much know by the third number drawn whether you have won some money or are just holding a worthless piece of paper (that is if you don't participate in any available 2nd chance drawings). But with QPs, you actually have to check all the numbers and I find that exciting...even when I don't win. But I can tell you that when my winning day comes, everyone in lottery land will be waiting for some time (could be as much as a month) with baited breath wondering just who is the lucky sap who just won $$$ _____ millions of dollars and whether that lucky sap is going to take the cash value and run or take the annuity and share whatever story he/she cares to share as I am about to become a cross country trotting truck driver. I guess I'll either check my tickets when I pass back through that state or I'll just wait until I get back home to check all my tickets. Eventually I will get myself a mobile device that I can access the internet wirelessly and check tickets that way (yeah, I can handle technology but I often wait until prices for hardware/software/service come down before plunging in...learned that lesson with my first computer purchase nearly two decades ago when I bought a $2,500 apple computer that today could only be used for word processing...now had I invested that $2,500 and achieved at least 12 percent ROR over the past 16 years, I would have nearly $17,000 with which I could definitely buy the latest high powered computer system, a flat screen TV, an iPod, and still have a little over $10,000 left over (sure I would have had to pay taxes on any capital gains/dividends received over that time, but my experience is that I always paid taxes out of my current earnings, never from my investments). I guess you also know what my focus would be WHEN I actually win any lottery jackpot...yeah, investments...that I know about...not investments I could do just because I have the level of money to do...that is until I have thoroughly done my research and am ready to do so. Well I have rambled enough...here's hoping my next line of mult-play QPs are just the numbers that roll...all at the same time!