I enjoy taking part in Maddogg challenges...i have learned from participating...i have notices a little something however with the way many people make their numbers selections and i like to discuss it here...this is not to say i have a better way cause i dont...these are games with very low odds of winning anything significant...just my 2 cents, i think this may improve our chances of getting more hits..give your opinions if you like, we can all learn from sharing ideas....
here's what i noticed:
when someone posts 12 numbers like this: example: 2-9-15-18-21-27-31-33-40-47-51-55...a post like this lists numbers in every 10s group (0s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50)..since there are six tenths groups and only 5 white balls will be drawn this means that at least one of them numbers (or maybe more) is automatically wrong (5 numbers cannot come from all 6 groups at one time)...of course that dont mean you can't hit all 5 by a selection like that (raven and rdc got 4 on last mm challenge) but i'm talking about maximizing our potential in our guesses
another example: last pb drawing was 6-22-42-43-47..so it only selected 3 tens groups (one ball in 0s one in 20s and three in 40s)..if someone had posted numbers only in those three tens groups say some selection like this (2-4-6-21-22-25-28-40-41-45-46-49) their chances of hitting would have probably been more as opposed to the first example....my idea here is to take chances and eliminate at least one (or two) tenth group...this will maximize the chances leaving only ~40 balls or less which obviously makes it easier...now of course there is no sure way of telling which tens to select more numbers from and which to skip...in general the 50s will skip more (there are only 6 white balls in 50s in pb and 7 in mega compared with 9 balls in 0s and 10 balls for 10s, 20s 30s and 40s)..
some other examples from Powerball:
Wed, March 12, 2008 12 · 19 · 30 · 34 · 36 (it skiped the 0s group, 20s and 40s and 50s)
Sat, March 8, 2008 17 · 29 · 31 · 34 · 49 (it skiped the 0s group, 40s and 50s)
Wed, February 6, 2008 03 · 05 · 12 · 42 · 43 ( it skiped the 20s group, 30s and 50s)
My next selections in the next PB drawing will be to skip the 30s group..if i'm correct im basically playing a 5/45 game which of course is a bit easier...some of you might have thought about this strategy but anyway i hope my observations can help...