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• manofmany

  

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  Aug 16, 2008, 3:43 pm

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  I've been using my sons birthday month, day, my birthday day, fiances birthday day, her age, and my age for the PB #. Been using this combo for about 3 months now and have won several times with it.

   

  Well when I plugged it in, it hit the jackpot on 1/9 of this year, and 200k 5 years ago!!! Such a shame I couldn't have been playing this since last year. Should I continue to play it? Do the same numbers ever hit the jackpot again?

  Edit: This was for powerball.
• Jimhowlett

  

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  Aug 16, 2008, 3:59 pm

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  Quote: Originally posted by manofmany on Aug 16, 2008

  I've been using my sons birthday month, day, my birthday day, fiances birthday day, her age, and my age for the PB #. Been using this combo for about 3 months now and have won several times with it.

   

  Well when I plugged it in, it hit the jackpot on 1/9 of this year, and 200k 5 years ago!!! Such a shame I couldn't have been playing this since last year. Should I continue to play it? Do the same numbers ever hit the jackpot again?

  Edit: This was for powerball.

  I wouldn't. I'd tweak it a bit with another meaningful number or two. The odds of 5+1 hitting are astronomical already; the odds of it happening twice are several orders of magnitude worse.
• RJOh

  

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  Aug 16, 2008, 4:28 pm

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  Quote: Originally posted by manofmany on Aug 16, 2008

  I've been using my sons birthday month, day, my birthday day, fiances birthday day, her age, and my age for the PB #. Been using this combo for about 3 months now and have won several times with it.

   

  Well when I plugged it in, it hit the jackpot on 1/9 of this year, and 200k 5 years ago!!! Such a shame I couldn't have been playing this since last year. Should I continue to play it? Do the same numbers ever hit the jackpot again?

  Edit: This was for powerball.

  If you would have hit the PB jackpot on 1/9 then the numbers you were using were 02 13 20 21 23 24 and there are 7 possible combinations of 5's and 36 possible combinations when you include the powerballs, so some variation of those numbers could hit again.  So far they have hit:

   01/09/08   02 13 20 21 23     24 
   08/04/07   02 23 24 27 36     03
   02/08/03   02 13 20 21 23     35
   12/04/02   13 20 21 35 40     35
   10/03/01   02 20 23 35 49     25
   03/21/01   13 14 18 20 21     16
   09/13/00   02 13 21 22 47     31
   01/27/99   02 04 20 23 44     22

  Just play a variation of them that hasn't won yet.  Using your age will change the numbers in the group as time goes by.  Some variation of those numbers have also match 0+1=102 times, 1+1=59, 2+1=100 during the last 1125 PB drawings.

   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *