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CT post #1
The game I play most often is a Pick 5 because there's a drawing every day and I believe that in one's lifetime they might actually hit a pick 5. The Illinoos Pick 5 gets hit every two to three days. Pick 6 and 5 + 1 naturally have far remoter xhances of that happening. (Doesn't stop me from playing them though!)
Here's the Pick 5 I play for the last 2.5 years:
Results as of June 28, 2008, June 29 last year and this June 20 year:
2008:
To date:
68 Jackpots
56 QP 82.35%
35 PS 51.47%
2009:
To date:
76 Jackpots
65 QP 85.52%
39 PS 51.31%
Total jackpot money paid out to date: $17,295,000
2010:
To date:
77 Jackpots
37 PP 48%
61 QP 79.22%
Solo jackpots: 59
Shared jackpots: 16
Highest jackpot:
$625,000, one winner on May 11
Average jackpot: $195,805
Total jackpot money paid out to date: $15,077,000
As you can see, quick picks do indeed hit more often for this game. When the jackpot gets pumped up (It has been over $1,000,000) I'll mix QPs and numbers I pick, sometimes even trying to "psyche out" the lottery computer. I might play 1 2 3 4 5 as a "sacrifice bunt" and a QP for Game B.
I also play a "Cribbage" ticket, 2 4 15 29 31, significant numbers in the game of cribbage, and a QP.
Maybe such tickets are a "key" for the terminal to issue a winner, who knows.
That's just me personally. People here on LP have mentioned that they've spoken to people that play QPs and don't even know how to fill out a playslip.
I think another reason QPs are played so much is simply convenience so to say. Somneone is in a crowded convenience mart paying for gas and the clerkasks if they want to take a shot at the PB or MM jackpot. Jnles the're a payer and already have a slip made out prior to getting in line if they say yes it's usually, "Yeah, give me a QP."
While I'm posting on this I must say there is nothing quite as entertaining as seeing one of the anti-QP set here on LP talking about chomping at the bit to buy raffles tickets. Think about that one.
Post #2
17 sure seems to hit often.
Weird, in Italy it's considered bad luck, figure that.
I wish Illinois had that partial QP feature. So far I guess it's Florida and Georgia.
Post #3
Well I had one of those experiences today where the terminal just did not take the playslip.
I had a slip for the Missouri lottery, filled out right, one set of numbers and a QP (2 lines for a dollar), advanced play, five draws.
Should have been $5. The terminal rejects the ticket, the clerk checks it, the top has six numbers penciled, the bottom has QP.
This was at a busy gas station / convenience mart just before the bridge to come back to Illiois, and there's people in line behind me. So I say just give me two quick picks for five draws (meaning, or so I thought, both lines would be QPs). So I get Game A and B, both two lines of QP each for five draws and That'sll be $10".
So either it was the Lottery Fairy providing a little help, OR, not liking the numbers I picked out and forcing me into QPs!
Post #4
At "the end of the day" no matter what the method of the number selection was, for six played numbers to match six drawn numbers is pure luck, and nothing more.
Someone hits with a QP - LUCK
Someone uses a NASA program - LUCK
Someone plays six family birthdays - LUCK
Someone plays six family borthdays, marks one wrong, and hits all six - LUCK
Someone hits buy buying a mistake - LUCK
"That moment in time was just structured that way"
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Post #5
Jarasan,
Let''s say some people play QPs for the reason you stated.
Now I'm a gonna try and a tole everybody one a more time, using a Pick 5 as an example since she's a drawn everyday,
2008:
To date:
68 Jackpots
56 QP 82.35%
35 PS 51.47%
2009:
To date:
76 Jackpots
65 QP 85.52%
39 PS 51.31%
Total jackpot money paid out to date: $17,295,000
2010:
To date:
77 Jackpots
37 PP 48%
61 QP 79.22%
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CT no always playa the quick pick. CT start a track a the game everyday a few years ago, CT see the jackpot go QP QP QP QP QP (usually played in Chicago). CT see a that for the last two and a half a year the QP always win a lotta more often than a the player pick.You looka at the percentages above, capish?
OOFANAPOLI! MANAHGE A DEE-AL!
A lotta people on LP they's a no like a da quick pick, they's a talk about how they pick a the number, they even deny the quick a pick hit a mosta the time, but I'm not a see a any of these people track a game to show actual results, ah?
Inna 2008 the quick pick she's a hit 30.88% of the time more than a the player pick.
In a 2009 the QP she's a 34.21% more often.
And so far inna 2010, she's a 31.22% a more often, prety consistent, no?
When a somebody who no likela the quick pick posta results that say the quick pick isn't as good as the pick-a-uoi-nose pick, then CT a listen up. But a so far all I see is opinion with a no verification. Until a then, I know whatta the stats a say, and the no-QP crowd, well a maybe they a STATATZEET.
Buono foruna,
Coin
Post #6
So you thinka she's a free country? I'm a take a my girlfriend Virginia on a train ride from a New York to a Miami. She's a get a dark outside. I'm a hug a Virginia. I'm a kiss a Virginia. I'm a gonna make a love to a Virginia. Train she's a stop. Some a gavone with a blue jacket and a badge knock on a the door to our berth and a say, "Norfolka Virginia!"
Post #7
jarasan,
"No, but really CT, I and most everybody here don't care that morepeople hit with QP's, QP's they are not for ME or anybody who playsseriously to win............... not by a fluke or luck. It is justirritating and pointless to keep repeating the QP mantras. "
So where are those wins? It gets just as tedious, if not more so, hearing about non-productive systems and how great they are, with absolutely nothing to show for them, as it does QP "mantras". Like I've said over and over, track a game and post the stats. Why don't people do that, because they know they'll be proven wrong? I would think when anybody wins over a million dollars, tens of millions, they'll take it regardless of the method of number selection.
jimwright,
How do you figure those stats don't mean anything? X number of jackpots paid and the preponderence went to QPs, over and over and over.
I don't know if that information on total sales is available, but the info. on what wins the most is, and what wins the most is quick picks [/story]
Post #8
jarasan,
Not everyone plays like you do. The average ticket sale is $1. Not all QP players don't know how wheels work, but they do know if none of the wheeled numbers hit they are worthless.
Besides, the title of this thread is:
Why do people play QP's?
not, "Why are you God's gift to number selection?"
jimwright,
No one is doubting that most sales arequick picks. On the Mega Milliins FAQ page is says something like 70 to 80% of jackpots winners are quick picks and 70 to 80% of ticket sales are quick picks, do you spot anything here? (or something similar).
We've seen a lot of jackpots go to a lot of quick picks. We've seen a lot of people telling us how great their numbers are, but no jackpots. Call me silly but I don't think chump change "give a dog a bone" payoffs are the real motive for playing the lottery.
As for sweetening the pot for self pickers, nice idea but lotteries being lotteries would just get real creative with the marketing and make it sound like that was the deal without really changing a thing.
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Alles:
Once again there are a lot of people talkng about how they can hit a 95 mph fastball yet no one is willing to get in the 95 mph batting cage, they just keep telling us how well they can hit such a pitch.
Foo qoo, aye quat, chieu hoi.
Vietnamese, rough translation, Ambush two tangerines, I give up.
Post #9
Ironic you should try and use such examples jarasan, when despite the evidence night after night of quick picks winnings jackpots, you're on the sidelines yelling, "My way is better". That is the broken record.
Post #10
I guess you could call the "broken record" the drawing results which show what wins more often.
Once again the invitation stands, pick a game and track it and just post what has won. Mot the specific numbers, not your numbers, merely the method of number selection.
And may I remind you once again the topic of this thread is Why DO people play quick picks?
I know it would be a gargantuan effort to subscribe to the lottery e-mail for the game results and post them, but oh well.
'Till you or anyone else here does that we're jut seeing erroneous opinion wirth no stats. behind it spouted over and over, ad nauseam.
You posted your hits for a drawing, and congratulations there. Now how about the non-hits?
No matter what the topic, consistent results cannot be refuted. If somsone said you can reduce your wiast by standing on your head 10 minutes a day it would be laughable, but if people started doing it and reuduced their weights, then they couldn't refute it, could they?
And by "the masses" are you restricting that to LP, rife with systems players and advocates, or all lotto players?
Kind of arguing the DH rule at an American League game as oppossed to a National League game.
Post #11
jarasan,
YouTube does nothing for me as I'm on dial-up and can't see them play.
I can see where Maddog's Challenges might be fun but personally I don't care too much about numbers I haven't played for real.
To each their own.
Post #12
In the sense of the glass being half empty or half full, from another LP member in the Jackpot forums let's consider this:
So there is no need to buy multipletickets in order to win big. That is why you see people winning themega millions and powerball with $1 QUICK PICK ALL THE TIME. Smartplayers collect money from those players that push the jackpot toa higher amount by playing the least amount of money as possible.Forexample on 8/28/2009 two smart players won the $336 million megamillions jackpot by playing $1 QUICK PICK EACH. The player from BRONXNY won half of it by playing $1 QUICK PICK WITH THE 26 ANNUAL PAYMENTOPTION. The player from CALIFORNIA won half of it by playing $1 QUICKPICK WITH THE CASH VALUE OPTION. These players realized that there wasa big jackpot, therefore resulting in a large pool of peopleparticipating. So they each played a small amount to win big.Bythe way, there were also players from NEW YORK that won the secondprize of $250,000 buy playing $1 QUICK PICK ON 8/28/2009 TOO.
Continues:
https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/216951
As far a smost losing tickets being quick picks, DUH!, it has top be that way because most tickets bought are quick picks.
As this discussion ingended to be about Why Do You Play Quick Picks continues to go down rabbit trails about the suppoossed superiority of picking one's own numbers, quick picks continue to be the preponderence of jackpot winners.
Prove me wrong if you can, but you can't, thus no one else has posted actual results. Pretty simple request, pick a game, post what wins more often.
Post #13
Like I said, it's a simple request, pick a game, track what wins, and post it instead of opinionated play by play in a continued thread hi-jack, get to the final score.
Why the reluctance to do so? Afraid of the results?
Post #14
jarsan,
In an earlier post you said, "I have nothing to prove about QP's......"
I'm just curious.......then why would you pound a thread about why people play quick pickes with dissertations about playing self picks.
As for "And CT don't get me wrong, I'm sorry CT if I've been a a$$4ole, we'vecollaborated on a thread with QP's etc., but I got tired of nonwinning QP's back in 07'. Never been productive with QP's for mybudget etc..."
Naw, no a$$4ole, as they say, no difference of opinion no horse races. Iused to play more of my own numbers than quick picks, but after seeing the results every draw (Pick 5) for over four years decided to "go with the percentages".
Post # 15
I know what you posted, that's not what I asked.
I asked why you pounded a thread about Why Do You Play Quick Picks with prolific dissertations about not playing them and jabs at people who do play them.
Foo koo, aye quat.