Hi Everyone,
I am a new member - just signed up last night - and I have a few questions and some sharing. First I want to thank this web site for existing. What a wonderful resource and from what I can gather from the posts I have read - what nice people too. Kudos!
I have owned Gail Howard's system for a few years and have had decent results but it took me a while to narrow my chosen numbers down to less than all of them. I have never won more than a few hundred on a Pick 5 game but it was such a nice feeling and it proved to me that the system can and does work.
Unfortunately for me Gail's program no longer runs on my 64-Bit version of Microsoft. I am thinking of becoming a Premium Member but before I do I have some questions I am hoping you can help me with.
1. Is it possible to predict numbers using Gail's book but without the software?
2. How many people on this site have won more than a few thousand dollars by using the advice / steps contained herein and in Gail's book?
3. Do scratch off tickets bring better odds than a lottery ticket?
Over the weekend I spent $2,000 on a roll of $20 scratch tickets. I won $1,260. I rolled the winnings and added the difference to purchase another roll. On the second roll I won $1,300. My strategy has been to track the towns and stores that sell the winning tickets off of the state lotto web site. I put them into an excel spreadsheet and sorted by volume. The towns that sell the most winning tickets are where I tend to buy my tickets however I avoid the stores that have already sold a big winner. My logic is if the lottery is truly random the odds of the same store selling more than one grand prize is low.
I buy the $20 tickets because the prize is structured now at 150 prizes of 1 Million (with 76 claimed) and 10 prizes of 10 Million (with 5 claimed) The tickets have been out since 2008 and the # of tickets printed is just over 65 Million.
In tracking the results I have noticed that the majority of tickets sold are on 'Main Street' in the given town. I have also noticed that the store that sells the most scratch tickets in the state is #6 out of the top 10 winning ticket sellers. The #2 winning ticket selling town is the same town the State Treasurer (lotto commis) man lives in. Coincidence?
My questions are....
1. Does it make sense to buy the lottery tickets at high traffic sellers? I am struggling with the theory that if a high traffic store has already sold a winning ticket wouldn't the business decrease because the likelihood of their receiving another big winner decreases substantially? Personally, I avoid places that have already sold a large scratch winner.
2. Is the ticket distribution totally random? I know the printing of the tickets is controlled so that each roll has a certain # of winners but what about the distribution of the tickets? Lower income towns have the highest percentage of selling winning tickets. Is it because of the demographic or because they sell so many tickets that they turn them over faster?
3. Is it possible to find out how many of a certain scratch ticket game have been sold? If this game has been out since 2008, with 65+ million tickets and already half the grand prize winnings claimed - then does it stand that there are now less than 32 Million tickets left?
4. Do you think I can ask any more questions?
Thank you so much for any attention you give my long winded post. I truly appreciate any insight you can share with me. As I move forward in my lotto journey I will be happy to share with you any thing that I think you may find of value.
Thanks again and be well - Zippy