In case you're wondering, #'s 6 and 10 are the other all time biggest T5 hitters. #6 has 947 hits and #10 has 917. It seems kind of funny to me that certain numbers always seem to stay at the top of the number of hits list. #17 is a good example of that, it seems to always be at the top of the number of hits list year after year.
But what about the numbers at the bottom of the number of hits list? Do the numbers down there seem to stay there too?
Yeah, they do. The all time T5 least hitter is #25 with 837 hits, the 2nd least hitter is #9 with 838, and the third all time least hitter is #30 with 839.
When you look at how those three numbers did in any given year, you'll see them near the bottom of the list. That's NOT the case this year for #'s 25, 9 and 30. They have done fairly well in 2015. But in 2014, #25 and #30 were the second and third least hitters. #25 had 32 hits, and #30 had 36 in 2014.
Some people say it's crazy to try to predict lottery numbers because it's entirely random. OK, but why then do things like the above happen if it's so random? If it's as random as some claim it to be, shouldn't/wouldn't we see different numbers every year at the bottom and top of the number of hits list?
You may have read a post I put out here in this forum a short while ago where I said I have been more inclined to play raffles, and haven't been playing T5 all that much lately. And that's true. Very recently, I bought ten tickets for the January 2nd 2016 Pennsylvania Millionaire Holiday raffle. And if, it's entirely random, why then do the majority of million dollar winning ticket numbers have high numbers? (PA's raffle tickets are on sale for three months prior to the drawing, and they're sold sequentially. If I bought the very first ticket in the current drawing, I'd get ticket number 000001. If I bought the very last ticket, I'd get ticket number 500000. If I buy two tickets at any time during the sales cycle, provided no one else located anywhere in The State of Pennsylvania is buying a ticket at the same time I am, my ticket numbers will be sequential.) If it truly is as random as people say it is, then it should not make any difference during the three months tickets are for sale when I buy my ticket. Except that it appears that it does make a difference. If you go to The PA Lottery's website and look at the winning ticket numbers of all the raffles they've held since 2005, you'll see that most of the one million dollar winning tickets had high numbers. (That means they were sold late in the sales cycle, either almost on the day of the drawing or on the day of the drawing itself.) Why then, is that the case, if it's so random???? So don't get discouraged when picking your T5 numbers, and don't let anybody tell you the lottery is as totally random as they say it is. If it really was, then we would not see the kinds of things that we actually do see. It might be hard to believe, but the facts are the facts. G5