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Coin Toss

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Dec 1, 2018, 7:47 pm

I was talking with the manager of our Barnes & Noble and asked him how come there's no books at all on the lottery.

I told him there's plenty of books on poker so it's not a Bible Belt thing and he said there's not much anyone could do with lotto, you win or you lose.

A few days later I stopped at a convenience store to play a ticket and a guy comes in and asks "What games have drawings tonight?"

The book store manager or the guy at the convenience store would probably be the one to win a jackpot.

I was tempted to tell the bookstore manager to take a look at LP but decided to dummy up as it would have made as much sense as telling a hair raising story to a bald headed man.

Bonus.....

. The convenience store has a sign by te lotto register, if you are going to play more than rwoPick 3 or 4 numbers please fill out a play slip.

.........No Pick 3 play slips at all.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
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Dec 2, 2018, 1:13 am

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Dec 2, 2018, 8:56 am

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Dec 2, 2018, 2:43 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 1, 2018
I was talking with the manager of our Barnes & Noble and asked him how come there's no books at all on the lottery.

I told him there's plenty of books on poker so it's not a Bible Belt thing and he said there's not much anyone could do with lotto, you win or you lose.

A few days later I stopped at a convenience store to play a ticket and a guy comes in and asks "What games have drawings tonight?"

The book store manager or the guy at the convenience store would probably be the one to win a jackpot.

I was tempted to tell the bookstore manager to take a look at LP but decided to dummy up as it would have made as much sense as telling a hair raising story to a bald headed man.

Bonus.....

. The convenience store has a sign by te lotto register, if you are going to play more than rwoPick 3 or 4 numbers please fill out a play slip.

.........No Pick 3 play slips at all.

BN sells more and more non-book stuff these days, so the number of books they have on any topic is much less than back in their heyday.

Lottery systems books focus on techniques for winning draw games, but you may also have noticed that many states report instant games make up the majority of their sales in recent years. This suggests the audience for such books may be diminishing. Also, would you buy a physical book on lottery systems at a bookstore when you could find the same info for free online, or buy it as an ebook at a lower price?

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Dec 2, 2018, 3:16 pm

Quote: Originally posted by oate on Dec 2, 2018
BN sells more and more non-book stuff these days, so the number of books they have on any topic is much less than back in their heyday.

Lottery systems books focus on techniques for winning draw games, but you may also have noticed that many states report instant games make up the majority of their sales in recent years. This suggests the audience for such books may be diminishing. Also, would you buy a physical book on lottery systems at a bookstore when you could find the same info for free online, or buy it as an ebook at a lower price?

A lot of lottery books are self published so most big chains do not carry books of that type. They prefer to deal with publishers who know the book selling process, etc. The quality of self published books can be all over the place.

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Dec 3, 2018, 2:16 pm

Barnes & Noble is a respectable book store which is why they don't sell gimmicks like winning the lottery or spreading tarot cards. They do have a math section. Try that, and then you will understand why winning the lottery does not require any studying, just blind luck.
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Dec 3, 2018, 4:05 pm

Artist,

Good pointsd but I have seen self-published books for sale in our local Barnes & Noble. In fact one is by a Lithuanian (or somewhere close) and the fact that English is not the author's native language is painfully obvious.

Tucker Black,

Oh I've posted several times that when the numbers someone plays are the numbers drawn, regardless of the means of number selection, it is in fact blind luck.

One of the books I had in mind is a book about how lotteries are structured, very informative book, you'd think they would have that.

It's in the LP bookstore via Amazon;

Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers Paperback – December 24, 2003

by Don Catlin (Author)

Also, out local Barnes & Noble does sell books about the Tarot and other similar thigs.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
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Dec 3, 2018, 6:07 pm

Out of curiosity I checked BarnesandNoble.com, and they do sell all sorts of lottery system books online, new and used, math-based and mystical.

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Dec 3, 2018, 7:01 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 3, 2018
Artist,

Good pointsd but I have seen self-published books for sale in our local Barnes & Noble. In fact one is by a Lithuanian (or somewhere close) and the fact that English is not the author's native language is painfully obvious.

Tucker Black,

Oh I've posted several times that when the numbers someone plays are the numbers drawn, regardless of the means of number selection, it is in fact blind luck.

One of the books I had in mind is a book about how lotteries are structured, very informative book, you'd think they would have that.

It's in the LP bookstore via Amazon;

Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers Paperback – December 24, 2003

by Don Catlin (Author)

Also, out local Barnes & Noble does sell books about the Tarot and other similar thigs.

The numbers book by D. Caitlin is from Taylor trade, a very legit publisher. I am curious what self published books you have seen at B&N.

I just googled it and they started this in 2016. New policy.

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Dec 3, 2018, 7:44 pm

Artist,

One was a book about how to make money or something, I'll find the title later. I'm not sure of the publication date but I think the authors' idea started when his country wass till in the Soviet bloc, or maybe they just kept some of the ways.

In one passage he's talking about trying to get a license of some sort and he says he had to go to "Central".

Tucker Black'

I got curious as Oate did and went to the Barnes & Noble website and searched lottery....here's what came up;

682 results for lottery

OK, that includes novels with lottery in the title, and Nook books. I guess they'll sell lottery books online but not in the stores, at least not in the region I'm in. It's considered the northern tier of the Bible Belt. When NYPD Blue was first broadcast the local NBC affiliate showed a program called Ask the Pastor as NYPD Blue was believed to be too risque. NYPD Blue aired the following week, I guess the station manager didn't realize the station was an affiliate of a national broadcast network. Shades of the Heidi game.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
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Dec 3, 2018, 9:23 pm

One of my favorite movies, which came from a book, is called "The Lottery".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery
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Dec 3, 2018, 11:47 pm

Tucker Black,

Think I saw it.

David Baldacci wrote a very interesting book called The Winner. That should be made into a movie.

Artist77,

Found that title;e of that book. I remember looking through it at Barnes & Noble. It's called Magic of Money by Andrii Duiko, Kailas Publishing. (Greek?)

Usually you can tell the price looking near the bat code. The only thing near the bar code on this book was 90000>, so I thought it was a $9,00 book. I asked a clerk to check the price and it was $28.95

I remember looking through it and at the end was a promo for Volume 2 coming out and for the International Esoteric School of Kailas.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
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Dec 4, 2018, 11:35 am

In my city, Barnes & Noble has a large selection on the Tarot. They also carry books on the lottery in the store, if they happen to be in stock. Their inventory of books in stock may be determined by the interests of the people in the area. Las Vegas Barnes & Noble probably carries a lot of books about casino gambling, whereas South Carolina B & N does not. The Bible Belt B & Ns carry a lot of Christian type books. M city's B & N has a large selection of Christian literature - it all depends on the area.
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Dec 4, 2018, 12:21 pm

If the people writing the books know so much about winning the lottery then why haven't they won it yet?????????????????????

Seems the ones getting rich are the writers of the books.

Lottery is nothing more than chance..being at the right place at the right time.

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Dec 4, 2018, 12:40 pm

destinycreation,

Our Barnes & Noble also has books on casino gambling, heavy on poker. That's why I found it off there's nothing on lotto.

tnlottodreamer,

These posts aren't about the accuracy of such books, they are about the availability or lack of.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.

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