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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Apr 10, 2022
I don't pay too much attention to the top five FF5 hitters of all time. (7,573 drawings as of last night - April 9th)
But maybe I should. Here's why;
The #1 hitter of all time is #1 with 1,105 hits.
The #2 hitter of all time is #7 with 1,101 hits,
The #3 hitters of all time are #'s 16 & 27 with 1,092 hits
The #4 hitter of all time is #19 with 1,088 hits.
The #5 hitter of all time is #35 with 1,087 hits.
Number 1 last hit on April 8th. #7 last hit on April 3rd. #16 last hit on April 3rd. #27 last hit on April 6th. #19 last hit on April 7th. #35 last hit on March 31st. As you can see, #35 is the farthest out number - 9 drawings.
To me, long term trends like all FF5 draws don't say too much about what will happen tonight. Maybe I gotta re-think that. G5
I've been using them a lot lately combined with the longest out. I'm working on something I stumbled across. No, it doesn't tell me what numbers to pick but it does help to keep my numbers varied. I'm tracking it thru April and will email you May 1!
How 'bout that 1 winner of the $208k jackpot last night? Very nice!
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Quote: Originally posted by fla33023 on Apr 11, 2022
Number 25 again last night....still didn't have it. Had 3 numbers Saturday night, $8 payout. Last night, 3 numbers got you $19.50. Dang!
Caught 3 numbers again last night. I played top number 16 and overdue 30. G5, remember when you had that run of 3 digit wins a few weeks back?! I like it!
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Quote: Originally posted by fla33023 on Apr 12, 2022
Caught 3 numbers again last night. I played top number 16 and overdue 30. G5, remember when you had that run of 3 digit wins a few weeks back?! I like it!
Congrats!
As for me, I didn't play yesterday.
Last time I played was Sunday night. Yesterday morning when I checked my ticket, I ZERO of the five winning numbers in the set of 18 that I picked to play! I didn't have one crummy winning number anywhere on my ticket!
That's the thing about picking 18 numbers to play. In order to win a jackpot, I must have all five winning numbers in my set of 18 or it's impossible for me to win a jackpot. Having all five winning numbers included in the set of 18 that I picked doesn't happen all that much. Most times I have 3 or 4 of the five numbers in my set of 18. When I do have all five winning numbers in my set of 18, I will have winning numbers scattered all over my ticket. Just putting three of them on the same line isn't as easy as it sounds either. What's really frustrating is when I see lines close together on the ticket that have all five winning numbers spread across multiple lines.
A few years ago while I was living in New York, I won a three-bagger with three of the winning numbers, and the on line immediately below it, I won a Free Ticket with the other two winning numbers. I won a three-bagger and it sucked big time. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Apr 12, 2022
Congrats!
As for me, I didn't play yesterday.
Last time I played was Sunday night. Yesterday morning when I checked my ticket, I ZERO of the five winning numbers in the set of 18 that I picked to play! I didn't have one crummy winning number anywhere on my ticket!
That's the thing about picking 18 numbers to play. In order to win a jackpot, I must have all five winning numbers in my set of 18 or it's impossible for me to win a jackpot. Having all five winning numbers included in the set of 18 that I picked doesn't happen all that much. Most times I have 3 or 4 of the five numbers in my set of 18. When I do have all five winning numbers in my set of 18, I will have winning numbers scattered all over my ticket. Just putting three of them on the same line isn't as easy as it sounds either. What's really frustrating is when I see lines close together on the ticket that have all five winning numbers spread across multiple lines.
A few years ago while I was living in New York, I won a three-bagger with three of the winning numbers, and the on line immediately below it, I won a Free Ticket with the other two winning numbers. I won a three-bagger and it sucked big time. G5
I'm sure nobody cares, but here's the method of how how I pick my numbers,,,,,
I open my lottery software and start to pick numbers that I'd like to play. When I settle on any given number, I jot it down. I keep doing that until I have picked 18 numbers.
Then I take a bet slip, and start randomly coloring in the numbered boxes in each game panel. Sometimes I work from Panel "A" (Game A or Line A on the ticket) and work my way towards however many lines I'm going to play. But most times I randomly color in the numbered boxes in different panels. I'll go from Panel C to Panel E, then to Panel A etc. I do that until five numbered boxes are colored in each game panel I want to play. So if I'm going to spend five bucks, then I'll have panels A through E completed.
After the drawing, I don't check my ticket. Instead I look at the list of 18 numbers that I picked, and circle the winning numbers that were drawn. If I have all five winning numbers in my set of 18, then I usually have winning numbers sprinkled all over my ticket. But having all five winning numbers included in my set of 18 is easier said than done. Usually I have anywhere from two to four of the winning numbers in my set of 18. If there are three numbers in my list of 18, then I know the best I can win is a three-bagger. (And that's IF I put those three winning numbers on the same line!)
My method to pick 'em is easy enough, but it aint easy to pick all five of the winning numbers, and then ya gotta put them all in the same Game Panel on your bet slip so that they all appear on the same line of your FF5 ticket! Good Luck anway! G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Apr 12, 2022
For anybody that would like to play 5FTL4, here are the 18 numbers that were drawn in the Last 4 Drawings:
9, 12, 16, 18, 30 (Last night's winning numbers)
4, 18, 18, 25, 31 (The 1 skips)
6, 8, 11, 17, 36 (The 2 skips)
1, 14, 22 (The 3 skips)
We haven't seen a 5FTL4 since February 2nd. Most years, 5 or 6 of them are drawn, so maybe soon we'll see one. G5
So if you used the above numbers that came from the last 4 draws, you could have maybe won a 3-bagger, but neither of those two typo's I had in my post didnt help your cause much! G5.
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Here's what the Number Groups look like as of last night;
Group J F M A
Singles 33 34 40 16
Teens 37 424620
20's 534246 16
30's 32 22 23 13
Looks to me like the Teens might start to assert themselves in the second half of April. That's my scientific wild guess anyway. Cant see The 20's staying on top this month because historically The Teen's and 20's have alternated taking the lead. G5
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You guys know how I like to post weird and useless info about FF5, right?
Here I go again!
No FF5 number has ever hit more than 5 times in a row. Of the 12 numbers that have hit in five consecutive drawings, one of them (#22) has done it TWICE. The last time it did it was on August 5, 2018.
The most recent time a number hit 5 times in a row was on 11/16/2020 when #5 did it. #21 hit 5 times in a row on 3/1/2004 and #27 did it on 4/24/2004 - That's Twilight Zone stuff if ya ask me!
Of course this is all FF5 history so maybe it's nice to know, but if I saw any number that had hit in four consecutive drawings my first thought would be "That's out of gas. It won't hit tonight." and therefore I'd never play that number. That's the real reason why this is info totally useless. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Apr 16, 2022
You guys know how I like to post weird and useless info about FF5, right?
Here I go again!
No FF5 number has ever hit more than 5 times in a row. Of the 12 numbers that have hit in five consecutive drawings, one of them (#22) has done it TWICE. The last time it did it was on August 5, 2018.
The most recent time a number hit 5 times in a row was on 11/16/2020 when #5 did it. #21 hit 5 times in a row on 3/1/2004 and #27 did it on 4/24/2004 - That's Twilight Zone stuff if ya ask me!
Of course this is all FF5 history so maybe it's nice to know, but if I saw any number that had hit in four consecutive drawings my first thought would be "That's out of gas. It won't hit tonight." and therefore I'd never play that number. That's the real reason why this is info totally useless. G5
You think the above info is weird? How about this;
Number 22 hit in 5 consecutive drawings ending on August 5, 2018. It hit in 4 consecutive drawings ending on July 19, 2018.
Number 22 has gotta be the hottest number of 2018, right? WRONG! It was #32. How crazy is that? G5
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Question: What is the FF5 number with the most number of repeats? (Which number has been a repeater more times than any other FF5 number?)
Answer: #34. It has repeated 167 times.
Does that mean you should play #34 after it's been drawn because it has repeated more than any other FF5 number? I dunno. I just put stuff out here that nobody knows but I think is interesting.
BTW - the FF5 number that has had the least amount of repeats is #26 with 128.
There are some FF5 numbers that have more 1 skips than they have 0 skips. (a repeater is a 0 skip)
Weird but true facts. Why anybody would care about them is another story.... G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Apr 16, 2022
Question: What is the FF5 number with the most number of repeats? (Which number has been a repeater more times than any other FF5 number?)
Answer: #34. It has repeated 167 times.
Does that mean you should play #34 after it's been drawn because it has repeated more than any other FF5 number? I dunno. I just put stuff out here that nobody knows but I think is interesting.
BTW - the FF5 number that has had the least amount of repeats is #26 with 128.
There are some FF5 numbers that have more 1 skips than they have 0 skips. (a repeater is a 0 skip)
Weird but true facts. Why anybody would care about them is another story.... G5
So obviously you talked up #34! Did you have it? I didn't play last night. I just didn't know what to pick. Sometimes numbers jump out at you and other times, you can't see anything clearly. So strange to not see a winner last night. That's odd for Super Saturday.