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What is the name of your software? I might look in to getting something to help me pick the numbers. I had 1 number on the PB. Terrible! The most I had of ff5 was 2 numbers.
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 3, 2022
The word on the street around where I live is Cash Pop is a joke... I've never played it but it seems most players I've talked to are unimpressed. That does not mean you shouldn't play it.
But then I saw players in New York turn their noses up at an online game that had very low odds to win a million dollars and wasn't parimutuel. They reason they didn't like the game was because the lower tier prizes stunk. Was around only for a year or so and due to low ticket sales The NY Lottery pulled it. To my mind the players were nuts! But many people shoot for just the lower tier prizes when they play, so what do I know??? G5
PS Congrats on the win!
I don't get the allure of that Cash Pop. You don't have a guaranteed prize so for a $2 bet you might only win $10. I'd rather put those dollars towards JTP or FF5 with the chance to win much more. But there are also people who say if you're going to spend $2, it should be on Power Ball or Mega Millions with the chance to win millions. So to each his own for sure!
I played one line for 7 days and it does include 35 but I didn't have even one number last night. I still like the numbers so we shall see!
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Quote: Originally posted by wantotwinnow on Sep 4, 2022
What is the name of your software? I might look in to getting something to help me pick the numbers. I had 1 number on the PB. Terrible! The most I had of ff5 was 2 numbers.
It's called Smart Luck by Gail Howard. Google Smart Luck and their website will come right to the top of your search list. It's sold out of Tampa/Clearwater.
I dont recommend any manufacturer's software to people. Smart Luck is simply what I chose to buy. Smart Luck does the same types of things any other software does. One is as good as another. The best thing about it is that it reveals things to you that are completely invisible without it. For instance with out it I'd never have known in a million years that two sets of the same last digit on a line does not happen very much.
The thing about owning software is this; you'll very likely win many more small prizes with it than players you know that don't have it. I've had it for about ten years and that's my experience with it. I'm still waiting to win a jackpot. G5
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I tell people to "Play Smartly" and I can play smartly because I own lottery software.
In essence what I'm really doing is eliminating certain things. In doing so, I'm reducing the odds against me a little. There are 376,992 total possible combinations of five numbers in a 5/36 matrix. 249,696 of them are either 3/odd 2/even or 3/even 2/odd. So by playing just 3/2 combo's I eliminate 127,296 combo's. So to my way of thinking I reduced the odds against me to 249,696 to 1 from 376,992 to 1. But that's still very long odds!
What I'm really telling players to do is go with the most probable/likely thing that can or will happen. That said, flukes are a common occurrence in the lottery world. Crazy things that shouldn't happen do happen! And they happen more often than people think they do.
Many players love to play 1 2 3 4 5. But a consecutive string of five numbers like that hasn't ever been drawn in FF5's history. The players that play 1 2 3 4 5 never consider playing 32 33 34 35 36. Why do they say "That's never going to come out" yet they'll play 1 2 3 4 5?? They could play 16 17 18 19 20 too, but they dont. That's definitely one of FF5's 376,992 possible combinations of five numbers. It would take a computer program to count the number of possible five consecutive number strings in 376,992 combo's, and my software has no capability to do that. By not playing any string of five consecutive numbers I eliminate them and reduce the odds against me, but only by a little bit.
BTW - something I should have put in my post about software is this; It has NO capability for you as the user of the program to create your own individual queries. It will tell you only what the creator of the program told it to do. You can not input a query like "Count the number of consecutive five number strings in a 5/36 matrix and show them to me in a printed list" Software is good, but it's limited by what the programmer who wrote the code told it to do.
I was employed by IBM for 32 years and I worked along side many programmers. (I was never a programmer and have never written one single line of code) The very best software I ever saw let ME ask it to tell me what I wanted to know. It accepted and processed "queries." I asked (typed in) the question and it gave me the answer I wanted to know. No commercially available lottery software can do that. The reason I saw software that accepted and processed queries is because that software was specifically written for and was executing on a mainframe computer. Mainframes have HUGE horsepower. Your little desktop or laptop does not have nearly anything close to the amount of horsepower that a mainframe has. G5
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I did fill out a sheet for 4 lines with 35 on them for the next 7 days. We'll see what happens. I worked at GM for 27 1/2 years in Communications. I started out as a keypunch operator in 1972. I retired in 1999 with a package. I didn't let the door hit me before I left. I worked for Kelly services for about 5 years after that.
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Quote: Originally posted by wantotwinnow on Sep 4, 2022
I did fill out a sheet for 4 lines with 35 on them for the next 7 days. We'll see what happens. I worked at GM for 27 1/2 years in Communications. I started out as a keypunch operator in 1972. I retired in 1999 with a package. I didn't let the door hit me before I left. I worked for Kelly services for about 5 years after that.
KEYPUNCH??? Wow. Do I remember those days!!
For most of my 32 years with IBM, I worked in datacenters. Huge raised floors with all different types of computer equipment on them. From laptops to mainframes. We had servers, and mid-frames too.
But lemme tell ya, there aint nuthin like a mainframe. Because I worked in the IBM manufacturing facility that built mainframes and shipped them all over the world to IBM's customers, we had mainframes on our raised floor like they were candy. They just rolled them off the assembly line straight to the datacenter I worked in. Mainframes cost millions of dollars and ya gotta have 50,000 square feet of raised floor to operate one. So us people out here with our little laptops and desktops aint got a clue what the power of a mainframe feels like.
A computer is analogous to an engine. It does work. You can drive a NASCAR with an 800 horse power engine in it and you can go 200 mph. Or you can drive a Honda with a 4 cylinder engine in it that tops out at 95 to 100 mph. But when you step on the gas pedal of that NASCAR you can feel it push you back in the seat. That's what playing around with/on a mainframe feels like. The computing muscle it takes to run queries can be found only on a mainframe. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by wantotwinnow on Sep 4, 2022
I did fill out a sheet for 4 lines with 35 on them for the next 7 days. We'll see what happens. I worked at GM for 27 1/2 years in Communications. I started out as a keypunch operator in 1972. I retired in 1999 with a package. I didn't let the door hit me before I left. I worked for Kelly services for about 5 years after that.
Last night: 12 20 25 35 36
Three even two odd, sum of 128 (outside the sweet spot sums range) one set of same last digit, a repeater (#36) which was the 5th straight day of at least one repeater coming out. Five consecutive days of repeaters means that run will break soon. If a repeater comes out for a sixth consecutive day, then there's an excellent chance there wont be a 7th day. One adjacent (#35 was adjacent to #36 drawn on Saturday night)
Something else happened last night too, but I hardly ever have written about it. #35 & #36 are a "neighboring pair". I dont write about neighboring pairs because it's so hard to predict if a neighboring pair will come out. #35/36 is the sixth highest ranked neighboring FF5 pair since 7/16/2001. It's come out 130 times since that date. The top ranked FF5 neighboring pair is 11/12 having come out 142 times since July of 2001. The last time it came out was August 10, 2022, but before that it came out on August 5th. (It waited just 4 draws to come back out and it's been drawn eight times this year alone) Mysoftware tells me all about them but I guess the only way you could take advantage of it is that you'd have to always have the 11/12 neighboring pair in the forefront of your mind, and if you decided to play #11 or #12, then you'd play the other number as well.
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 3, 2022
Doing the five identical lines on a PB ticket thing is asking for a fluke to happen. (Actually anybody who wins any PB jackpot had a lucky fluke happen to them)
But if I won with a five line ticket, and won 10 million dollars doing it, then I engineered an even wilder fluke than if I just bought a normal QP and won. So that's why I do it. Of course a crazy wild engineered fluke like that will attract a lot of press/media attention. If they wanna take my picture holding the big check, you wont see my face!
I'll be wearing a ten gallon cowboy hat, sunglasses and a corona virus face mask! Sure they'll print my name and the town I live in in the paper, but you wont find me at my current Florida address. I'm from the Northeast originally and 45 years ago I was a snow skier. Going skiing taught me a lot about the back roads and back woods of Vermont and New Hampshire. You ever heard of "The Kank"? (The Kankamaugus Highway) I know The Kank. Been there a lot and lemme tell ya it's so far back in the woods it's tough to find. Even if ya did find it, then ya gotta find where to get off The Kank to find my new deep in the woods cabin. G5
About " The Kank"....
The Kankamaugus Highway runs for at least twenty miles east/west in New Hampshire. It follows a gorgeous gently rushing stream full of huge boulders between a set of tall mountains. (The Presidential Mountain Range) It twists and turns, goes up hill and down hill, and is probably the most scenic road I've ever driven on in my life. If it rains a lot, or in the Spring when the snow melts, that gently rushing stream goes wild, and you'd be taking your life in your hands if you ever so much as tried to kayak in it. In The Summer, you'll see lots of trout fisherman fly fishing in the middle of the stream in some of the pools the stream creates.
As much as I'd love it, there wont be a cabin in the woods for me right off The Kank. That's because the mountain sides are so steep you cant drive up them. There are many New Hampshire state parks for hiking in the woods and you'll see loads of cars parked in parking lots at the edge of the woods. The Kank is truly out of this world. In the winter, the State of New Hampshire sometimes closes The Kank for a while. Avalanches of snow sometimes crash down on The Kank and it takes them a while to remove the snow from the road. (Not to mention all those thick two feet in diameter maple tress that the avalanche snapped like toothpicks that are also blocking the road) In The Winter, the State puts up temporary road signs that warn you to check your gas gage because you aint buyin' any gas on The Kank. (You aint buyin' anything on The Kank is more like it)
It's a wilderness like no other. In about a month, there'll be so many cars crawling along on The Kank that there will literally be a traffic jam. But nobody cares about that. See, that gives you more time to look at the trees, and anyway you cant find a parking spot in any of those parking lots for the hikers cars. The cars in those lots have license plates on them from all over the USA. RV's are everywhere too. On The east end of The Kank is the village of North Conway. An old steam engine railroad train goes outta there and you can buy a very nice steak dinner on it. Or you can just ride in the open air cars and enjoy the view of The Presidentials. Of course, there's the shopping outlets in North Conway too, but I'd rather walk along Main Street and go in and out of those little shops and stores across the street from that old time Railroad station. It's like stepping back 100 years in time. If you dont have room reservations by now for North Conway, you're probably not gonna get them, but twenty miles out of town you might get a room.
One other thing; My wife and I had dinner in a restaurant in North Conway. We had to sit at the bar before our table was ready. Behind the bar were a couple of moose heads and so many stuffed deer with huge antlers that I lost count. Those two moose used to "visit" North Conway on a regular basis and became a nuisance. They're huge and if you get too close to one, they can and would easily stomp you to death. So the State of New Hampshire commissioned local hunters to "cull" the moose from The States herd. The man that owned the bar bought the heads, had them stuffed, and mounted them over the bar.
Wish we were going north for The Fall, but we're not. If I was I'd hit The Kank. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 5, 2022
Last night: 12 20 25 35 36
Three even two odd, sum of 128 (outside the sweet spot sums range) one set of same last digit, a repeater (#36) which was the 5th straight day of at least one repeater coming out. Five consecutive days of repeaters means that run will break soon. If a repeater comes out for a sixth consecutive day, then there's an excellent chance there wont be a 7th day. One adjacent (#35 was adjacent to #36 drawn on Saturday night)
Something else happened last night too, but I hardly ever have written about it. #35 & #36 are a "neighboring pair". I dont write about neighboring pairs because it's so hard to predict if a neighboring pair will come out. #35/36 is the sixth highest ranked neighboring FF5 pair since 7/16/2001. It's come out 130 times since that date. The top ranked FF5 neighboring pair is 11/12 having come out 142 times since July of 2001. The last time it came out was August 10, 2022, but before that it came out on August 5th. (It waited just 4 draws to come back out and it's been drawn eight times this year alone) Mysoftware tells me all about them but I guess the only way you could take advantage of it is that you'd have to always have the 11/12 neighboring pair in the forefront of your mind, and if you decided to play #11 or #12, then you'd play the other number as well.
Finally, toldya #35 was coming out soon!!!
In addition to the above.... 17 of FF5's 36 numbers have hit at least once. (3 have repeated since 9/1/2022)
Numbers 12 and 36 now have 41 hits in 2022 and are tied for 2nd place behind numbers 23 & 27.
Wait a day or two and play #35 again. It's going to do some "catching up" for having sat it out so long. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 5, 2022
About " The Kank"....
The Kankamaugus Highway runs for at least twenty miles east/west in New Hampshire. It follows a gorgeous gently rushing stream full of huge boulders between a set of tall mountains. (The Presidential Mountain Range) It twists and turns, goes up hill and down hill, and is probably the most scenic road I've ever driven on in my life. If it rains a lot, or in the Spring when the snow melts, that gently rushing stream goes wild, and you'd be taking your life in your hands if you ever so much as tried to kayak in it. In The Summer, you'll see lots of trout fisherman fly fishing in the middle of the stream in some of the pools the stream creates.
As much as I'd love it, there wont be a cabin in the woods for me right off The Kank. That's because the mountain sides are so steep you cant drive up them. There are many New Hampshire state parks for hiking in the woods and you'll see loads of cars parked in parking lots at the edge of the woods. The Kank is truly out of this world. In the winter, the State of New Hampshire sometimes closes The Kank for a while. Avalanches of snow sometimes crash down on The Kank and it takes them a while to remove the snow from the road. (Not to mention all those thick two feet in diameter maple tress that the avalanche snapped like toothpicks that are also blocking the road) In The Winter, the State puts up temporary road signs that warn you to check your gas gage because you aint buyin' any gas on The Kank. (You aint buyin' anything on The Kank is more like it)
It's a wilderness like no other. In about a month, there'll be so many cars crawling along on The Kank that there will literally be a traffic jam. But nobody cares about that. See, that gives you more time to look at the trees, and anyway you cant find a parking spot in any of those parking lots for the hikers cars. The cars in those lots have license plates on them from all over the USA. RV's are everywhere too. On The east end of The Kank is the village of North Conway. An old steam engine railroad train goes outta there and you can buy a very nice steak dinner on it. Or you can just ride in the open air cars and enjoy the view of The Presidentials. Of course, there's the shopping outlets in North Conway too, but I'd rather walk along Main Street and go in and out of those little shops and stores across the street from that old time Railroad station. It's like stepping back 100 years in time. If you dont have room reservations by now for North Conway, you're probably not gonna get them, but twenty miles out of town you might get a room.
One other thing; My wife and I had dinner in a restaurant in North Conway. We had to sit at the bar before our table was ready. Behind the bar were a couple of moose heads and so many stuffed deer with huge antlers that I lost count. Those two moose used to "visit" North Conway on a regular basis and became a nuisance. They're huge and if you get too close to one, they can and would easily stomp you to death. So the State of New Hampshire commissioned local hunters to "cull" the moose from The States herd. The man that owned the bar bought the heads, had them stuffed, and mounted them over the bar.
Wish we were going north for The Fall, but we're not. If I was I'd hit The Kank. G5
About those two moose in North Conway.
The last thing The State of New Hampshire wanted to do was shoot and kill them. They tried anything and everything they could think of to lure them out of town. They even brought in a female moose just before the rut figuring she'd come into season, and those two would follow her out of town and back up into the mountains. Except she didn't want to leave either and the big fight in somebody's front yard that ensued between the two males made things even worse!
Moose are so big, that to dart them with a tranquilizer requires a massive amount of tranquilizer, and The Vet they hired said he had never darted a moose before and wasnt sure how long it would sleep before it would wake up. And then you need a crane and an 18 wheel flat bed truck to load it on to and haul it away. But the moose has to wake up while it's still lying on the flatbed and get off of it without injuring itself (breaking a leg which would doom it) And if it woke up while being transported on the 18 wheeler that wouldn't be good.
They tried to put food on the ground outside of town but other wild animals found the bait first.... They shot at it with a special gun that The Royal Canadian Mounted Police lent them that The RCMP uses to scare polar bears away from towns located in the Arctic. The gun shoots a big lit firecracker (a cherry bomb) near the bear and when it explodes with a loud bang, the polar bear runs away. For whatever reason, both moose ran away, but they were back in North Conway a day or so later.
Of course Animal Rights activists all over New Hampshire were watching the situation like a hawk, and they went berzerk when the decision was made to cull them from the herd. The mayor of North Conway's response to them was "You try living in a small town with a dangerous situation like that and with all that moose shxt laying all over the place and see how you like it!" And the guns eventually sounded.... G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 5, 2022
About those two moose in North Conway.
The last thing The State of New Hampshire wanted to do was shoot and kill them. They tried anything and everything they could think of to lure them out of town. They even brought in a female moose just before the rut figuring she'd come into season, and those two would follow her out of town and back up into the mountains. Except she didn't want to leave either and the big fight in somebody's front yard that ensued between the two males made things even worse!
Moose are so big, that to dart them with a tranquilizer requires a massive amount of tranquilizer, and The Vet they hired said he had never darted a moose before and wasnt sure how long it would sleep before it would wake up. And then you need a crane and an 18 wheel flat bed truck to load it on to and haul it away. But the moose has to wake up while it's still lying on the flatbed and get off of it without injuring itself (breaking a leg which would doom it) And if it woke up while being transported on the 18 wheeler that wouldn't be good.
They tried to put food on the ground outside of town but other wild animals found the bait first.... They shot at it with a special gun that The Royal Canadian Mounted Police lent them that The RCMP uses to scare polar bears away from towns located in the Arctic. The gun shoots a big lit firecracker (a cherry bomb) near the bear and when it explodes with a loud bang, the polar bear runs away. For whatever reason, both moose ran away, but they were back in North Conway a day or so later.
Of course Animal Rights activists all over New Hampshire were watching the situation like a hawk, and they went berzerk when the decision was made to cull them from the herd. The mayor of North Conway's response to them was "You try living in a small town with a dangerous situation like that and with all that moose shxt laying all over the place and see how you like it!" And the guns eventually sounded.... G5
By the way... When the first moose was shot, it wasn't even knocked to the ground by the bullet's impact. The bullet went trough both lungs (they were aiming for the moose's heart) and out the other side. It was winter time and not only could they see the moose's breath coming out of it's nose, but they could see it's breath coming out of the bullet holes in it's sides. After a while it finally laid down, but was still alive and struggled to get up on it's feet when it saw the hunters approaching. They quickly had to put it out of it's misery or risk getting stomped to death. G5
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Last night: 3 20 21 22 35
Two repeaters last night - #'s 20 and 35. Sum is 101 - almost in the middle of the sweet spot (92/93 is the middle of the sums range)
Surprised me how fast that #35 came back. Are you guys that are playing it on multi-draw tickets winning anything with it?
Three consecutive numbers doesn't happen much, glad I haven't been playing lately, but I'll play tonight. Not surprised that there was a rolldown last night. Not a lot of tickets sold due to the holiday.
3/odd 2/even no surprise there.
4 out of the 5 numbers were drawn within the last 10 draws - 20, 21, 22, & 35. #23 was a pretty healthy longshot at having sat out 23 draws.
Two adjacents were drawn - #21 & #35 - fairly typical. Usually see one or two adjacents in most drawings.
No same last digits - that's normal.
18 out of FF5's 36 numbers have been drawn in September with #21 having been drawn 3 times already.
Also here's how the number groups stand in September as of last night: Singles have 3 hits, Teens have 6, Twenty's have 9 and the Thirty's have 7. The Twenty's continue to be strong after having a whopping 52 hits in August. "The trend is your friend" so I'd stay with picking more twenty's than the other groups.
All this good poop from a guy that's NEVER won a jackpot and has been playing two states Pick5 games for what seems to him to be forever.....Numerically yours G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 6, 2022
Last night: 3 20 21 22 35
Two repeaters last night - #'s 20 and 35. Sum is 101 - almost in the middle of the sweet spot (92/93 is the middle of the sums range)
Surprised me how fast that #35 came back. Are you guys that are playing it on multi-draw tickets winning anything with it?
Three consecutive numbers doesn't happen much, glad I haven't been playing lately, but I'll play tonight. Not surprised that there was a rolldown last night. Not a lot of tickets sold due to the holiday.
3/odd 2/even no surprise there.
4 out of the 5 numbers were drawn within the last 10 draws - 20, 21, 22, & 35. #23 was a pretty healthy longshot at having sat out 23 draws.
Two adjacents were drawn - #21 & #35 - fairly typical. Usually see one or two adjacents in most drawings.
No same last digits - that's normal.
18 out of FF5's 36 numbers have been drawn in September with #21 having been drawn 3 times already.
Also here's how the number groups stand in September as of last night: Singles have 3 hits, Teens have 6, Twenty's have 9 and the Thirty's have 7. The Twenty's continue to be strong after having a whopping 52 hits in August. "The trend is your friend" so I'd stay with picking more twenty's than the other groups.
All this good poop from a guy that's NEVER won a jackpot and has been playing two states Pick5 games for what seems to him to be forever.....Numerically yours G5
"All this good poop from a guy that's NEVER won a jackpot and has been playing two states Pick5 games for what seems to him to be forever"
The Mrs G5has on occasion said to me: "You're nuts!" with regard to me playing FF5 and another state's Pick5 game. I'd point out that she'll be the very first person to try to glom onto my big win should I announce to her that I won big....
But anyway, we were watching My Lottery Dream Home not too long ago. (Anybody that appears on that show is crazy because they not only show your face, but they also show your house and the town where you live to boot) Some very normal looking average middle aged lady that appeared on the show blurted out to David Bromstad that she "Won 5 million on a scratcher!" and The Mrs G5 said "I'm gonna start buyin' scratch offs!"
Lotto fever of a different sort, dontcha think? G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Sep 6, 2022
Last night: 3 20 21 22 35
Two repeaters last night - #'s 20 and 35. Sum is 101 - almost in the middle of the sweet spot (92/93 is the middle of the sums range)
Surprised me how fast that #35 came back. Are you guys that are playing it on multi-draw tickets winning anything with it?
Three consecutive numbers doesn't happen much, glad I haven't been playing lately, but I'll play tonight. Not surprised that there was a rolldown last night. Not a lot of tickets sold due to the holiday.
3/odd 2/even no surprise there.
4 out of the 5 numbers were drawn within the last 10 draws - 20, 21, 22, & 35. #23 was a pretty healthy longshot at having sat out 23 draws.
Two adjacents were drawn - #21 & #35 - fairly typical. Usually see one or two adjacents in most drawings.
No same last digits - that's normal.
18 out of FF5's 36 numbers have been drawn in September with #21 having been drawn 3 times already.
Also here's how the number groups stand in September as of last night: Singles have 3 hits, Teens have 6, Twenty's have 9 and the Thirty's have 7. The Twenty's continue to be strong after having a whopping 52 hits in August. "The trend is your friend" so I'd stay with picking more twenty's than the other groups.
All this good poop from a guy that's NEVER won a jackpot and has been playing two states Pick5 games for what seems to him to be forever.....Numerically yours G5
Correction to the above post; #3 sat out 23 draws, not #23. G5
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Almost forgot this: Last nights drawing was the sixth consecutive day of at least one repeating number from the previous drawing having been drawn. I would not think there will be a seventh day of repeating numbers tonight. If there is a repeater tonight, then there wont be an eighth day. G5