Because my list of 18 was only fair at best (because it included just two of the five winning numbers from last night - #2 & #13) the best I could have done with my ten line ticket was to win a Free Ticket. I that see you won two Free Tickets on your ticket too.
I won two Free Tickets because I played #2 on two lines. Had I played #2 more, I could have won a maximum of five Free Tickets because I had #13 on a total of five lines on my ticket.
What I like to do after I see how I did, is to analyze what went wrong with the 18 numbers I selected to play. Obviously, I went too heavy on the Teens. Also the numbers from the Twenty's that I chose were #20 - a repeater, and #'s 23 and 27 the two hottest numbers of this year. I should have mixed in more numbers from the Twenty's in my initial list of 18.
Another thing I do is select a new set of 18 numbers for tonights draw, even if I don't actually buy a ticket. Then the next day I'll see how many numbers from the winning numbers appeared in my new list of 18. Most of the time I'll have two numbers. Sometimes I'll have three, occasionally I'll have four, and rarely I'll have all five in my list of 18.
Last night's winning numbers (2 4 13 21 28) have a sum of 68. That's just below the "sweet spot" sums range of 70 to 115. So the numbers that were drawn last night are a bit unusual. There were two adjacent numbers (#13 & #21 and I should have had #21 in my list because it was an adjacent. DUMB mistake on my part omitting #21) The sums from last two draws have been just a tad below 70, so I think the sum of tonights numbers will land in the sweet spot range.
Because it's Saturday, (I play on just about every Saturday because Saturday is the day of the week with the biggest jackpot) I'll play again tonight. I'll modify my list of 18 numbers a little bit and go with that. (BTW Sunday is the day of the week with the smallest jackpot, but it's a good day to play because if there is a jackpot winner, there is typically only one winner, so the jackpot doesn't get split up) I might buy ten lines again tonight, but that's only because I havent played much lately, and my pension check just hit my bank account! So I have a few bucks I can spare, but I still stick to my budget anyway. G5