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• rundown99

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on Aug 7, 2022

  Many more QPs are sold than self picks. For the July 29 MM drawing 350 million tickets were sold and two drawings later on August 5, 12 million tickets were sold. It doesn't look like the people purchasing the 338 million more tickets were interested in waiting even one more drawing. Nothing wrong about either picking numbers trying to beat over 300 million to 1 odds 104 drawings a year or buying a QP every once in awhile. 

  When a player fills out a play slip the tickets are defined as self picks. And probably the players waiting also bought a couple QPs. Even if the winner had a system, we'll probably never know because they will claim anonymously. What is that value of knowing whether the winning ticket was a self pick or a QP?

  Honestly, the lottery games are so random that there will never be a guaranteed way to beat the lottery. 

   

  In my opinion, the best strategy is to go to a neighboring state that allows winners to remain anonymous and buy tickets there.

  Smart lottery winners form trust to claim their winnings.  They send an attorney to the lottery headquarters to claim the prize in trust, so that ONLY the name of the trust is revealed.  And they tell NO ONE, especially relatives.

  If you ever win a lottery and you are single, the only person you should ever marry is someone who was truly in love with you BEFORE you won the jackpot!

  People can talk about strategies and gimmicks all they want, but unless your ticket actually matches at least 5 of those 6 balls, you are just another person who tried to win a game yet ultimately failed.
• Stack47

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by rundown99 on Aug 9, 2022

  Honestly, the lottery games are so random that there will never be a guaranteed way to beat the lottery. 

   

  In my opinion, the best strategy is to go to a neighboring state that allows winners to remain anonymous and buy tickets there.

  

  With odds of winning any prize playing MM at 24 to 1, it costs $48 just to have a reasonable chance of winning something. The odds of winning $10 are over 600 to 1 so it's more likely 48 bucks will get a return of $4 or less.

  I'll wait until the jackpots are close to the "must win" level before buy a few tickets.

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• Cmoore50

  

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  There are patterns in lotteries. Finding those patterns at the right time and playing the correct numbers is the catch. But if you go with quick picks right off the bat. You've pretty much handed it over to blind luck.

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• PrisonerSix

  

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  I bought some pseudo-quickpicks this week. I created 2 Lotto and 1 Powerball pick using the random number generator here at Lottery Post. Of course, I had to fill out playslips with the numbers, but that is OK. As far as the lottery as concerned, they are self picks but they are random numbers.
  
  I might start doing that for a while to see what results I get.

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• rcbbuckeye

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by PrisonerSix on Aug 9, 2022

  I bought some pseudo-quickpicks this week. I created 2 Lotto and 1 Powerball pick using the random number generator here at Lottery Post. Of course, I had to fill out playslips with the numbers, but that is OK. As far as the lottery as concerned, they are self picks but they are random numbers.
  
  I might start doing that for a while to see what results I get.

  I usually use LP's RNG also, but pick the sets using certain criteria (certain decades of numbers, even/odd, etc).

  With TX Lotto, I'm playing a line of self pick (from RNG), and a QP line. I'll try that for a few weeks to see what happens.

  JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
• Stat$talker

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Cmoore50 on Aug 9, 2022

  There are patterns in lotteries. Finding those patterns at the right time and playing the correct numbers is the catch. But if you go with quick picks right off the bat. You've pretty much handed it over to blind luck.

                                 

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• redaxe

  

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   Sometimes when I use my own set for one line and then choose a qp on the same slip, the qp almosts seems like it's "following" my chosen numbers. Probably a coincidence, but what if instead of using the rng it used my numbers to pick the qp numbers?  I can't seem to remember anytime this happened and the numbers were wacky(23-24-26-30-32) because my chosen numbers never are like that.