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• Coin Toss

  

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  Just curious.

  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.
• Tucker Black

  

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  There are an unlimited number of ways to track numbers and make predictions. All of them are useless. All combinations have equal chances of winning. Superstitions, being what they are, are believed by the people who believe in them, with no logical reasoning or proof behind them.

  Using a system to choose numbers can be fun. There's nothing wrong with that; just don't pay someone for their software or so-called "secret".
• JustMaybe

  

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  Not sure if this counts but every time I pick money, maybe in the parking lot, or store etc, I always buy a lottery ticket with it.

  Mostly it's $1 so I buy the 2 by 2.

  I never keep the money.

  I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a 💯 % factor of luck.

  May Fortuna, goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.
• Droptop209

  

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  I only play CA Fantasy 5 when jackpot doesn't hit for 2 straight days.  Only play when its over $300,000
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• hypersoniq

  

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  The only lottery superstition I have is that I am not a "lucky" person. Over 20 years of failed systems have proven that I am not even lucky at creating my own luck. Why? I firmly believe all of my luck was used up when I found my wife. 30 years, 3 kids and 6 grandkids later, that seems to be true.

  As a result, I avoid QPs where possible and never play scratchers. I may never figure out a big win, but I wouldn't trade my biggest win for anything!

  Have an EXCELlent day!
• Lotterologist

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by hypersoniq on May 20, 2025

  The only lottery superstition I have is that I am not a "lucky" person. Over 20 years of failed systems have proven that I am not even lucky at creating my own luck. Why? I firmly believe all of my luck was used up when I found my wife. 30 years, 3 kids and 6 grandkids later, that seems to be true.

  As a result, I avoid QPs where possible and never play scratchers. I may never figure out a big win, but I wouldn't trade my biggest win for anything!

  Congrats!
• Soledad

  

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  Sometimes I take my hat off and rub my head with the ticket.

  Sometimes you do the right thing just because it’s right.

  Life's a game of mathematics, if you can't figure that out I don't know what to tell you.
• Hermanus104

  

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  For a long time, I felt like my birthday would be a winning lottery number in any state a disproportionately high number of times I would go to a movie theater on a Sunday where the sum of the day of the month added up to 3.

  Today's winning 3-ball is going to be a number between 000 and 999.

  In a lot of states, lotteries benefit education. That makes the REAL winners the only people who can't play!
• IAmABadOne

  

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  I have been paying particular attention to two helpful superstitions that I created, and they have been working well for me since late March.

  I save my money and never buy a lottery ticket on a day that ends in "y" with the exception of: Someday, when the cash value for Powerball is a  tremendously large number. Then, I will use the money I have saved for Powerball tickets.  :)

  And similarly: Someday, when the cash value for Mega Millions is a  tremendously large number, I will buy one or two tickets just to be in it and maybe win it.

  So far, so good.

  Best wishes.

  I Am A Bad One, But I am not bad all of the time...
• dr san

  

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  All combinations inna a lottery have, in fact, di same probability fi get drawn inna a single draw. However, wen wi consider di sum a di numba dem inna each combination, di distribution a dem sum deh follow approximately a normal (Gaussian) curve. Dis is because deh deh plenty more combinations weh dem numba dem distribute so dat dem result inna sums close to di mean dan combinations wid all di numba dem very low or very high (we produce extreme sums).

  So, ova plenty draws, bout 80% a dem ago result inna combinations weh dem sums deh inna di central band a dis normal distribution, simply because di vast majority a possible combinations deh inna dis band. Dis no contradict di equal likelihood a each individual combination, but reflect di fact dat deh deh plenty more "average" combinations dan "extreme".
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  To avoid them all, superstitions that is.

  Caps

  I asked the same question, still waiting on the answer.
• Stat$talker

  

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  All combinations inna a lottery have, in fact, di same probability fi get drawn inna a single draw. However, wen wi consider di sum a di numba dem inna each combination, di distribution a dem sum deh follow approximately a normal (Gaussian) curve. Dis is because deh deh plenty more combinations weh dem numba dem distribute so dat dem result inna sums close to di mean dan combinations wid all di numba dem very low or very high (we produce extreme sums).

  So, ova plenty draws, bout 80% a dem ago result inna combinations weh dem sums deh inna di central band a dis normal distribution, simply because di vast majority a possible combinations deh inna dis band. Dis no contradict di equal likelihood a each individual combination, but reflect di fact dat deh deh plenty more "average" combinations dan "extreme".
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• Coin Toss

  

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  RE: scratchers. Always play back a winner?

  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.
• frenchie

  

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  I use patterns with my systems ( no filters ) with 8 final selections between 1,2,3, I end up with between 1 and 10 sets max

  at the end, out of roughly 300 millions sets, not bad at all.I used a lot of Craig's system aka " Randomlogic " ideas to built my system with Excel.

  Frenchie.