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• jimjwright

  

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  These snapshots occurred at approximately around 6 p.m. MST from Feb 11 thru Feb 14.

  These snapshots track all state games in U.S. and Canada for the longest out digit in any position for a particular game.

  Once a game reaches approximately 5x its expected skip count you should consider playing the digit.

  If you play the key digit, select only single combos, and exclude 3 other digits (i.e. leaving you with 7 digits) you are left with 90 combos to consider.

  If you play online  this will give you 10 chances to profit or break even.

     

     

  You can see that on Feb 11 10 games are considered 5x overdue (highlighted in blue).  By Feb 13, 8 of the 10 games have hit with only Texas Midday, and West Virginia Evening not having hit.   But West Virginia hit later that night.  Connecticut Combined switched from Digit 0 to Digit 3 after Digit 0 hit.

  Anyway its a strategy to consider.

  Good Luck !!!
• Blackapple

  

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  Root sum 1 or 6 versus The Root sum 3,6 or 9 maker Penna. til 2/15 | Lottery Post

  Wed, Feb 11, 2026

  1-3-2

   

  Pennsylvania.....Great Work

  
• Blackapple

  

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  FEB. 14 2026

  Any position skip results

  New Mexico Combined

  Current Skip 16

         Digit 5

  Sun, Feb 15,

  4-5-2

  I'm looking for more

  Root sum 3,6 or 9 maker New Mexico til 2/19 | Lottery Post

  
• Blackapple

  

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  Pennsylvania Evening, digit 9 has skipped 21 draws.

  Arkansas Combined, digit 2 has skipped 20 draws.

  Connecticut Midday, digit 6 has skipped 20 draws.

   

   

   

   

  Kentucky Evening, sum 10 - 13 has skipped 15 draws.

  Missouri Evening, sum 3 - 10 has skipped 19 draws.

  Georgia Midday, sum 17 - 24 has skipped 16 draws.

   

  From <https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/355250>

   

  This was a great post .Please do  another when you get a chance especially  the sums skipped.

  
• jimjwright

  

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  I don't track root sums, but I do track sums, and last digit sums.

  This is the current state for last digit sums 4, 8, 9 which equates to 300 combos

  
• jimjwright

  

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  Last Digit Sums or Short Sums 0,1,9 are overdue for Pennsylvania.

  
• jimjwright

  

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  From 2/14 Midday to end of day on 2/15 the following games that were at 5x expected skip hit.

  Connecticut Combined Key Digit 3 hit
  New Mexico Combined Key Digit 5 hit
  Arkansas Evening Key Digit 9 hit
  Illinois Evening Key Digit 4 hit
  New Jersey Evening Key Digit 5 hit
  Virginia Midday Key Digit 6 hit
  Wisconsin Evening Key Digit 2 hit

  7 out of 9 games is not bad at all.
• jimjwright

  

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  Added Root Sum Sets.

  At end of day 02/17 this is the following state using 3 root sums.

  For example for Pennsylvania Combined the Root Sums 1, 2, and 5 (which represents 333 straight combos) have skipped 19 consecutive draws.

  
• jimjwright

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by jimjwright on Feb 18, 2026

  Added Root Sum Sets.

  At end of day 02/17 this is the following state using 3 root sums.

  For example for Pennsylvania Combined the Root Sums 1, 2, and 5 (which represents 333 straight combos) have skipped 19 consecutive draws.

  

  Texas Morning 661 or root sum 4  
  Pennsylvania Evening 434 or root sum 2  
  Virginia Midday 793 or root sum 1  
  Washington Evening 315 or root sum 9  
  Illinois Evening 496 or root sum 1  
  New Mexico Evening 334 or root sum 1  
  Wisconsin Midday 096 or root sum 6
• jimjwright

  

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  Lets see how many of these root sums hit today on 02/20/2026

  
• Solo0610

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by jimjwright on Feb 20, 2026

  Lets see how many of these root sums hit today on 02/20/2026

  

  Hi, can u explain what is the root sum set?
• jimjwright

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Solo0610 on Feb 20, 2026

  Hi, can u explain what is the root sum set?

  A root sum is to continuously sum up the digits of a combo until you are left with a single digit.

  For example if 965 hit you would get 9+6+5 = 20.  Then you do 2+0 = 2.  You now have a single digit so the combo 965 has a root sum of 2.

  You can break the 1000 combos in Pick 3 into the following root sums

  Root Sum 0: has 1 combo 000
  Root Sum 1: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 2: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 3: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 4: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 5: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 6: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 7: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 8: has 111 combos
  Root Sum 9: has 111 combos
  
  A Root Sum Set contains more than 1 Root Sum.
  
  In my latest snapshot Root Sum Set {3, 6, 7} in Kansas has skipped 19 consecutive draws.  Each root sum (except 0) represents 111 combos.  So in this example Root Sum Set {3,6,7} represents 333 combos (111 x 3), and none of those 333 combos has hit in 19 draws.  Once the skip count  approaches 20 you should considers playing combos from those 333 combos since they are way overdue to hit.

  Its just a way to do a quick analysis of what root sums are missing beyond just a single root sum but multiple of them at a time.

  Another example is roulette you can think of the 3 columns on the betting layout as representing a third of the numbers with one of the columns not hitting in 19 spins of the wheel.  You might be inclined to start placing bets on those numbers in the column that have not hit since its beginning to be a statistical outlier.

  That is about the best I can explain it.