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• JustMaybe

  

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  Mega Millions: There were no jackpot winners and no second prize winners in the Friday, June 26, 2026 Mega Millions drawing

  Powerball: There were no jackpot winners and no $1,000,000 winners in the Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Powerball drawing.

  When I see the above posts on the LP updates. It serves as a reminder for me that winning the jackpot is really more about LUCK.

  Across all the hundreds of thousands of tickets purchased during the above draws, players used all the listed ways to play, from QP, to Birthday Numbers, from Addresses to License Plates # and all more ways that are not listed and that I may not know.

  As for me, 99.9% of the time I use different forms of QPs.

  Every form of play is valid, because it makes sense to the player.

  Good luck to all.

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

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

  

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  Same digits. Different games.

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  Quote: Originally posted by JustMaybe on Jun 27, 2026

  Mega Millions: There were no jackpot winners and no second prize winners in the Friday, June 26, 2026 Mega Millions drawing

  Powerball: There were no jackpot winners and no $1,000,000 winners in the Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Powerball drawing.

  When I see the above posts on the LP updates. It serves as a reminder for me that winning the jackpot is really more about LUCK.

  Across all the hundreds of thousands of tickets purchased during the above draws, players used all the listed ways to play, from QP, to Birthday Numbers, from Addresses to License Plates # and all more ways that are not listed and that I may not know.

  As for me, 99.9% of the time I use different forms of QPs.

  Every form of play is valid, because it makes sense to the player.

  Good luck to all.

      Population of US over 18.

  There are approximately 267 million adults (age 18 and over) in the United States. This adult demographic represents roughly 78-78.5% of the total U.S. population, which is estimated to be 342.6 million 

  Mega Million odds 1 in 290,472,336   Power Ball odds 1 in 292,201,338

  If every adult in the US bought one ticket with no exact duplicates there would still be 23.4 and 25.2 million tickets unsold.

  Good  Luck!!!

  

  Before you play there are 2 choices to make. Low sum or high sum and consecutive pair or no consecutive pair. Choose correctly and you go from 120 combos down to 30. Not a bad starting point.
• Il2c

  

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  The odds mean nothing as u already know. 🤭 U can probably win.
• Stat$talker

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Il2c on Jun 27, 2026

  The odds mean nothing as u already know. 🤭 U can probably win.

  "The odds mean nothing"

  Whyyy THAT'Z Odd,   whyyy would oddz not mean anythang...if they exist?

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7784538

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7661881

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7560618

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7514042

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/216513/7507415

   

  -Stat$talker 
• Jossiegrl

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by NumberCruncher2 on Jun 22, 2026

  Curious how this crowd actually does it, since there's clearly every school of thought here. I'll admit I bounce between a couple of these depending on the game and my mood — frequency charts when I'm feeling analytical, straight quick picks when I'm not.

  No wrong answer and no judgment on any of them. Mostly just want to see where the regulars land. If you've got a method that doesn't fit the options, drop it in the comments — and if you've ever switched from one approach to another, I'm curious what made you change.

  I have notebooks with results from the year 2000 and each time I'm playing I go look at today's date and past results. There is a pattern and I noticed it when I first started playing. I've won every month since the year started doing it like that. I also check the results of the other games to see if anything stands out from the list I make. There was a book called Lotto Stats which is no longer available. A contributer had an article that said tomorrow's numbers are in today's drawings add that stuck with me. For evening  draws I do not play numbers until after the pick 10 results come out. Trust me when I say I've won just by looking at the pick 10, lotto, PowerBall, cash4life which is gone and mega and looking at past results in my books. As I'm writing this I caught my fourth win for the.month and want to kick myself because 2164 played and it played as 1642  2 days ago and I caught it both times but didn't put enough on it.
• Justing618

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Jun 22, 2026

  Stat$ is just jealous that you know how to spell.

  Your just jealous because he's entertaining. And your old and  boring......🙄
• Il2c

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Stat$talker on Jun 28, 2026

  "The odds mean nothing"

  Whyyy THAT'Z Odd,   whyyy would oddz not mean anythang...if they exist?

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7784538

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7661881

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7560618

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7514042

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/216513/7507415

   

  -Stat$talker 

  Because winners do exist. 🙂
• Elizabeth03

  

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  I look at the numbers weekly and play them!
• Stat$talker

  

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        Someone needz to empty their mailbox

         It saayz they got 112cubit messagez in it...
• LAROCA

  

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  What are the best strategies for the Pick 3 and the Pick 4? Is it rundowns? charts ? high low numbers. ? Surely its not tic tac toe charts.
• Stat$talker

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by LAROCA on Jul 5, 2026

  What are the best strategies for the Pick 3 and the Pick 4? Is it rundowns? charts ? high low numbers. ? Surely its not tic tac toe charts.

  "Is it rundowns? charts ? high low numbers. ?"

  Noope... Az in Ripley's "Believe It or Not"... it'z

                     "PROBABILITY MATH"

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/8185752

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7514042

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/7736432

   

  -Stat$talker 
• KY Floyd

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by LAROCA on Jul 5, 2026

  What are the best strategies for the Pick 3 and the Pick 4? Is it rundowns? charts ? high low numbers. ? Surely its not tic tac toe charts.

  The best strategy for any game that keeps 50% of  the money players spend while paying out modest prizes is to not play them at all.
• Hermanus104

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by LAROCA on Jul 5, 2026

  What are the best strategies for the Pick 3 and the Pick 4? Is it rundowns? charts ? high low numbers. ? Surely its not tic tac toe charts.

  For Pick-3, a plan of attack I have considered is looking at the least recent exact winning combinations, especially if they have gone 25+ years without winning (once-daily draws) or 12+ years without winning (twice-daily draws). The law of averages has to catch up to the dry numbers at some point. 

  For me right now, it is a mix of birthdays and frequency charts. The last time I went to Virginia, I played 104/401 (my birthday American/European style), 793 (Virginia's most frequent winner), and 113 (Virginia's most frequent Sunday winner, since I was playing the drawings on a Sunday). I do not play my home state's numbers games because they use a random number generator.

  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!