Quote: Originally posted by BuyLow on May 10, 2011

Hey Ridge Runner~~

Looks like it wasn't a QP. 

Congrats to the winner!!

Quote: Originally posted by Mr DelaCroix on May 10, 2011

I disagree.. has to be a quick pic. either its a Qp or he has 18 other 2nd tier prize winners....

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on May 10, 2011

Well, don't tell me, call Ripley's.

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on May 10, 2011

From the OP:

He and his wife started playing Hot Lotto about three months ago after reading a book that claimed to have the secrets to winning the lottery. He followed the recommendations, which included buying 19 plays for each drawing to cover all the Hot Ball options.

But he said he was beginning to doubt the book's advice just before he won.

"We were just getting to the point where I said, "You know, this just isn't worth it. I don't think I am going to do this anymore. But we played one more time and...it's kind of nice," he said.

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Since he said he was just about to give up and it mentions playing 19 plays per drawing it sounds like it might have been Lustig's book, which has been reviewed here on LP.

Whether the winning combo was a QP or not, or birthdays, or ages, or hot and cold numbers, etc..ad nauseum, the fact that a combo he played was the combo drawn still comes down to luck.

Ut oh.

Whether it's Lustig's book or someone else's people will post and ask if anyone has read it and can they tell them what it says.

While the book sales will definitley increase it was also become apparent that a lot of people not only want the information to beat the house but to beat the one with the information out of the money for it, too.

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on May 10, 2011

From the OP:

He and his wife started playing Hot Lotto about three months ago after reading a book that claimed to have the secrets to winning the lottery. He followed the recommendations, which included buying 19 plays for each drawing to cover all the Hot Ball options.

But he said he was beginning to doubt the book's advice just before he won.

"We were just getting to the point where I said, "You know, this just isn't worth it. I don't think I am going to do this anymore. But we played one more time and...it's kind of nice," he said.

________________________________________________________

Since he said he was just about to give up and it mentions playing 19 plays per drawing it sounds like it might have been Lustig's book, which has been reviewed here on LP.

Whether the winning combo was a QP or not, or birthdays, or ages, or hot and cold numbers, etc..ad nauseum, the fact that a combo he played was the combo drawn still comes down to luck.

Ut oh.

Whether it's Lustig's book or someone else's people will post and ask if anyone has read it and can they tell them what it says.

While the book sales will definitley increase it was also become apparent that a lot of people not only want the information to beat the house but to beat the one with the information out of the money for it, too.

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on May 10, 2011

I'm not familiar with Hot Lotto.

Is it possible to select all your bonus balls and get the other numbers by Quick Pick?

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on May 10, 2011

It depends on what the individual state's lottery terminals allow.  (That goes for all games, not just Hot Lotto.)  Some states have Quick Pick all-or-nothing options, and others allow you to QP just the bonus or the first five numbers.

Quote: Originally posted by dpoly1 on May 11, 2011

I am taking my advice and playing Powerball tonite !!!!!!!!!

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on May 10, 2011

No, I don't think so.

When I play a system that uses all bonus balls, I most definitely do NOT use the same "first 5" numbers on each ticket.  I use an abbreviated wheel.  Here's an excellent wheel for Hot Lotto.  It's a 2 if 2 of 19 wheel that is highly balanced, using each of the 19 numbers you choose 5 times each.  It has 19 lines, making it perfect for playing each bonus number once.

You would use all bonus numbers so that you are guaranteed to have a bonus number winner in your set of tickets, and hopefully you have some "first 5" matches to go along with it.  Also, if you happen to match all 5 numbers on one ticket, it ensures that you have at least a pretty good chance of winning the jackpot too. 

In the case of Hot Lotto, if you match the 5 five numbers, the strategy gives you a 1-in-19 shot at winning the jackpot.

Quote: Originally posted by Fubarvnvmc on May 12, 2011

Every night at 9 pm is the dead line for buying super cash lottery tickets. At that time the lottery office can go through the computer system and learn what combination of numbers hasn't been sellected or the least amount of winning combination of numbers hasn't been sellected, and just coinsedentally that combination of numbers comes up in the draw. I've been playing twenty dollars a night. Thats 40 lines of 6 numbers ever since super cash started over twenty years ago. Every morning I check all my numbers and win nothing, I start to smell fish. This Wisconsin lottery system is getting rich on suckers like me, who used to believe this is all played fair and square. Sorry, but my skeptism is overwhelming me.

Quote: Originally posted by Fubarvnvmc on May 12, 2011

Every night at 9 pm is the dead line for buying super cash lottery tickets. At that time the lottery office can go through the computer system and learn what combination of numbers hasn't been sellected or the least amount of winning combination of numbers hasn't been sellected, and just coinsedentally that combination of numbers comes up in the draw. I've been playing twenty dollars a night. Thats 40 lines of 6 numbers ever since super cash started over twenty years ago. Every morning I check all my numbers and win nothing, I start to smell fish. This Wisconsin lottery system is getting rich on suckers like me, who used to believe this is all played fair and square. Sorry, but my skeptism is overwhelming me.

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on May 12, 2011

$20 a night for over 20 years. $20 x 7 nights a week x 52 weeks x 20 years = $145,600. And I thought I spend too much playing $30 a week.

Perhaps you should consider Gamblers Anonymous?

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on May 10, 2011

I don't think that's the book, because they are playing a relatively small number of picks (19) and Lustig says you have to play as much as you can afford -- not specific strategies like "play all the bonus numbers".

And of course there is luck involved.  A great deal of it.  But the strategy they played certainly helped them as well.

Quote: Originally posted by foragoodcause on May 11, 2011

Maybe the author is Gail Howard.