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How many of you really rely on a work out from the last draw I've seen persons do that and won lots of money but when Itry the numbers are wrong is there a standard work out or people change the format
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I use many of my own systems each week. I also throw in some QPs here and there. But nothing is more frustrating than not matching any numbers on your lines played via a system, and you buy one QP and get 2 or 3 of 5, and the other digits are one digit off. This has made me want to rip up, and throw out all my systems that I spent long hours putting together.
But systems tend to be more beneficial in the long run, and for lower tier prizes. At least from my own personal experience. But lower tier prizes do not interest me that much. I am a high roller, as that is the kind of money I need to change my life for the better. I may be using a new system soon...NO SYSTEM at all! That in itself is a system if you use it frequently, and plan it. I am going to see how QPs rate against my system for awhile, then go from there.
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If you have a system or workout that give good results 40% of the time then you're doing good. The down side of that is that 6 of 10 times you use it the results are not so good. If QPs are doing better than your system then it time to change your system.
* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
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Just how many of the major jackpot winners have won the jackpot by using a system? NONE that I have read about so far. If the lottery could be predicted with ease, we would have a world full of millionaires, and a bankrupt lottery. I have the best luck using filters, but all it takes is one number to mess up the entire process. Funny how many so called "lottery experts" claim that they can teach you how to win the big jackpots, but for some reason cannot follow their own advice.
Or better yet those who got "lucky" and won, then all the sudden reveal that they used a system. Not sure if that has happened, but it would indeed increase the windfall through sales. Many here use systems, but I am still awaiting the big jackpot win anncouncement. I hope I am the first. I don't trust systems of others for the most part, if they produced wins they would not be selling them. So I create my own, and rework them accordingly.
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Since all lotteries use only about 50% of their sales money for prizes, none of them would ever go bankrupt, but if the winning combinations could be predicted easily there would fewer big jackpots and fewer lottery millionaires. Of course lotteries keep increasing their odds as more people win to keep the jackpots large enough to be attractive.
If anyone actually thought they had won big with their system, they probably would not brag about it until they had won a few more times. The only system that anyone ever brags about is ones that they are trying to sell. If their system was winning millions of dollars they wouldn't be selling it.
* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
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Playing lottery is a game which is like shooting in complete darkness and silence. Only thing which is true about lottery is that it is random process. Only mathematics involved here is that the every number involved has an equal CHANCE of coming and the long run all numbers are LIKELY to come equal number of times. Other than this nothing is true. Quick picks have similar chances of coming as individually chosen number. But some folks who have time and/or want to make this lottery playing challenging/funny try to come up with systems and predictions and I think that this is ok as far fun/challenge part is concerned but when it comes to winning, all have equal chances. For some folks choosing their numbers and spending time is not a fun and they think that they can spend their time in some other useful work for them and hence choose quick picks and they also are ok as far as chances of winning are concerned.
But if some one pays money to get/find predictions then I think that it is complete waste of money because by that money he/she could have bought more tickets and increase his chances. But people do buy/pay money to get/find numbers because of human nature of hope that may be they will win because of system and because of this hope their are many entrepreneurs who sell these systems.
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I get my numbers from my guides in my dreams and they always pan out for me. This may sound weird or strange to some people here, but we all have guides and if you ask, they will produce! But that is a whole other topic and is not for everyone. Most of the time however, I get numbers for others and not for myself! Any gifted person here will tell you the same!
And so, because of the number of Gifted second sight people on this forum, we can connect with each other and or give correct numbers to each other or for others. Because again we do not always get numbers for ourselves. Watch the Mystical part of this board once you will see time and time again their predictions are almost Always accurate!
I have also seen on this board others who have forms of very accurate systems going on that are producing results and a person can always watch them and still use their own system and combine it with the other persons to make wins.
What is interesting is last month there was a program on cable TV about lottery winners, these were big jackpot winners! They interviewed each of them and only 2 of them said they picked their numbers and the rest said they won on Quick Picks! The one man said he used these numbers: (I wrote them down!) 5-9-11-26-31-44 he said some were from birthdays the 31 he picked as just a callander day and the 44 was his age and that is what he won the big pot off of. The other person who picked her numbers used birthdays of her grand children and again the others said they won from QP’s. Now what is really interesting is I was on the official PA lottery page where they list the jackpot winners and I was reading the stories, just about all of the pots were won with a Quick Pick ticket!
So what I do is pick my own numbers and then get some quick picks as well, and I have found that I am doing much better on pick 3 than on any other game. I am just winning more from 80 to 250 bucks and spending a lot less to get it! Many times I will miss by one number like tonight for instance the PA night draw was 797 and I had picked 747! Yes it hurts but you keep going for that perfect hit tomorrow! So all I can say is do both your system and quick picks and again, from the gifted people on this forum and you almost can’t lose! Personally I would rather have a few small to medium hits a week than lose that amount of money each week trying for the bigger pots, but winning a few times a week on smaller pots does allow me to play for the bigger ones without losing money from my piggy bank. What I do is use the states money to make more money for my pocket and to then play the bigger boy pots.
This is the only advice I can give on how I win. I like to see others win too! That’s just how I am! And if I can help someone else win by giving numbers to them, then I am happy for them just as much as I am when I win.
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Yes I posted about that show as well, David Edwards said the number "came to him" when he closed his eyes also. I have also posted about the fact that over 80% of all the big jackpot winners won via QP. I saw this after reading ALL of the powerball winner's stories at powerball.com. It seems that most of the time you win unexpectedly, and not when you are trying to force it. As in anything in this world, go with the flow...not against it. This perfect unification of the mind and universe is what is conducent to overall success.
Sorry I went mystical on you there for a second. There power of the subconscious is always waiting to be tapped, and utilized to it's fullest potential. I am getting there...
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but if the winning combinations could be predicted easily there would fewer big jackpots and fewer lottery millionaires.
Not to those smart enough who could exploit the system, and hold out. Why not just let the jackpots build up to a certain point, then clean up? Depending on how many knew about the winning system, this could be very dangerous, and the rich would indeed only get richer...MUCH richer. They could win a jackpot at will, and once a week or month if they chose to.
$15 million a week would produce A LOT of new millionaires. How many people do we know that have won the jackpot twice or more? I am speaking of BIG jackpots such as the MM, or PB. None I believe so far.
So that kind of throws the whole system idea out the window. Unless those who have won did use a system, and kept ot a secret. But if so, I believe they would be highly tempted to do it again just to prove to themselves it worked.
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Dave Edward's also said in a televised broadcast towards the end that he didn't pick the numbers... the numbers picked him.
Here's what i think about systems for mega powerball and the like. It only has to work once for me to be happy. I doubt it would work more than that. Some systems that are geared to win 3 of 5 and so on are designed to trap the digits in a wheel. If you get lucky and your system traps the remaining digits then it did it's job.
People win more with Qpick because more people buy Qpicks. If more people picked their own numbers than purchased Qpicks then it would be the other way around.
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How many of you really rely on a work out from the last draw I've seen persons do that and won lots of money but when Itry the numbers are wrong is there a standard work out or people change the format
I think you just have to test different systems out. I have my own way of doing things and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. No system out there will work 100% of the time. You just got to find something that works for you. I use a mixture of different things to find numbers.
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How many of you really rely on a work out from the last draw I've seen persons do that and won lots of money but when Itry the numbers are wrong is there a standard work out or people change the format
There can be as many systems as there as people of course and buying quick picks is a system also.
Using your own RNG or the Lottery Post's RNG is also a system.
Using birthdays and or dates is also a system, dream numbers and or getting numbers by your guides and or using numerology and or astrology all those things are also systems.
Using any numbers that just come into your mind is also a system.
Using numbers that you see like license plates' numbers, building numbers, addresses' numbers etc is also a system.
The last draw is the natural choice for some systems that use a past draw, but you can use any past draw instead, it all depends on the particular system, you just have to adjust the system to use other draw instead of the very last one, also more than just one past draw can be used.
If you can't win with any "systems" then the quick pick system is right for you and can hardly be worse than using anything else.
People who use past draw systems follow certain guidelines in accord to their particular system, the history's numbers will change as new winning numbers come out, but the guidelines that tells you how to use the past draws for the particular system remain the same, you will just follow the system's SCRIPT (so to speak).
There are many different systems that use one or more past draws.
The format will change only if you use a different system.
Is using a system better than quick picks ? Only if it does better than quick picks !
There are many bad systems out there.
Also a system might be good, but the person using it might not be doing it right.