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• Coin Toss

  

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  Most months have 8 Tuesdays and Fridays (Mega Millions) or

  8 Wednesdays and Satrudays (Powerball). As of now, that's when they're drawn.

  So why not when there's a 9th drawing of the month for either one of them, play 9 as the MM # or PB#?

  QP the top matrix, or load it with 9's - 9 19 29, etc... 

  Just a thought. 

  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.
• fja

  

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  Actually, it's the opposite...most months have 9 draws each...last 3 months

  MM=9/9/8

  PB=9/8/9

  The rest of the months should fall under the same pattern as above...

  "Everybody has to believe in something...I believe I'll have another beer!"   = W.C.Fields 
• KY Floyd

  

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  fja is right. A year has 52 weeks, so MM and PB will each have 104 drawings per year. February will always have 8 PB and MM drawings, except in leap years where the extra day happens to be a drawing day. That leaves 96 drawings for the other 11 months. There will be at least 8 drawings in each month, accounting for 88 of the 96. That leave another 8 drawings, so 8 of those 11 months will have a 9th drawing. At the end of the 52nd week of the year there's still an extra day left over. 4 out of 7 times it will be a drawing day, so one of the games will have a 105th drawing that year.

  Relatively useless trivia: except in leap years, January 1st and December 31st are the same day of the week.

  There is, of course, absolutely no reason that 8 or 9 is more likely to be drawn just because that's how many drawings there are in a month. OTOH, maybe they should be avoided in case they are unusually popular and increase the chances of a shared jackpot
• Coin Toss

  

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  I just eyeballed a calendar real quick, I was basing it on "Fifth Sunday" and going from there.

  Any months where they both have 9 drawings? 

  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.
• KY Floyd

  

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  Yes. For 30 day months, whichever day of the week the 1st and 2nd days fall on will happen 5 times, so if the 1st is either of the MM days both games will have 9 drawings, with the 30th being the 9th PB day. For months with 31 days there will also be 9 of each if the 1st day is the day before a MM day.
• RJOh

  

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  In response to Coin Toss

  Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 30, 2008

  Most months have 8 Tuesdays and Fridays (Mega Millions) or

  8 Wednesdays and Satrudays (Powerball). As of now, that's when they're drawn.

  So why not when there's a 9th drawing of the month for either one of them, play 9 as the MM # or PB#?

  QP the top matrix, or load it with 9's - 9 19 29, etc... 

  Just a thought. 

  PowerBall

    01/23/08  - 04 16 35 47 48 +39
    01/26/08  - 11 35 39 53 54 +24
    01/30/08  - 02 17 41 54 55 +17
    02/02/08  - 14 16 25 26 44 +30
    02/06/08  - 03 05 12 42 43 +05
    02/09/08  - 04 23 24 30 43 +28
    02/13/08  - 13 19 32 38 51 +30
    02/16/08  - 03 04 08 20 49 +18
    02/20/08  - 09 12 20 22 36 +31
    02/23/08  - 08 13 23 29 47 +32
    02/27/08  - 20 24 34 48 53 +11
    03/01/08  - 02 19 21 31 55 +19
    03/05/08  - 10 15 16 23 31 +05
    03/08/08  - 17 29 31 34 49 +16
    03/12/08  - 12 19 30 34 36 +08
    03/15/08  - 06 22 42 43 47 +16
    03/19/08  - 06 08 29 41 49 +42
    03/22/08  - 07 25 28 46 48 +19
    03/26/08  - 09 12 20 37 49 +17
    03/29/08  - 18 20 25 31 36 +07

  You probably do just as well to include the date in your numbers,

   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *