The government didn't invent probability theory
All combinations have an equal probability of winning, there are no good or bad combinations. All combinations are "bad" in the sense that they only have a 1 in 292 million chance of winning.
Intuition is a poor substitute for math and scientific principles.
70% of all jackpot winners had Quick Pick tickets, right in line with the percentage of Quick Pick tickets sold.
Let's try a thought exercise. There is a roulette wheel that has no 0 or 00 so the house has no edge. Every spin has a 1 in 2 chance of coming up red. You watch it for 1000 spins and note that 550 were black and 450 were red or 45% were red. Since you know probability theory says over a large number of spins that percentage will trend towards 50% you think betting red would be a better bet. In fact I can see the future and I tell you that over the next 10,000 spins the average over the 11,000 spins will be 48% red. Thinking intuitively you say to yourself, betting red is a sure thing!
But is that true?
48% red over 11,000 spins is 5280 red minus the 450 that already occurred means red comes up 4830 times over the next 10,000 spins and betting red would be a loser.
Intuition, guessing, gut feelings are no substitute for just doing the math. In fact you can proceed to keep losing money betting red FOREVER and at the same time the percentage red can keep getting closer and closer to 50%.
Conclusion, you can't predict the roulette wheel (unless it is faulty, and there are sufficient defects to overcome the house odds and you can observe it long enough to figure out what the defect is and you can actually confirm that it is defective). With Powerball there are too few drawings to detect any problems with the drawing mechanism and the house odds are so enormously against you that unless it was a really serious flaw (like the red #19 ball was 80% the size and twice as heavy as all the other balls) it simply wouldn't be enough to swing things your way.
But don't let me stop anyone from having fun buying tickets, hoping and dreaming. Just be realistic and don't complain when you lose most of your money every week.