Illinois drew a Straight Date workup hit on 357 yesterday. Yay!
Tuesday May 3rd
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Illinois is one of the lotteries that tends to draw clusters of Date workup hits 1 day apart. That means that today should be our target date. However, I just now took a hard look at the Illinois chart for the past year and clusters of Date workup hits have not been falling recently in Illinois (same in my home state, Virginia). Looking at that chart, though, I found something interesting that I had not noticed before. When a cluster of Date workups falls the next day in Illinois, it happens sometimes that a third hit will fall on the third day. This is very uncommon in other lotteries. I was surprised to see it in the chart. Here are the two most-recent examples:
03/03/2021,959,196 03/03/1995,196,416
03/04/2021,980,084 03/04/2011,820,980
03/05/2021,432,351
03/06/2021,959,872
03/07/2021,722,919
03/08/2021,068,302 03/08/2017,657,068
03/09/2021,350,941 03/09/2015,960,941
03/10/2021,493,507 03/10/1997,410,493
09/14/2020,254,248 09/14/1998,248,262 09/14/1999,254,073
09/15/2020,391,131 09/15/2001,077,131
09/16/2020,712,515 09/16/2015,699,712
I wish that Virginia would throw a couple of those! I would be all about the third day.
Considering that it's been a long time since Illinois drew any cluster of next-day Straight Date workup hits, my suggestion is to hang back today. Let's see what happens. Here is the chart for today highlighted.
Wednesday May 4th
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If one of these hits today, then maybe think about playing tomorrow. Thinking about what happened in March 2021, it might be smart to sit it out, even if we do get a hit today, and see if we get another cluster of three hits this month like we did in March 2021 when that run of hits on three consecutive days fell four days after the first cluster of two hits.