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• Mrcoolsoul

  

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  Apr 17, 2002, 7:57 pm

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  I don't know about you, but I HATE it when I read about lottery winners who say "golly gee, this was the first time I ever played" or "I just went in to buy a hot dog and a Coke and thought what the heck I'll play the lottery too".
  
  grrrrrrrr no way it's that easy!
• RJOh

  

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  It proves all this talk about systems,lucky numbers and predictions are just good talk. It interesting but it's just a lot of B.S. Just pick a few numbers to be in the game and if your are lucky and beat the odds you will win something. Any body can win but most will lose and losers will think that the winners didn't deserve to win.
  
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   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones * 

         
  
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  im kinda mad that a first timer won but thats just how it is. it kinda made me a lil happier that lotto fever is dead and now i can relax. and its good to see someone young win. hopes she spends it right. til next time.
• Mrcoolsoul

  

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  Apr 17, 2002, 9:26 pm

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  I don't believe there's a system for winning either and I don't think that there are people who deserve to win and don't deserve to win. It's all luck. I just get annoyed when the media seems to always tell us that the people who win are either first time players or people who just HAPPEN to have a lottery ticket. I never read stories about the guy who's been playing religiously for 10 years or something. It's always these home runs right out of the box. It makes for good advertising.
• GLOLOVER

  

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  That is so true. Its all about luck, hell i downloaded a fancy lotto software that is suppose to help you beat the odds. But the truth is you can't. You have to be lucky pick some numbers and maybe you'll hit. Because people who don't think about the game win more than the people who use their brains.
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  Apr 17, 2002, 10:41 pm

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  That's kind of like saying you bought a fancy set of tools at Sears and can't fix your car. I doubt you were able to use that fancy lottery software at anything better than the default settings. The question you need to ask is whether it could have won if you had used it right, or the draw before that or the draws before that. You only need to win once, can the software win or not, that's what you need to know to decide whether it is worth working with for future draws or not. Heck, any lotto jackpot is better than no lotto jackpot. Wonder what her other 9 tickets paid if anything?
  
  Or you can just use the site link to get lucky winning numbers.
  
• RJOh

  

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  That Quick Pick program the lottery terminal have much be pretty good because it picks a lot of winners and nobody trying to sell it. If you set the perimeters right most any of these software programs can pick a past winner, the trick is to pick a future winner.
  
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   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones * 

         
  
• CASH Only

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  I believe Illinois players choose after they win.
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  It's not the first time nor will it be the last time that a first time player hits the jackpot. That's why the odds are as high as they are, makes anybody a possible winner. I always think people who get upset over such a triviality are more than a little jealous.

  Megamillionaire

  Time is a wonderful teacher, but it kills all its students.

  A man must consider what a rich realm he leaves when he becomes a conformist.
• Guest

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  Apr 18, 2002, 4:11 pm

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  Think about it from an advertising point of view: The lottery people don't have to persuade people who play the lottery on a regular basis to buy a ticket; those people will play regardless. It's the people who seldom or never play that are targeted: "Come on", the advertising says, "this guy here bought a ticket just the once and hit the jackpot. It could happen to you!" That's why you'll hear a lot about the first-time winners, but very little about the guy who played every day (or week or whatever) for ten years before hitting the big one; telling people that they may have to spend a zillion bucks to win a million just doesn't sound all that enticing.
  
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  Apr 18, 2002, 4:17 pm

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  There is a saying among would-be prophets, "If you cannot predict accurately, predict often." More than half of tickets purchased are sold to people who ask for "quick picks". When more than half the tickets sold are quick picks, one would expect more than half the jackpots to be won by quick pick selections. One might think of it this way: If 200 million tickets are sold, more than 100 million of these will be quick picks, but typically only one (or none) of those quick picks will be correct. How could that possibly mean that the quick pick software chooses well?
  
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  Apr 18, 2002, 7:43 pm

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  You think most lottery software programs can pick a jackpot combination if you choose the right settings? I think very few can even working backwards, maybe once a year. At the very least, you certainly should test your lottery software before putting cash on its picks.
  
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  I read about it all the time people playing the same numbers or buying quick-picks that have been playing the Lottery in Florida for 5-10 yrs,so it might be just in your state but our States Lottery website posts winners comments on how they won and how long they've been playing most are regular players since the game started every now and then I'll read about a first time player that won!!!!