It's an Okie Winner but NOT us......

Yep, the Powerball website is announcing somebody from Oklahoma won the jackpot - but unfortunately, it wasn't our lucky numbers that got pulled.

In fact, we blanked on the draw this evening. I'm going to blame a statistically weird number set for that result. Because we had 2 previous draws with 1 even number and 4 odd on the white balls, the spreadsheet strongly suggested that we would not have that spread again - and of course, we did. To give you an idea of how rare such an event like that happens, the last time such a three-peat occurred was in November of 2005! The sum of the first five was also way off the the norm - coming in at a very low 87. We haven't had a sum lower than 100 in the past 20 draws. Finally, we just got completely unlucky on the powerball. It was in the mix of picks but didn't get pulled by the spreadsheet amongst our 45 picks. So with that combination of bad luck and bad statistics - as I've mentioned before - the spreadsheet just doesn't do well.

Your banked dues will be used in about 3 weeks when the jackpot climbs to our target level again.