Wednesday, January 09, 2008

We win $39 tonight!

The lottery picking spreadsheet really strutted its stuff this evening by predicting that the top number for the powerball pick would be 24 and that's exactly the number that showed itself today. When I saw that this number really stood out among the rest as I was working with the numbers this evening I threw it a few more times into the mix so that it had a better chance of being pulled when the numbers were randomly generated out of the overall pool of powerball numbers I'd selected. (21 out of the 42). It worked. 24 showed up on four different number picks generating the money we earned this evening. I should have trusted my gut and included it with more frequency. Not that we would have won the jackpot this evening but our take would certainly have been higher probably in the multiple hundreds of dollars. The white ball numbers were a little on the weird side too. The sum of the five was way below average - so that threw the spreadsheet off on it's predictions - plus the we had yet another 2 even, 3 odd pick - the tenth 2/3, 3/2 combination in a row - which is highly unusual based on past drawings.
The great news is that we are still above $100 in our banked funds with this latest win which bodes well for us in having a better chance of continuing that trend with future draws. We also had excellent participation in this drawing - with 28 people joining our group for this evening's drawing. Welcome, Mr. Moody, to the KW Lottery Pool!

Banked balances and payments are up to date. Thanks! John

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