A Good Weekend for Lottery Power Picks Players

During this last weekend of November 2010, two of our LPP players enjoyed finding out that they were winners.  First, one Mega Millions player matched 3 white balls plus the Megaball and won $150 on Friday November 26th.

Then, on Saturday the 27th, a Canadian Lotto 649 player matched 4 of the 6 white balls and won C$64.40.

As this holiday season begins, we congratulate both lucky players in the North American continent!

Saturday Powerball Results 11/27/10 - Next Jackpot $95M

The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday Nov 27, 2010 were:

10 30 37 47 54 Powerball 39 and Powerplay 5x

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 492 combinations. Of these, we had 14 winners: (10) pb, (2) pb+1w, (1) pb+2w, and (2) 3w,  returning $52 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,655,640 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w@ # 299 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + PB @ # 94,440
• 4-w @ # 228,845
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $95 million with a cash option of $49.8M and a yield of 4.15%

Friday Mega Millions Results 11/26/10 - Jackpot $52M on Tuesday

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday Nov 26, 2010 were:

05 09 34 43 47 Megaball 08 - Megaplier 2

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 348 combinations. Of these, we had 10 winners: (4) mb,  (3) mb+1w, (2) 3w, and (1) mb+3w, returning $181 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,409,580 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 46 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 12 - LPP Winner
• 4-w @ # 7,738
• 5-w @ # 112,538

There were no MM jackpot winners so the jackpot grows to $52 million with a cash option of $34.5M and a yield of 3.63%

Wednesday Powerball Results 11/24/10 - Next Jackpot $79M

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The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday Nov 24, 2010 were:

08 20 21 32 37 Powerball 04 and Powerplay 3x.

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 349 combinations. Of these, we had 9 winners: (5) pb, and (4) pb+1w, returning $31 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,921,890 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 1,315
• 3-w + PB @ # 5,471
• 4-w @ # 199,549
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $79 million with a cash option of $41.4M and a yield of 4.15%

Tuesday Mega Millions Results 11/23/10 - Jackpot $42M on Friday

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Tuesday Nov 23, 2010 were:

02 06 12 34 35 Megaball 33 - Megaplier 4

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 301 combinations. Of these, we had 8 winners: (6) mb, (1) mb+1w, and (1) 3w, returning $22 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,679,315 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 207 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 8,383
• 4-w @ # 14,293
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no MM jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $42 million with a cash option of $27.8M and a yield of 3.65%

UK Thunderball Reveals Delta Equaling Multiple of Sixes

Once again, the UK Thunderball Lottery drew a somewhat Crazy Combo on Friday November 19, 2010. In that drawing, the 5 white ball sequence was:

07 13 25 31 37

If you examine these numbers closely, you will observe the delta spread between the numbers to each be a multiple of 6.

Deltas : [ 06 12 06 06 ]

Due to the nature of randomness, the space between numbers is rarely a consistent spread or an even multiple of an integer. 

Additionally, this sequence contains 4 Prime numbers and one Square number.

Further, the entire sequence consists of odd numbers, but this is expected because the starting number is odd and each of the deltas are even.

Many lottery experts advise against choosing numbers that follow a pattern. But, we recommend that if you are trying to devise a winning lottery selection combination, don't ever dismiss the hidden power of multiples.

Saturday Powerball Results 11/20/10 - Next Jackpot $64M

The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday Nov 20, 2010 were:

10 12 38 53 57 Powerball 01 and Powerplay 5x

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 268 combinations. Of these, we had 9 winners: (5) pb, (1) pb+1w, (1) pb+2w, and (2) 3w,  returning $40 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 2,193,623 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w@ # 202 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + PB @ # 6,469
• 4-w @ # 18,792
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $64 million with a cash option of $33.2M and a yield of 4.22%

Friday Mega Millions Results 11/19/10 - Jackpot $34M on Tuesday

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday Nov 19, 2010 were:

07 14 31 51 54 Megaball 35 - Megaplier 2

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 368 combinations. Of these, we had 9 winners: (3) mb,  (3) mb+1w, (2) mb+2w, and (1) 3w, returning $42 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,827,364 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 173 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 10,391
• 4-w @ # 31,925
• 5-w @ # 500,377

There were no MM jackpot winners so the jackpot grows to $34 million with a cash option of $22.3M and a yield of 3.74%

Wednesday Powerball Results 11/17/10 - Next Jackpot $50M

The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday Nov 17, 2010 were:

14 16 53 54 59 Powerball 05 and Powerplay 3x.

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 278 combinations. Of these, we had 8 winners: (6) pb, (1) pb+1w, and (1) pb+2w, returning $29 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 2,430,244 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 325
• 3-w + PB @ # 6,594
• 4-w @ # 52,139
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $50 million with a cash option of $26.6M and a yield of 4.04%

Tuesday Mega Millions Results 11/16/10 - Jackpot $25M on Friday

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Tuesday Nov 16, 2010 were:

01 26 27 39 46 Megaball 21 - Megaplier 3

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 298 combinations. Of these, we had 7 winners: (5) mb, (1) mb+1w, and (1) mb+2w, returning $23 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,507,304 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 499
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 6,968
• 4-w @ # 20,489
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no MM jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $25 million with a cash option of $16.3M and a yield of 3.80%

Saturday Powerball Results 11/13/10 - Next Jackpot $35M

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The winning Powerball numbers for Saturday Nov 13, 2010 were:

17 30 48 51 54 Powerball 29 and Powerplay 5x

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 313 combinations. Of these, we had 8 winners: (5) pb, (2) pb+1w, and (1) pb+3w, returning $123 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 2,221,571 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 2,561
• 3-w + PB @ # 188 - LPP Winner
• 4-w @ # 229,284
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $35 million with a cash option of $18.6M and a yield of 4.05%

Friday Mega Millions Results 11/12/10 - Jackpot $16.0M on Tuesday

The winning Mega Millions numbers for Friday Nov 12, 2010 were:

09 26 28 35 38 Megaball 10 - Megaplier 4

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 336 combinations. Of these, we had 7 winners: (4) mb,  and (3) mb+1w, returning $17 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,162,185 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 1,344
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 33,642
• 4-w @ # 48,883
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no MM jackpot winners so the jackpot grows to $16 million with a cash option of $10.5M and a yield of 3.74%

November Vacation Notice

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Please be advised that we will be on vacation during the weeks of November 6th to November 20th. During that time, our results may be slightly delayed as we are traveling in remote Western areas. However, we will make every effort to update all lottery results and to maintain nearly continuous access to Lottery Power Picks.

During this travel period, we will not be writing any new posts on our blogs. Performance reporting of our recommendations will resume on this blog when we return to civilization.

Thanks for your understanding & have a lucky two weeks.

JL.............

Powerball Now $123M - Check Wednesday 11/03/10 Results

The winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday Nov 03, 2010 were:

34 38 39 45 50 Powerball 33 and Powerplay 2x.

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 421 combinations. Of these, we had 12 winners: (7) pb, (2) pb+1w, (2) pb+2w, and (1) 3w, returning $50 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,400,220 combinations. The first winning other combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 174 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + PB @ # 24,200
• 4-w @ # 15,435
• 5-w @ # - na -

There were no PB jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $123 million with a cash option of $67M and a yield of 3.87%

Tuesday Mega Millions Results 11/02/10 - Jackpot $16M

MThe winning Mega Millions numbers for Tuesday Nov 02, 2010 were:

01 03 12 16 54 Megaball 46 - Megaplier 2

In this drawing, Lottery Power Picks recommended 396 combinations. Of these, we had 13 winners: (4) mb, (5) mb+1w, and (4) 3w, returning $51 back to our players. Our 5 number pool had 1,259,224 combinations. The first other winning combos were located at:

• 3-w @ # 122 - LPP Winner
• 3-w + Megaball @ # 9,128
• 4-w @ # 1,696
• 5-w @ # 1,240,937

There were no MM jackpot winners, so the jackpot grows to $16 million with a cash option of $10.8M and a yield of 3.46%

Make Sure You Vote Today

Republicans and Tea Party members are turning out in droves at the voting machines, trying to restore control of America's future back to the hands of the American People.

At the same time, Democrats are busing voters to the voting places, desperately trying to retain dictatorship control of the country and its finances.

Who will win?

We'll know more later tonight, but probably 4 to 6 key races will be hotly contested if the Democrats appear to be losing.

We have our favorites and we're sure that you do too.

So, if you haven't already, make your way to your voting location and cast your ballot for the Party you want run America for the next two years and more!

Related articles

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• A.M. Election News: Millions of voters cast early ballots (nj.com)
• Voters out before dawn for Election Day 2010 (boston.com)
• Larry Womack: No, Really: If You Don't Vote This Time, It Is Your Fault (huffingtonpost.com)
• Election Results: 2010 Midterms Put Democratic Control On The Line (huffingtonpost.com)
• Recounts Loom for Tight Races (online.wsj.com)

How to Win a Little Bit of Money in the Lottery

Our current development effort has been focused on calculating the amount of money a lottery player would win if they were to use a wheeling strategy. For those who wonder, a lottery wheel refers to playing all the possible combinations using a small subset of numbers. For example, if you select 7 numbers to be wheeled in a 5 number game, there would be 42 possible combinations.

Similarily, we can also utilize a varying amout of bonus balls (Mega Balls, Powerballs, Hot Balls) in our wheel. Supposing that you wish to wheel 5 bonus balls with the above example, there would be a grand total of 42 times 5 or 210 total combinations to be played.

However, we believe that spending $210 on a single drawing is a lot of money. So we wanted to see what would happen if we simply select 5 white ball numbers and wheeled the bonus balls only. The problem we encountered was : What five balls and bonus balls should we play?

For this, we decided to: select the first 5 white balls listed in our Hot and Cold Analysis, and obtain the bonus balls from the Hot Cold analysis as well. Then we applied this strategy to the Mega Millions, Powerball, and Hot Lotto games and reviewed the past 6 months drawings (26 total) to see is we won anything.  This is what we found:

• For Mega Millions, we used the white balls ( 2, 4, 10, 13, 20 ), and the Megaballs ( 9, 13, 18, 19, 25, 26, 31, 36, 41 ). This means we spent $9 in each game or $234 total. We would have had 3 ( 3-white + MB ) and 7 ( 1-white + MB ) winners, returning $660 back to us. Deducting the $234 that we spent, we would have profited $426.
• For Powerball, we used the white balls ( 7, 10, 16, 17, 20  ), and the Megaballs ( 13, 15, 20, 27, 30, 34, 39 ). This means we spent $7 in each game or $182 total. We would have had 1 ( 3-white + PB ),  1 ( 2-white + PB ),  5 ( 1-white + PB ), and 4 (  PB only ) winners, returning $181 back to us. Deducting the $182 that we spent, we would have lost $1.
•  For Hot Lotto, we used the white balls ( 1, 13, 14, 15, 26  ), and the Hot Balls ( 4, 6, 7, 15, 17 ). This means we spent $5 in each game or $130 total. We would have had 2 ( 3-white + HB ),  2 ( 2-white + HB ),  3 ( 1-white + HB ), and 5 (  HB only ) winners, returning $155 back to us. Deducting the $130 that we spent, we would have profited $25.

As you can see, we would have earned a profit on both Mega Millions and Hot Lotto, and would have lost only one dollar on Powerball.

Since each of these games allows us to buy a multiplier, we recommend that this be done in all cases. If we did, the Powerball would have returned a profit of approximately $179, Mega Millions $1,512 profit, and Hot Lotto $205 profit.