How did we do in Cash Five on 12 January 2009?

We didn't do that great, as the winning pick for 12 January 2010 was 5-7-10-12-30. We just won $2, by my count:

1-4-26-30-31
4-8-17-28-30
4-13-19-30-34
1-2-4-28-36
5-6-10-17-33-won $2
11-17-18-33-34
4-17-20-23-33
5-14-15-17-34
5-17-19-23-31

Some Texas Cash Five picks for 12 January 2010

I have never won more than $58 on any one day playing Cash Five. However, I frequently win something. Here are some picks for today's game (12 January 2010):

1-4-26-30-31
4-8-17-28-30
4-13-19-30-34
1-2-4-28-36
5-6-10-17-33
11-17-18-33-34
4-17-20-23-33
5-14-15-17-34
5-17-19-23-31

There are no guarantees here. You take your chances. I will report how they do after tonight's game, just for fun.

How about some Mega Millions picks for 12 January 2010?

OK. Here are some Mega Millions picks for 12 January 2010. There are no guarantees. The best that I have done so far in Mega Millions was to win $30 in a recent game. (In this case, we didn't win anything, mostly because the winning pick had a Mega Ball that was a low probability number: 5-9-31-37-56 Mega Ball 16)

Pick              Mega Ball
15-18-39-40-45     6
11-13-18-28-48    39
 7-18-28-41-50    36
 8-18-28-37-55    15
 8-13-28-39-41    44
 4-22-27-39-46    23
22-27-39-43-46    46
 4-27-43-46-55    40
 8-18-44-48-56    27
 1- 6-31-53-54    27
 1-27-45-50-53     2
 6-15-45-53-55    24

How we did in Cash Five for 11 January 2010

Well, we didn't do too great. We won $2 for 8 sets of picks.
(January 11, 2010):

8-14-19-23-28
11-14-19-24-32 - won $2
8-10-14-16-33
6-10-14-24-37
3-13-15-19-33
3-16-19-23-24
3-17-19-28-32
6-13-16-19-28

What I have been doing since August 2009

Since August 2009, I have been working hard on a family of computer programs, for my personal use, that use AI techniques to "predict the near future". I use several layers of heuristic rating methods to generate sets of predictions. I also generate reports that show the historical performance over time. I am not trying to prefectly guess the future. I just want to make a little money in the process. On example of what I can do are some picks for the Texas lottery game "Cash Five" for tonight (January 11, 2010):

8-14-19-23-28
11-14-19-24-32
8-10-14-16-33
6-10-14-24-37
3-13-15-19-33
3-16-19-23-24
3-17-19-28-32
6-13-16-19-28

This week, I am mostly playing on paper, not actually spending money buying picks. I would not recommend buying these, but it would be interesting to see how these perform in tonight's Cash Five drawing. I will give an update and some picks for tmorrow night's game tomorrow.