[quote=moneymaker]I’m going to buy 20 quick picks and 20 self picked tickets and will report the results Saturday morning.[/quote]
Statistically speaking, unless your self-picked tickets are deliberately targeted towards unpopular numbers, you’d be better off going with mostly or exclusively quick picks due to the decreased likelihood of having to share the prize. If all numbers are equally likely to be drawn, numbers selected by fewer people have a higher expected value.
People tend to choose numbers below 30-31 (for birthdays), 7, 11, multiples of 7 and 11, numbers in the middle columns of the selection form, etc.
If your self picked tickets are more about the hedonic value of knowing your “lucky” numbers are part of your ticket pool, obviously this may not apply…
