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The March 2008 Gail Howard 25th Anniversary Lottery Book Giveaway has come to an end. I want to thank all who participated. Congratulations to the 775 lucky winners of the LOTTERY WINNING SYSTEMS book. My special thanks to all the winners who took the time to email me your thank you notes of appreciation for receiving my gift. From the bottom of my heart, I hope each one of you lands the lotto jackpot prize of your dreams. Best of luck with Smart Luck.

March 2008 marks Gail Howard's 25th Anniversary of publishing her lottery systems. To celebrate, and help more people win, she is giving away 25 free copies of her 64-page book, Lottery Winning Systems, EACH DAY from March 1st to March 31st. Twenty-Five recipients will be randomly chosen each day from the applicants.

Need help in picking the best Powerball numbers? America's favorite lottery game has an estimated jackpot of $230 million for Wednesday, March 12. To beat the odds of one in 146 million, you need more than luck. You need Smart Luck -- as in my lottery-playing strategies and Web site. Let's look at some smart ways to choose Powerball numbers for the drawing of March 12.

Since the Powerball number field was changed on Aug. 31, 2005, the five white balls are chosen from numbers 1 to 55; and the sixth number, the red ball, is chosen from numbers 1 to 42. The white balls and the red ball are drawn from two different number fields. So, we must analyze them as two separate lotto games, each with their own historical data.

When you add the five white Powerball winning numbers together, you get a sum.

The lowest possible sum is 15. (1+2+3+4+5 = 15)

The highest possible sum is 265 (51-52+53+54+55 = 265)

Although sums as low as 15 and as high as 265 are theoretically possible, the lowest sum of the five Powerball winning numbers drawn since this game began is 50. Only 8 of the drawings had a sum of 80 or lower. The highest sum ever was 230. Only 13 drawings had a sum above 200.

Seventy (70) percent of the sums of all the winning Powerball five white-ball combinations fall within the sum range of 104 to 176. Smart Luck is having the sum of your five white ball Powerball numbers add up to somewhere between 104 and 176, which is the 70-percent most probable range.

Checking the Bias Trackers in my Advantage Plus software, I see that there will be more even numbers than odd numbers; more high numbers (28 to 55) than low numbers (1 to 27); three hot numbers (out ten games or less). Favored last digits are 2 and 6; last digits due are 1, 3 and 9. A skip of 5 (out 5 games) is most due - which means a choice of any of these numbers: 9-12-22-36.

Using the Ten Game Group Count chart, I divided the 55 Powerball white balls into seven groups of eight numbers. The group with numbers 17 to 24 accounted for 26 percent of the all the winning numbers drawn for the past ten games. The poorest performing number group, numbers 33 to 40, accounted for only 8 percent of the winning numbers. The second poorest performing groups, numbers 41 to 46, accounted for 10 percent of the winning numbers drawn. Although one or two of the winning numbers could come from the 17 to 24 group, the Bias favors the poorest performing number groups.

Skip and Hit^® Chart produced these number picks: 2-3-8-9-11-13-16-19-23-30-35-37-42-53-54-55.

Lotto Astro Scope Chart produced these number picks: 13-16-22-36-37-42-48-54-55.

Quick Stats produced these number picks: 08-12-13-14-22-26-27-30-35-38-40-42-43-45-50-54.

50-Game Hit Chart Hottest Numbers: 23-31-02-08-11-20-16-18-35-30-55.

50-Game Hit Chart Coldest Numbers: 45-50-36-44-51

The all-important Red Ball makes the difference between winning $200,000 or $230 million! (It also affects other prize categories.)

After the number field changed on Aug. 31, 2005, number 14 has been the hottest Red Ball number, with 13 hits. Next hottest were 37 with 11 hits and 5 with ten hits. Red Ball numbers with nine hits each were: 03-17-23.

Powerball Red Ball numbers with the fewest hits -- only two hits each -- were: 04 and 07. Next lowest ranking were 22-27-33-34-40 with three hits each.

One can never say a Powerball Red Ball is due for a win. Red Ball number 28 skipped 170 drawings between wins; and 14 other numbers have skipped one hundred or more drawings between wins.

The Lotto Astro Scope produced these numbers for the Red Ball: 03-19-32.

Dare I say that if I were to buy one Powerball ticket for the March 12 drawing, I would choose numbers 03-13-19-38-45 for the five white balls and 19 for the Mega Ball number.

Now if all the numbers I've mentioned are enough to confuse you so you can't decide which ones to play, then choose 22 of them, using the Free Interactive wheeling system #3014. Check 22 numbers between 1 and 55, and then click on Generate Combinations. That's all there is to it. Now, go win 230 million dollars with a Gail Howard system!

To help you win the $270 million Mega Millions jackpot, use this FREE Gail Howard jackpot-winning 60-Second Interactive Lotto Wheel 52225. System 52225 combines 25 numbers at a ticket cost of only $13. Use either the interactive lotto system 52225 or the static 52225. And read about the two winners who won jackpots with system 52225.

Gail Howard's first lottery jackpot winner of 2008, John Pickens, won $58,837.00 on January 25, 2008 in the Califiornia Fantasy 5 lotto game. Read John Pickens' lotto winning story and see which Gail Howard lotto system he used to win.

Gail Howard's lotto jackpot winner, Steve Daw, won $68,695.30 on September 7, 2007 in the Canada National 649 Lottery. Read Steve Daw's lotto winning story and see which Gail Howard lotto system he used to win.

Use Gail Howard's Smart Luck software on ANY 32-bit Windows Computer ANYWHERE using this portable Smart Luck Flash Drive Memory Stick.

Smaller than a pack of gum! Slip it in your pocket and:

• Use it at work.
• Use it at the library.
• Use it at a coffee house.
• Use it on vacation in any state, any country.

Run any of your Gail Howard Smart Luck programs with a single click.

Your programs come pre-installed and pre-serialized ready to use anywhere.

Leaves NOTHING installed on a borrowed computer!

Has built-in Lottery Updater. Automatically updates all USA and International Lotto and Keno Games with a click.

FREE BONUS: Advantage Alert(TM) audio cassette tapes converted to mp3 files with each chart as a single track. Listen to Gail Howard explain how to use Advantage Plus as you follow along with the program.

See more about the flash drive option.

All new 4th edition of Gail Howard's famous lottery book, Lotto How to Wheel a Fortune 2007, has ALL the lotto wheels used by Gail Howard's biggest pick-6 lotto jackpot winners. The chapter "WHEELS THAT WON LOTTO JACKPOTS," on pages 48 to 58 identifies the winners and the lotto systems they used to win big! You get 328 lotto systems - TWICE as many as in the 3rd edition!!! This means you pay less than seven cents per wheeling system! Of the 328 lotto wheels, 169 cost $20 or less to play; 100 cost $10 or less to play; and 46 cost $5 or less to play.

The 2007 edition has 416 pages of VALUABLE lottery information, and wheels that cover up to all the lotto numbers in your game. You can wheel ALL 49 lotto numbers in a 649 lotto game or ALL 59 lotto numbers in a 6/59 game (or any other lotto game size).

The lottery systems in this book can be used for any pick-6 lotto game in the world - from a pick-6 out of 25 lotto numbers game to a pick-6 out of 90 lottery numbers game.

In addition, there are 19 pick-7 systems for games like Australia Oz Lotto 7/45, Israel Pais 7/70, Norway Lotto 7/34, Canada's Lotto Max 7/49, England's Daily Play 7/27, Slovenia Lotto 7/39, Sweden Lotto 7/35, and Pennsylvania's Super 7 7/77.

SmartLuck.com celebrates our TENTH anniversary of selling Gail Howard lotto software and lottery books online. We went online on January 10, 1997, TWO YEARS BEFORE Google.com went online and TWO YEARS BEFORE Amazon.com went online and three months after Yahoo went online.

This year also celebrates Gail Howard's 25th year since creating her lottery systems, and her 24th anniversary of publishing and selling them. When Gail created her lottery systems the only states that had a lotto game were her home state of New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Gail Howard is America's original pioneer of scientific lottery strategy. Her systems have produced untold thousands of lottery winners and have made dozens of people rich. As you click on the slide show, you can read articles that appeared in magazines and newspapers about the jackpot winners who won with Gail Howard's systems in each of the years of 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2,000 as well as every year throughout the 1990's and 1980's.

In spite of all her jackpot winners, Gail Howard makes no wild advertising claims, nor does she promise the impossible with false hype. That is one reason why Gail Howard is the most respected name in the lottery systems industry.

You get almost twice as many systems as were in the first edition of Gail Howard's book, Lotto Winning Wheels for Powerball & Mega Millions. Four different systems let you wheel ALL 55 Powerball numbers and four other systems let you wheel ALL 56 Mega Millions numbers.

A choice of 190 systems, from $2 up to $100's, gives you compete flexibility for any possible use, whether you spend a couple of dollars yourself or join an office pool or syndicate. Eighty-seven of the systems in this book cost $20 or less, 46 cost $10 or less, and 17 cost $5 or less to use.

As with all of Gail Howard's wheels, every system in the book guarantees at least one minimum prize and shows the total number of minimum and maximum prizes you could win with each system. The wheeling systems have totally accurate, mathematically correct win guarantees--no holes!

This book makes a great gift! Or give away the 1st edition and buy the new one for yourself!! Still only $14.95 plus shipping.

Keep in mind: Gail Howard's books make great office gifts and stocking stuffers!!

Find out more about this great book or order it now!

Found limited supply of ADVANTAGE ALERT, Gail Howard's 2-1/2 hour tutorial on two audio cassette tapes. As you listen to Gail Howard's voice on the tapes, you'll effortlessly explore the fabulously rich assortment of features Advantage Plus has to offer and learn the easy way to use Advantage Plus effectively and efficiently. It's your own 2-1/2 hour private lottery seminar — just you and Gail! (Note: Available only to registered owners of Advantage Plus.) Get this rare set of two audio cassette tapes for a special collectors' price of $100.00.

CALL FIRST TO RESERVE YOUR SET BEFORE THEY ARE SOLD OUT. Our order line is 1-727-441-8906 for NON-USA or 1-800-945-4245 for USA

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You get ALL the pick-5 lotto wheel systems that won fifty-three (53!) first prize pick-5 lotto jackpots in Gail Howard's 2006 Third Edition of Lotto Wheel Five to Win. Never before have all her pick-5 lotto jackpot winning systems appeared together in one edition.

In the chapter, "Wheels that Won Jackpots," Gail Howard tells you which of her pick-5 lotto systems have won first prize jackpots. Thirty-three of the systems won 53 jackpots. Some systems won two or three pick-5 lotto jackpots each. One system alone won eight first prize pick-5 jackpots!

A choice of 333 systems, from $2 up to $100's, gives you compete flexibility for any possible use, whether you spend a couple of dollars yourself or join an office pool or syndicate. Fifty of the systems in this book cost $5 or less to use, and more than 100 of the systems cost $10 or less. You'll be amazed at the change in your "LUCK" once you start using the jackpot winning systems in this book. Use proven systems that won documented first prize pick-5 lotto jackpots and PLAY TO WIN!!!

The Texas Lottery Commission finally admitted defeat and killed the unpopular Texas Bonus Ball game. The detested 5/44 + 1/44 game was replaced by the old pick-6 Lotto Texas 6/54 that had been abandoned in 2003.

Texas lottery officials had the misconception that lottery players wanted only jackpot-driven games. As big as Texas is, it could not support both Mega Millions and a statewide Powerball wannabe.

Lotto Texas 6/54 has jackpot odds of one in 25.8 million whereas Texas Bonus Ball had jackpot odds of one in 47.8 million.

Lotto Texas 6/54 ran from July 19, 2000 to May 3, 2003 and had 192 drawings. We will resurrect those drawings in our Advantage Plus software so that Texans will have immediate history to work with.

Now, if only they would go back to their original 6/50 game format, Texans would have an even better chance of winning lotto prizes!

Win for Life 6/42 replaced Lotto South 6/49 on March 1, 2006. When state lotteries change the game format, they usually increase the odds against the player. In this case, not only were the odds reduced with the new game, but the prize distribution was also changed – to the benefit of the player. Odds of winning the Win for Life 6/42 jackpot are one in 5,245,786, down from one in 13,983,816 in the old Lotto South 6/49 game.

After the six winning numbers are drawn, an additional bonus number, the Free Ball, is drawn from the same ball set to award more prizes. Any two, three, four or five winning numbers plus the Free Ball wins; as do three, four, five or six winning numbers without the Free Ball. All together, there are eight prize categories. Get all six winning numbers and you win $1,000 a week for life. Tickets cost $1 a play. Drawings are held twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I predict this will be a very popular game because there are so many chances to win and the odds are pretty good for a pick-6 lotto game.

You can read Gail's tips for Win for Life.

We have implemented a new Frequently Asked Questions section of the website to help answer your product and technical support questions. Please refer to this page before contacting us to save your time and ours. Thank you.

After more than 1500 drawings, on October 12, 2005, the Ohio Lottery terminated Super Lotto Plus 6/49, one of the State's best games, and replaced it with a Bingo-type game called Lot O Play. Sorry, but it is not possible to wheel a Bingo game, and we have no credible system for picking "Bingo" numbers.

The new Powerball structure as of August 31, 2005, added two numbers to the 53 making it a 5/55 plus 1/42 game. You have three options to deal with this new format. The easiest is to use our Lottery Updater to download the new game. Or you can re-name the file and extend the range so that it can handle the extra numbers. The third option is to create a new file starting game one from August 31, 2005.

1. The first and recommended option is quite simple.
  a: Open Advantage Plus
  b: Select the Powerball file, pb0553.
  c. From the main menu, press Option O
    (that's the letter o).
  d: Press F5-SaveAs
     and name the file pb0555 and press
     ENTER.
  e. Change the 5/53 in the description to
     5/55 and press ENTER
  f. Press ESC to get back to the main menu
  g. Press 1 and F3 to modify the game
     structure
  h. Press the down arrow until it will not go
     down any further. This should be under the
     10/09/02 date. Then type in 083105.
     Press ENTER
  i. Type 55 and press ENTER
  j. Then press F3 to save these settings.
That's all. the new file will now accept the new drawings.

2. To make a new file:
  a: From Advantage Plus Main Menu, press
     Option 1 then F4-Add.
  b: Type the name of the new file, PB0555
     and press ENTER.
  c. Type Powerball 5/55 and 1/42 and press
     ENTER
  d. Type 5 and press ENTER
  e. Type 1 and press ENTER
  f. Type 5 and press ENTER.
  g. Press the ENTER key until the light bar is
     under the Starting Draw Date. Then type in
     083105 and press ENTER.
  h. Type 55 and press ENTER.
  i. Press F3 to save the new file.
  j. Press ENTER to select the file and return
     to the main menu.

3. To get the latest file from our web site,
  a. go to The SLH Files page,
  b. find the file in your state or a neighboring
     state,
  c. right click on the file, the link will show
     pb555 and pb142
  d. when the save dialog box opens, insert in
     front of the filename, c:\gh\ so that it
     reads c:\gh\pb0555.slh.
  e. Click Save.
  f. To save another file, just right click and
     click save since the GH folder will be
     automatically selected after the first
     save.

4. To get the lottery updater to pick up the new file:
  a. log onto the Internet and run the updater,
  b. click on the SETUP tab of the updater.
  c. Scroll down and put a checkmark
     on pb0555,
  d. Click OK
  e. Click Download.

Although Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday, August 29 in Louisiana, it's diameter was so large that our order-taking and fulfillment center near Pensacola, Florida was affected once again. Without phone service or electricity, our offices were shut down until Wednesday, August 31. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. All orders received during this period have been processed and shipped.

Smart Luck, Inc. has its order-taking and fulfillment center near Pensacola, Florida — and was right in the path of Hurricane Dennis. Without phone service or electricity, our offices were shut down until Wednesday, July 13. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. All orders received during this period have been processed and shipped; the past winning numbers files have been updated and are now available; and Lottery Updater will again update your files.

Tickets are on sale for the new MEGA Millions 5/56 + 1/46. The first drawing of the new MEGA Millions game, which now includes CALIFORNIA (and eleven other states), takes place on June 24, 2005.

If you own Gail Howard's Advantage Plus number selection software, you can follow some simple steps, and with a few keystrokes you can set up a history file to enter the drawings for the new MEGA Millions game.

However, after June 27th, 2005, our free Updater will automatically include the new history file for the new 5/56 + 1/46 MEGA Millions game. (After you click on the UPDATER, click SETUP, click CLEAR, click ALL-USA, click OK, click DOWNLOAD.)

To download the UPDATER for the first time, click HELP on the Home Page, then click FREE UPDATER and follow the simple directions.

If you want to set up your own new MEGA Millions 5/56 + 1/46 history file, you can follow these instructions:

To be consistent and to try to please everyone, we will be using the extended file with the past 5/52 range drawings included but with the old drawings turned off. Those who want to include that history temporarily or permanently can do so quickly by using the F3-Range key from any chart.

You can modify your old 5/52 game to accept the 5/56 drawings by following these instructions:

You can modify the old game in just a few seconds: From Advantage Plus main menu, press 1 and highlight the existing lottery file. Press F3-Modify, and press the down arrow until the light bar will not go any farther. This should be under the Starting Draw Date column. Type in the date of the first drawing of the new game as six digits mmddyy ex. 062405 and press ENTER, then type in the new game size and press F3-Save&Exit. If more than 4 numbers are added, it is usually better to start a new file.

By pressing Alt-B, you can see all the charts for the five white balls; or see all the charts for the Gold Mega Ball by itself. Or see all the charts for all six balls together (which I do not recommend).

As soon as the first drawing occurs you can turn off the older drawings so they do not appear in any charts while keeping them in the file for reference as desired.

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