In my opinion your numbers are random. If the lottery wants to give away the jackpot.... hopefully they'll select your ticket on their computer system... and then draw your numbers LIVE. That's how it's done.
With all of these tickets purchased from the last drawing... I just find it hard to believe that no one won. Love to see an official count of all tickets sold.
I forgot the time "cut off" from the last ticket sold til the drawing. It use to be 10:28 EST. Drawing at 11PM. My buddy owns a gas station here in Michigan. We've joked around numerous times about the Michigan State lottery. Biggest rigged shi#hole. So, at the designated time... the machine will blink and say Powerball closed. The machine resets within seconds and it then says Powerball now on sale for next drawing... which is Tuesday or whatever.
So... why the hell do they need 32 minutes for? Is that time used to rig the system? Choose numbers that won't win? And maybe they stop selling at 10:15 now? Or even earlier?
With a jackpot this large... I find it hard to believe they'll select an individual winner. They might choose a number that 12 people have? No way will our rigged USA/country will let anyone walk away with the entire jackpot... not this large.
Of course it's natural to feel excited that you have a chance.