It's not you, Scary Chick. The cause and reason is the new change of the CRNG ( Computer Random Number Generator ). The implementation of the RNG in lotteries will be the eventual death of all lottery games as we all know it.
My guess is that the two biggest games, Powerball and Mega millions will the very last to change, since they have the most to lose. If these two corporations piss off players and cause players not to buy tickets, then we are really talking about a lot of money being lost here because these two giants rake in the most lottery cash of all every month. So, they will be the last to do it, but probably at some point in the future, even they will do it and make the change. It will be a sad day in America for lottery players because then at that point, all will be lost and the lotteries will be forever changed in a bad way. Lottery players who once poured millions of dollars into the lottery, will not stand for it, and the whole system as we knew it will begin to crumble and be changed forever.
I too, was doing better with the mechanical machines and balls, until they made this change recently. I even had some 3 ball hits earlier this year. I'm afraid that doing your lottery work, using math and studying and tracking will not matter anymore. The RNG will take away a player's ability to do that.
The lottery knows this very well. That's why they make this change.
Sneaky, sneaky, yes. Dirty, dirty, yes. They know what they're doing ... and so do we.
By the way, if any of you who are reading this happen to be stupid in math, none of what I said above will matter to you. You won't be able to understand it.