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Home | Recreation & Sports | Gambling & Casinos It's a good idea to avoid having all 6 lottery numbers under 31. While it is not an absolute rule, payouts are generally much lower. As an example, NSW State Lotto (Australia) had 27 First Division winners in its draw on 9 Oct 2000, when all the winning lottery numbers were under 31. Imagine - 27 people went to bed thinking they had won a million - and woke up to find they had $37,037! Lottery experts refer to this as the Birthday Numbers Syndrome. Playing all the numbers in your lottery guarantees you have all 6 winning lotto numbers somewhere in your overall entry. And it only requires 8 - 9 games. With just one ball guaranteed correct, your Lottery is now a 5-from-44 game. The odds for this are 1-in-1,086,008 (45-ball lottery). While it is still a 1-in-a-million shot, that is a lot better than a 1-in-a-8-Million shot! This simple technique takes 2 minutes and requires only 8 games for a 45-ball lottery, 9 for a 49-ball lottery. Any winning lotto edge you can get in a game that requires beating odds of 8,145,060-to-1 (45-ball lottery) or 13,983,816-to-1 (49-ball lottery) is worth having. Has your lotto game changed the total number of balls? If so, you need to change your lottery numbers. For example, if you are still using numbers up to 40, from when Australian lotto was a 40-ball game - add some new games with lottery numbers over 40. The total combinations possible from 40 numbers are 3,838,380. The combinations possible from 45 numbers are 8,145,060. If your numbers are all under 40 - more than half the combinations that can win are missing from your games! Actual winning lotto results show that the most likely lottery result has 3-odd lottery numbers and 3-even lottery numbers. This comes out 1-week-in-3 (on average) and represents 33.5% of the 8,145,060 possible combinations. Add 4-odd lottery numbers plus 2-even lottery numbers, and 2-odd lottery numbers plus 4-even lottery numbers - and you cover 81% of all possible results. Put another way, these three winning lotto game types win (on average) 8 weeks out 10. This is reasonably consistent across all 6-ball lotto games. A winning lotto result with no consecutive lottery numbers occurs around 47% of the time. A lottery result with just two consecutive lottery numbers accounts for 40% of the 8,145,060 possible winning lotto combinations. Together, these two results account for 87% of all lottery results - a 9-weeks-out-of-10 occurence. These figures hold true for most 6-ball lotteries. Your lotto results are more balanced using games with three high lottery numbers and three low lottery numbers (33% of the possible combinations are of this type). Balanced entries do best - try not to have more than 3 numbers in any set of 15 (1-15, 16-30 and 31-45) for a 45-ball lottery, not more than 3 numbers in any set of 16 (1-16, 17-32 and 33-49) for a 49-ball lottery. The most likely winning lotto result has no lottery numbers from the previous week (40% of the 8,145,060 combinations) or just one lottery number from the previous week (42% of the 8,145,060 combinations). That's 82% in total - meaning that this game type result wins (on average) 8 weeks out 10. Learn about your Lottery. Most of the above facts are from 2 books - 1,000 Weeks of Lotto - What Worked, What Didn't (a 20-year analysis of Australia's Saturday Night lottery results) and Winning Lotto Secrets. Both are available from or LottoMasta International, PO Box 196, Bond University, Qld 4229, Australia. If you learn nothing else, learn this - Play Sensibly. Money for feeding your family is just that, it is NOT for buying lotto tickets. You need to play with money you can afford to lose, because most weeks that is exactly what will happen. You can improve your chances of winning lotto, but spending money you can't afford to lose is downright dumb. Do not do it. Please! Constructing your games using these rules - and using all the numbers in your lottery - is the simplest, easiest, quickest way to improve your chances of winning lotto. In the Lottery, it's true that anything is possible - but some things are more probable than others! Play the high-percentage shots and watch your luck improve. Did You Know - You can use Microsoft Excel's "Combin" function to calculate your odds. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Terry Fisher, author of "Winning Lotto Secrets", "1,000 Weeks of Lotto" and "Powerball Strategies", gives this advice on winning lotto. Terry's Lottery Wins include 6 winning lottery numbers in March 2006 and again July 2006.
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