Picking Lottery Numbers
There are many ways to pick numbers for lotteries such as Euro Millions, but as this article shows, your favourite numbers may reduce your chances of winning:
Peoples Favorite Lottery Mistake – Choosing Dates For Lottery Numbers
Common practice for some lotto players is to use dates for their lotto numbers. Not the best idea, as this article will show.
People use family birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates to create their lotto wagers. The idea is that these dates brought them luck before and, therefore, by playing them, it will happen again. After all, these were the luckiest days in their lives. But, instead of increasing their chances of winning the lotto, this lotto strategy has the opposite effect.
For example, when using this lotto strategy, you are only playing lotto numbers 1 thru 31. So, as long as you are playing the MN531, WI531, WildCard531, PA530 or WV625, this lotto strategy at least has a chance. But, these lotteries are the only lottos in North America where that is true. By using this strategy in the other 70 lotteries you have either committed Hari-kari or, at the very least, shot yourself in the foot.
Here’s the Hari-kari scenario. If you’re playing the NY659 or the Powerball 5/59 lotto, using dates as lotto numbers would be a big mistake. Because, over 47% of the lotto numbers, from 32 thru 59, will never appear in any of your wagers. But, typically, almost half of the lotto numbers drawn will come from that group. Therefore,by doing this, you would have seriously limited your chances of winning the lotto. You’ve taken yourself out of the running.
Allow me put an exclamation point on that statement. In the last 200 drawings of the NY659 there was only one winning ticket in which all of the numbers were between 1 and 31. That means that you were in the running to win the lotto an unimpressive 0.5% of the time. You didn’t even have a chance of winning in 199 of those 200 drawings.
Here’s the shooting yourself in the foot scenario. Now, as the size of the lotto goes down to, 54, 49, 47, 44, 40, etc., the amount of negative impact is lessened. For example, in the last 740 drawings of the NJ540 lotto, 23% of the winning numbers were less than or equal to 31. Not bad, you say. Well, that’s one way of looking at it. But, in 77% of the drawings you didn’t have a chance of winning the lotto. Bad luck didn’t cause that. You’re strategy took you out of the running. You shot yourself in the foot.
Many people will continue to play this way, regardless of what I say. I wish them well. I hope they all win the big one. But, what I am about, what all of my articles are for is to improve your chances of winning the lotto in as many drawings as possible. We don’t want to let even one opportunity pass us by.
By: Professor Dolph
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The Professor is the famous Lotto expert, lecturer and columnist who developed LONA, your LOtto Number Advisor. Visit Lottery Jackpots for a different look at Lotto software.
So, if you want to pick lottery numbers that have the maximum chance of winning, then don’t only choose dates!
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