What
To Avoid
Numbers NOT To Select When Playing
Lotto
| According to Lottery
expert Gail Howard, Lotto players
who select their numbers thoughtlessly
or foolishly are destined to lose
even before the Draw takes place.
By just knowing which number combinations
and patterns to avoid, you'll have
an advantage over other players--and
save money, too. |
| 1.
AVOID COMBINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN
DRAWN BEFORE
Many players like to bet the same
set of numbers that have won someone
else a big Jackpot. By doing so,
they're almost guaranteed not
to win one themselves. Even in
the lowest odds 6 out of 25 Lotto
game, the same set of six numbers
has a chance of being drawn only
once every 3, 405 years! It's
practically impossible for the
exact same set of six numbers
to hit the Jackpot twice. |
2.
AVOID BETTING SIX CONSECUTIVE
NUMBERS
Six consecutive numbers
(11-12-13-14-15-16, for example)
have never been drawn in
any state or international Lotto
game. Even five consecutive numbers
is a very rare occurrence. In
most Lotto games, it has never
happened even once. |
3.
AVOID BETTING ONE NUMBER GROUP
Never choose all six
numbers from one number group,
such as all single digits, all
teens, or all 20's. All six winning
numbers being drawn from one number
group is highly unlikely - since
it has never happened before in
any Lotto game. |
4.
AVOID THE COMBINATION 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6
The most popular set
of numbers most often played is:
1-2-3-4-5-6. Thousands of tickets
are bought in each Lotto Draw
with this combination. THIS TICKET
IS GUARANTEED TO LOSE because
the selection is too far out of
balance to come up in a random
drawing.
The proof of this claim is verified
by the Draw results in all the
State and International Lottery
games. If six consecutive numbers
have never been drawn, and six
numbers from one number group
have never been drawn either,
then what chance does the number
combination 1-2-3-4-5-6 have?
The least likely combinations
to be drawn as winners are those
at the tail ends of a bell curve.
These are the lowest six numbers
and the highest six numbers of
any game. |
Pattern
betting is a very popular method
of marking bet slips. Most Lotto
bet slips look like this.
Patterns of numbers marked in
a row to make a straight line
(either across the bet slip or
vertically or diagonally) are
very common. Straight lines are
so common, they were once played
on more than 150,000 tickets ---
for just one drawing! Other designs
such as initials or numbers also
get heavy play. If such numbers
won, payouts would be very low. |
6.
AVOID NUMBER MULTIPLES
Other popular combinations
that get heavy play are the number
multiples, especially 5-10-15-20-25-30.
Such combinations have been played
on at least 25,000 tickets in
one drawing. If those numbers
were to win a US$30 million jackpot,
each winner would receive a single
one-time payment of US$60. |
7.
AVOID ALL SAME LAST DIGITS
Many people
like to play same last digits,
such as 3-13-23-33-43-53, or all
the digits that end in seven,
or some other favorite lucky number.
Even FOUR same last
digits only appear in less than
two tenths of one percent of all
winnings. Winning sets of numbers
with 3 digits with the same last
number occur in less than 3% of
all drawings. Winning sets of
numbers with TWO same last digits
occur in about 20% of all drawings.
Now, winning sets
of numbers with NO same last digits--
that's what happens most often. |
8.
AVOID LOW NUMBER COMBINATIONS
Majority of Lotto players
like to play the calendar numbers,
such as birth dates, anniversaries,
and so on. This means that the
most heavily played numbers are
1 through 31. Many Lotto games
have 40 or more numbers - and
numbers 32 and above do come out
quite frequently. By ruling out
non-calendar numbers, you significantly
lessen your odds of winning a
Jackpot.
Even if your calendar numbers
do hit, you'll probably have to
share your First Prize Jackpot
with several other winners. An
incident like this happened on
September 24, 1983, in the New
York Lotto. The highest Lotto
number drawn was 30, and there
were 46 First Prize winners.
If you've decided to try your
hand at the different Lottery
number selection systems, bear
this in mind: the key to success
is playing the probabilities.
If you play a pattern
that occurs only five percent
of the time, you can expect that
pattern to lose 95 percent of
the time. |
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