Monday, August 9, 2010

Losing Lottery Combinations

Many people pick low digits in the lottery consistently without knowing that doing so greatly decreases their odds of winning a top prize. For example, have you ever played the line 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in a 6 from 49 lottery? Such a combination of numbers hasn't ever turned up in a lotto draw and it is extremely unlikely that it is going to in the near future - so avoid it!

Why is it almost impossible to win a top or jackpot lottery prize by just playing single digit number sequences?

In order to understand why such combinations are unlikely to be drawn let's take a standard lotto like the one in the UK that has forty-nine numbers to choose form. There are only nine single digit numbers among those forty-nine. That means there are only nine single digit numbers that could be drawn as winners but there are 40 double digit numbers that could be drawn as winners. 1 to 9 represents the single digit numbers while 10 to 40 represent the double digit numbers.

You don't have to be Einstein to realise that there is a very big chance that at least one of the numbers drawn will be a double digit number.

So picking all 6 numbers from a single digit line reduces your odds of winning even further from the already low probabilities a normal ticket gives you.

Choosing a sequence such as 1 - 6 in a 6/49 draw gives you such low odds of winning that you are better not even playing and saving your money. The fact that all the numbers are low, single digit numbers makes the likelihood of having the winning numbers unlikely but having them all in a continuous line makes winning an even more remote possibility.

These type of long shots are extremely unlikely to ever come up. However, if they do your winning ticket will not be worth as much as it normally would because so many people foolishly play these numbers every week!

Avoiding using all low digit numbers gives you a much better chance of picking the correct ones. It is always a good idea to look at previous draws in the lotto game that you are playing. Very often there are hot numbers that appear more often than the others.

By avoiding number combination that are unlikely to win and picking hot numbers instead you can improve your chances of how to win the lottery. Using a wheeling system in conjunction with the advice given above can dramatically increase your chances of winning a huge lottery prize.

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