16th June 2009
A Staggering Amount of Individuals Each Week Decide to Use Identical Lottery Numbers; Which in Many Countries Will Only Cover a Part of Any Possible Lotto Selection
Is it Possible to crack the code using your own special strategy or rely on a lotto syndicate to select them on your behalf? We unrealistically like to believe that if we do not do anything or maybe do it the wrong way that something bad may happen, in this instance; if we miss doing our numbers that week they are sure to come up!
A staggering amount of individuals each week choose to use identical lotto numbers for their entries; invariably these are memorable dates of loved ones, which in a lot of lottos will only cover part of any potential lottery choices.
Being the person to decide on those winning lottery numbers is naturally something every committed lotto player wishes they could do and as humans, we all possess an innate bias against anything thats random, we all like some form of control and patterns that make sense to us.
So your number comes up more frequently; that does not mean to say it will come up again! its virtually impossible to pick any set of lottery numbers that are likely to win. Lotteries are a game of pure chance and every lottery number picked is merely at random. So the upshot in that respect is – no number is more random than another.
If you look at the rules of probability, as one lottery number is picked the likelihood of your chosen number being picked next is slightly increased because the potential selection is reduced.
If you choose the same lottery numbers each week, remember they are nonetheless random lottery numbers and you stand just as much a chance of winning with those same lottery numbers as with a lucky-dip option. Yet, if you use birthday numbers in a lottery draw your particular prospects of winning the lottery jackpot still stay the same but then, likewise your individual prospect of keeping the lottery jackpot to yourself is significantly reduced because so many other people use birthday numbers in their choices.
Applying the same numbers would mean you would have to play 135,000 times to even have an evens chance of winning. Unfortunately, to win the lottery jackpot you will only have roughly a 1 in 14 million chance of being successful; nonetheless we all reckon it could be us. Does that sound like a good chance; would you be luckier signing up to a lottery syndicate?
