Lottery Strategy

The problem is that most have misconceptions about the probabilities and process involved in a lottery as well as the psychology of lottos. For example:

What is the likelihood of the numbers 01-02-03-04-05-06 appearing as say 13-23-33-43-49 for a particular draw?

Well yes the former has as much chance as the latter. Their probabilites are the same but here psychology comes into play, there are far more unusual number combinations than sequential combinations. If you are familiar with the card game Black Maria (aka Black Bitch) being dealt a hand of 13 spades would seem quite strange and remote but there is as much chance of that happening as any other 13 hand combination.

So to examine the chance of winning the jackpot on the Canada 6/49 Lottery, the odds state you have a 1 in 13,983,816 chance if you buy one ticket. But let's look at that in context. If you have lived for 13,983,816 minutes you would be 26 years 7 months and 1 and a bit days old and then randomly chose 1 minute out of that life where you kissed your first love, that would be like picking the 6 winning numbers of the lottery draw. This is a major problem when trying to figure out lottery odds as the numbers are so huge they are almost impossible to imagine. By relating it to something concrete it becomes easier to understand.

Another misleading piece of information is the total odds of winning any prize given by a lottery. Here the Canada Lotto 649 you have a 1 in 32 chance of winning a prize so if you bought 32 tickets then surely you would win something. This is not so as every ticket is seperate just like flipping a coin for the second time, it has no relation to the first flip.

Another question that is often asked is:

What numbers are best to avoid if you want to win a big jackpot?

• Couple of Mathematics text books, especially statistics
• Size of jackpot
• Number of balls drawn
• Number of drawings until jackpot is won
• Number of tickets sold
• Or find someone who is a maths boffin and already done it, there are lots of websites offering lotto strategies but exercise caution on any wild claims - if it was guarenteed why are they still selling their software/strategy for a few dollar as opposed to having retired on a decent jackpot win they achieved with their strategy

Lottery Software and Wheeling

Lottery software programs allow the user to attack the lotteries from several directions at once.

Lottery software programs usually make the tough strategy decisions easy, based on probability comparisons to your actual lottery results game history. Lottery Software reviews the past winning numbers, determines where they came from, sorts them and selects the new numbers in their expected proportions.

Lottery software wheels your lotto numbers using its wheeling systems or allows you to import your own, or can generate unique filtered wheels on the fly and reduce them to fit your budget.

Most lottery software providers let you download their software for free before you buy.

A lottery wheeling system is nothing more than a special pattern to help you arrange your favorite numbers into bets. Once you have a system it can be used over and over again with different numbers.

A good lottery wheel will be constructed in such a way that if the winning numbers fall in the group you have selected, you will always have a prize somewhere in your bets.

If you have a group of 12 numbers then the lottery wheel you select should have the numbers 1-12 arranged in sets of numbers (each set is 5 or 6 numbers depending on the type of lotto played). You don't bet the numbers in the original wheel (unless you feel that all the winning numbers are going to be from 1 to 12). Instead you take the wheel and substitute your numbers in the wheels pattern. Simply replace all the 1's in the pattern with your first number, all the 2's with your second number, all the 3's with your third number, etc. When you are done you have your numbers arranged into the wheel's pattern ready to bet (if you did not make any mistakes).