Let's face it - most of us who struggle through the daily grind of life have a dream - winning the lottery and taking an express route to Easy Street! fantasize suddenly being movable into a life where money is no longer an issue, and you can live your life as you pick - as well as assuredly impact the lives of family and friends and procure their future.
This article is designed to turn your reasoning about how you play your lotto numbers each week. It is Not a certify of winning the big prize - no-one can do that! However, you can use established mathematical processes to agree numbers based on analyzing the history of old draws, and consequently introduce a method to your goal of winning lotto!.
Most people agree numbers randomly. They could be birthdays, favorite numbers, car license plates, or even such bizarre methods as getting your pet canary to pick them out! Many lotteries even offer 'autopick' features, where you just roll up to the counter and have numbers selected by computer printed onto your ticket. Using this random choice method is fine - in the end, when pure odds are applied, the numbers that you have selected have just as much a chance of winning as the numbers being selected by the person in the line behind you.
Right?
The answer, though somewhat bizarre, is Probably not. I put the emphasis on 'probably' because it is the key word I'm using to introduce the opinion of probability. You probably (!) recall learning this at school all those years ago. It is related to the Law of Averages and is the idea that over a long duration of time, numbers drawn by exactly the same method (ie Lottery draws) tend to median out in the whole of times they are drawn.
Let's take a simple example - flipping a coin! There are two potential outcomes - heads or tails. If we flip the coin the first time, we have no way of knowing the outcome, it could be a head or a tail. If we flip the coin five times, we still don't know with any certainty what the next consequent will be.
But let's take flipping the coin twenty times (I'm doing this whilst writing this). Here are my results:
H T T H H T H H H T H H T H T H H T H T
So, that is twelve heads, and eight tails. Given that there are only two potential outcomes, and we have a (small) history of old results, we can deduce that the Probability of getting a tail in the next flip is higher than that of getting a head.
Now, let's apply this to winning the lottery! Lotteries have now been colse to for many years, and we are able to get long histories of old results. From these histories we can see which numbers have been drawn more oftentimes over the past given duration of time, and deduce a probability that this whole may be drawn more rarely in future. Conversely, numbers that have been rarely drawn have a probability of being drawn more often. That's what probability is all about - in simple terms, of course!
Now, how to apply this to effectively agree numbers? Well, this is the trick of course! Knowing how to correctly by comparison these histories, agree smaller grouping of numbers more likely to be drawn, and add a level of 'randomness' that is potential in all lotteries, is the key to changing how you agree your numbers and expanding the probability that you will win the lottery each week - even if it is not the big jackpot!
For example, if we look at the whole 43 (chosen fully randomly) and analyze its history of being drawn over the past 26 weeks against all other numbers, we may inspect that it has been drawn rarely and is sitting with a pool of numbers at the lowest of the list. We may infer that over the next 26 weeks this whole is more likely to be drawn - note that I say 'more likely' - in probabilities, nothing is certain! Those who know a lot about probability law can apply even more involved equations to the list to get even more 'accurate' pools of numbers - and these are ordinarily closely-guarded secrets from those 'in the know'!
