Lottery Tips - Happy Birthday
Lottery drawing after drawing, some lottery players create their wagers using family birthdays, anniversaries, the dates of famous events, etc. Depending on the lottery they are playing this may or may not be a good strategy. So, here’s some good lottery advice. I’ll use a couple of examples to make my point.
In Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota there is lottery game called the WildCard. It is a 5 out of 31 drawing. With this lottery (or any lottery with a size of 31), picking your numbers by using your anniversary or your wife’s birthday would be perfectly valid. But, if you’re playing the NY659 lottery, that strategy would be a big mistake. Why? Because over 47% of the numbers, from 32 thru 59, will never be used. On the average, almost half the numbers drawn will come from that group. Therefore, you would have seriously limited your chances of winning the lottery jackpot by doing this. As an exclamation point on that statement, in the last 200 drawings of the NY659 there was only one jackpot winning ticket in which all the numbers were 31 or less. That’s 0.5% .
Now, as the size of the lottery goes down to, 54, 49, 47, 44, 40, etc. , the amount of negative impact is lessened. For example, in the last 740 drawings of the NJ540 lottery, 23% of the winning jackpot numbers contained only numbers less than or equal to 31. Not bad, you say. Well, that’s one way of looking at it. But, in 77% of the drawings you didn’t even have a chance to win the lottery jackpot. You’re strategy took you out of the running.
Regardless of what I say, many people will continue with this approach. I wish them well. I really do. I hope they win the big one. But, what I am about, what this Lotto Blog is about, what all of my articles are about and what LONA™ is about is to Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery jackpot in as many drawings as possible. Each drawing is an opportunity and life is too short to let even one go by.
