Lottery Tips

In the last post, Lottery Tips - What’s Our Anniversary, Honey? , I showed you a graph of the percentage of date only lottery jackpots for all of the 5 number lotteries in the US and Canada.  A couple of you have asked what good is it? Well, as with any good Lottery Strategies, they are worth nothing if you don’t use them. So, the Best Lottery Advice for today is how to take advantage of the knowledge we gained from that graph.

First, I’m going to zoom in on the 35 to 40 sized lotteries. The new graph is shown below. Notice that I’ve added an average trend line. This line represents statistically the percentage of date type lottery jackpots that we should expect. If a lottery is above that line, then it is producing more date type winners than is expected. It is showing a bias in favor of date type winners. The two most prominent examples of bias favoring date type winners are the MA535 and the AZ539. The opposite is true for lotteries below the line. The two most prominent examples of negative bias to date type winners are the OK536 and the TX537.

The benefit here, to serious lottery players, is pretty obvious.  For example, if you are playing the AZ539 lottery, you should bias your wagers in favor of date type wagers.  How much bias? Make 37% of your wagers of the date type.  For example, if you buy 100 tickets, then make sure that 37 of them are of the date variety. For any other lotteries shown, find it’s percentage and use that.

What you are doing is playing the odds. This becomes an overall strategy that you apply every drawing over a period of time. This is not something you do for 1 drawing and cast it aside because it didn’t work. These types of Lottery Strategies are long term and consistency is the key.

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Lottery Tips

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.

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