Entries Tagged as 'Lottery'

Winning the Lottery Category Roundup

Winning the Lottery Category Roundup

Lottery Number AdvisorAs I did in the previous post, I’m trying to make it easier for you to find what you need from the Lotto Blog. Some of the Categories are so filled up now, that when you try to filter the huge numbers of posts, you still end up with several pages to sift through. Another example is the Winning the Lottery Category. So, I’ve boiled the list down to the essentials. Of course, there are many more great posts on this topic but let this list serve as a primer.

  1. Lottery Strategies #1 - Play Your Own Game
  2. Winning the Lottery - Everybody Is Going to Win
  3. Lottery Strategies #3 - Intelligent Choice
  4. Lottery Predictions and Hurricanes #2 - That’s a Good Bet
  5. Winning the Lottery - Fishing for the Big One
  6. Winning the Lottery - The 3rd Degree
  7. Best Lottery Software - Reality Check
  8. Lottery Predictions - Coming Up to Speed
  9. Lottery Statistics - Hard Boiled Eggs
  10. Lottery Number Analysis - Persistence Pays Off
  11. Lottery Tools - Truths to Lies
  12. Lottery Software, The Random Game and Cycles

There is a lot to learn here, and when you get your degree you’ll be on your way to improving your chances of winning the lottery jackpot.

Winning the Lottery - Before Your Very Eyes

Winning the Lottery

Lottery Number Advisor

Thanks for the emails I received from the last post. Feedback is the grist for my Lotto Blog mill, as is the case today. The emails got me thinking about how the odds of winning the lottery jackpot change during the drawing itself. If you can imagine for a moment, millions of people, tickets in hand, watching a lotto drawing on TV. As each number is drawn, the fortunes of millions of lottery ticket holders are changing before your very eyes.

Here’s what I mean. Let’s use the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery in this example. Of course, if someone doesn’t buy a ticket their odds of winning the jackpot are zero. If someone buys 1 ticket, their odds of winning the jackpot are 1:25,827,165. Now, as the drawing begins things get very interesting.

Suppose you’re sitting in Austin, in front of your TV, watching the drawing. The first number is drawn. You check your ticket and your ticket has that number. What just happened? You’re now in a different league. There are 53 balls left in the machine and you need 5 of those 53 to win the lottery jackpot. Suddenly, your playing a 5/53 game and your odds of winning the lottery jackpot improved to 1:2,869,685. That’s 9 times better than before the drawing started just moments earlier.

So, right there, in that instant, you’re pumped and awaiting that next number to pop out of the machine, while most players in Texas watched their odds of Winning the Lottery jackpot drop to zero.