Lottery Strategies

In the last post, Winning Lotto Strategies - Come Over from the Dark Side, we learned that wagers with low or high sums should be avoided because most Lottery Jackpots are won by wagers that are balanced. Balanced wagers are wagers that are spread out and not clustered near the low or the high end.

If you remember we were play the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery using a 40 number play list. There are 3,838,380 possible wagers that can be generated using this 40 number list. Let’s plot a graph of the sums (Balanced Wager Scores) for all 3,838,380 wagers. Of course, I could have done this by hand using my calculator, but I figured you wanted to see this post before you died.  So, instead, I used LONA™, the Lottery Number Advisor.

The low to high sums are scaled into the 0 to 100 range. You can’t help but notice that the graph takes the form of the classical bell shaped curve. This points out graphically what I said in the last post.

The vast majority of lottery drawings are balanced wagers; neither tilting to far to one side or the other. So, spending your money on a wager near the minimum or maximum is probably not a very effective use of your lottery budget.

In fact, 90% of all possible wagers fall between 30 and 70; the blue area in the middle. Therefore, an effective Lottery Strategy would be to spend your lottery budget on wagers that fall between 30 and 70. This accomplishes two things:

1. You don’t waste your money on wagers that have a low probability of winning; the red area.
2. Your lottery dollars are concentrated in the area where they are more likely to do some good.

Here it is in terms that anyone can understand. There are two lakes.  One has 90% of all the fish in it and the other lake has only 10% of the fish.  So, if you’re going fishin’, which lake are you going to drop your line in?

This next graph is for the skeptics that think this is a fish story. On the right is a Histogram that shows the historical evidence that the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery itself, follows the same bell shaped curve. In the last 258 drawings of the lottery, very few winning jackpot numbers fall below 30 or above 70.

If you think that this is just an oddity found in the TX654 lottery, think again.  This is true for ALL lotteries. We have 73 US and Canadian lotteries in our data base and the graphs from each of those lotteries simply reemphasizes the importance of the Balanced Wager Strategy.

I don’t know about you, but it’s a beautiful Sunday morning, so, me and some skeptics are going fishing.

How do you like the graphs?  Got some ideas on how you would use them? Let me know and we’ll discuss it. But, you’ll have to excuse me now.  I’ve got some fish to clean.

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