Lottery Jackpots

In my last post, Lottery Jackpots - Don’t Bet on Tails #1, I introduced the famous Bell Shaped Curve. One such graph from the Lottery Number Advisor called the Balanced Wager Distribution graph and it is shown below. Before showing you how this graph can Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery Jackpots, I need to explain what a Balanced Wager is.

Early lottery strategists observed that the average value of winning lottery numbers tended to cluster near the middle. In a 6/54 lottery, the six winning numbers would be spread out over the range of 1 to 54 and their average value would be around 27; right in the middle. For example, if the winning numbers were 3-11-24-31-39-53 the average value would be:

(3+11+24+31+39+53)/6  = 26.83

Instead of averaging, let’s make it simpler and just add them up and call this the Balanced Wager Score.

3+11+24+31+39+53 = 161

Now the lowest possible score would occur if the winning numbers were 1-2-3-4-5-6 or 21. The highest possible score would be 49-50-51-52-53-54 or 309. Therefore, the middle would be around 165. Any wager where the sum of the numbers is in the vicinity of 165 would be considered a Balanced Wager.

In a 6/54 lottery, there are 25,827,165 possible wagers! The graph below shows how the Balance Wager Scores for all of these wagers are distributed from lowest score to the highest. Scores range from 0 to 100. So, a Balanced Wager score of 21 is the same as 0, a score of 309 is the same as 100 and a score of 165 (a Balanced Wager) is 50; right in the middle.

The graph shows that there are nearly 800,000 wagers with scores of 50 (165). In fact, it’s easy to see that most of the wagers fall in the range between 30 and 70.

But, understanding what a Balanced Wager Distribution graph is, and how to use it to Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery Jackpots and save you money at the same time, are two different things. In the next post, I’ll begin to show you how it’s done.

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Lottery Jackpots

My last post, Lottery Tools - Truths to Lies, set the stage for the next series of posts where I’ll demonstrate several methods that can Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery Jackpots. Of course, these methods require the use of a computer and some good Lottery Software. As for myself, I’m using LONA™, the Lottery Number Advisor.

One mathematical tool used throughout business, industry and government is the Second Fundamental Theorem of Probability; better known as the Central Limit Theorem or CLT. If you want some background, visit this Wikipedia page on the CLT.

You may not recognize the name of the theorem but, you’ve seen the results many times and know it better as the famous Bell Shaped Curve. One such graph, taken from LONA™, is shown below.

Now, if you’re not impressed with this graph, you should be. Because, this single graph can Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery Jackpots and save you money at the same time. Before I show you how that is done, I need to explain what a Balanced Wager is. I’ll do that in my next post.

Things are just starting to get interesting. So, don’t miss the next posts.

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Lottery Tools

In the last post, Lottery Tools - The Computer Age I talked about the enormous impact that the technological advances of the last 30 years have had on our society; specifically the computer. In this post, let’s examine how this modern computer marvel forces modern man to question and reexamine ancestral truths and beliefs.

In lotteries of yesteryear, the chances of Winning the Lottery were the same for everyone (at least if the game was fair). But, to continue with this belief is simply a failure to realize our place in history. Only a hermit would be unaware of the impact that computers have had on our lives. Even if we ignore the visible and obvious improvements, the sheer quantity of mans knowledge doubles every 5 years! That means that in the next five years of your life, mankind will accumulate as much new knowledge as presently exists in the world today! Even though it is impossible for one person to truly comprehend this, stop reading for a moment or two and attempt to contemplate the implications.

The advent of the enormous computer power that we have at our disposal today has caused many previously accepted truths and beliefs to become modern myths and legends. We can do today, what our ancestors knew was impossible. We can think about things today, that our ancestors would have considered folly. We can imagine things today, what our ancestors would have considered to be lunacy.

So, for all of us today, it’s time to take another look at the lottery. It’s time to question previously held beliefs and put them to the test. That’s what Lottery Software like LONA™, your Lottery Number Advisor, does and that’s what I do on Lotto Blog.

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Lottery Tools

The first record of a Lottery game was around 200 BC, during the Han Dynasty in China. At various times throughout history, lotteries were used as a means of raising money for defense or to fund a war effort. In fact, the Continental Congress used a lottery to raise funds to fight the Revolutionary War back in 1776. In every case, as long as the game was fair, every player had the same chance of winning. But, historically, the games weren’t always fair. As a result of this checkered past, lotteries were outlawed in the US for many years. Then in 1964, New Hampshire created the first lottery of the 20th century. This begins, what has been called, the modern era of the lottery.

Lotteries have now become so popular that they have spread around the world to nearly every country. People the world over love the lottery and ticket sales number in the Billions each year. And with this growth, we’ve witnessed a cultural phenomenon. Historically, cultural changes evolved slowly over centuries. But, no longer. Within the span of one lifetime, the world has gone from no computers to nearly everybody having access to a PC. This has serious implications for our society overall, but my focus is the lottery.

Some people still rely on their reasoned beliefs that were formed before computer power was available to them. Many old well reasoned ideas and beliefs, have not kept pace with the rapid advance of technology. Many old beliefs have become myth and fiction. Old truths have transitioned to lies, cultivated by misconceptions and misunderstandings. Old ideas and thinking die hard. It’s time to reevaluate the validity of old beliefs in the revealing light of the computer age.

In the old days, no one had access to a computer, but, today, your PC has more computing power than an IBM 360 mainframe computer had in 1965. It would be simply naive to assume that a computer and some good Lottery Tools could not shed some light on our favorite, mathematically rich pastime; the lottery.

That’s the topic of my next post.

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Winning the Lottery

As those of you who have been following my blog are probably aware, an exciting new lottery concept evolved before your very eyes; your Lottery Footprint. The idea came to me as a result of writing this blog, it germinated here and grew into a new lottery tool that will be included in the next generation of the Lottery Number Advisor. The lottery is fertile ground for new concepts and ideas and being a part of the evolution of lottery software is very exciting.  It’s been said, ‘Don’t tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!’  We use these words to inspire our R&D efforts to find new and better Lottery Tools so that LONA™ continues to evolve and improve.

Some of you have asked if the Lottery Footprint can be applied to other lotteries? In my examples, I used the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery but the Lottery Footprint is a universal tool applicable to any lottery. So here is an example of the Lottery Footprint being applied to a 5 number lottery; specifically the Florida Fantasy Five 5/36 lottery.

For convenience, LFP formula is repeated here.

LFP = tickets purchased /# of possible wagers in Millions

For the FL536 lottery the denominator (# of possible wagers in Millions) will be smaller than the TX654 lottery.  In fact the number of possible wagers is 376,992. This is considerably smaller than the 25+ million for the TX654 and, as should be expected, the size of the lottery jackpots are considerably smaller also.

If you buy 1 tickets, your LFP is 1/0.376992 or 2.65. This is the lowest LFP for the FL536 lottery. If you buy 25 tickes, you have increased your LFP to 66.31.

But, being a Serious Lottery Player, you want to improve your coverage even more without spending more money.  So, the first thing you are going to do is develop a reduced Play List. In this example, you reduced the Play List to 28 numbers which reduces the number of possible wagers to 98,280.  The result is that your LFP increased to 25/.0928 or 269.40. Not bad.

Of course, you can do even better by applying Restrictions as I have demonstrated in previous posts.

So, if you think you’re a serious player, the sky isn’t the limit anymore. Wherever you want to go, the Lottery Number Advisor can take your there.

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