Lucky Number: 1188

As lottery players, we’ve all asked how I can up my chances of winning the lottery. Of course, there’s no magic bullet, no one strategy that can help you guess the numbers and win big. After all, everyone knows the odds of winning any lottery are one in several millions, according on which draw you go for.

However, just because something’s unlikely to happen do mean you should contempt it. As the famous French playwright Moliere once said: “The greater the obstacle, the more dignity in overcoming it.” We know that winning the lottery is a long shot, but we play absolutely because it’s a long shot. Therefore, what are a few ways that you can shift those long odds in your favour? Buy more ticket by far and away the most common and accurate answer.

Actually, when we looked at responses from statisticians and mathematicians, they always suggested getting hold of more tickets as the only certain way to maximise your odds. Well, you’d have to be really wealthy in the first place to afford all the tickets you’d need to match all possible combinations; and you couldn’t avoid other people buying tickets with the winning numbers, hence you might end up sharing that jackpot. The more tickets you buy, the less your expected profit of course!

An independent statistical consultant, there have been lotteries which have shown easily detectable patterns.  We’ll admit, this probably isn’t a good chance these days, yet if you’ve got the time to look for lottery patterns in local state lotteries, go for it!

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