| What
To Avoid
Numbers NOT To Select When Playing
Lotto |
According to Lottery expert Gail Howard,
Lotto players who select their numbers thoughtlessly
or foolishly are destined to lose even before
the Draw takes place. By just knowing which
number combinations and patterns to avoid,
you'll have an advantage over other players--and
save money, too.
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1.
AVOID COMBINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN
BEFORE
Many players
like to bet the same set of numbers that
have won someone else a big Jackpot. By
doing so, they're almost guaranteed not
to win one themselves. Even in the lowest
odds 6 out of 25 Lotto game, the same
set of six numbers has a chance of being
drawn only once every 3, 405 years!
It's practically impossible for the exact
same set of six numbers to hit the Jackpot
twice.
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2.
AVOID BETTING SIX CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS
Six consecutive numbers (11-12-13-14-15-16,
for example) have never been drawn
in any state or international Lotto game.
Even five consecutive numbers is a very
rare occurrence. In most Lotto games, it
has never happened even once.
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3.
AVOID BETTING ONE NUMBER GROUP
Never choose all six numbers from one number
group, such as all single digits, all teens,
or all 20's. All six winning numbers being
drawn from one number group is highly unlikely
- since it has never happened before in
any Lotto game.
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4.
AVOID THE COMBINATION 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
The most popular set of numbers most often
played is: 1-2-3-4-5-6. Thousands of tickets
are bought in each Lotto Draw with this
combination. THIS TICKET IS GUARANTEED TO
LOSE because the selection is too far out
of balance to come up in a random drawing.
The proof of this claim is verified by the
Draw results in all the State and International
Lottery games. If six consecutive numbers
have never been drawn, and six numbers from
one number group have never been drawn either,
then what chance does the number combination
1-2-3-4-5-6 have?
The least likely combinations to be drawn
as winners are those at the tail ends of
a bell curve. These are the lowest six numbers
and the highest six numbers of any game.
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5. AVOID
PATTERN BETTING
Pattern betting is a very popular
method of marking bet slips. Most Lotto
bet slips look like this.
Patterns of numbers
marked in a row to make a straight line
(either across the bet slip or vertically
or diagonally) are very common. Straight
lines are so common, they were once played
on more than 150,000 tickets --- for just
one drawing! Other designs such as initials
or numbers also get heavy play. If such
numbers won, payouts would be very low.
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6.
AVOID NUMBER MULTIPLES
Other popular combinations
that get heavy play are the number multiples,
especially 5-10-15-20-25-30. Such combinations
have been played on at least 25,000 tickets
in one drawing. If those numbers were to
win a US$30 million jackpot, each winner
would receive a single one-time payment
of US$60.
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7. AVOID
ALL SAME LAST DIGITS
Many people like to play same last digits,
such as 3-13-23-33-43-53, or all the digits
that end in seven, or some other favorite
lucky number.
Even FOUR same last digits
only appear in less than two tenths of one
percent of all winnings. Winning sets of
numbers with 3 digits with the same last
number occur in less than 3% of all drawings.
Winning sets of numbers with TWO same last
digits occur in about 20% of all drawings.
Now, winning sets of numbers
with NO same last digits-- that's what happens
most often.
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8. AVOID
LOW NUMBER COMBINATIONS
Majority of Lotto players like to play the
calendar numbers, such as birth dates, anniversaries,
and so on. This means that the most heavily
played numbers are 1 through 31. Many Lotto
games have 40 or more numbers - and numbers
32 and above do come out quite frequently.
By ruling out non-calendar numbers, you
significantly lessen your odds of winning
a Jackpot.
Even if your calendar numbers
do hit, you'll probably have to share your
First Prize Jackpot with several other winners.
An incident like this happened on September
24, 1983, in the New York Lotto. The highest
Lotto number drawn was 30, and there were
46 First Prize winners.
If you've decided to try your
hand at the different Lottery number selection
systems, bear this in mind: the key to
success is playing the probabilities.
If you play a pattern that
occurs only five percent of the time, you
can expect that pattern to lose 95 percent
of the time. |
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