Understanding Lottery Strategies

Reply #32

Developer — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:50:47 GMT

Wheeling is the way to reduce odds, the more lines you play the better the odds.

However you must play wheels that don't repeat any winning combinations as you must cover as many possible combinations to keep the odds as per the official draw odds. All reduced wheels reduce odds, the Lottery Statistic Analyser produces maximized wheels that dont repeat combinations.

If you want to increase the chances of a prize (no sorry maintain the official odds of a prize) its the only way.

Reply #31

psykomo — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 05:17:15 GMT

chasing dreams can be costly......so can wine, women, song, cars, boats, and planes

Reply #30

RJOh — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:31:39 GMT

Did the same thing with Monday's LL winnings and got similar results for tonight's MM drawing.

RJOh Multi-State Mega Millions 1 + 1 14-37-45-48-72, Mega Ball: 11 03-30-45-53-68, Mega Ball: 11 $2

Reply #29

RJOh — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:33:01 GMT

I played ten lines of Lucky for Life again tonight and got almost similar results. I may try again Thursday to see if I get better results.

RJOh Multi-State Lucky for Life 2 Numbers 04-08-17-41-47, Lucky Ball: 09 04-11-19-47-48, Lucky Ball: 02 $3

RJOh Multi-State Lucky for Life 2 Numbers 07-11-31-44-48, Lucky Ball: 14 04-11-19-47-48, Lucky Ball: 02 $3

RJOh Multi-State Lucky for Life 2 Numbers 02-11-35-38-47, Lucky Ball: 18 04-11-19-47-48, Lucky Ball: 02 $3

Reply #28

RJOh — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 03:52:54 GMT

There's one way to find out if one is willing to spend up to $50 on one combination of Pick5.

My program can handle Lucky for Life, RollingCash5, MegaMillions and PowerBall, maybe I'll see if it could handle Pick5 with some modifications.

Reply #27

Stack47 — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 03:37:20 GMT

The Ohio Lottery limitations of prize liability for the Pick-5 game should be the same as their Pick-3 and Pick-4 games, but their websites doesn't say how many tickets in any of those games triggers the liability cap. It's probably at least $2 million.

Reply #26

RJOh — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 02:48:04 GMT

Before RollingCash5, Ohio had a million dollars liability cap on all its daily games including Buckeye5. You might remember the guy that had 13 B5 winning tickets expecting to win $1.3M and had to share $1M with another winner. I checked Ohio website and couldn't find a cap but simply a statement that terminals will not print tickets that exceed the liability cap so buying a $20 pick5 ticket might not possible.

Reply #25

Novan60 — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 19:25:15 GMT

There is a problem with the play the same number strategy, statistical probability which while not consistent from one drawing to the next begins to hold true as more drawing occur.

Statistically speaking combinations of numbers on average appear every X drawings. For instance in a Keno type game picking 10 digits pairs of numbers will on average appears about once every 17 days. 4 numbers appear about once every 300 days. There are of course exceptions where 4 numbers may have appears togeth... [ More ]

Reply #24

Dracos — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 14:47:59 GMT

The fallacy that I often hear is if you play the same number your chances increase. Richard Lustig proudly states this advice even though it makes absolutely no sense, and is a cliche example of gambler's fallacy logic. This isn't how probability works. Each draw is an independent roll of the previous outcome. Picking a quick pick, in my opinion, is the best way to increase a person's odds.

Reply #23

selena141 — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 13:47:31 GMT

Bye

Reply #22

RJOh — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 08:38:49 GMT

I never thought of playing a pick5 combination more than once, but that works. I suspect if that ever happened there would be an investigation to see if such a winner had some inside information.

Reply #21

Stack47 — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 05:12:52 GMT

Which pick5 game are you talking about? Pick5 with odds of 1:100,000 has a top prize of $50,000 for a dollar ticket.

And a $20 wager gets $1 million without any effect on the 1:100,000 odds. As for showing a profit without hitting a jackpot, any 5 + 0 MM win should show a profit. but keeping that profit is another thing.

Reply #20

Kola — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 19:44:11 GMT

Nature, the environment outside your body, gave rise to genes. It and the 'environmental conditions' inside your body has an influence on genes. Yes it's in the Genes , but genes can 'change'. As we know, environmental factors, stressors, can unfavorably(or favorably) influence genetic expression(epigenetics) by turning certain genes on and off, or can cause mutations. So while it's true that a genetic propensity for a particular condition like lung cancer doesn't mean you'll get it, environment... [ More ]

Reply #19

GeneralMac — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 16:06:11 GMT

Back in my home town a group of 12 school workers (cafeteria,bus drivers,janitors........all women) didn't worry about a strategy. They all put a little loose change in a pot every week and purchased 1 lottery ticket per drawing.

About 10 years ago they hit the jackpot.

Since there was another winner in a different state, the jackpot got split.

Each school worker ended up with $2 Million.

Only 1 ticket purchased per drawing.

Reply #18

RJOh — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 09:29:25 GMT

RJOh Multi-State Mega Millions 1 + 1 06-17-24-51-67, Mega Ball: 09 14-26-39-48-51, Mega Ball: 09 $2

Used my LL winnings to buy the ten lines I predicted for Friday's MM drawing and only got a 1+1 for $2. Think I'll try ten lines of LL again this Monday. Has to work with strategy to get at lease 3 numbers per MM line with ten lines. Need 4 numbers per line (3+1 or 4+0) to get back at least 50% of my cost.

Reply #17

RJOh — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 06:19:55 GMT

Which pick5 game are you talking about? Pick5 with odds of 1:100,000 has a top prize of $50,000 for a dollar ticket. RollingCash5 has odds of 1:575,757 which seldom has a jackpot that exceeds $400,000.

I've never seen a lottery game that if played consistently will show a profit with winning a jackpot.

Reply #16

Stack47 — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:23:53 GMT

For a $20 wager you can get 100,000 to 1 chance of winning $1 million playing Ohio Pick-5, but that's assuming winning $1 million is the goal. For a $3 wager the same game win can collect more than $1 win in the Rolling Cash 5 at five times the odds. Players that want to be in every MM and PB drawing are spending over $300 a year and some of them never cash.

I'm not sure if it's possible to make a profit without winning a jackpot playing All-or-Nothing.

Reply #15

RJOh — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:59:59 GMT

I don't often play games with $2 per lines regardless of the return guaranteed but I did tonight with Lucy for Life and did better than expected with ten lines on the prediction board but winning MM $60M/$42M cash is more attractive than $1K a day for life.

RJOh Multi-State Lucky for Life 2 Numbers 06-17-25-40-42, Lucky Ball: 13 23-24-25-40-41, Lucky Ball: 05 $3

RJOh Multi-State Lucky for Life 2 Numbers 12-17-34-40-41, Lucky Ball: 16 23-24-25-40-41, Lucky Ball: 05 $3

RJOh Multi-Sta... [ More ]

Reply #14

grwurston — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:39:40 GMT

Novan60,

I don't think your post is too long at all.

There are many topics here that have been brought up many times, but you know what? Every day there are new members joining this site. So for them it may be something brand new that they are seeing for the very first time. I know it was for me when I first came to LP. I was a lottery novice when I first came here, and never knew how little I knew until I joined LP. I learned so much from the people here and am still learning even today,... [ More ]

Reply #13

Novan60 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:03:49 GMT

Thanks ... I guess.

Not sure how I could have stated anything substantive in fewer words, but we all have different motivations a methodologies for being interested in games of chance. I wrote this post because it is advice that I wish that I had discovered 16 years ago when I first started down this path and was wasting money with no real plan. Now I am at a point in my life where I want to pass on some of the lessons that I have learned to the next person who comes along and maybe save them... [ More ]

Reply #12

amber123 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:30:44 GMT

yea, the chance of winning big is miniscule, while cancer from smoking is almost a sure bet.

Not trying to promote smoking, but smokers have only about a 6-7% chance of getting cancer. I wouldn't call that a sure bet. I've known many people in their 70's and 80's who smoke like a chimney. My belief is that it's in the Genes. There are people who've never smoked and got lung cancer, so go figure.

Below is just one of the few sources I looked up, and they all say about the same % give o... [ More ]

Reply #11

haymaker — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:26:29 GMT

GiveFive,

Your post reminded me of when I quit smoking...said to myself I can spend the savings on lottery

and still have money left over.

yea, the chance of winning big is miniscule, while cancer from smoking is almost a sure bet.

I still want my beer, although now I prefer the non-alcoholic kind.

Reply #10

RJOh — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:20:11 GMT

Excellent post but it's too long. I almost immediately exited out of the thread when I saw the length of it.

It took me a couple of minutes to read his post but you're not alone in only wanting to spend only a second or two reading about lottery games. As many have said before spending more time on lotteries than it takes to buy a bunch of quick pick is a waste of time and that includes reading the instructions on the backs of play slips.

Reply #9

Soledad — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:45:01 GMT

If you want to increase your odds, buy 2 quick picks instead of 1. It's really that simple. I suppose you could also play and notice the times that you play and see which tickets are better or closer. I did that with a 6 out of 6 game and I notice the tickets I bought around noon time or 12 o'clock p.m. we're much better and closer to winning. So I started to buy the tickets only around that time, and I did get 4 out of 6 once. Anyways, those machines are funny but believe in yourself and it jus... [ More ]

Reply #8

GiveFive — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:53:11 GMT

Excellent post but it's too long. I almost immediately exited out of the thread when I saw the length of it.

While I do agree with everything you said, there's players like me who play for the fun/entertainment/amusement aspect of it. I know the lottery's a sucker bet, but I never spend more than I can afford to lose, and because I neither drink nor smoke, I don't feel all that badly by throwing money down the drain playing the lottery.

And who knows, although the chances of it happening a... [ More ]

Reply #7

Stack47 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 07:13:23 GMT

Whether they spend $10, $15, or $1000 a drawing there are still over 258 million combinations they won't have. I saw a pick-5 (5/37) strategy win a $100,000 jackpot, but the odds it beat were exactly the same as the purchasing a like number of QPs.

So I guess my point is eventually all 258 million MM combinations will be drawn, but it will take over 25,000 years for 1% of all the combinations to be drawn at 2 drawings a week. IMO the odds are too great to expect to win a jackpot and the small... [ More ]

Reply #6

RJOh — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:09:33 GMT

What's your point? Are you suggesting spending $1560 a year playing MM with a guaranteed $104-$154 return is no better than spending $1000 a year with no guarantees or even buying just one ticket for each drawing?

Twice I've come within one number of matching 6of6 for Ohio's Classic Lotto jackpot only playing ten lines, once in February of 2013 which I posted on the prediction board. In spite of that I never matched 4of6 so a winning strategy might not prove it self until it actually wins a j... [ More ]

Reply #5

Stack47 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:10:01 GMT

For this post, I m going to focus on the goal of winning a multi-million-dollar jackpot without having to spend more than $1,000.00 a year.

When I read that I thought of your 15 lines with all 15 bonus numbers MM strategy. Yours would cost $1560 a year minus the $104 it's guaranteed to win. Probably get several $2 and $5 winning tickets, but at minimum 10,720 to, 1 odds, I wouldn't count on finding a $50 or higher value winning ticket.

Not saying the strategy of betting $1000 a year can't... [ More ]

Reply #4

RJOh — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:41:40 GMT

The proof is in the pudding. Regardless whether you think you have a strategy or not if you aren't beating the overall odds of winning something by quite a bit you might as well be buying QPs. As far as having a goal, if it's not winning a jackpot or at least more than you spend then you should find a cheaper hobby. Neither one is likely but at least you can dream and chasing dreams can be costly.

Reply #3

Uluska — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:26:18 GMT

When budget is small, people usually play randomly by buying one ticket. There sure can be that winning combination in a future (or soon enough) that will make this person a winner, but it also might come many decades later, I mean person has to live ten lives before it will happen (vertually, if the game exists for that long).

When person spends more, all he does is he speeds up the game, his chances, lures them closer. That is if the win is to happen.

There are 365 winning combinations

Reply #2

Novan60 — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 05:17:38 GMT

Even a broken clock gets the time right once a day so given the volume of people who choose the quick pick option versus those who execute a strategy it is no surprise that more people win from quick picks.

I wasn't offering a new strategy, I was pointing out how to evaluate a strategy to help people avoid throwing money away on as strategy that in the end will cost them more money than they will ever win. Basically the exact point that you were making.

People make the same mistake with th... [ More ]

Reply #1

bobby623 — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:13:51 GMT

With respect.

Good presentation, however, you offer nothing new.

Lottery gamblers have been using what you suggest for 50+ years, yet the jackpots keep rolling along.

Most jackpots won with a single quick pick, rather some magical mathematical formulae.

Pity folks seem unable to try something new and different.

Understanding Lottery Strategies

Novan60 — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 20:44:05 GMT

When I started looking at playing lottery games it did not take me long to realize that there is no strategy in the world that can predict what the winning numbers are going to be for a specific drawing. Anyone who says differently is selling snake oil.

To understand if a strategy will be successful one must first define what the goal of the strategy is. For some people the goal is winning more than they spend, for others it is winning a multi-million-dollar jackpot. Attempting to define and