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• mreco99

  

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  Hi

  How can you work out which of these two situations give you better odds of winning the jackpot...

  £10 a time on 10 lotteries

  or

  £100 on one lottery.

  Is there a stats expert around :-)

  So its the same bet, but one of the options gets you into 10 lotteries, but the other option gets 10 times more tickets on one lottery.

   

  Simon
• Tialuvslotto

  

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  Try this: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/300435

  "There is no such thing as luck; only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

  ~Robert A. Heinlein
• mreco99

  

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  thanks, interesting, but a simpler answer would be nicer.
• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  Playing one line for 10 games gives you the best cost to coverage ratio.  A few years back I went

  over this in great detail showing why it's so.  The difference is very small so it's not really worth

  basing your play on that alone.  In a nutshell the more lines you play the better the overall odds.

  If playing more than one line then go for as much coverage as your budget allows.  One simple

  method to do this is to play all the numbers in the fewest lines possible.  A 5-39 can be covered

  in 8 lines with only one repeat number.   Choose the numbers for each line so that they kind of

  mimic the games history.  There are lottery programs / systems that can help build smarter lines

  RL

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• mreco99

  

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  brilliant, thanks RL

  I run a syndicate so i get a number of lines each time
• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  No problem, one tip I like to stress is to count the number of digits that make up the lines you play.

  In a 5-39 matrix around 75% of all draws will have either 5 or 6 different digits.  This is a fact and

  is a product of the matrix.  If 75% of all lines in the matrix have 5 or 6 different digits than so will

  the drawings +/- a small deviation normally less than 1%. 

  Example.

  1-15-23-34-35   has 5 different digits 1-2-3-4-5

  12-18-24-33-37 has 6 different digits 1-2-3-4-7-8

  Each digit is counted only once regardless of the number of times it shows in a single line.

  This won't guarantee you a win but it makes since to fish where most of the fish hang out.

  Games with a larger matrix like PB 5-69 will move into the 6-7 total digit range.  There are 

  many little things that can be done to improve ones chances but even with them all it's still

  a uphill battle.

  RL

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• elios311

  

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  In response to mreco99

  Quote: Originally posted by mreco99 on Mar 31, 2016

  Hi

  How can you work out which of these two situations give you better odds of winning the jackpot...

  £10 a time on 10 lotteries

  or

  £100 on one lottery.

  Is there a stats expert around :-)

  So its the same bet, but one of the options gets you into 10 lotteries, but the other option gets 10 times more tickets on one lottery.

   

  Simon

  Calculate the average odds of winning the jackpot among those 10 lotteries, then compare those average odds with the odds of that specific lottery that you intend to spend 100 on (assuming you don't care about the jackpot prize value but only intend to win). If not all tickets cost the same, things get complicated. You can also just post the jackpot odds of those 10 lotteries and I or whoever reads this will do it for you.