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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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