I see so much dumb totally made up lottery maths around, it’s no wonder people get confused.

Just today I came across another ’system’ teaching people to predict lottery numbers by using ‘lottery sums’. What do they mean by using sums for the lottery?

In a nutshell the expert idiot writer meant adding up groups of past numbers, and making silly conclusions about them…

You sum (or ‘add’) the first two numbers, then the second and third groups of two numbers. Then you look at what range the sum totals fall into, and lo and behold based on the last 87 years results from the Albanian Mega-Super-De-Dooper Lotto… there is a pattern..!

Here’s why lottery sums are so dumb:-

1. If you apply completely made up calculations with no logic behind them to sets of numbers in a fixed range - there will always be patterns, because the numbers are in a fixed range!
2. It’s like looking at clouds and making faces, except cloud pictures are fun and not totally dumb…
3. Past results!? What the heck have past results got to do with it anyway. Are you really claiming that the little balls have a life of their own and remember what happened before?
4. Just because they try and use complicated sounding maths terms like ’standard deviation’ does NOT make them clever or right!
5. It’s like saying ‘pick only numbers between x and y because 70% of the past results are in that range’ - yeah, great, that’s because 70%  of any possible result is in that range too! What about the other 30%!?

Of course this kind of dumb analysis makes absolutely no difference at all to your chances of winning. Thankfully it can’t make your chances any worse, but I guarantee it will NOT improve them either.

Hey, I just saw a cute little dog face in last nights lottery results…

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No sooner has one enormous EuroMillions jackpot been won (not that the normal 15 million jackpots are small!), but WHAM, they then go and announce a EuroMillions SuperDraw.

So what is a SuperDraw?

Two important things. First, it basically means a very big jackpot - this time it’s 125 Million Euros. And that’s a good time to play your saved up entries.

But second, and most important of all. It means a guaranteed jackpot payout, and that can be very exciting indeed.

Normally when nobody matches the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, the jackpot prize pool rolls over to the next draw. That’s what a ‘rollover’ is, and how we got to last weeks huge jackpot when it rolled over five times in a row.

But with a Superdraw, EuroMillions will pay out that 125 million GUARANTEED. So if nobody matches the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, that 125 million is rolled down to the next prize level, and the next prize level, until they find someone they can give it to!

They normally only do this after 11 rollovers!

Essentially that means you could have a much better chance of winning the jackpot in a SuperDraw. Why? If you assume nobody matches all the numbers, then you have less numbers to match than usual to get the jackpot, and a huge jackpot too.

That makes a EuroMillions Superdraw a very special beast, and one I recommend playing.

Play in my favourite syndicate and you get enough entries to guarantee you match both lucky stars anyway - so add that to a SuperDraw, and things get pretty exciting. If you want to play with us you can join here (don’t hang around though, the big day is Friday 26th September 2008 so you want to make sure you are in well before then).

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If you want to play EuroMillions today you better be quick. Those lottery terminals are taking a real battering.

That jackpot has now rolled over 5 times since the last jackpot winner on July 18. Which now gives you a chance at an enormous prize pool of 114 million Euros.

And if a single player were to pick the winning numbers, it would be the largest lottery prize in the world. Ever. Coutts & Co (bankers for the Queen of England) say the winner could earn over 16,000 Euros a DAY just in interest alone. Not bad for a quick pick eh?

That’s assuming of course the winner didn’t spend a few million straight off buying the big house, the cars, houses for friends and family, charity donations etc.

So what would you do with your leftover 10,000 Euros a DAY..?

If you want to play EuroMillions tonight, think about joining my favourite EuroMillions syndicate - you get a better chance of winning, and can still end up with millions in your pocket after sharing!

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You might have seen it driving around promoting the Euro Millions lottery, particularly in Belgium. This amazing looking tuned Rolls Royce is actually a Silver Cloud II.

I’m not sure a pimped up Silver Cloud would be my first choice of car, but when you’re rolling (or is that Rolls Royce’ing) in the millions I guess you’re entitled to drive whatever the heck you like!

Hey, send me a photo if you’ve spotted it near you.

And don’t miss the Euro Millions draw today. It’s a big rollover, now up to 69 million Euros. If you can’t get to a lottery terminal and want to play online and/or you want a better chance of winning head over to my favourite Euro Millions syndicate (you get 36 times the chance of winning for just over 6 Euros).

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He may be 33 and still live at home with his mum and dad, but his parents Bob and Pat Green are now lottery winners with an extra £2.3 million to their name.

“We’ve lived in the same house 20 years and Stewart still lives with us” said Bob, 64, of Horsham. “He is not engaged or married, so if there is anybody who can help him out, he’s looking for a rich lady with sporting interests”. Bob may have been joking, but thankfully Stewart’s two older sisters have left home.

Bob and wife Pat, 65, own and run a garage together, and say they will carry on working as they love it so will keep on running the business for as long as they enjoy it.

As to what the lottery winners plan to do with the money, Bob, self-confessed motorbike nut, says “I don’t know what we’ll spend it on yet, but we’ve booked a holiday to the Isle of Man TT races next year” - and he does plan to add another motorbike to his collection.

Their selected winning numbers were chosen at random, although Bob was nearly in trouble as he had been suggesting they try changing them as they never won…

Of course you and I know keeping the same numbers or changing them is not going to affect what comes out of the ball machine. So they were just as likely to win if they had changed their numbers - maybe they would have won last week instead!

So do you stick with the same numbers every week? Or do you think it’s superstitious nonsense to avoid changing your numbers? Let me know what you think.

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