I saw it again today. It makes no sense. But every self appointed half baked expert seems to want to regurgitate the same rubbish. And these are the people who want you to pay them to tell you how to select your lottery numbers..!
To avoid any chance of being sucked into the myth, I’d like you to suspend your normal perception of how a lottery works. Imagine the lottery draw is made using a lottery machine, full of lottery balls as normal, but there are no numbers on these balls – no markings at all in fact. In this draw machine there are 49 little balls but each one is a different colour – reds and greens and yellows and blues. But no other markings. None.
So, you win this lottery by picking colours from a colour chart – a bit like the old fashioned way of choosing paint (before we had clever ‘pick anything you want’ colour matching and mixing machines!). If six balls the same colour as the ones you chose get drawn, you hit the jackpot… and then you can start thinking numbers again, very big numbers 
Now would it seem sensible to you that the chances of any combination of 6 colours being drawn out of the machine, is exactly the same as any other combination of 6? Would it make sense to that there is no better chance of Red and Yellow and Pink and Green, Orange and Purple appearing..? Even though you may recognise the pattern of colours as being most of a rainbow (can you Sing A Rainbow Too 
?) it doesn’t mean they are more likely to appear!
So can anyone tell me why so many ‘lottery experts’ throw out combinations such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 on the grounds they are ‘unlikely combinations’? Yes, our brain sees a pretty pattern, just like the rainbow, but those balls don’t know anything about them being a pretty pattern. Neither does the draw machine. So just because you allocate a number to a ball instead of a colour why on earth would that make it less (or more!) likely to jump out of the machine.
So next time you see anyone selling a lottery system that claims to pick better numbers, can you please send them an email asking them why they exclude combinations like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Then send their answer to me so I can laugh as another self proclaimer expertly shoots themselves in the foot.
[Footnote: There is a reason not to select certain combinations of numbers, but it has nothing to do with chances of winning. More on that another time.]
Hi Lottery-Guy,
Do you happen to know of a good lottery ticket printing software? I need it to print from a csv file.
I would want to use it to print 3-4 and 6 number lotto games. Mostly I am interested in the six number printing format.
Russ
Hey Lottery Guy. How can you know a lotto game is rigged? Cause here in South Africa it’s all possible. I hear the less a number is played through all people it just boosts the number of chances to come up.
Respectfully, I wish to play a lottery game which has 25 numbers, I need to have 15 numbers to win. Please inform me how to win this game?
Thanks, as I await your response.
Hi Eric
There is no magic system to win any lottery game – the draws are all random. So the best you can do is to improve your chances of winning. So I’d suggest you read my free lottery tips, and maybe also consider something like Win Lotto Systems to help develop your strategy for playing that lottery.
Good luck.