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 [...]

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I’m often asked for lottery advice - and usually advice as to what numbers to pick!
Obviously nobody can pick winning numbers in advance, that’s fundamentally impossible. But what you should be doing is everything you can to maximise your chances of winning. And top of that list is one of the most frequently overlooked pieces [...]

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Did you guess how ‘Derren Brown: The System’ worked? Did you spot it even before the coin toss trick? I did but then I’m used to spotting such things as the same trick is used by lottery system sellers.
What Derren did was take a woman at random and feed her horse racing predictions. She was [...]

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I read in the paper that somebody won the jackpot, carried on playing using the same lucky numbers, and won the jackpot again just a short while later! Is it true jackpot numbers are repeated?
Yes and no!
Yes, any set of numbers can be repeated. Lottery balls have no memory, they don’t remember if they got [...]

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I’m worried about a computer randomly picking numbers for me. What are the odds of using quick pick selections rather than hand picking?
A quick pick is where the lottery machine randomly chooses the number for you. So you have two random events going on, the selection of your numbers AND the lottery draw itself… which [...]

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