Yes, the Pick 3 lottery is much easier to win. But as a lottery game, it pretty much sucks. Because you might just as well be feeding your money into a slot machine. The best you can ever hope for with most Pick 3 games is a fairly small win. And that’s the big prize! [...]

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This has to be one of the most over-used and unoriginal phrases. The lottery is a tax on the stupid… Or my personal favourite… the lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged. Gosh, that’s so desperately witty. This phrase has been abused by dull, smug people for years. Sadly, they think nobody will notice [...]

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It’s a question I get asked a lot. Along with simply ‘which lottery is the best?’ (to which my tongue in cheek answer is… ‘the lottery that just paid you the jackpot.’) The Best Odds Of Winning But it is a serious question, because the odds of the game are the number one factor that [...]

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I get asked this type of question quite often. Surprisingly the answer depends on you. The UK has various lottery games, from Hot Picks to Thunderball. All with different odds, all with different prize divisions and amounts. Some with very different methods of play. So it’s certainly confusing! All lottery games balance the odds against [...]

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Xzotto, the lottery pool that isn’t, have launched a new website (still badly explained) and a new feature – called ‘Floating 5′. Glimmer Of Hope..? To be fair this is the first glimmer of any sense from Xzotto. But I do just mean glimmer so don’t get excited yet folks. On the face of it [...]

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