It’s a crazy $212 million jackpot draw tomorrow, but just what are your chances of winning the Mega Millions..? Mega Millions is different to ‘normal’ lottery draws. It’s a ‘power ball’ type draw which means it’s really 2 draws – and you have to win both to get the jackpot. That’s normally a very bad [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Did you guess how ‘Derren Brown: The System’ worked? Did you spot it even before the coin toss trick? [If you want to know more about how Derren does his crazy mind voodoo check out this video] I did but then I’m used to spotting such things as the same trick is used by lottery [...]

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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 [...]

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