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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It’s not often the photos of lottery winners contain quite so much flesh on show. But Margaret Dallard and partner Brian Tucker are not your typical lottery winners. In fact there was plenty more flesh displayed from many of those present at the celebration Margaret and Brian held to mark their good fortune in picking [...]

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Is George trying to look young and cool again..?
George W. Bush often uses the phrase “like totally”. No, like he does, like totally!
Surely this annoying phrase is only used by teenagers, isn’t it?
Well actually a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania, Mark Liberman, found that “like totally” is widely used by men and women of [...]

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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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