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 numbers, and making silly conclusions about them…

You sum (or ‘add’) the first two numbers, then the second and third groups of two numbers. Then you look at what range the sum totals fall into, and lo and behold based on the last 87 years results from the Albanian Mega-Super-De-Dooper Lotto… there is a pattern..!

Here’s why lottery sums are so dumb:-

1. If you apply completely made up calculations with no logic behind them to sets of numbers in a fixed range - there will always be patterns, because the numbers are in a fixed range!
2. It’s like looking at clouds and making faces, except cloud pictures are fun and not totally dumb…
3. Past results!? What the heck have past results got to do with it anyway. Are you really claiming that the little balls have a life of their own and remember what happened before?
4. Just because they try and use complicated sounding maths terms like ’standard deviation’ does NOT make them clever or right!
5. It’s like saying ‘pick only numbers between x and y because 70% of the past results are in that range’ - yeah, great, that’s because 70%  of any possible result is in that range too! What about the other 30%!?

Of course this kind of dumb analysis makes absolutely no difference at all to your chances of winning. Thankfully it can’t make your chances any worse, but I guarantee it will NOT improve them either.

Hey, I just saw a cute little dog face in last nights lottery results…

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So what is a SuperDraw?

Two important things. First, it basically means a very big jackpot - this time it’s 125 Million Euros. And that’s a good time to play your saved up entries.

But second, and most important of all. It means a guaranteed jackpot payout, and that can be very exciting indeed.

Normally when nobody matches the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, the jackpot prize pool rolls over to the next draw. That’s what a ‘rollover’ is, and how we got to last weeks huge jackpot when it rolled over five times in a row.

But with a Superdraw, EuroMillions will pay out that 125 million GUARANTEED. So if nobody matches the 5 numbers and 2 lucky stars, that 125 million is rolled down to the next prize level, and the next prize level, until they find someone they can give it to!

They normally only do this after 11 rollovers!

Essentially that means you could have a much better chance of winning the jackpot in a SuperDraw. Why? If you assume nobody matches all the numbers, then you have less numbers to match than usual to get the jackpot, and a huge jackpot too.

That makes a EuroMillions Superdraw a very special beast, and one I recommend playing.

Play in my favourite syndicate and you get enough entries to guarantee you match both lucky stars anyway - so add that to a SuperDraw, and things get pretty exciting. If you want to play with us you can join here (don’t hang around though, the big day is Friday 26th September 2008 so you want to make sure you are in well before then).

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That jackpot has now rolled over 5 times since the last jackpot winner on July 18. Which now gives you a chance at an enormous prize pool of 114 million Euros.

And if a single player were to pick the winning numbers, it would be the largest lottery prize in the world. Ever. Coutts & Co (bankers for the Queen of England) say the winner could earn over 16,000 Euros a DAY just in interest alone. Not bad for a quick pick eh?

That’s assuming of course the winner didn’t spend a few million straight off buying the big house, the cars, houses for friends and family, charity donations etc.

So what would you do with your leftover 10,000 Euros a DAY..?

If you want to play EuroMillions tonight, think about joining my favourite EuroMillions syndicate - you get a better chance of winning, and can still end up with millions in your pocket after sharing!

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I’m not sure a pimped up Silver Cloud would be my first choice of car, but when you’re rolling (or is that Rolls Royce’ing) in the millions I guess you’re entitled to drive whatever the heck you like!

Hey, send me a photo if you’ve spotted it near you.

And don’t miss the Euro Millions draw today. It’s a big rollover, now up to 69 million Euros. If you can’t get to a lottery terminal and want to play online and/or you want a better chance of winning head over to my favourite Euro Millions syndicate (you get 36 times the chance of winning for just over 6 Euros).

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“We’ve lived in the same house 20 years and Stewart still lives with us” said Bob, 64, of Horsham. “He is not engaged or married, so if there is anybody who can help him out, he’s looking for a rich lady with sporting interests”. Bob may have been joking, but thankfully Stewart’s two older sisters have left home.

Bob and wife Pat, 65, own and run a garage together, and say they will carry on working as they love it so will keep on running the business for as long as they enjoy it.

As to what the lottery winners plan to do with the money, Bob, self-confessed motorbike nut, says “I don’t know what we’ll spend it on yet, but we’ve booked a holiday to the Isle of Man TT races next year” - and he does plan to add another motorbike to his collection.

Their selected winning numbers were chosen at random, although Bob was nearly in trouble as he had been suggesting they try changing them as they never won…

Of course you and I know keeping the same numbers or changing them is not going to affect what comes out of the ball machine. So they were just as likely to win if they had changed their numbers - maybe they would have won last week instead!

So do you stick with the same numbers every week? Or do you think it’s superstitious nonsense to avoid changing your numbers? Let me know what you think.

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Whilst designer clothing is not at the top of the pairs shopping list, they plan to pay off their mortgages and give money to the eight children they have between them.

But they both plan to continue working at their jobs with Dungeness Power Station in Kent. “Nobody at work knew we were naturists…” said Brian. I have I feeling the secret is probably out now..!

The couple played just three lines a week, mostly made up from family birthdays. Of course playing birthdays is not going to give you a better chance of winning as the wise players here will know. But it does give you a reason to adjust the way you play - unless you want to share your jackpot with lots of other lottery winners it makes sense not to play too many birthdate numbers.

What do you think? How many birthday numbers (1-31) do you play in a line? How many birthdate numbers in a line would it take before you rejected a randomly generated entry? Add your comments below.

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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 of advice I can give you… play the right lottery game.

Now the right lottery game for you will depend on:-

• what country you live in
• what games are available
• AND what your goals are in terms of winning

Obviously we all want to win big, right? But what most people really want is ‘life changing’ big. To some people that may be as little as a few thousand pounds/dollars/Euros. To others it may be a lot more. But you need to know this otherwise you can’t make the best decision as to what game to play!

Once you know ‘how much’ will do it for you, then for every lottery game available to you find a) the typical jackpot amount, and b) the odds of winning (check your lottery companies official website for these details).

Now you can wisely pick the game that gives you the best chance of winning the life changing sum of money you’re aiming for. Why play a game with jackpot odds of 1-in-72 million if there is a game with odds of 1-in-5 million that would change your life if you actually did win it?

That little gem of lottery advice alone can instantly double your chances of winning - and maybe even give you up to TEN TIMES the chance. It will cost you nothing to apply it, and goes on working forever! Please add your comment below to let me know how much this improved your winning chances.

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So are we about to see the richest ever Australian lottery winner?

The highly popular Australian Powerball game was made to pay out very big prizes - and very big jackpot winners. Previously, the largest ever lottery wins have been more than $30 million only 4 times. And that’s since the game launched back in 1996, making the draw this week a very special event for all Australians.

Who were the other big winners?

Three of those huge jackpots were winners from the Powerball game, with one each from Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Oz Lotto provided the fourth biggest win.

Oz Lotto has also created the biggest ever Australian lottery prize to date. And it happened just a few weeks ago. A very nice 1st division prize of $47 Million was claimed on 29 April 2008. It was shared by just 2 winning tickets, both bought in Sydney’s western suburbs. One was by a young man who claimed $24 Million, the other a syndicate of laboratory workers - who after sharing out the prize money still got $1.5 Million each to celebrate with.

If you want to join the fun for this historical draw there is an Australian Powerball syndicate you can join online. It’s open to players all over the world, so a great choice if you can’t get a ticket because you don’t live in Australia! And as a syndicate it goes without saying that you also get a better chance of winning too - particularly important if you want to play powerball draws which are tougher to win to start with.

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Source: $50 Million Australian Powerball Jackpot - Largest Ever!

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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 all ages. And incredibly middle-aged men use it most. So say what you like about GW, he isn’t cool, or even trying this time :-).

This belief that if something feels new to us then it must be new to everybody else too, is actually known as the infrequency illusion. We have a natural tendency to overestimate our own personal experience and not step back and look at the big picture.

This is why the less wise lottery player often convinces themself that they have discovered a significant secret to beating the lottery.

Here’s what I mean.

Take wheeling systems. And especially wheeling systems sold by people who like to use lots of testimonials to prove how effective their ’systems’ are (whilst being careful not to make any claims they would have to legally substantiate…).

The conclusion the buyer is supposed to reach is that wheeling improves your chances of winning because look at all the people who have won using it. The reality of course should include looking at the much larger group of people who have not won whilst using the same system.

Another example.

It’s quite common to hear people say:

“don’t play consecutive numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - they will never win”.

But step back and look at the bigger picture and you’ll find plenty of other combinations that have never won either. That’s because it takes a lot of draws to average out a jackpot win for each of 10’s of millions of possible results.

Even the longest running lottery in the world (yes, the Netherlands!) has had less than 15,000 draws. And most lotteries have had less than a few thousand draws!

But of course, those other results that have never won don’t get mentioned, because the numbers are not as visually pleasing to the eye.

So next time you see something that looks significant about the lottery results, step back a moment and consider if it only looks significant because you don’t have enough information. Because maybe the infrequency illusion has just paid you a visit.

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[A] You’re absolutely right.

Do you remember rolling a dice at school and charting the results? You tallied up each number as it was rolled, and then drew a little bar graph of the results. And the graph made pretty much a straight line proving that all the numbers had the same chance of being rolled.

Or did it?

Actually your graph was pretty wonky - oh yes it was! But don’t take offense, I’m sure you drew yours just as well as I did ;-). But all of our graphs were actually pretty wonky, and wonky in different ways too. If we took all our results together and drew another graph then we’d have one that was smoother, but still not perfectly straight.

We all get caught up in what we think we learned about ‘averages’.

But the fact is if you take any set of past results from any lottery for any period in time, you will find the same thing. Some results appear more or less often than others - a wonky graph. And that’s because this is exactly the sort of result that is entirely normal for a random process. If it were not possible for this to happen then the results would not be random.

With randomness if you actually repeat the ‘test’ enough times then every possible set of results would happen. Not just every result, but every different wonky graph for each set of results you pull out. So everything from never winning a single thing on the lottery, to hitting the jackpot every single draw for your whole life!

This is how random works. Just because the current state of play is ‘less likely than the true average’ does not mean there is anything unusual going on.

The weak point in the chain here is actually our brains - they love to see patterns in randomness. That’s the nature of our brains, we just can’t help trying to make a nice comfortable order out of things. And when it happens to be numbers we’re trying to make order of we’re even worse than ever!

So the real question here is not which numbers to play as a result of all this analysis, but whether the past results have anything useful to reveal to us in the first place. And the fact is, they don’t.

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Source: Analysing Lottery Results Reveals Unusual Pattern…

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