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Picking Lottery Numbers – Myth 1

March 23rd, 2009   ·   Read 29 Comments...

Myth

When picking lottery numbers you should NEVER pick the numbers that were drawn last week, because there is no chance they will be drawn this week…

Fact

Last weeks numbers still have EXACTLY the same chance of being drawn as every other combination! (Crazy huh)

Reason

I know it sounds logical at first. Who ever heard of the same numbers being picked twice in a row? Never happened right?

But the reality is it could happen.

Yeah, OK, so it could – but it’s still far less likely than other numbers, right..?

No!

It’s EXACTLY as likely as all the other numbers. Or to put it another way, it’s exactly as UNlikely as all the other possible results.

(Because all combinations are unlikely anyway. That’s the nature of a lottery, there are millions of combinations. So everything is unlikely.)

We Did WHAT Last Week..?!

You see there is no ‘memory effect’ here.

Those little balls have no brains, so they don’t know what happened last week. They just bounce around and pop out again without the slightest idea of what last weeks numbers were.

Don’t Believe The Hype

This myth is exactly the sort of thing those junk lottery systems use to take your money.

We’ll eliminate all those nasty unlikely combinations so you get a better chance of winning…

It’s a nice claim. But sadly it just isn’t true.

So when it comes to picking lottery numbers, excluding past results will NOT help your chances of winning. Right?

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29 Comments so far ↓

  • CornĂ© Botha

    even if you are right you can’t say this israel women is a scammer she said if i hit the jack i must pay her 10% she won 4.000 000 in israel lotto . i paid her 95 usd each month . in wheeling i pick 10 balls on her method i match 5 numbers . if you say that is bunch of luck than you don’t have this kind of knowledge of lotto that was a test not play so even i failed with ghana guy i have a good chance with israel women .

    • Lottery-Guy.com

      Nobody can pick numbers that are more likely to win – so paying anyone for numbers is plain crazy. Whether you pay them by cash upfront or in promised winnings. Of course it was luck.

  • K Kasturi

    Miracles do happen. If some chap falls off a moving train and survives, if some chap recovers from a terminal illness – there is an element of luck in the life of men. We all see instances of luck playing a part in our lives. So the best thing to do is choose any set of numbers which fancy takes, and trust in luck.

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