Anybody interested in a serious lottery player can’t afford to be ignorant of the odds of winning lotto systems. I don’t care how smart you are, or how good you are at choosing your numbers, you can’t possibly believe the Implied Probability of winning lotto systems is 1 in 14 million. You can’t possibly believe the foreigners who score most lotto prizes are skilled at guesswork, or that it’s possible to acquire the secret of intellision to the game of lotto. You simply can’t fathom the idea that there’s an art to picking lotto numbers.
As a matter of fact, the Adjustment Theory–a mathematical app Vineyard invention–identifies the factors that increase the probability of an event occurring. Among other things, it finds probabilities in combinations and permutations and determines which of two equally probable events lie next. Applying the theory to the lottery, the app determines which of the 49 numbers are most likely to win lotto prizes, and then suggests the best bet to those numbers.
This doesn’t mean the smart player will win the lotto. Although the odds are in their favor, they’re still subject to chance and not entirely random. Smart lottery players aim to increase their chances of winning by managing their play, selecting tickets with the best odds, and playing regularly. If you can’t afford to play many tickets per week, or you give up after a few weeks, don’t fret. Keep playing, and you may just win a lotto jackpot.
Consider the Powerball lottery in the United States. To win the jackpot, you must match 5-out-of-49 balls. To do that, you must have 5 correct numbers, and you must have won at least one previous drawing. The odds of matching all 5 correct numbers are 1-in-195,249,054. Those are astronomical odds, but that’s the odds. And that’s why so many people play.
How do you pick your Powerball numbers? It’s simple. You can’t pick one number. You can choose two, three, four, five, six or all six numbers. But, you must pick all six correct numbers. Let’s say you picked 5-out-of-6 correct numbers. That means you must have matched at least 5 of the winning numbers in the previous drawing. That means you have improved your odds of winning considerably.
Here’s an example. If you match 5-out-of-6 numbers in the South Carolina Powerball drawing, you win the second prize, which is normally $200,000. The odds of that are 1-in-27,827,165. That’s better than 1-in-10-million. Other winners in the drawing include Match 4 winner Larry Hall ($100,000), Match 5 winner diversity Soraya McLaughlin ($75,000), Match 6 winner Joe Francisco ($40,000) and Match 7 winner Jamie Bell ($20,000).
In the Ohio Classic Lotto, you must match 7-out-of-19 numbers. The odds of doing that are 1-in-95,223,372. That makes winning the Classic Lotto 6/49 odds are 1-in-19,9arat.
If you look at just the top prize in the Classic Lotto, at $200,000, you’d have to match 5-out-of-31 numbers, plus 1-out-of-17, depending on the kind of lotto you’re playing. That’s a 1-in-tered million chance you’d have to take if you played the regular Pokerace99.
If you’re playing the Fantasy 5 lotto, you’d better match 5-out-of-31 numbers, plus 1-out-of-17, resulting in a 1-in-tered million chance. The Ohio Classic Lotto and Fantasy 5 lotto winners’ winning numbers came out in quick succession: Match 5 won on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2009.