Don't Count On Winning The Lottery On Your Birthday :(

nipsirc

Member
Everyone who purchases a lottery ticket is playing a lottery system whether they are consciously aware of it or not. Even the individual who buys a Lotto 649 quick pick is playing a system that improves his or her chances of winning the lottery based upon how many tickets they choose to purchase for their system. The lottery player that selects just one 649 quick pick for each draw is playing a random selection system providing the player with odds of 1 in 13,983,816. The odds for this system are improved simply by purchasing more and more quick picks providing more and more chances to win with the randomly selected number sets. This system is very inefficient and obviously expensive for an individual to play if they wish to have numerous chances to win the jackpot. Consider this system to be labeled as "hazardous the the lottery player's wealth."

It is prudent to play less expensive, more effective systems for successful lottery wagering.

There are probably as many systems for lottery number selection and play as there are lottery players that give thought to predicting their "lucky numbers". Some Lotto 649 players write all 49 digits, or just their pool of special numbers, onto poker chips or pieces of paper, place them in a hat and them reach in to select the various combinations of six numbers for filling in their betting slips. Others mark their lottery ticket selection boxes to form religious symbols or certain patterns on their ticket boards. Some select numbers from a deck of cards to predict the winning draw results in the upcoming lottery. I even heard of a person that rubs his young son's head while quickly writing down the numbers that are subsequently uttered by the child.

Whatever your particular method is for the divination of lucky lottery numbers, I'll bet that you have used the numbers of your birth date on at least several occasions.

Not to diminish from the fact that your natal day should be the best and most rewarding day of the year for you … in the area of lotto wagering, your birth date numbers have very little chance of providing you with a lottery birthday present.

Picking lotto numbers from birth dates starts you out on a disadvantaged path for playing the lottery. Because the month and day birthday numbers are limited to the digits 1 to 12 and 1 to 31, your selections within numerical tens groupings exclude the numbers 32 to 49 and bias your ability to cash in on potential winning hits in over one third of a 649 Lottery's numbers. Even if you did win an upper tier lotto prize you would have a higher probability of a diminished return by sharing that prize pool with more winners than other number selection choices because so many other lotto players also use their birthday numbers as well.

Let's select anyone's birth date and check out their potential for wins. Why don't we take for example, a former Prime Minister of Canada - Paul Martin's birthday and see how many tickets Paul would have cashed in if he had counted on his birthday numbers to provide him with winning returns in Canada's Lotto 649. On second thought let's use someone else's birthday. Paul's numbers are bound to be losers and we don't want to bias the results of this exercise.

Instead lets use the birth date of Elvis Presley and see how many times the numbers in his birth date have been drawn together in winning combinations since the beginning of Lotto 649 on June 12, 1982 until May 27, 1998.

The "King" was born on January 8, 1935. The basic number combinations available from his birth date are 1 for January, 8 for the day, 19 and 35 for the year. Elvis would be disappointed if he had counted on the numbers of his birthday to produce cash able ticket combinations in Canada's Lotto 649.

In the entire 1497 draws of this Lotto 649 example, the numbers 1, 8, 19 and 35 have only been drawn 11 times in combinations of 3 (the minimum numbers required for a win) and have never appeared all together, forming an opportunity of a 4 number winning ticket, in any draw in the entire history of Lotto 649.

Well, it is a 6 out of 49 draw so let's add a couple of more numbers and see how much Elvis would have won using his 6 birthday numbers.

19 + 35 = 18 ... and ... 1 + 8 + 19 + 35 = 63 ... 6 + 3 = 9

So let's add the numbers 18 and 9.

For the same Lotto 649 draws, the additional two birthday numbers did not help out the winning returns very much. These six numbers formed combinations to produce only 5 winning tickets of 4 number combination prizes and just 37 winning tickets of 3 number level pay outs over 1497 draws or a 16 year period of Lotto play.

Elvis Presley's birthday does not contain particularly unlucky numbers nor does your birthday nor maybe even Paul Martin's ... but birthday number selections of any date do not provide a good chance of generating wining number combinations for lottery wagering.

As an alternative to using the numbers of your birthday you would be much better off choosing only numbers that have been drawn in the last ten draws. Even with this simple suggestion, your chances of having a winning return will be much better on every Lotto day ... including your birthday.


.........borrowed from LottoTutor
 
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GillesD

Member
Numbers from past 10 draws

Choosing numbers having come out in the last 10 draws is an interesting point of view but which numbers do you choose?

On average since Lotto 6/49 has started, without considering the bonus number, 39 numbers out of the 49 will have come out in the last 10 draws. If you decide to include the bonus number, then about 41 numbers out of the 49 will have come out.

A better choice than birthday numbers? I am not sure.

And then some will say that you should choose those numbers that have NOT come out in the last 10 draws as they are due.

So it is back to square one, choose 6 numbers out of 49 by whatever method you want. This will give you some (slight) chance of winning.

But allways remember, this is a form of taxation by governments and they are returning about 47% of the money all players put in. They are certainly happy to get your money this way.
 

veronica

Member
super 7

nipsirc you gave 9 numbers or filters that could be called in the lottery. How does a person know which 7 of the nine numbers you posted to play? I did play those numbers, i didn't win though.:D
 

LT

Administrator
Hi veronica,

I just noticed on this thread that the avatar that you are using is the same one as GillesD avatar.

Could you please consider another selection in the avatars section as that particular one has already been selected.

Unique avartars help to keep posts from being confusing.

Thanks for your understanding and good luck in tonight's draw.

LT
 

LT

Administrator
Thanks for your comment shirazbai ... if only I could observe the upcomming numbers as easily. :lol:
 

nipsirc

Member
Re: super 7

veronica said:
nipsirc you gave 9 numbers or filters that could be called in the lottery. How does a person know which 7 of the nine numbers you posted to play? I did play those numbers, i didn't win though.:D

Beth

Those numbers I enumerated are FILTERS for your own selections. Therefore if you come up with say 15 or 20 numbers of your liking, then you can take off the numbers if they are the same as the filter numbers I gave out. Then you are left with a much better choice or chances.

Filters are not meant to be played but instead to weed out the numbers that are most likely NOT to come out (in my opinion) againsts your own set of numbers.
 

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