I don’t know about you but I find the prospect of a 1 in 14 million chance to win the Lotto jackpot daunting to say the least (6/49 Lotto).
I have been playing the UK National Lottery (or Lotto is it is now called) since it started in 1994. I dare not think how much money I have spent in pursuit of a jackpot that always eluded me!
About four years ago, it finally came to me! I was playing without a Lotto winning system, wasting money on multiple lines that were not related with one another. It might have been birthdays, random numbers or frequently drawn numbers but I had not been making an effort to make them work with each other.
The other Eureka moment was when I finally realised that going for the ‘Big One’ and simply not getting it was really a mug’s game. I would focus on regular, small wins that have much better odds than nearly 1 to 14,000,000
3 numbers 56 to 1 4 numbers 1,031 to 1 5 numbers 55,490 to 1 5 numbers and bonus ball 2,330,635 to 1 6 numbers 13,983,816 to 1
I decided that I would use my programming skills to analyse the winning patterns and come up with the smallest possible number of 6-number lines (also known as ‘games’ in some countries) that virtually guarantees a 3, 4 or 5 win. The outcome is a ‘reduced lotto system’ that makes winning the Lotto systematic and cost-effective.
How many lines do we need to play to cover all 10 numbers for a guaranteed win? The answer is just 2. We would need 210 lines to guarantee the Jackpot:
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