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There are some people who have been playing the lotto all their lives and have yet to hit the jackpot or just collect any winnings from any of the divisions such as matching 3 or 4 correct numbers. You don't really need to feel bad about it because the odds of hitting the jackpot are really slim and that is why you see on more than one occasion the jackpot rolling over to the next draw for consecutive weeks if not months.
Would you belive it if I told you there is a guranteed way of winning the lotto? You answer is probably a big NO! but thats ok though because my solution is kinda crazy and costly to implement.
The solution can be used in any lotto games such as the UK Lotto, the EuroMillions, the New York Lotto, the New Zealand Lotto, the South African Lotto, etc...the only thing it requires you to do is to know the pool of numbers to play from.
Lets compare these three lotto's
- In New York, the pool of numbers is 59 for the lotto and you are required to select 6 numbers at $1 for 2 games.
- In UK, the pool of numbers is 49 for the lotto and you are required to select 6 numbers at £2 a game
- in South Africa, the pool of numbers is 49 for the lotto and you are required to select 6 numbers at R3.50 a game
Now that we have established the pool of numbes to play from, The next thing you need is to find out how many different unique combinations of 6 numbers you can form from the pool.
The first five combinations can be: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7), (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8), (1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,9), (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10)........etc
The total number of combinations for the lotto's are:
- UK: 13 983 816
- New York: 45 057 474
- South Africa: 13 983 816
As you can see above, there is exactly over 13 million ways of playing the lotto numbers for the UK and South African lotto and 45 million ways of playing the New York lotto. Now you are probably getting to understand why it is very hard to hit the jackpot when you have to guess just one number out of the possible million different combinations.
My carziest solution to winnig the jackpot is to buy all the possible combinations and go collect your winnings. But how much is it going to cost?
- UK: £27 967 632
- New York: $45 057 474
- South Africa: R48 943 356
WOW!!!!! If you are looking at the above numbers, then you would agree that buying every possible combination is just plain stupid and it would probably only be feasible if the jackpot was way above those amounts as seen above. But we all know the price money rarely goes above that. Maybe we should all stick to using our birthdays and numerous lucky numbers we hold dear or just play random numbers because thats how they are picked by the drawing machine.
Are you crazy enough to actually buy a ticket for every combination if the jackpot was double or tripple the amounts above?
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