The Lottery Statistics That Count

Using statistics and calculating odds can be very interesting but sometimes useless.There are many good examples of interesting facts and stats that are not very relevant to our everyday lives. Did you know, for example, that in 1985 the official NASA statistical probability for an accident to occur to a space shuttle was 100,000 to 1. After the Challenger disaster it is now 100 to 1!

The odds of winning the lottery are roughly 14 million to 1. So what do you think the odds of winning it twice are? Well a Navy war veteran who survived a jet crash and escaped a P.O.W. camp in Korea got really lucky when he won it twice! What do you think the odds of that happening are?

Some time ago a famous New York paper reported on a working-class man who spent most of his hard earned money on lottery tickets.In the hope, and false belief, that he could win a big prize simply by buying more random tickets Mr. Otero spent a whopping $30,000 a year on lottery tickets!

The truth is that, statistically, buying more tickets, that are chosen randomly and not using a mathematical system, does not increase your chances of winning a prize in the lottery at all!

Statistics can tell us some depressing things. For example, if someone purchases a UK lottery ticket on a Monday, for a weekend draw, they are more likely to be dead when the draw takes place than they are of winning the jackpot prize!

This is because you have a measly fourteen million to one chance of winning the UK jackpot.No matter how many tickets you buy each one will have the same low odds. Buying more tickets does not give you a better chance of winning.

However, it is possible to increase your chances of winning the lottery when you use the mathematical statistics to your advantage. Wheeling lottery numbers is probably the best known and easiest to use lottery system that greatly increases your chances of winning.

When you wheel and extra number in your pick of 6, so that you pick 7 numbers instead and then "wheel" so that all numbers end up on a ticket together two things happen. Wheeling systems require you to invest more money in the lottery, because you must buy more tickets, but by doing so, and by doing it in a mathematically precise manner, you increase your chances of winning the lottery jackpot.

When you use wheeling in a 6 from 49 draw, like the UK lottery, and use 7 numbers instead of 6 the odds of winning are slashed from 14 million to 1 down to half a million to 1 - with just 1 extra number and a £28 stake!!

There are other lottery systems which offer even better odds but just think, if Ray Otero had played 6 from 49 draws and used a wheeling system, instead of buying random tickets, he could well have won the lottery a few times over!