Lottery - improve your odds?

ollyk

tomstickland wrote:

It's a waste of time though. It's random, so looking at past performance is of no use.
Same with "picking" numbers as in the suggested method. Just fill the tickets in with the numbers in order.

are you refering to me Tom?

Gorgeous_George

ollyk wrote:

One thing I have always wanted to know regarding the lottery... is there a complete list available of all the winning draws from the very start of the game?
When I pick my new numbers I would really like to know if 4 or more have ever come up in a single draw, not just the last 50 draws!
I bet there is someone / organisation who has a complete list!!!

I'll send you my lottery checker if you pm me your email address.



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Gorgeous_George

BTW, if you needed to select 43 numbers rather than 6, the odds of getting them all right would not change (approximately 1 in 14 million).

Obviously, the chances of winning the lower prizes would be significantly increased.




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tomstickland

Yes, I was referring to the futility of looking at past numbers.

It's like taking a list of random numbers and looking at them to help decide what the next random number will be.

GingeG

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 could win as easily as your lucky dip numbers or even numbers 44, 45, 46 , 47 48 and 49. If you accept those statements, read on. If not, get back to your homework and leave the grown-ups alone


Not true George!!!

You are adding in an additional factor. Random means random therefore to have a sequential stream of 6 numbers is even less likely than a random stream of birthdays or whatever.

InMyDreams

GingeG wrote:

Random means random therefore to have a sequential stream of 6 numbers is even less likely than a random stream of birthdays or whatever.

:wall:

I think I need to stop reading this thread.

tomstickland

Random is random and 1,2,3,4,5,6 is equally as likely as 6,5,4,3,2,1 or any other combination.

Gorgeous_George

tomstickland wrote:

Random is random and 1,2,3,4,5,6 is equally as likely as 6,5,4,3,2,1 or any other combination.

Thanks Tom!

The numbers don't know that they are next to each other. :rolleyes:

Obviously, the chance of 6 consecutive numbers being drawn (in any order) is tiny as there are only 43 combinations that meet this criteria in 13,983,816 combinations available. The remaining 13,983,773 combinations are 325,204 times more likely to be drawn.

Six consecutive numbers should come up once every 3,139 years (2 drawws a week).



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tomstickland

All the combinations are equally likely.
Grouping them into "those with consecutive numbers" and "those without consecutive numbers" is fine , but it creates the illusion that "1,2,3,4,5,6" is less likely than somone's "magic set".

Gorgeous_George

I hope somebody on here took all high numbers tonight.Be interesting to see how much 4, 5 and5+BB wins for people.

Tonight's numbers would have won you just £240 )24 x £10) since the lottery began - until tonight (17, 30, 33, 40, 42, 43).



GG