Peoples Favorite Lotto Mistake - Using Dates as Lotto Numbers

Common practice for many lottery players is to use dates for their lottery numbers. This approach actually reduces their chances of winning the lottery.

People use family birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates to create their lottery wagers. The thought is that these dates brought them luck before and, therefore, it will happen again. After all, these were the luckiest days in their lives. But, instead of improving their chances of winning the lottery, this lottery approach has the exact opposite effect.

For example, when using this lottery strategy, you are only playing lottery numbers 1 thru 31. So, as long as you are playing the MN531, WI531, WildCard531, PA530 or WV625, this lottery strategy at least has a chance. But, these lotteries are the only lottos in North America where that is true. By using this approach in the other 70 lotteries you have either committed Hari-kari or, at the very least, shot yourself in the foot.

Here's the Hari-kari scenario. If you're playing the NY659 or the Powerball 5/59 lottery, choosing dates as lottery numbers is a big mistake. Why? Because, over 47% of the lottery numbers, from 32 thru 59, will never appear in any of your wagers. But, typically, almost half of the lottery numbers drawn will come from that group. Therefore, you would have seriously limited your chances of winning the lottery. You've taken yourself out of the running.

Allow me put an exclamation point on this. In the last 200 drawings of the NY659 there was only one winning ticket in which all of the numbers were between 1 and 31. That means that you were in the running to win the lottery a miserably unimpressive 0.5% of the time. You had no chance of winning in 199 of those 200 drawings.

Here's the shooting yourself in the foot scenario. Now, as the size of the lottery becomes smaller, 54, 49, 47, 44, 40, etc., the amount of negative impact is lessened. For example, in the last 740 drawings of the NJ540 lottery, 23% of the winning numbers contained only numbers less than or equal to 31. Not bad, you say. Well, that's one way of looking at it. But, in 77% of the drawings you didn't even have a chance of winning the lottery. Bad luck didn't cause that. You're strategy took you out of the running. You shot yourself in the foot.

Some people will continue playing this way, in spite of this article. I wish them well. I really do. I hope they win the big one. But, what I am about, what all of my articles are trying to do is to increase your chances of winning the lottery in as many drawings as possible. Life is too short to let even one opportunity pass us by.

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