You Should Avoid These Lottery Strategies

There is a lot of lotto advice out there. It's everywhere. Do this. Don't do that. Just trying to sort it all out is a challenge. Here are some examples of the worst lotto advice you could get.

Joining me as my assistant is that star from the Buckeye state, the poster ticket of the midwest, the Ohio Classic Lotto, 6/49 lottery.

There are 13,983,816 possible wagers in the OH649 lotto. Therefore, the chances of winning the lotto are 1 in 13,983,816. In pursuit of that elusive lotto jackpot, many people use a lotto strategy that makes little sense. At least, not to a sharp gambler who is trying to improve his chances of winning the lotto. I'll prove my point by using some logic, common sense and basic math.

Foolish Lotto Strategy #1

Many people play all odd numbers. Frankly, I don't understand the attraction. For example, they get all excited about playing 7-17-23-29-37-49 or 3-11-23-29-37-41. Perhaps if they used some good lotto software, they would soon discover, that dog doesn't hunt very often. Here's what I mean.

There are only 177,100 wagers that are made up of only odd numbers. This looks like a big number, but all of these wagers combined only represent 1.27% of all wagers! Therefore, 98.73% of the time, or 51 weeks out of the year, they didn't even have a chance of winning the lotto jackpot. They weren't even in the running. A year is a long time to go without feelin' any love!

For those of you that may have some doubts, the actual lotto drawings themselves back this up. In the last 279 drawings, over 2 1/2 years, all odd winning numbers occurred only 4 times! That's like fishin' for marlin in a mud puddle.

The Second Foolish Lotto Strategy to Avoid

That's right. You guessed it. Foolish lotto strategy #2 is playing all even numbers. But, in the case of the OH649 lotto, you're in even worse shape playing all even numbers than you were playing all odd numbers. You see, because there are 49 numbers to choose from, there are fewer even numbers than odd numbers. As a result, there are only 134,596 wagers that are made up of only even numbers. That represents only 0.96% of all wagers. Therefore, over 99% of the time (in other words, every drawing except Christmas) the player didn't stand a chance of winning the lotto jackpot. Waiting a year just to be in the running to win requires more patience than most of us have.

The OH649 lotto proves my point for me. In the last 279 drawings, wagers made up of all even numbers occurred only 3 times! That mud puddle just evaporated. So, save some money. Stop playing this way. Wouldn't you be having more fun playing the lotto if you were in the running to win the lotto 99% of the time? It can be done, you know. Serious lotto players with good lotto software do this all the time.

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The Professor is a famous lottery expert, lecturer, columnist and the developer of the breakthrough lottery software known as LONA. For a new creative slant on the lottery, make Professor Dolph your Lottery Number Advisor.

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