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Millions of individuals each week decide to use the same lotto numbers for their entries; invariably these are memorable dates, which in some lotteries will only cover part of any possible lotto choices.

Can you decrypt the code implementing your own particular strategy or trust on an e-lottery syndicate to decide them on your behalf? We unrealistically like to believe that if we don’t do anything or sometimes do it the wrong way that something bad may happen, in this case; if we miss doing our numbers that week they are sure to come up!

Being the person to decide on those lottery winning numbers is naturally something each and every dedicated lotto player wishes they could do and as human beings, we possess an acquired bias against anything that’s random, we all like some form of control and rules that make sense to us.

Just because a number seems to come up more frequently; why should it come up again? It’s impossible to pick any set of lottery numbers that are more or less likely to win. All lotteries are a game of chance and each lotto number drawn is just at is hit-or-miss. So the bottom line in that respect is – no number is more random than the next.

If you look at the rules of probability, as one lottery number is picked the likelihood of your selected number going to be drawn next is slightly increased because the potential choice is less.

Employing the same numbers will mean you would have to play 135,000 times to even have an evens chance of winning. Unluckily, to win the lottery jackpot you just have more or less a 1 in 14 million prospect of being prosperous; nonetheless we all reckon it could be us. Does that sound like a good prospect; would you be luckier signing up to a lottery syndicate?

If you choose the same lottery numbers each week, just remember they are nevertheless random lottery numbers and you stand just as much a prospect of winning with those same numbers as with a lucky dip option. Yet, if you use birthday numbers in a lotto draw your prospects of winning the lottery jackpot still stay the same but then, also your prospect of keeping the jackpot to yourself is significantly reduced because so many other people use birthday numbers in their selections.

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