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Aiming at Jackpot

Odds

What are the chances of winning money in a 6/49 lottery? The odds of picking 6 numbers out of 49 are 1 to 14 million, and this is bad news. There is still a chance of winning, though. However, there is more bad news. The lottery commission pays the winnings in small portions spread over about 20 years. There are also taxes, in case you had forgotten. There is also inflation – yes, sweet inflation. After 20 years, the last payment will be worth less than a McDonalds paycheck. Therefore, if we ever were to hit a jackpot, our real pay would be about 30% of the declared winnings. Oh, no problem. 30% of one million is still 300000. Remember that our chances of winning a jackpot are 1 to 14 million? Buy 14 million tickets, cover all combinations, and you sure got 300000 from a one-million dollar jackpot. Let us put it in this way, when aiming at a one-million jackpot, we are betting a dollar against 2.1 cents (300000/14000000). The odds are 1 to 46.6. Here we come to the simple conclusion that just to get even, a jackpot has to pay 46.6 million dollars. Even more bad news, there is still no guarantee, because there could be other lucky winners with whom we would have to split our hard-earned 46 million dollars. It happens pretty often, because the higher the prize, the more people play and with more tickets.

Remedies

Is there any good news? Fortunately, YES! All of the numbers above make sense only when probability theory works. Does it not always work? Hell, NO! It works only for big numbers. In the coin tossing game, one or two events will not switch the theory on, but a hundred will. In the 6/49 lottery, one or two hundred tickets will not turn the theory on. In the case of one or two hundred tickets, the theory is simply invalid and all of the bad news calculated here has no meaning. It does not mean that we can buy a hundred tickets at a time, because in that case the theory would start working rather quickly against us. One hundred tickets in a lifetime, this is all we have got in our winning strategy. Put it simply this way, one ticket at a time, that's all we can afford, no matter how rich or poor we are.

Just playing for 4, 5 winning numbers.

Do not be disappointed, but here we will not find a winning strategy. If you want to feel like a loser every week, play. However even if you win, it will change your lifestyle little and most likely not at all. Here we go with the reasoning. The state of New York, for instance, seizes almost 50% of each dollar that we spend on the lottery tickets. Other states are no better. They say it is for schools (read children!). What a noble cause! If you really want to help children, just donate your money to your favorite charity. At least you will know how your money gets spent, and you can get a tax break. Okay. Let us continue. We lose 50% when buying the ticket. In addition, if we (God help us!) win, we pay 50% tax. What's left is 25%. If after that (God forbid!) we receive our winnings in installments, the inflation will eat another chunk. We don't want to count it, because if we are not retards, we already understand that only idiots play in a game with 1 to 4 odds.

Are all numbers the same?

Mathematically speaking, all number combinations are the same. However, this is true only when the Probability theory works. In other words, if we buy tons of tickets, we can bet on 1,2,3,4,5,6 the same way as we do on any other combination. Then again, if we use our winning strategy aiming at jackpot (one ticket at a time!), 1,2,3,4,5,6 will not work for us. Not all combinations are the same in our winning strategy! And here the lucky numbers come to play. You can use our site absolutely free to see your weekly lucky numbers. Well, they are not guaranteed to work, but they are good! Believe it, and remember – never buy two tickets in the same lottery. Good Luck!

Master Numerologist
Bobby Cheeta (Bobby.Cheeta@SuperLuck.Us)