| Are you wasting your money taking the same | | | | allows the operator to build up a database of all |
| lottery numbers draw after draw? If you read | | | | the combinations it knows have no chance of |
| my previous article entitled, ‘ can the lottery | | | | being drawn. They only have to make sure that, |
| be manipulated’, then the answer would have | | | | some, if not all of the numbers, are not drawn, to |
| to be, yes! Every week, thousands upon | | | | reduce the number of winners, and amount of |
| thousands of lottery players take the same | | | | money they have to pay out. This applies to |
| numbers, for the fear of loosing, should those | | | | the lucky dip option as well. |
| numbers ever be drawn. The lottery operators | | | | Do you really think that the lucky dip option is |
| rely on you thinking this way, it’s human | | | | lucky! It is in the interest of the lottery operator |
| nature. If the lottery draws are being | | | | to get as many people as possible to play the |
| manipulated then, this plays into their hands, as | | | | lottery, by using this option. How many |
| does, using the lucky dip option. I’ll explain | | | | operators do you think, would pay out a vast |
| why. | | | | amount of money for a computer, which is |
| Obviously, when you have a lottery as popular as | | | | capable of selecting a truly random set of |
| the UK national lottery, the New York state | | | | numbers? It is far easier, and less expensive, to |
| lottery, the Spanish lottery etc, the amount of | | | | have a computer that doesn’t pick a |
| players that play each lottery runs into the | | | | winning set of numbers. So, the more people |
| millions. How many of those players take the | | | | that use the lucky dip option, the less winners |
| same numbers each draw and, how many of | | | | there are likely to be. Over here in England, it is |
| those players have probably taken a set of | | | | unusual to have more than one winner, winning a |
| numbers, that many thousands of other players | | | | share of the jackpot using the lucky dip option? |
| have taken. You don’t need to be an | | | | I personally, never use the lucky dip option to |
| Einstein to work out the probability. By taking | | | | select my numbers, it’s a complete waste of |
| the same lottery numbers draw after draw, | | | | time. |