The method described here can improve the incredible lottery odds you are faced each time you buy a lottery ticket (you can find out about lottery odds
here)
The method is simple but yet effective and does not require you to purchase any software and/or to maintain a spreadsheet and/or to be a computer pro to be able to use it. It should only take 5 minutes of your time to carry out the analysis and identify which numbers to play and just as importantly which to eliminate.
The aim is to identify when each number was drawn last and to make your selection so that it consists of hot, lukewarm and cold numbers.
Hot number is a number that has been drawn in the last 10 games. Your combination should contain AT LEAST 3 hot numbers. A number that was drawn at both previous and current draw is called a 'repeat' or a number with a skip of 0. In the lottery context, a 'skip' signifies number of games that a number has NOT been drawn. So if a number has a skip of 11, it means that it was last drawn 11 draws ago.
Lukewarm numbers are those with skips greater than 10 but below 20. Your combination should consist of 1-2 lukewarm numbers.
Finally, cold are numbers that appeared more than 20 draws ago. You should select one or none of such numbers.
Now the first tricky part is to know which numbers appeared when. For this purpose, you can create a simple spreadsheet which you'll need to update each time a draw takes place. But that's only if you don't know that Catchalotto provides such skips data on its site for free
(Skips). The table is updated shortly after each draw and is simple to use.
Lottery numbers 1-49 run along the top (i.e. the very first row of the table) and blue balls throughout the table signify that the number was drawn. Skips data is the numerical data shown in the table. All you need to do is to look at the first skips row located beneath the numbers row (i.e. second top row) and do your analysis based on that data.
This is where the second tricky part kicks in. Which numbers to select and which to exclude? Here's a quick approach you can use.
Firstly, on a piece of paper you need to group numbers by their skips. For instance, write down in the first column all numbers with skip 0, in the second column all numbers with skip 1 and so on. Secondly, look at the first 11 columns (skips 0 through to skip 10), these are your HOT numbers. Identify which of these 10 columns are the longest (i.e. contain more numbers). For instance, if you have 4 numbers with skip 8 and only 1 number with skip 5, you'd probably be better off picking 1 or 2 numbers from skip 8 column and eliminate a number with a skip of 5.
Numbers with skips of 0 need to have an extra attention as by looking at the past UK National Lottery draws from inception through to the end of 2007, 57% of time a draw has had at least one repeat number. Hence if there was no repeat in the last 2 or 3 games, you may want to place more emphasis on skip 0 column and select 1-3 numbers from it. Conversely, if there were quite a few repeats recently, you may want to eliminate these numbers from your analysis.
Some people believe and play a combination that entirely consists of cold numbers. They believe that these numbers are long due as they last appeared 20 or more draws ago and for the law of averages to hold, such numbers could be drawn now to restore the balance. Albeit there is a certain truth in this statement, it would be wrong to play a combination that is made up of cold numbers only. If you look at the statistics again, there was never a draw in the past that consisted exclusively of cold numbers.
Here is some additional statistics of past UK National Lottery draws that may be of help to you:
REPEATS OR SKIP 0:
Only 2% of time a draw had 3 repeat numbers. Only once there was a draw where 4 numbers were repeats.
57% of time a draw had at least one repeat number
HOT NUMBERS (SKIPS 0 TO 10):
20% of time a draw entirely consisted of HOT numbers
98% of time a draw had at least 3 HOT numbers
LUKEWARM NUMBERS (SKIPS 11 TO 20):
61% of time a draw had 1 or 2 lukewarm numbers and 33% of time it had none
COLD NUMBERS (SKIPS MORE THAN 20):
There was never a draw consisting exclusively of cold numbers
68% of time a draw had no cold numbers
So the idea is to select your lucky lottery combination so as it adheres to the most probable scenario as told by the past. That's all there is to it. Use skips table to help you with your selection!
Don't be put off if the above does not make sense and it takes you a long time to analyse and to select your combination (after all, who said that winning the lottery jackpot was easy?) Stick with it, it will take you less than 5 minutes once you know what to look out for. Don't forget, of course, to run your chosen combination through Lottorino to verify that it does not have any major patterns and adheres to general rules of randomness.
And remember, that despite what people say about the law of averages and/or that your combination is as good as any other, lottery does have its own set of rules: some numbers and mix of numbers have higher than average appearance rate. A lot of mathematicians, statisticians, lottery enthusiasts and many more use this system to their advantage. They may not have scooped the jackpot with the system as lottery odds are still incredible no matter how many systems are used, but they surely run at a better than average win rate. Moreover, we don't know for most of the time who the jackpot winners are and how they picked their lucky numbers as most people decide not to publicise, so it could well be that the system works perfectly, we just won't know for sure until we scoop the jackpot ourselves!
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