Since the inception of the UK National lottery, all drawn combinations have been unique so far. In fact, if you look at the lotteries around the world, you'd find that there is only one lottery (to our knowledge anyway) - the Bulgarian lottery - that had the same combination drawn twice, and amazingly it happened in two consecutive draws! The numbers 4;15;23;24;35;42 were selected, albeit in a different order, live on television on the 6th and 9th of September 2009. A Bulgarian lottery spokesman said: “This has happened for the first time in the 52-year history of the lottery. We are absolutely stunned to see such a freak coincidence”.
As any mathematician will tell you any combination has the same chance of being drawn, even the already drawn ones. But if a repeated lottery combination is such a “freak” and rare coincidence, should we really play it? And even if we decide against playing it, wouldn't be a hideous process to go through all 1000+ combinations drawn in the past so that to ensure we pick a never-drawn-before combination?
We believe it's best not to play a combination previously drawn. If it does happen, ok, we won't stand a chance of winning the jackpot at that particular draw, but we will be eliminating such combinations correctly in many other draws. Funnily enough, going back to that Bulgarian lottery, nobody won the top prize in the first draw, and a record 18 people guessed all six numbers on the 9th of September draw sharing £82,620 jackpot. According to our methodology, it would be ok to play the winning combination first time round (we would be the only winners!) but we would be discouraged to select this combination second time (no win for us!). But maybe it's a good thing too, as there were already too many winners! Remember, we're a lottery syndicate, whereby we already would share the jackpot amongst ourselves, so ideally we would like to win the jackpot when noone else does! Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing how many people play the previously drawn combinations, as such statistics is not released by the official draw operator.
So how do we check a lottery combination for its uniqueness? That's easy. It's Lottorino's job. See it for yourself. Input a combination that was drawn in the past, and you will see that Lottorino will downgrade such combination to at least 10‰. Remember as a rule of thumb, we advise on playing a combination with Lottorino of 50‰ or more.
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