Would you like to win the UK National Lottery Jackpot?

Well, it seems that the law of attraction works to some extent, our lottery syndicate Celieno has won a tenner! Not too exciting, but nevertheless a prize. The winning combination was also one number away from the next prize!

It brings us to one of the important aspects of the law of attraction: you should be very specific when it comes to asking the universe for what you want because the universe can't deliver on vague intentions. So we asked to win the lottery, and we got a tenner! Let's now fine-tune our wish a little bit, let's aim high! Remember to have no doubt that it is possible to achieve it, to put all the positive thinking into each word: “We would really like to win the lottery jackpot!”

Did you ever notice that many lottery winners say that they expected to win the lottery? The most recent example is Les Scadding who said he “always knew” he would win, it was just a matter of time!

This could be people talking with the benefit of hindsight, but it could be that the law of attraction is taking place! There are tons of literature written about the law of attraction, we will be covering some aspects of it from time to time, but today we wanted to give a small flavour of what the law of attraction is and how we could use it to win the lottery.

To date, the richest winner in the UK National Lottery Lotto game took home an incredible £22,590,829 after guessing correctly the lucky combination 12;15;26;44;46;49 in June 1995. A bit earlier that year, in January 1995, combination 7;17;23;32;38;42 produced the lowest ever jackpot payout of £122,510, and that's because a total 133 tickets had to share the first prize! Why so many tickets won on that night remains a mistery!

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This Wednesday, the 2nd of December, it is a lotto rollover with an estimated £7.4m! Good luck to syndicate Metallah! We keep guessing right 2 numbers in each syndicate, and last night syndicate member radicoli in syndicate Argonavis, apart from getting 2 numbers right, was 1 number away on 2 last numbers, meaning this combination could potentially have trapped 4 winnings numbers. Obviously, it is easier said than done, let's just hope we will get all the winning numbers in one line soon (preferably in syndicate Metallah!)

Here at Catchalotto, apart from running and managing lottery syndicates, we like to bring you lottery news, lottery analysis or techniques of number selection, analysis of all combinations drawn so far, lottery wheeling etc. Today we thought we give you a little weird fact.

Today, we are going to look at the distribution of sums and how you can use this method to increase your chances of winning the lottery.

Sum is basically the result you get when you add up all six numbers of a lotto combination. So in 6/49 lottery, the lowest sum of 21 is made from 1;2;3;4;5;6 lottery combination, and the highest possible sum of 279 is attained from 44;45;46;47;48;49. The most frequent sum is 150 whereby 165,772 lotto combinations will add up to it! If you were to draw all sums and their frequencies on one chart, you would get a normal distribution bell curve, similar to one shown in red here. The blue lines within the bell curve are the actual distribution of sums of all UK lotto combinations drawn to date (click on the picture to zoom in).

It's a lotto rollover on the 25th of November 2009. Jackpot is estimated to be £7.5m! There is still time and available places to join our syndicate Alshemali. Good luck!

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”.

Is it mathematically probable?

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?

Albeit it was our least favourite number out of the five mentioned in the previous lottery analysis post , number 24 did indeed come up. Skip 6 was truly due. Well done to syndicate Zubra for managing to trap 3 winning numbers. Shall we do better next time? Positive thinking please!

Currently there are 5 numbers with skip 6 (e.g. they all appeared 6 draws ago) as follows: 25;43;34;41;24. You can see current skips of all lottery numbers here: Skips

Catchalotto is dropping its charge per play by 33 pence, meaning you can now join a syndicate for £1, the same price as buying your ticket via an official lottery retailer.

There is however £1 charge each time you load money to your Catchalotto account. This is to cover administrative and banking costs - costs which we cannot avoid. The maximum amount of games you can load is 20. Please note that there are no time restrictions to play these games, they can be played at any time in any syndicate.

If you play EuroMillions lottery you now get an extra chance of becoming a millionaire. A new addition called The Millionaire Raffle is now in place since the 13th November 2009. The Millionaire raffle is basically a randomly generated number (like Dream number) printed on your Euromillions ticket , that is 9 digits long and made up of 3 letters and 6 numbers, e.g. ABC123456. It is only applicable to the UK so if you purchase your Euromillions ticket abroad, your ticket will not be entered into the Millionaire Raffle draw.

Yes, they were all drawn sometime in the past. But this is not the common factor that we're after.

Ok, so the clue is in the picture. From Lottorino point of view, these combinations stand out from other drawn lotto combinations in that they all have the biggest out-of-sync standard deviations. If you look closely, you will see that the first two combinations have numbers too close to each other, or put differently the deviation or spread of its numbers from average is very small. 1;4;7;44;47;48 combination has a big gap in the middle boosting its standard deviation high. These are the only combinations in the entire UK National Lottery history that scored a 3‰ Lottorino exclusively on the basis of their abnormal standard deviations. There were other combinations in the past that got downgraded because of their not-so-standard deviations, but the above 3 are the most extreme cases so far.

It's a double Lotto rollover tonight with an estimated £11m jackpot. All the best to Skat syndicate. If you'd like to join this syndicate, you can do so until 17:00, hurry! Join here.

Good luck!