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It's a lotto rollover tomorrow, with an estimated jackpot of £7,000,000. All the best everyone, keep fingers crossed for Altair syndicate, keep thinking positively! If you'd like to join this syndicate, you can do so until 17:00 tommorrow. Join here.

There are 13,983,816 lottery combinations that can be made from numbers 1 to 49. If we were to say, that the first combination is 1;2;3;4;5;6, the second one 1;2;3;4;5;7, the third one 1;2;3;4;5;8, and so on, until combination number 13,983,816 is 44;45;46;47;48;49, we would find that the above lotto combination - 6;7;16;20;28;47 - sits right down the middle, i.e. a combination situated in 6,991,908 place.

In probability theory and statistics terms, this combination can be called a median - a number separating the higher half of a distribution, from the lower half. Well, to be statistically correct, a lottery combination 6;7;16;20;28;48 is also a median.

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The odds of winning the UK National lottery is 1 in 13,983,816, meaning that there are 13,983,816 combinations that can be made from numbers 1 to 49.

Until recently, Camelot, the UK National lottery operator, used to release its sales figures. Although those figures are no longer published, it is possible to reverse calculate the lotto sales as we know how the lottery prize tiers work (that is the topic for another day, perhaps). Nowadays, the sales normally average to £17,000,000 per Wednesday lottery draw and £30,000,000 for Saturday lottery draw, which begs the question why there are sometimes no jackpot winners as obviously with that amount of tickets (e.g. 17,000,000 tickets on a Wednesday draw), we should be covering all possible lotto combinations. For Saturday draw we should be covering all possible lottery combinations at least twice!!!

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If you look at all previous Lotto draws, you will find that number 48 was drawn 182 times (excluing bonus ball appearance). And out of those 182 times, it appeared at skip 9 only once! Now then, the current skip stands at 9, so is it worth taking a bet on number 48 appearing or shall we follow the stock market's rule "Trend is your friend"?

The only other number that is so behind at skip 9, is number 13, which also has been drawn once at this skip. But number 13 has much lower appearance overall - total appearance 154 times.

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Catchalotto is an online lottery syndicate manager (aka lottery club manager) allowing lottery players to join in and form syndicates for UK National lottery main Lotto draw. Lottorino is a proprietary system of Catchalotto allowing players to choose a lottery combination that meets randomness criteria (see below).

What is a lottery syndicate?

The idea of syndication is an old one. For many decades, people formed syndicates with their family, friends, colleagues in order to achieve a common goal of winning the lottery. Nowadays, Camelot Group reports that 1 in 4 jackpot wins belong to a syndicate.

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Yesterday's combination 26;27;28;43;45;46 scored a very low Lottorino mainly due to its bias towards higher numbers. Only in 1% of instances in the past lottery draws the first number was higher than 25, and equally 1% of combinations had their last number lower than 26.

Lottorino is designed in such a way so as to pick the most average and hence the most probable lottery combinations by looking at what happened in the past. Therefore yesterday's combination was considered to be "a bad one" to choose.

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Chances of guessing 2 lotto numbers correctly are 13.24% or 1 in 7.6. In other words, you should expect to guess 2 numbers correctly in 1 combination for each 7 tickets you buy. The syndicate Theemim had 7 combinations entered, and 5 of them guessed 2 numbers correctly (statistically you should have bought 35 tickets to get such odds!!!)

It's Lotto Rollover on Saturday, let's try tilting the odds in our favour a bit more!

Last night's combination 10;17;20;21;23;31 generated no jackpot winner despite all its numbers being below 31 (a lot of people choose their lucky lottery combination based on their birthdays, and birthdays of their loved ones). So it's Lotto rollover, all the best everyone!

You can now easily check your lotto combination for randomness by using this tool: Lottorino Engine

Wednesday 28 January 2009 Lotto combination of 4;29;37;39;40;43 was downgraded to 5% by Lottorino as the sum of its numbers (192) was equal to the sum of numbers from the previous draw.
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There were only three instances (or 0.16%) in the history of the UK National Lottery when the sum has repeated from the last draw.

No jackpot has been won, so it's a Rollover! All the best, everyone!

Yesterday's combination 3;5;7;9;24;35 scored Lottorino of 10% due to its skeweness towards low numbers, its low sum of 83, and 4 symmetricaly chosen numbers (3-5-7-9). As expected, such combination was played by many, hence the prizes got divided into many shares, with jackpot generating £448k to each winner and second prize generating only £19k.

6 out of 10 recent Catchalotto syndicates had a winning combination! That's luck above its average! Let's hope that the trend continues and we manage to trap a jackpot! Yesterday's combination 8;14;33;34;35;43 scored Lottorino of 22% due to sum of its numbers (167) being equal to the sum of numbers from previous Wednesday's draw (1;29;32;33;34;38). This happened seldomly in the past lottery draws, hence a Lottorino downgrade for this combination.

Yesterday's combination 11;12;22;23;24;36 as well as Saturday's combination 8;9;11;16;18;22 both scored low Lottorino mainly as they both had narrow spread (i.e. difference between first and last balls). Such combinations are favourite with lottery players and the jackpout is usually won by a few. Indeed, this was the case for both draws. Yesterday, for example, the jackpot was shared amongst 10 people, each winning £235,588 (way below the average jackpot payout).