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Kittigate

Suppose you enter 2 sets of numbers for a Lotto 649 draw: 1-2-3-4-5-6 and 5-19-22-32-43- 49.. which choice you think would have a better....

Odds to be drawn or both the same?

Posted - November 12, 2020
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  • 10676
    I'd assume the odds would be the same.  It's not the numbers so much as it is the 49 balls.  Of course, I'm no mathematician.
      November 12, 2020 1:41 PM MST
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  • 13395
    I think the odds might be a tiny bit higher of getting any sequence of numbers like 1-2-3-4-5-6 or 38-39-40-41-42-43 or 44-45-46-47-48-49 than a non-sequence.selection in a draw. Just guessing though.
    Are there any mathematicians in the crowd?

    I watch the draw results quite often and I have never seen any sequence of numbers ever drawn - except maybe a 32-33 sequence or something. This post was edited by Kittigate at November 12, 2020 5:38 PM MST
      November 12, 2020 2:01 PM MST
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  • 7280
    Whatever set of six numbers is visually appealing to you, will most likely make you will feel better about your entry simply because you have put some effort into it by choosing one set of those numbers over another. (Effort justification hypothesis)

    But---as Shuhak said---the odds don't change.  How you pick the numbers doesn't matter.

    (I remember here in Texas when the lottery first started, one of the first winners had chosen 2 sets of 3 consecutive numbers separated by 20 or 30 similar possible groups.  They two groups contained the 6 numbers drawn.)

    You may have already visited this site: 

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/verify-theres-only-one-way-to-increase-your-lottery-odds-and-your-chances-are-still-basically-zero/507-605708625#:~:text=THE%20ODDS%20ARE%20STILL%20SLIM&text=According%20to%20Lottery%20USA%2C%20the,to%201%20in%2088%20quadrillion.

      November 12, 2020 2:24 PM MST
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  • 7280
    49 balls---WOW---walk with pride man, walk with pride.
      November 12, 2020 2:01 PM MST
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  • 13395
    For sure he must gotta be the AM stud!
      November 12, 2020 2:10 PM MST
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  • 10676
    I think you mean hobble.
      November 12, 2020 2:21 PM MST
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  • 7280
    ROFL
      November 12, 2020 2:26 PM MST
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  • 3719
    The odds are exactly the same. It is still picking any 6 from 49.

    The UK's National Lottery - owned by a Canadian company called Camelot - was 6 from 49, giving odds of around `13 000 000 to 1 against winning the jackpot. Despite those odds, it paid the jackpot at perhaps fortnightly, maybe 3 weeks, on average.

    Then a few years ago the greedy so-and-sos doubled the stake from £1 to £2 and made it 6 from 50. Perhaps the cost of staging the ridiculous, pointless and so shallow, weekly live draw "show" on TV had doubled! 

     I forget the formula and I don't know if I have it anywhere, so might be wrong, but because combinations and permutations work by factorials, I think that increase from 49 to 50 for the same number of drawn numbers, increased the odds against winning the jackpot odds by 50 times - from 13 Million to 650 Million to 1 against!

    By some recompense Camelot increased the chances of winning one of the low-value prizes. I used to buy a ticket a week but the increase in stakes from £52 to £104 a year, "good causes" or not, for an only slightly better prospect of winning a few quid back now and then, made me give it up.


    When the Lottery started, it was not long before assorted fly-by-nights tried selling gambling "methods" alleged to guarantee high-value, even jackpot, prizes. They did not last long.
      November 12, 2020 2:49 PM MST
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  • 53559

     

      Banana, banana, banana, banana.
    ~

      November 12, 2020 3:08 PM MST
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  • 8214
    The analogy for that is;

    I have hidden a set of numbers written on a piece of paper in the United States.  It could be anywhere, in any state, out in the open or hidden under a rock someplace.  Your quest is to find them or tell me where they are.  Your chances of doing that are the same for picking the winner of a lotto. 
     This post was edited by Art Lover at November 13, 2020 4:44 PM MST
      November 12, 2020 4:57 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Interesting analogy. I guess I would have to get a search permit to go on people's property. This post was edited by Kittigate at November 12, 2020 8:03 PM MST
      November 12, 2020 5:04 PM MST
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  • 53559

     

      Hmmm, you’ll tell me where you have it hidden, right, HoneyDew?


    ~

      November 12, 2020 8:03 PM MST
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  • 7408
    Too many people play 123456 because it had never been drawn as a winning number even though statistically it has good of odds as any other combination of numbers. So that be dumb to waste a lotto win when have to share it with 10,000 people. I would hate that. 
      November 12, 2020 5:13 PM MST
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  • 13395
    'Zat right? I never heard of anyone playing a number sequence.
      November 12, 2020 6:24 PM MST
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  • 7408
    Cos they haven’t won yet :) 
      November 13, 2020 5:33 AM MST
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  • I have a plan that guarantees that you will match five out of six numbers or all six numbers.  Play the same numbers for every drawing.  You must play the same numbers.  Be consistent.  Play them for several years.  Then, when you forget to buy the ticket, most or all of your numbers will match.
      November 12, 2020 5:37 PM MST
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  • 13395
    I have heard of that. My friend said that is what happened with her Lotto playing mother.
      November 12, 2020 6:27 PM MST
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