2006-07-11 08:05:52 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
according to the BC lottery corporation, the odds of winning the lotto 6/49 (Canada) is approx. 1 in 13,983,816 million or to look at it another way, If you buy 1 ticket per week you can expect to win the top prize, on average, once during the next 268,920 years.
Odds of being struck by lightening 1 in 240,000
There are literally hundreds of sites on the internet which offer or sell systems or schemes on how to improve your odds of winning at gambling, or for picking winning lottery numbers. Typically these schemes are full of pseudo-scientific jargon and erroneous statements about mathematics and probability. The fact is these so-called systems can’t improve a gambler’s chances because no system can predict or overcome the randomness of chance which is the very nature of most games of chance. Many such systems being sold to gamblers are actually designed to encourage gamblers to gamble even more money – with no scientific prospect that their chances of winning will improve whatsoever.
Some of these systems purport to make it easier to predict winning lottery numbers. It doesn’t matter how the numbers are picked or whether you play the same or different numbers each time; your odds of winning are always the same. The selection of numbers is always purely by chance.
I play one ticket a month, and I never check the numbers right away. The reason is that I'm buying the dream of winning. Five dollars lets me dream about being a millionare for a couple weeks, which I think is worth $5.
Good luck. :)
2006-07-11 08:33:16 · answer #1 · answered by rotgut a 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. Even if the 1000 tickets had all different numbers, your chances of winning would be slim. There are too many possible number combinations.
2006-07-11 08:10:05 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah Colleen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The odds for what? Going broke? Going to the nut house? Or the odds that you would be considered just plain stupid. You would have the same odds! You just wasted 999 of you odds as well as the time anyone including myself took to answer this question. Have a nice day!
2006-07-11 08:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by Kewl__Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in any way. Sorry. The numbers represent one combination out of thousands or millions (or even more!) and having two sets of the same numbers does nothing to improve the odds.
2006-07-11 08:09:02 · answer #4 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not! You would only have those numbers on which to win. Play 1000 different ones!
2006-07-11 08:08:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the numbers would have to be different. The odds are better if you are in a raffle and you buy more tickets.
2006-07-11 08:09:17 · answer #6 · answered by curiositycat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. each number has an equal chance of occuring when they pick the numbers. The number of tickets you buy has no bearing on how the numbers come up.
2006-07-11 08:09:13 · answer #7 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that your odds are better if you play the same numbers. even if you get a quickpick, play that set of numbers religiously. most of the stories of winners who win other than a quickpick play their same numbers all the time.
2016-03-27 01:18:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL; no. The only difference is you will spend 1000 dollars instead of 1 dollar.
2006-07-11 08:09:13 · answer #9 · answered by dja_vu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, however if you bought 1000 tickets with DIFFERENT numbers it would be.
2006-07-11 08:07:16 · answer #10 · answered by bombhaus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋