2006-10-20 13:31:40 · 4 answers · asked by James J 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Why would anyone want to share the way to win? That'd just mean having to share the winnings.
2006-10-20 13:39:04 · answer #1 · answered by tercir2006 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no intelligent way to play the lottery with the exception of buying lots of the individual number combinations. Each number is equally likely to come up and each draw is independent of the previous draw. You could play the same numbers every week for decades on end and still not even scratch the surface of possible number combinations. Some people look at draw statistics, but what you'll find is that pretty much every number comes up an equal number of times (this is expected). You might be able to determine that there are numbers that haven't come up in awhile, but the problem is that there are many combinations of those numbers possible.
Take a typical pick 6 numbers from 49 type lottery. The number of ways to draw a unique 6 number from the set (ordering doesn't matter) is 49*48*47*46*45*44/6! = 13,983,816. The probability that you'll select this set is 1/ans = 7.15e-8 = 0.0000000715. This is a very small number. Even if you play the same number every week for 30 years your chances do not change much because the probability that you've selected the right numbers is the same for every draw (as given) because each draw is independent of the previous draw. Given two draws a week it would take 1344 CENTURIES for each combination to come out assuming no duplicates.
In short it is a difficult game to win and your money is better spent elsewhere.
2006-10-20 21:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by NordicGuru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah...the system is the government wins, and everyone who plays gets to pay an extra tax. Consider it a tax on the mathmatically challenged.
2006-10-20 20:39:31 · answer #3 · answered by lynda_is 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lottery is a tax for people bad at math.
2006-10-20 20:40:09 · answer #4 · answered by nyneseclx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋