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Lotto Numbers
First tip: Birthday Numbers are a Bad Idea.
Not to diminish from the fact that your birthday should be
the best and most rewarding day of the year for you … in the
area of lotto wagering, your birth date numbers have very
little chance of providing you with a lottery birthday present.
Picking lotto numbers from birth dates starts you out on a
disadvantaged path for playing the lottery. Because the month
and day birthday numbers are limited to the digits 1 to 12
and 1 to 31, your selections within numerical tens groupings
exclude the numbers 32 to 49 and bias your ability to cash
in on potential winning hits in over one third of a 649 Lottery's
numbers.
Even if you did win an upper tier lotto prize you would have
a higher probability of a diminished return by sharing that
prize pool with more winners than other number selection choices
because so many other lotto players also use their birthday
numbers as well. Let's select anyone's birth date and check
out their potential for wins. Lets use the birth date of Elvis
Presley and see how many times the numbers in his birth date
have been drawn together in winning combinations since the
beginning of Lotto 649 on June 12, 1982 until May 27, 1998.
The "King" was born on January 8, 1935.
The basic number combinations available from his birth date
are 1 for January, 8 for the day, 19 and 35 for the year.
Elvis would be disappointed if he had counted on the numbers
of his birthday to produce cash able ticket combinations in
Canada's Lotto 649. In the entire 1497 draws of this Lotto
649 example, the numbers 1, 8, 19 and 35 have only been drawn
11 times in combinations of 3 (the minimum numbers required
for a win) and have never appeared all together, forming an
opportunity of a 4 number winning ticket, in any draw in the
entire history of Lotto 649.
Well, it is a 6 out of 49 draw so let's add a couple of more
numbers and see how much Elvis would have won using his 6
birthday numbers. 19 + 35 = 18 ... and ... 1 + 8 + 19 + 35
= 63 ... 6 + 3 = 9 So let's add the numbers 18 and 9. For
the same Lotto 649 draws, the additional two birthday numbers
did not help out the winning returns very much. These six
numbers formed combinations to produce only 5 winning tickets
of 4 number combination prizes and just 37 winning tickets
of 3 number level pay outs over 1497 draws or a 16 year period
of Lotto play.
As an alternative to using the numbers of your birthday you
would be much better off choosing only numbers that have been
drawn in the last ten draws. Even with this simple suggestion,
your chances of having a winning return will be much better
on every Lotto day ... including your birthday.
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