The Trick to Winning the Lottery

There’s a trick to winning the lottery, but it’s probably not what you think.

You have no control over the outcome of a random event. So, a mathematical strategy exists from which you base your number selection process to get the best shot possible.

In other words, you play the lottery correctly instead of tricking the system. The key is understanding the lottery’s finite structure and calculating the possibilities to help you make an informed choice.

Ultimately, your objective as a lotto player is to choose a combination that will give you the best success-to-failure ratio.

Let me shed light on that.

The Trick to Winning According to Math

The mathematical strategy involves some basic approaches and an advanced method of picking numbers.

For the basic strategy, your winning chances improve by selecting a lottery game with minimal odds. For example, the odds of winning in a 5/35 game are only 1 in 300 thousand, while the odds in a 5/70 game are a monumental 1 in 12 million chances. Mathematically, the former proves to be much easier.

On the other hand, the advanced method involves understanding combinatorics and probability theory.¹

Understanding Numbers and Combinations in a Random Lottery

First of all, a number and a combination are two different terms. A number refers to the individual ball in the lottery. You don’t win a prize with just a number. You need to match a combination to win a lottery jackpot.

In probability theory,² all the balls in the lottery are equally likely. This makes the concept of hot and cold numbers ineffective as a strategy. The same principle explains why lucky numbers don’t exist in the lottery.

Now, if hot or cold numbers don’t provide the trick to winning, what will?

It’s the combination that matters.

Traditional belief has it that combinations have the same probability.

All combinations have the same probability because there’s only one way to win the jackpot.

P(win the jackpot) = ^{1 way it can happen} / _{total number of distinct combinations}

However, this equal probability of each combination does not explain why a combination such as 1-2-3-4-5-6 has yet to occur in lottery games.

That’s why we need to look at the lottery in a different light.

The Trick To Winning Starts With Understanding Composition

Notice that combinations differ in composition. Combinations are divided into combinatorial groups depending on their composition. And the lottery is composed of many combinatorial groups that don’t share the same ratio of success to failure.

The finite structure of the lottery produces combinatorial groups essential for devising a trick to winning a random lottery.

For example, 2-10-22-28-36-42 is a composition of all even numbers. While 4-17-23-36-38-45 consists of a balanced mixture of 3-odd-3-even numbers.

Knowing the composition is essential in the calculation of success-to-failure ratio. This ratio can be calculated using the odds formula.

Not many people know that odds and probability are two different terms. This difference allows for the existence of a trick to winning a random game.

Success-to-Failure Ratio: A Simple Trick to Winning

In a 6/45 game, a composition with six even numbers has 74,613 favorable combinations. Meanwhile, the 3-odd-and-3-even composition has 2,727,340 favorable combinations.

Therefore, in a finite structure of a 6/45 lottery game with 8,145,060 possible combinations, the two compositions will have the following probability calculations:

P(6-even) = ^74,613 / _8,145,060 = 0.00916052183

P(3-odd-and-3-even) = ^2,727,340 / _8,145,060 = 0.33484590659

This probability measurement only means that a 6-even composition may occur only once in 100 draws. A balanced mixture of 3-odd and 3-even may occur 33 times in 100 draws.

We can predict how often these groups will occur in 100 draws using the following calculations:

Estimated Frequency(6-even) = 100 x 0.00916052183 = 0.9

Estimated Frequency(3-odd-and-3-even) = 100 x 0.33484590659 = 33.5

This is how the two compositions differ in terms of success-to-failure ratio:

6-even	3-odd-and-3-even
S/F Ratio of 1:108	S/F Ratio of 1:2
The ratio means you get one favorable shot out of 109 attempts	The ratio means you get one opportunity to match the winning numbers out of 3 attempts
74,613 ways to win	2,727,340 ways to win
8,070,447 ways to fail	5,417,720 ways to fail

Your goal is to win the lottery, and the first thing you should know when playing is to know your ratio of success to failure and choose the best one. You cannot change the underlying probability and you cannot beat the lottery’s odds, but as a lotto player, you have the power to make informed choice. Even choosing not to play is a strategy by itself.

The following table shows how odd-even composition works in a 6/45 lottery game as a whole:

The above calculation suggests that a balanced combination dominates lottery draws.

The real trick to winning the lottery is knowing all the possible options and making informed choices. In this case, you choose the group that dominates the lottery.

Use the calculator below to analyze your lotto game if it’s different from 6/45 format.

The Historical Results Agree with the Dictate of Probability

In the 949 draws of the Australian Tattslotto from January 7, 2006, to March 16, 2024, my study shows an astounding agreement between theoretical estimation and the actual lottery results. This study demonstrates the predictability of the lottery (to an extent) using combinatorics and probability analysis.

We do the calculation by multiplying the probability by the number of draws, as shown below:

Estimated frequency(6-even) = 0.0091605 x 949 draws = 9

Estimated frequency(3-odd-and-3-even) = 0.3348459 x 949 draws = 318

When you compare these estimated frequencies with the actual lottery draws, you will find that the observed frequencies don’t deviate much from probability prediction. So don’t trick the lottery to achieve winning. Try to take advantage of this deterministic feature of the game.

Using probability, we can predict the lottery to an extent, regardless of the point of reference. We don’t need to consult the past lottery results or statistical analysis to discover trends.

The math works, and numbers don’t lie. You don’t need a tricky strategy to win the lottery. The trick to winning is understanding probability in a truly random game.

You can perform the same combinatorics³ and probability analysis in any lottery system.

More Proof

This high-accuracy and high-precision prediction method using probability analysis is evident when we look at the results from the perspective of the law of large numbers.

What is the law of large numbers?

Wikipedia defines it:

In probability theory, the law of large numbers (LLN) is a theorem that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times. According to the law, the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value, and will tend to become closer as more trials are performed.⁴

I have analyzed the most popular lottery systems in the world, and my results show undeniable agreement between actual results and probability prediction. This agreement reinforces as lottery draws continue to get larger and larger. I discovered that the trick to winning is understanding how the game behaves over time.

The tables below prove that combinatorial and probability analysis can describe the general outcome of the lottery with high accuracy and high precision prediction.

The Need to Swim Against the Tide

Many lotto players believe that the 1-2-3-4-5-6 has the same probability as any other.

That is true because, mathematically, there’s only one way to win the jackpot prize against all the possible ways you lose. So, your odds and probability are the same no matter what combinations you play.

But again, I would like to reiterate your power to make informed choices using the success-to-failure ratio and think about playing the game from the perspective of the law of large numbers. Look at the lottery long-term to understand the trick to winning.

Consider the long-term effect of your decisions.

You cannot change the underlying probability or beat the odds of a lottery system. But you can be more intelligent when playing.

I encourage you to discover the secrets of the lottery game from a different perspective.

Most of us think in binary modes, such as looking at things in black and white, true or false, friends and foes, right or wrong, etc.⁵

One trick to winning you can do right now is to think gray. I encourage you to look at all the arguments.

In lottery games, the success-to-failure ratio may impact your strategy for the long term. Even though all combinations have the same probability, combinations are not created equally because they differ in composition. That’s why combinations are categorized into different combinatorial groups.

Combinatorial groups don’t have the same success-to-failure ratio. Whether you like it or not, some groups are more dominant than others, and the same group will continue to dominate as more draws take place infinitely.

I invented a unique combinatorial design that handles low-high and odd-even numbers. And I don’t hide my system. The lottery formula is available to the public to use however they see fit.

Hot and cold numbers don’t work in the lottery. The same principle should lead you to ditch other superstitions, such as lucky and unlucky numbers, numbers from your dreams, and much more.

Mathematics remains the only tool that gives you the trick to winning the lottery.

The key is not to trick the lottery system but to understand the behavior of the balls in a truly random game. This knowledge will give you a better advantage over other lotto players.

Avoid Using Statistics

Many people mistakenly think that the historical lottery results may provide a trick to winning the lottery, but nothing could be further from the truth.

There’s a big difference between statistics and probability.⁶ When information is unknown, we use statistics to solve questions or problems from a sample space.

For example, if you don’t know the number of black socks in a drawer, you would try to calculate the number by drawing socks randomly 100 times.

However, the lottery’s finite structure provides adequate data to analyze how it works as a whole, and you don’t need sample data from the past 100 draw results to understand how the game behaves randomly. The real trick to winning the game is understanding the structure of the game through probability theory.

For example, in a lotto 5/39 game, we know there are 19 even numbers and 20 odd numbers. We can easily calculate how the two groups behave in 100 draws without sampling using the probability formula.

I created the Lotterycodex calculator to do just that.

In the lottery, events are treated as an applied combinatorial and probability problem rather than a statistical one.

The results are high-accuracy and high-precision prediction, which is not achievable by statistical analysis.

The law of large numbers reinforces that the lottery obeys what the probability dictates as draws grow.

There’s More to the Lottery Than Meets the Eye

Combinatorial and probability analysis is just a small part of the bigger picture. We hardly scratched the surface.

Think about things such as low and high numbers, number groups, consecutive numbers, and multiples and how all these things relate to the study of combinatorics, probability, and the law of large numbers. You will realize that calculation can be quite complex. What I have been discussing here is simply the tip of the iceberg.

That’s why I created the Lotterycodex Calculator to simplify everything. You don’t need to love math to apply this trick to winning the lottery.

There’s no trickery. No one can manipulate the outcome of a random event. But that doesn’t mean you are helpless.

Mathematics is here to give you an advantage.

Questions and Answers

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References

1. Probability and Combinatorics    [↩]
2. Probability Theory    [↩]
3. Combinatorics    [↩]
4. The Law of Large Numbers    [↩]
5. Do You Fall Into The Trap Of Binary Thinking?    [↩]
6. Statistics vs. Probability: What’s the Difference?    [↩]