Peoples Favorite Lotto Mistake - Playing Dates for Lotto Numbers

By: Professor Dolph

Using dates for lottery numbers has become common practice for some lottery players. This approach actually reduces their odds of winning the lottery.
In lottery drawing after drawing, people create their wagers using family birthdays, anniversaries and dates that commemorate some personally important or famous event. The thought is that these dates brought them luck before and, therefore, it will happen again. After all, these were the luckiest days in their lives. But, instead of increasing their odds of winning the lottery jackpot, this lottery approach has the opposite effect.
For example, when using this lottery strategy, you are only playing lottery numbers 1 thru 31. So, as long as you are playing the MN531, WI531, WildCard531, PA530 or WV625, this lottery strategy at least has a chance. But, these five lotteries are the only lotteries in North America where that is true. By using this approach in the other 70 lotteries you have either committed Hari-kari or, at the very least, shot yourself in the foot.
Here's the Hari-kari scenario. If you're playing the NY659 or the Powerball 5/59 lottery, choosing dates as lottery numbers is a big mistake. Because, over 47% of the lottery numbers, from 32 thru 59, will never appear in any of your wagers. But, typically, almost half of the lottery numbers drawn will come from that group. Therefore, you would have seriously limited your odds of winning the lottery jackpot. You've taken yourself out of the running.
Let me put an exclamation point on that statement. In the last 200 drawings of the NY659 there was only one jackpot winning ticket in which all of the numbers were between 1 and 31. That means that you were in the running to win the lottery jackpot an unimpressive 0.5% of the time. You had no chance of winning in 199 of those 200 drawings.
Here's the shooting yourself in the foot scenario. Now, as the size of the lottery goes down to, 54, 49, 47, 44, 40, etc., the negative impact is lessened. For example, in the last 740 drawings of the NJ540 lottery, 23% of the winning jackpot numbers were less than or equal to 31. Not bad, you say. Well, that's one way of looking at it. But, in 77% of the drawings you didn't even have a chance of winning the lottery jackpot. Bad luck didn't cause that. You're strategy took you out of the running. You shot yourself in the foot.
I hope that some of you will listen to this advice. But, some will continue to play this way. I wish them well. I really do. I hope they win the big one. But, what I am trying to do, what all of my articles are trying to do is to improve your odds of winning the lottery jackpot in as many drawings as possible. Life is too short to let even one opportunity pass us by.

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Professor Dolph is the world-famous Lottery expert, lecturer and columnist who authored LONA, your LOttery Number Advisor. Visit Lottery Stattistics for a creative look at Lottery software.

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