Imagine winning the Mega lottery and having enough winnings to give up your daily job, purchase beyond your normal means, and live the lifestyle of the rich and famous!
According to USA Mega, which collects data since October 2015, the five most popular numbers are 61, 32, 21, 63, and 36. The most popular Powerball number is 18. Here are the least popular numbers for those contrarians in the crowd: 13, 34, 49, 29, and 26. The least popular Powerball number is 15.
To improve your odds in a lottery, buy as many tickets as you can. Pick lotteries with a low-ticket cost and frequent drawings, such as those that have drawings one or two times a week. You can also try joining a pool where lots of people chip in on tickets, then share the jackpot if someone wins.
Although the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 has never been selected there was one closely related incident that confirms the above argument. It occurred just a few weeks after the UK National Lottery started.
This is where the biggest problem with selecting the most popular lottery numbers arises. In the UK the following numbers have been drawn the most: 23, 40, 38, 33, 30, 25. For Euromillions, the most popular number is 50, followed by 44, 19, 4 and 30 and the most common extra numbers have been 8 and 3.
According to the mathematician’s advice in the video below, when the lottery has just four of six numbers, he recommends using a few numbers to improve your odds, such as 1122, 1212, 2121, or for example 122112.
I'm not really convinced, but hey, what about you?
Good luck!
Prof. Carl Boniface
Check out video for a mathematician’s advice:
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