Chapter 6: PbLC
The only guaranteed way of improving your odds of winning the lotto
We've seen that any set of numbers is just as likely to appear as any other set. We tried to eliminate unlikely patterns (4-6 sequential numbers, etc.), but we still don’t have any significant chance of winning lotto cash. The only conclusion we can draw from this whole study is
So if it doesn't matter how we pick our numbers, what does matter? The answer can be summarized as follows:
In today's society, quality usually counts over quantity. But in this rare case, in the battle of QUANTITY versus QUALITY, this time quantity wins.
I'm now going to demonstrate the only sure way of increasing your odds of winning the lotto. I didn’t find this method in an ancient Mayan ruin. This wasn't revealed to me by some all-seeing spirit or channeling psychic. It is simply a mathematical truth that you can apply to improve your odds of winning the lotto.
In fact, if you work this method, you will have a significantly greater chance of winning the lotto than anybody else, guaranteed!
This is a wonderful opportunity, but there's one downside to the method I’m going to present, and we'll get into that soon.
First, the proof of our statement,
With 10,992,575 possible “likely” combinations, picking just one combination gives you a 0.000009097050% chance of winning the lotto. This is so inconceivably small that we need not dwell on it. Suffice it to say, you will be struck by lightning (maybe twice) before you will ever win the lotto.
Picking five combinations increases your chances to 0.000045485248% which is a 20% increase. We know not to let “percent increases” fool us, because our chances to win are still extremely slim.
The following table shows the odds you would have of winning the jackpot if you purchased a certain amount of combinations.
| Number of Combinations | % Chance to Win |
| 10 | 0.00009% |
| 25 | 0.00023% |
| 50 | 0.00045% |
| 100 | 0.00091% |
| 500 | 0.00455% |
| 1,000 | 0.00910% |
| 10,000 | 0.09097% |
| 100,000 | 0.90970% |
| 250,000 | 2.27426% |
| 500,000 | 4.54852% |
| 1,000,000 | 9.09075% |
You can see that in order to really increase your odds of winning, you have to purchase more sets of numbers. Again...
But to give yourself a better than average chance to win, you'll want at least a 1% chance of winning, and that means buying 109,925 sets of numbers!
Remember that downside I mentioned?
At one dollar per set, it is simply cost prohibitive for most of us to purchase 109,925 lotto tickets. Unless you have a spare $110,000 lying around, I wouldn't advise attempting to play this method on your own!
It's a terrible downside, but at least we know the truth. The only way to truly increase our odds of winning is to buy more lotto tickets.
A lot more. The only way to both improve your odds at winning lotto cash, by playing more sets, and keeping the cost to a minimum, is to join a lotto group.