How to Win the Lottery

In this post I aim to answer a few of the most common questions that come up from people who first hear about the most common system used by lottery players who want to gain an advantage over other players in the draw.

The 2 most common questions I get are:

1. What is meant by “wheeling your numbers” when it comes to playing the lottery?
2. Do “wheeling” systems really work?

Let’s look at these in turn.

Number Wheeling

Wheeling numbers is a simple mathematical concept. Really, in lay-man’s terms, wheeling allows you to pick more numbers than the standard game allows with just random tickets.

For example in a typical 6 from 49 draw such as the UK National Lottery you would normally select 6 numbers to play with. If you wanted to enter the draw a second time you would pick a mixture of new numbers for your second line.

With “wheeling” however you can pick as many numbers as you like and using a simple mathematical system create a selection of tickets that have every possible combination of those numbers.

Does Wheeling Work?

Wheeling numbers increases your odds of winning a prize significantly. It reduces the odds by many millions to 1. Just adding 1 number increases the odds of winning a top prize from 14 million to 1 down to 500 thousand to 1.

In fact, using wheeling as a method for choosing numbers it is actually possible to guarantee a jackpot win because you can enter every possible combination into the draw.

Unfortunately this would cost you in the region of £14 million. No small investment. What’s more, the jackpot would need to be a roll-over to make the exercise profitable and you would need to hope that no-one else good lucky and hit the 6 numbers claiming a share of the prize. It’s a risky strategy, but one that has been successfully used many times before by wealthy syndicates.

Some rich people are just greedy!

So if you want to get better odds in the lotto that you play I suggest you try a simple wheeling system to begin with. It will cost you more in entries but your chances of winning a top prize are greatly increased and your odds of winning smaller prizes are extremely high.

In 2003 Stephen Cooke was feeling lucky so he decided to play the Mega millions draw that had a jackpot of $70 million. Purchasing a few tickets using significant dates for numbers Cooke casually obtained his entries in the normal way. What Stephen didn’t realise was that he had played the same numbers on 2 of his tickets. An oversight that would leave many players feeling they had squandered an extra chance at picking the winning numbers.

When the draw took place Stephen was very excited when the first ticket he checked had the winning line. To say Cooke was overjoyed would be an understatement.

Making his way to the claim office in Atlanta Cooke learned that there had been 3 winners thus netting him a hue $23.3 million prize.

However, the lottery officials were aware of the time and date that the winning tickets had been purchased and started to ask Cooke a lot of questions about where and

when he had

bought his tickets. Obviously he thought this was a little strange until he was informed that 2 winning tickets had been purchased in quick succession obviously by the same player!

The lottery officials were sure that Stephen had the other winning ticket.

In the strictest secrecy a Georgia Lottery security guard travelled with Cooke o his home so that he could retrieve his other 2 tickets in order to ascertain if one of them was also a winner.

It was then that Cooke discovered his initial mistake which netted him another $23.3 million prize for a grand prize total of $46.6 million.

What a lucky guy.

All Juan Tobar would say when he was handed his giant cheque for $100,000 was, “I’m so lucky!” Not many people would disagree with that statement Juan. But what did shock listeners was when he then added to his former statement saying, “It’s nice to be a winner again.”

Before Juan had even spent one dime of his initial winnings he went and did it all over again.

Seriously, the original $100,000 was still sitting in his bank account when he cashed his second enormous $100,000 cheque. Some people have all the luck!

Just a matter of a short few months previously Juan had netted his first $100,000 win in the same lottery game. Although he always ensures he purchases his tickets at the same store he makes sure he plays different numbers.

To match even 1 of Juan’s lucky wins takes you must match 5 from 35 on your ticket, which means beating odds of 325,000 to 1.

To do it twice you have to beat odds of approximately 10 and a half billion to 1. That is a staggering statistic and shows just how incredibly lucky Juan has been.

The only plans he has for his new fortune is to pay off his mortgage. We could think of a few extra luxuries he could buy, can you?

The vast majority of sane, rationale people believe that the lottery is purely a game of chance; a game of luck. But is this really the case? Many eminent men and women claim the lottery is not at all about luck but is a game that is beatable because it is based on the laws of probability and not on blind luck.

Such claims seem too fantastic to be true. Surely winning on the lottery is a matter of luck and luck alone!

Well what if it isn’t?

What if winning the lottery is not about luck at all but about something else – something completely different? Something that can be measured gauged and predicted. What if?

What if it was feasible to win the lottery by acquiring a proven plan that seems to succeed time and time and time again.

Would you be interested in such a plan?

Lottery Beginnings

Since its very conception the lottery has produced not only excitement and wonder but it has also given rise to the urge and deep desire to win it among ordinary men and women the world over.

For most people winning the lottery seems like the fastest way to acquire huge sums of money, in fact it seems to them to be the only way to those types of riches. So it is little wonder that many formulas have been invented that attempt to use clever mathematics to beat the lottery and there is little doubt that big money has been spent developing those systems.

With so many lottery tactics being designed one might be misguided for reasoning that a successful system would have been created well before nowadays and perhaps it has. Many past winners have claimed to have use a variety of systems from hidden secret formulas to simple wheeling techniques employed by syndicates (often very successfully).

Unfortunately, when it comes to selling systems designed to make easy money, like lottery systems, there are many dubious and unscrupulous marketers who peddle inferior or useless products.

Whilst there are many more lottery systems that are useless than there are ones that are adept enough to create substantial, palpable wins, it is possible to mine the diamonds from the rough if you know where to plant your digging equipment.

You see crunching numbers for a number of people is easy. Maths professionals will frequently build complicated algorithmic techniques for just about everything.

It will be no surprise then that some whiz mathematical geniuses have attempted to devise such techniques in the past to beat the lottery. And it should come as no surprise that some of those mathematicians are now extremely wealthy and “lucky” at the lotto.

Neither should it surprise you to discover that many of those systems are now available on the market.

One simple lottery system that is often used by syndicated groups is “wheeling”.

Wheeling numbers is a neat method to dramatically increase your chances of winning a prize on the lotto by allowing you to play more numbers in multiple sequences. The only obstacle to utilising a wheeling approach for winning the lotto is the price of the entries. As you need to purchase many entries when wheeling numbers it is only really affordable when playing within a syndicated group of people.

Nevertheless, wheeling does testify that you can apply arithmetic, and specifically when working with the laws of probability, to greatly increase your chances of winning the draw.

The fact that mathematics can be utilised to win the draw makes it easy to understand how a math teacher and PhD in Statistics has won the lottery 4 times and an Oklahoma mathematics professor has won the coveted draw three times in straight succession and 5 times in all.

Maybe we could all be as lucky as they have been if we were trained in mathematics!