How Do Hot Numbers Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery
By: Professor Dolph
Submitted: 2009-10-21 14:43:05 | Word Count: 665
How can HOT lottery numbers improve your chances of winning the lottery? Serious lottery players the world over don t need any convincing. They know how important HOT lottery numbers are to any viable lottery strategy. So, if you are already a member of the choir, then this article is one of your favorite hymns. But, the rest of you are about to be enlightened.
Let s be clear about what we are talking about. HOT lottery numbers are those numbers that have HIT more often than any other numbers. Usually we talk about the top 10 HOT lottery numbers but, depending on the situation, the number could be higher or lower. For the purposes of this article, we are going to talk about one number; the HOTTEST number.
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Let s start by laying some ground work. Obviously, in a 6 number lottery, 6 numbers are drawn. Therefore, over 100 drawings, 600 numbers are drawn. So, if we use the Illinois 6/52 lottery (IL652) as an example, each lottery number should HIT 11.54 times. 600/52 = 11.54 This is logical, straight forward and wrong.
How could this possibly be wrong? The mathematics is correct! It s wrong for a couple of reasons. First, how can any lottery number HIT 11.54 times? It can t. It can HIT 11 times or 12 times but never 11.54 times. No doubt, some of you think I m playing you and you re RIGHT! But, I m doing it to make a point. Do you see what it is? In order for the average to come out as a decimal fraction, some numbers must HIT more often than others.
Second, that average, 11.54, is very weak. It s weak because it is based on only 100 drawings. In fact, it is so weak that, as an example, some numbers will HIT 20 times and others will only HIT 5 times and everything else in between. These fluctuations above and below the expected average of 11.54 become less pronounced as more drawings are held; the average becomes stronger.
Classic case in point:
Everyone should know that the most probable outcome to result from flipping a random coin 100 times is 50 heads and 50 tails. However, in reality you re more likely to get some other result; like 60 heads and 40 tails. In this case, there is a 20 error from what is expected. (60 50)/50 = 0.20 The mathematician would not be alarmed by this. He would simply say you haven t run enough trials. As you run more trials the percent error begins to shrink.
For example, if you were to conduct 500 trials the results begin to tighten to 550 heads and 450 tails. Now the percent error is only 10 . If you went all the way to 10,000 trials, you finally reach the point where, for all intents and purposes, the number heads equals the number of tails; 5005 heads versus 4995 tails or 0.1 error. So, as you run more trials, the fluctuations shrink, the percent error shrinks and the average becomes stronger.
Now, here s the startling revelation! With the coin, there were only two possible outcomes; heads or tails. It took 10,000 trials before the wild fluctuations averaged themselves out. How many trials do you think it s going to take before all lottery numbers HIT the same number of times when there are not 2 possible outcomes, but 20,358,520 possible outcomes? I don t know what that number is but there are probably more zeros in that number than there are dollars in your paycheck.
It s a huge number. That means it will easily take millions of years before all lottery numbers occur, for all intents and purposes, the same number of times. This is fabulous news to serious lottery players everywhere. Good news because, in lottery parlance, our life time represents the very, very short term and, in the short term, there will exist a wide variation between the number of hits for HOT and Cold numbers. The bottom line is, in our life time, consistently putting those HOT numbers in our play list gives us a long term statistical advantage. It improves our chances of winning the lottery.
