When people choose lucky numbers that might choose the age of their children, the birthday, or a host of other possiblities. How they choose them doesn't matter. It's the concept itself that is wrong! When choosing lucky numbers they use these same numbers on each ticket. Suppose 1, 2, and 3 are your lucky numbers so then you might choose:

        1-2-3-12-14-17
        1-2-3-20-25-27
        1-2-3-13-15-18

What's wrong with this? The individual who chose these numbers has effectively reduced their chances of winning. Someone might argue that if 1, 2, and 3 do come in then you increase your chances of winning a prize. That's a __big__ "if".

Let me give you an extreme example. Suppose my lucky numbers are 4,7,6,12,13,17. So I decide that I have six lucky numbers and decide to take them on ten tickets. So I have:

        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17
        4-7-6-12-13-17

You might think that there is only a remote chance of selecting six numbers the same when choosing numbers by lucky dip. Well yes, this is true for a small number of tickets but as the number of tickets goes up (into the one hundred thousands) it makes a bigger and bigger difference. The graph below shows how a systematic approach to minimizing the number of duplicates is better than randomly choosing lotto number selections. Consequently a systematic approach improves your chances of winning Division One. I plan to add information which will show you the same is true for the other divisions. Indeed I believe it to be more true.

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