Comparison Of Wednesday Lotto Results Winners

July 12, 2012 Lotteries / Lottery Results / Lotto
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Experts recommend playing unusual combinations when playing the lotto.  This way, if you win, you are less likely to share your winnings with others.  But what qualifies as “unusual” and normal?  One of the best ways to find trends is by looking at the Wednesday lotto results winners.  Not as many people play the Wednesday lotto so it is easier to analyze the Wednesday lotto results than the Saturday results.

There are some interesting trends which show up in just the last week of Wednesday lotto results winners.  Usually, about 200-300 thousand people win at least something on the Wednesday lotto.  You can expect 0-1 Match 6 winner, about 1-4 Match 5 plus bonus winners, and about 200 Match 5 winners.  There are usually thousands of Match 4 winners and hundreds of thousands will Match 3 Wednesday lotto results.

On one recent drawing, the Wednesday lotto results were 9, 25, 29, 32, 37, 38 and bonus 28.  There were a total of 266,462 winners broken down into: 0 match 6 winners, 2 match 5 plus bonus winners, 167 match 5 winners, 12,326 match 4 winners, and 253,967 match 3 winners.

Compare these Wednesday lotto results winners to another drawing of 3, 5, 8, 9, 18, 44 and bonus 42.  These Wednesday lotto results had an impressive 499,840 total winner – almost twice as many from the other drawing!  This isn’t because there were more people playing either because the prize fund was just 1.6 million compared to 2.4 million for the other drawing.  This combination of numbers produced 3 jackpot winners, 14 match 5 plus bonus, 584 match 5, 30,185 match 4, and 469,054 match 3 winners.

Lottery analysts would be able to instantly tell you why this drawing had so many more winners than the other Wednesday lotto results.  Simply, most people pick their numbers in some pattern.  Surprisingly, many people pick consecutive numbers.  According to one study, about 10 thousand people play the combination of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 for their picks each drawing!  We don’t have the specific numbers but we can assume that lots of other people are also playing other consecutives like 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.  Anyone playing this combination would have gotten a Match 3 win with the Wednesday lotto results.

We can’t say what caused the 3 winners with all of the Wednesday lotto results to pick their numbers in that exact way.  However, there does seem to be a bit of a trend – and when the Wednesday lotto results are in a pattern or trend, you will have to split up any big earnings.  It would have been better for someone to choose the apparently random numbers from the other Wednesday lotto results and take home the entire jackpot for themselves rather than splitting it up with a bunch of lucky others.

Beijing Goes Lottery Crazy

June 22, 2012 Jackpot / Lotteries / Lottery Results / Winning The Lottery
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The Euro Lottery and the British lottery/">National Lottery certainly bring on their frenzies when the jackpots’ rollover and people begin frantically buying tickets in an attempt to stake a claim on the ever increasing millions on offer.

 

The British lottery whirl is, however, is nothing quite like the frenzy that recently took place in Beijing when a winning lottery ticket sparked a wave of lottery players at a single lottery kiosk.

 

After $89 million (570 million Yuan) was won on the Union Lotto – the biggest jackpot ever in China – people became lottery-mad, buying up multiple tickets in the lottery which, in the sense of how much its jackpots are, is dwarfed by other countries.

 

The winner, who remains unknown, had apparently bought three lines of lottery-numbers/">lottery numbers for the grand total of 220 Yuan and now has 60 days to claim the prize, which will be taxed at 20%.

 

People are most amazed at the way the numbers were found. The unknown person allegedly used the machine to pick the first row of numbers then used the same numbers twice more on separate lines, meaning that he or her would split the prize three ways with… himself or herself.

 

The kiosk in question in based in the Sanlitun district of Beijing. The previous biggest win on this lottery was 565 million Yuan.

 

Compared to the Euro Lottery, these are small numbers. The lottery generates less enthusiasm in China which, one would think would have the world’s largest lotteries due to the nation’s vast population.

 

China is also the place often attributed as being the ‘birthplace of lotteries’, as, according to historical accounts, it was lotteries that were used to raise funds for the building of vast civic structures such as The Great Wall of China.

 

Perhaps this new rush of interest in Chinese lotteries will prove to be a benefit for the most populous country in the world.

Seven ‘news worthy’ lottery winners!

June 22, 2012 Jackpot / Lotteries / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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If you think choosing the correct winning lottery ticket numbers makes you clever or different from the rest, check out these lucky few:

 

The Britows, of the 1st Scout Troop of Devon, hit a £15 million jackpot in 2004 as they were facing redundancy. The group used their winnings to go on a two week wilderness holiday in Canada before buying up the local land around their base in order to protect themselves from greedy developers.

 

Peter Lavery, won £10.2 million on the lottery/">National Lottery in 1996 and used to money to buy a whiskey distillery, which makes his favourite brand ‘Danny Boy’. Lavery failed to splash out in any other extravagant way.

 

John McGinnues, won £10 Million in 1997 and ploughed the lot of it into his beloved Livingstone Football Club. The football club duly sank and took John with it. McGinnues is now £2 million in debt.

 

Eric and Sue Tarry of Fakenham played the same numbers on the lottery for years. One week, Mr Fakenham forgot the numbers when going to buy their tickets. He used the lucky dip instead and won a vast £7.6 million.

 

Michael Carroll, the self-named ‘King of the Chavs’, won £9.7 million in 2002 and managed to blow it all on poor property purchases, drugs, cars, and wild parties. Carroll was sent to prison for fighting in public and within 18 months was down to his last £500,000. He attempted suicide in 2011.

 

Stan and Pat Cable, won £4 million in 2011 when their lottery ticket numbers came in but still haven’t moved from their two-bed council flat in Suffolk. The Cable’s say the reason they have not moved is because they like their neighbours too much!

 

Michael Egglestone, won £2.7 million on the lottery/">National Lottery and used the money to pay for his triple bypass surgery, as well as shelling of £8,000 on a second hand Robin Reliant for himself!

British National Lottery Scam

June 22, 2012 Jackpot / Lotteries / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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The British lottery/">National Lottery has long been plagued by a variety of different scams. These scams range from letters through your door to phoney telephone calls to emails sent to gather bank account information from unsuspecting individuals so that they can drain your accounts unawares.

 

All too often elderly people are the targets of these scams, being particularly susceptible to these types of frauds, especially, it has to be said, where technology is involved.

 

A recent scam has been doing the rounds of email in-boxes so I will break it down for you here so you know how it works and how to avoid being conned.

 

According to the email, which has been in circulation since November, 2011, the recipient has won up to £1,500,000 in the British lottery/">National Lottery Promo Programme. It claims that your email address has been attached to the winning numbers of a draw and that you need to contact the ‘fiduciary agent’ Mr. Richard Cook to officially claim the prize.

 

The ‘winner’ is also asked to submit a ‘Verification/Fund Release Form’ which requests name and contact details and other personal information. This email is not from the lottery/">National Lottery. Once you have sent over details and invested time in filling out boring documents, they will ask you to pay some upfront fees needed to cover legal costs, transfer fees, insurance, and any other imaginary costs they can think of. If you do pay these fees you are unlikely to ever see that money again.

 

It is possible that the scammers may also attempt to pull together enough of your personal information to steal your identity. This is a new and serious crime and can lead to all sorts of serious problems to those that have been affected by it.

 

The important thing to remember is not to jump through hoops for people if you have won the lottery. If you really have won a lottery and the people who operate the lottery have your email address and your name, they will find you. And probably turn up to your house in a limousine with champagne, not ask you to pay anything!

Search for Euro Millions Winner Continues

June 22, 2012 Euromillions / Jackpot / Lotteries / Lottery Numbers / Lottery Results / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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You can play Euro Millions online or by paper tickets from outlets all over the UK. Although due to  the fact that no one has come forward to claim £63.8 million in prize money could arguably be proof that playing online is safer.

 

You can all picture the scene – You see the numbers in the newspaper or on the televised show, you can’t remember where you put your ticket, and perhaps you find it as one of those cocoon-like balls in the bottom of the pair of jeans you put in the washing machine. You will never know what numbers you wrote down and you, potentially, just lost out on enough money to have you swimming in caviar for life… if that’s your thing that is!

 

To avoid this potentially devastating scenario, if you play Euro Millions online, your ticket is stored electronically and can be checked up on at any time. In fact, so are all the tickets you have bought for up to 180 days (the period for which prizes can be claimed).

 

It is certainly in the lottery/">National Lottery’s interest to pay out jackpots and other prize money, as it serves to better advertise the event and it is not like Camelot, the lottery/">National Lottery operator, can keep the money if no one claims it.

 

Paying out money inevitably encourages more people to play and therefore makes Camelot in the long-term.

 

Camelot is reported to be desperately trying to locate the person who bought the winning ticket and have managed to whittle the possible location down to the Hertfordshire area, who due to the deadline on claiming prizes, has until 11pm on December the 5th to claim their prize.

 

A Camelot spokesperson said, “We’re desperate to find this mystery ticket holder and unite them with their winnings and we’re urging everyone to try checking in the pockets of clothing, in wallets, bags and down the back of the sofa – someone out there could literally be sitting on a fortune.”

Lottery World Record Broken

June 22, 2012 Jackpot / Lotteries / Lottery Numbers / Lottery Results / Winning The Lottery
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When the Mega Millions numbers came in on 31st of March this year everyone knew that this would be a world record breaking jackpot due to the sheer number of people who had played and the rollovers accumulated from previous weeks.

 

The Mega Millions is the largest lottery in the world and encompasses a vast majority of states across the USA. The lucky winners were based in Kansas, Illinois and Maryland. They will split the sum of $640 million worth all of $462 million after taxes. In the USA, unlike in most European countries, lottery winnings have to be taxed.

 

The spokesman for the Illinois Lottery, Mike Lang, said that the winning ticket in his state was sold in the small town of Red Bud near St. Louis. The winner had used a quick pick to choose the numbers. The winning ticket for Maryland had been sold in a 7-Eleven convenience store in Baltimore County. The third was purchased somewhere in the North-East of Kansas.

 

The director of communications for the Maryland lottery said that the last time the winning Mega Millions numbers were scratched onto a ticket in her state was back in 2008, when a ticket brought home $24 million.The winning ticket in Baltimore was won in a predominantly African-American, working-class neighbourhood, which, by all accounts, has seen better times.

 

The chances of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are just 1 in 176 million so local residents are naturally astounded. Although despite of its incredibly low odds, the Mega Millions has proved to be an exceptionally popular lottery draw and in some parts of the country queues had stretched around the block from local convenience stores.

 

For example, the state of Idaho typically sells around 200,000 to 250,000 tickets per draw but, although in recent months, Idaho has been selling approximately 800,000 tickets per Mega Millions draw. No one knows quite what triggered this massive rush to play but some suggest it is a result of the economic downturn.

Is Luck in your Genes?

June 21, 2012 Lotteries / Lottery Numbers / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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Do you think you know how to choose the perfect lucky Lotto numbers? Does your horse always win the Grand National? Did you manage to get yourself tickets to the Olympics regardless of the fact that millions didn’t? Some people now believe that luck is ingrained into a person on a genetic level.

 

The so-called ‘Warrior Gene’ is now thought to endow an individual with better judgement when making risk-based financial decisions, rather than being prone to making impulsive decisions. The ‘Warrior Gene’ results in a lower production of a certain enzyme which produces risky behaviour, reports Nature magazine.

 

Cary Frydman, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, created a new study of the gene using probability models to determine patterns in the choices made by individuals in order to see how the gene might be affecting their choices. The researcher’s results indicated that carriers of the Warrior Gene were 5% less ‘risky’ than those without. “It shows that risky behaviour is not always counterproductive and it’s not always suboptimal,” Frydman said.

 

This theory has interesting implications because, as time goes by, more and more people are having their genomes mapped and will be able to tell in an instant what genes they carry and what genes they don’t. As this scientific advancement progresses, people will be able to assess, in a rational manner, whether or not they should be trying to pick lucky Lotto numbers or whether to fold in a game of Blackjack, or whether they should just pass on the gambling altogether and accept that they are not cut out for it.

 

Although scientific capabilities this sophisticated are a long way off still and, as the results indicate, the difference between those with and without the gene is still minimal. But with the possibility that other genes could also have an affect on the crucial behaviour required for effective gambling then it is possible that gambling as a pastime could eventually lose its sting.

The British Lottery Scandal

June 21, 2012 Lotteries / Lottery Results / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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For some the British lottery-results/">lottery results can become quite ‘painful’ to watch when you consistently seem to lose and don’t even gain the occasional ‘£2.50’ break to remind you that there is actually real money to be won and it isn’t all just a waste of time, effort and money.

 

This depressing scenario can be made even worse when you find yourself in a situation where have bought a ticket, have the winning numbers, but then realise that your ticket was worthless because of a problem within the lottery system. This ‘unthinkable’ situation almost happened to a number of players in 2010 when they were sold lottery pay slips that were out of date and had no chance of winning.

 

Politicians and punters alike immediately demanded that the useless tickets be withdrawn and that Camelot, the lottery operator, refunded those affected by the problem.

 

As a consequence of the blunder, investigators have visited dozens of lottery outlets across Scotland and found out-of-date Thunderball slips still in use. These outlets ranged from the smallest convenience stores to the largest supermarkets.

 

“Camelot should have made sure that every one of the old forms were withdrawn and destroyed at the time of the changeover,” said Gilian from Bishopbriggs, adding:

 

“They are making enough money from the lottery to spend a little to make sure everyone has the same chance of winning. I would be as well throwing my money down the drain as using a form with only some of the numbers included.”

 

Camelot did promise to launch an urgent investigation and appealed for the names and locations of stores that seemed to be selling the old slips. Camelot claimed that every retailer was contacted when the slips were changed and told to dispose of the old slips, and they couldn’t understand why some retailers had not done this.

 

In light of the old lottery ticket quandary, several mathematicians have calculated, due to the old slips having too fewer numbers to choose from, that the chances of a lottery-results/">lottery results being successful decrease by 48% when the old forms are played.

Three of the Worst Winning Lottery ‘Systems’

June 21, 2012 Jackpot / Lotteries / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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The UK’s lottery/">National Lottery operator, Camelot, has built up a highly regarded reputation as being one of the world’s leading operating systems. Unfortunately not all lottery systems are as honest and high-esteemed as the lottery/">National Lottery. Take a look at three of the worst winning lottery ‘systems’ in existence and what makes them so ‘terrible’.

 

Gail Howard / Smart Luck / Lottery Wheeling

 

The simple fact is that wheeling does not increase your chances of winning. This is something that is consistently dismissed from instructions when these wheeling packages are sold to you. The ‘proof’ of how well wheeling works is presented as a group of ‘winners’ giving testimonies about their new found fortunes.

 

In reality, many people who become involved in playing wheeling systems often end up buying a fairly significant amount of tickets for the sole reason to increase their chances of winning.

 

Mark Bower / Winning the Lottery in 3 Steps

 

Mark Bower’s “Winning the Lottery in 3 Steps” was a sellout book, which is offered as a playing guide with charts, systems and information about how to win the lottery.

 

Critiques and sceptics of Bower’s book insist that the winner’s photographs seem a little off? That his name on the giant cheque he’s holding seems to be a little bit photo shopped!

 

Take a look at the Facebook style comments at the bottom of Bower’s sales pitch. Genuine? Um… no. I managed to laugh myself silly when I read the bit in the pitch that said his results are the product of extensive studies written by a ‘Belgian science man!’

 

Lottery Crusher

 

There is an incredibly cheesy video accompanying this one. The Lottery Crusher claims to have helped millions of people win, but how many millions of people can win the lottery!? How much money is there in the world? Is the sky going to turn to gold? The Lottery Crusher is just the same old past results analysis used once again.

 

 

 

Lottery Syndicates: The Aftermath of the ‘12 Bus Drivers from Corby’

June 21, 2012 Jackpot / Lotteries / Lottery Results / National Lottery / Winning The Lottery
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Lottery syndicates can be a good way to improve one’s odds of winning a large jackpot. The joys of winning the lottery through a syndicate were revealed when the story of 12 bus drivers from Corby made the tabloid headlines in March of this year.

 

According to the tabloid press, which loves a good lottery story, 12 hard working men finally got a break from a job their jobs as bus conductors, when they found out that they had won a large sum of money on the lottery and so excited was one of the winners, that he walked away from his job immediately after discovering he had won!

 

The syndicate winner’s employer, Stagecoach, was quick to play down the rumour that one of the men had walked off a bus in the middle of a circuit after learning about his win. Yet it seemed that, although Stagecoach claimed no men had tendered their resignation, every one of them failed to turn up to work the next day causing chaos at the bus depot they were based at.

 

One of the most interesting developments is reports of a young woman and co-worker, who is now dubbed as being the ‘unluckiest woman in the UK’ as she had been a member of their syndicate up until six months prior when they reshuffled the lotteries they played and she decided she could no longer afford to be part of the syndicate.

 

The tabloids, which love to scorn at other’s misfortunes, reported that the ‘unluckiest woman in the world’ was devastated that she was no longer part of the syndicate, as the reason she dropped out in the first place was because she was broke. Several of the drivers have claimed to want to club together and create a package of money for the woman. Some of the others, however, remain less charitable. As Charles Connor, one of the winning drivers, said, ‘What can I say? You’ve got to be in it to win it.’

 

Several of the men have ex-wives and have voiced concerns about their former partners trying to make claims on their money. Those wives interviewed have expressed no such interest.

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