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How to Win New Zealand Lotto

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About New Zealand Lotto Game

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Winning lotto strategies for winning the New Zealand lotto. New Zealand's favourite lottery game is Lotto 6/40 and this game gives you the chance to become a millionaire every week. For a pick-6 lotto game, the New Zealand Lotto 6/40 lottery game has relatively excellent odds when compared to other pick-6 lotto games around the world.

You choose six numbers from 1 to 40 and an additional bonus number is also drawn, giving you more chances to win. Each line costs 1.50 cents and you must play a minimum of 4 lines, which costs $6.00. Drawings are held every Saturday and  every Wednesday as well. Lotto Powerball is an extra number from 1-10 added to your Lotto line. If you win a prize with Lotto, and have the winning Powerball on the same line, you win the Powerball prize in addition to the Lotto prize. The jackpot odds of winning New Zealand Lotto are one in 3,838,380. The chances of winning powerball are one in 38,383,800. This is why it often jackpots



Lottery Strategies to Help You Win New Zealand Lotto 6/40

Lottery numbers are randomly drawn. But randomly drawn numbers form patterns that can be tracked and used to our advantage. Having carefully analyzed all the drawings in past of more than 1200 lotto draws I have verified the following incredibly simple rule:

That which is MOST POSSIBLE happens MOST OFTEN.
That which is LEAST POSSIBLE happens LEAST OFTEN.

The key to successful lotto number selection methods is playing the probabilities. If you play a lotto ticket pattern that occurs only five percent of the time, you can expect that pattern to lose 95 percent of the time, giving you no chance to win 95 percent of the time. So, don't buck the probabilities.

How to WIN New Zealand Lotto 6/40

ODD-EVEN LOTTO NUMBER TIPS

When you select your lotto numbers, try to have a relatively even mix of odd and even numbers. All odd numbers or all even numbers are rarely drawn, occurring only one percent of the time. The best mix is to have 2/4, 4/2 or 3/3, which means two odd and four even, or four odd and two even, or three odd and three even. One of these three patterns will occur in 82 percent of the drawings. The following patterns is observed in the last 1200 draws: 3/3 was drawn 33% of the time. 2/4 was drawn 25% of the time and 4/2 was drawn 25% of the time. A combination like 0/6 or 6/0 only occurred 1% of the time. It makes sense then to pick tickets with combinations of 3/3, 2/4 and 4/2.

HIGH-LOW LOTTO NUMBER TIPS

Winning numbers are usually spread across the entire lotto number field. If we take the 1-40 number field and cut it into 4 sections, 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 then analyze how often these patterns are drawn we can see which ones occur the most. In theory any pattern could come out but in reality some patterns come our far more often than other. In my analysis 1-2-1-2 is the predominant pattern occuring 70% in the last 1200 draws. This mean 1 number from 1-10, 2 numbers from 11-20, 1 number from 21-30 and 2 numbers from 31-40. The other common patters are 2-1-1-2 (67% of the time), 1-1-2-2 (60%), 2-2-1-1 (59%), 1-2-2-1 (57%), 2-1-2-1 (54%), 1-1-3-1 (50%) and 1-1-1-3 (50%). A pattern like 0-1-0-5 occured less than 1%. Winning number groups with the top 9  lotto patterns occur in 80 percent of all drawings.

LOTTERY NUMBER GROUP STRATEGIES

Look at a list of past winning numbers for New Zealand Lotto, and you'll see, more often than not, that one or more of the number groups is not represented. For example, in the combination 5-14-17-32-38-39, there are no 20's. Tracking and studying Number Groups can help you decide which group to omit and which group to give extra heavy play.

LOTTERY GAMES SKIPPED STRATEGIES

List the number of games skipped (games out) since the last hit (win) for each of the winning numbers during the last five games. Then mark the number of times each skip occurred. If any skip from 0 to 5 did not occur, play the Lotto numbers that are out that many games. 

LOTTO NUMBER SUM ADVICE - PLAY A BALANCED GAME®

After you choose six numbers you want to play, add them together and make sure that the sum of the six numbers adds up to somewhere between 95 and 151. Sums that fall within that range will account for over 70 percent of all lottery jackpots won.

REPEAT HITS LOTTERY TIPS

In Lotto 6/40, on average, one lottery number will be a repeat hit from the last drawing 37 percent of the time.

HOT NUMBER LOTTERY SECRETS

Numbers that have been out (losers) for four games or less account for about half of the winning numbers drawn. Losing numbers that have been out ten games or less account for 81 percent of all the winning numbers. This tells us that hot numbers are more likely to hit, but don't forget to include at least one long shot in your group of 6.

COLD NUMBER LOTTERY SECRETS

It is difficult to know when a lottery number will end a long losing streak. If you play a number every drawing because you think it is due, you could be chasing it for many months. (Number 45 in New York Lotto sat out 100 drawings before it finally hit.) Although, when a number has been out for 70 games or so, it might be worth chasing.


Save Money by Knowing Lotto Numbers to Avoid

Lotto players who select their lottery numbers thoughtlessly or foolishly are destined to lose even before the drawing takes place. By knowing which number combinations and patterns to avoid, you'll have an advantage over such players—and save money, too.

AVOID NUMBER COMBINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN BEFORE

Many lotto players like to bet the numbers that have won someone else a big jackpot, and by doing so, they are almost guaranteed NOT to win one themselves. In Lotto 6/40, with two drawings a week, a set of 6 numbers has a chance of being drawn once every 36,907 years!!! This should also answer the question we are so often asked, "Shouldn't I keep playing the same set of numbers every week because they are due to hit sometime?"

AVOID BETTING SIX CONSECUTIVE LOTTO NUMBERS

Six consecutive numbers have never been drawn in any state or international lotto game. Smart Luck has all the drawing results for more than 180 state and international lottery games, going back more than fifty years! Even five consecutive numbers is a very rare occurrence that, in most Lotto games, has never happened once.

AVOID BETTING ONE LOTTO NUMBER GROUP

Never choose all six lotto numbers from one number group, such as all single digits, or all tens, or all 20's, etc. All six winning numbers drawn from one group is highly unlikely.

AVOID THE LOTTO COMBINATION 1-2-3-4-5-6

The most popular set of numbers most often played is: 1-2-3-4-5-6. Thousands of tickets are bought with this combination every drawing. The selection is too far out of balance to come up in a random drawing. Even if it did the success pool would be so large your share of winnings would be small.


AVOID NUMBER MULTIPLES

Other popular combinations that get heavy play are the number multiples, especially 5-10-15-20-25-30 and 7-14-21-28-35-42.

AVOID ALL SAME LAST DIGITS

Many people like to play same last digits, such as 3-13-23-33-43, or all digits that end in seven, or some other favorite lucky lottery number. Even four same last digits occur in less than two-tenths of one percent of all drawings. Winning sets of numbers with three last digits the same occur in less than 3 percent of all drawings. Winning sets of numbers with no more than one repeated last digit represent nearly 90 percent of all drawings.

AVOID LOW NUMBER COMBINATIONS

The majority of Lotto players like to play the calendar numbers, such as birth dates and anniversaries—and their children's ages. This means that the most heavily played numbers are 1 through 31. Lotto 6/40 has 40 numbers. If you play only the calendar numbers, you might be sharing your jackpot with dozens of other winners. It's not to say that you shouldn't play your personal numbers if you feel these lucky numbers are good to play. But we recommend that you include a couple of high numbers so that just in case your numbers do hit, you win a prize that's worth something.



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