The difficulties of playing the lottery with conventional combinatorics.
If we observe the combinations of numbers, their occurrences seem relatively rare.
For instance even with Fantasy5, a lottery in Florida that provides good chances, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1:376.992, and it's drawn daily. Theoretically, you have to play it for about 1000 years for a combination to be repeated. You stand a better chance of winning with extended sets of numbers, even though it has the disadvantage of being rather costly. For example if we play a combination of 10 numbers in the above mentioned Fantasy5, we need 5 tickets. Then there is the problem of choosing the 10 particular numbers. By choosing 10 numbers, the odds improved from 1:376.992 to 1:28.000
What are patterns?
We look at patterns when we observe the behavior of combinations, e. g.: how many even numbers occur in a draw?
We may create patterns along many viewpoints: divisibility of numbers, frequency of occurrence of sets, which row or column are the numbers in.
What kind of patterns are there?
Not only particular numbers or combinations can be played, but systematic patterns as well, for instance how many even numbers will be in the next draw.
If, for example in Fantasy5, you determine accurately that in the next draw the number of even numbers will be 4, your chances changed from 1:376.992 to 1:48.000
Advantages of playing patterns:
Since we consider frequently occurring rules in number combinations, their occurrences can be assessed a great deal more effectively, than that of complete number combinations.
Warning!
Don't forget that playing the lottery remains gambling. Chances of winning may increase with our method, but even when we are trying to guess the number of even numbers, or the number of numbers divisible by 3, we are still guessing, even if in this case we may be able to consider the statistics, like for example when were 3 or 4 even numbers drawn.