Millions of people are dreaming of beating the odds of winning the lottery, and transforming their lives.

For decades, lotteries have been considered games of pure chance with little strategy involved beyond random number picks.

With astronomical Jackpots, lotteries like Mega Millions or Powerball, are particularly attractive to players. But given the also astronomical odds, many of them sometimes feel like these games are just all rigged against them, and rightfully so.

“Cracking” the lottery

Since the explosive growth of artificial intelligence in recent years, both amateurs and professionals have been attempting to use technology to crack lottery games.

Most attempts focuses on analysis of historical lottery data, seeking hidden patterns usable for number predictions.

However, a good lesson for innovators that chase the boundaries of predictive models and data-driven decisions is remembering that fundamentals matter: while AI has transformed the way we think of what’s possible, legitimate lottery drawings are pure, independent, random events. Not even the mightiest pattern-matching technology could grasp chaos of random events by predicting patterns that are not caused by specific dependencies.

Our lottery assistant and numbers generator app is not claiming to predict numbers, but it uses probability distributions of numerical patterns in historical data to show trends and let players generate number combinations according to their desired strategy.

By leveraging our data algorithms, players can make any potential lucky outcome a bit more relatable to the player’s decisions, which is a big part of the thrill and fun about playing the lottery.

Patterns & Odds of Winning

A simple and intuitive way to understand how a strategy based on patterns and odds could work, is to consider the analogy of a coin toss.

When flipping a coin, we expect heads and tails to come up equally – a 50/50 ratio.

But let’s say you flip 4 times and only get 1 tail. Tails currently have a 25% ratio (1 out of 4 flips).

Since tails are expected to be 50%, they are “due” to come up more, which means in practice, there’s a higher chance tails will happen on the 5th flip to balance the ratio.

So, over time, actual ratios tend to even out toward the expected ratios. In fact, there is a mathematical explanation for this phenomenon, which the binomial probability formula.

It’s similar with patterns. If a pattern has a high expected ratio, but the actual ratio is lower – it’s more likely to appear again.

And if a pattern has a low expected ratio, but is happening more than usual – it may appear less.

Just like heads and tails balancing out.

Does it increase the odds of winning?

Playing a specific pattern with high chances of appearing it alluring as it looks like it might reduce the number of possibilities, but that doesn’t guarantee that a winning lottery number in that pattern will be picked. Legitimate lotteries with independent, and pure random draws still have the same mathematical odds to appear.

In other words, applying these data science principals may shift the odds of getting the right pattern over time, but doesn’t change the odds of your individual picks.

However, with a lot of luck and some amount of consistency and perseverance, playing the same numbers for a specific pattern that we know has high chances to occur, could be a way to slightly increase the odds of winning.

For example, some of the best patterns in lotteries such as Powerball or Mega-Millions, have a 90%+ chances to appear in the next 5 draws. if playing consistently the same numbers each time for that pattern, you might just be lucky enough to also eventually hit the jackpot by having chosen among less possible numbers.

It can be a risky approach for your budget though, as it’s betting over time and not on a single independent event. The lottery is still ultimately a game of chance and a lot can happen over time. You can decide to try and be strategic about it, or you can decide to just always play random numbers.

Our recommended approach to play consistently but responsibly is to:

• Pick a strategy
• Generate smart numbers accordingly
• Monitor your budget
• Don’t forget it’s a game and have fun!

May the odds be forever in your favor, and always play responsibly!