Does it affect your chances of winning the lottery by the number of ticket sales in that week?
151926
absolutely.  "Odds of winning" is based on how many tickets are sold.
224144
Dont we all... thats why so many people buy lotto tickets. \nWork hard and keep wishing is all I can tell you. If there is a secret to success I havn't found it yet.
848925
I receive scams like that about every 3 or four weeks.If you didn't enter the sweepstakes or buy a lottery ticket, you can't win.
181088
You have to buy a ticket lottery first.
786867
theres no such thing as lucky numbers it's just a superstition...good luck :P
185942
It depends on which lottery, but typically they have to publish the odds.  Typical odds for a six ball game are 1 in 7.1 million. The odds of drowning in your bathtub are about 1 in 700,000.  So you are ten times more likely to drown in your tub than to win the lottery.\n\nParadoxically, winning doesn't change your odds of winning again. So if you buy a ticket, your odds of winning are say 1 in 7 million, and if you win, and buy another ticket the next day, your odds off winning with that ticket are the same, assuming the game is the same.\n\nBut save your dollar.
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Did you buy a lottery ticket?\nIf not this is a scam. I get about five per day.\nJust delete it and ignore it..\n\nwww.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm www.scambuster419.co.uk/lottery.htm\nantivirus.about.com/cs/hoaxes/p/lottery.htm\nwww.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/lotterywin.htm
26662
the tickets when on sale last week.
16656
There is no "best" way.  Each number has the same odds of being picked.  It's just as likely for 2-4-6-8-10-12 to be picked as any other combination of numbers.  The fact that certain numbers are picked more often than others is purely a matter of chance.  The numbers don't "remember" from week to week which ones were picked.
745507
diidy, how could the odds get worse when you buy more tickets?\n\nI think there are actually two answers, depending on whether each ticket is independent of the others or not.\n\nIf each ticket is independent, and there's no guarantee as to how many tickets there are or how many winners there will be, then think of it this way.  The odds of any ticket NOT winning are 299:300.  Therefore the odds of NO ticket winning are 299^n:300^n, where n is the number of tickets.  The odds of at least one ticket winning are 1 - the odds of no ticket winning, or 1 - 299^n:300^n, or (300^n - 299^n):300^n.\n\nIf there are 300 tickets of which 1 is a winner, then the odds of winning are n:300.
887882
Scam..\nDo you really think there is a method to picking winning lottery numbers?\nThink about it.
312266
No.  It shouldn't do it through the lottery either.  It's just another way to raise taxes without admitting it
524558
No, but I know a guy who won 5 million in the California Lottery. He showed me the newspaper with his photo and headlines trumpeting "The Five Million Dollar Man".\n\nWhen I met him he was working double shifts pumping gas. He was spending about $300 a week on more lottery tickets. "I know I can do it again!" he insisted. \n\nApparently he blew through 5 million dollars in a couple of years with the aid and assistance of a beautiful 'girlfriend'. \n\nGood luck, Mike! I know you can do it again. Well, at least I HOPE you can! No one will be able to convince you otherwise.\n\nTrue. Sad but true. There's a lesson to be learned here. BTW, anyone need a limo to Atlantic City or Foxwood Casino? The odds are much better there!
574995
The chance that it will be on the next draw is the same as it has always been 1/1000.  Draws are independent events and as much as our intuitive human nature tells us otherwise, a number is not "due" because it hasn't been picked in awhile.\n\nThe chance that a specific sequence wouldn't come up in 1 drawing is 999/1000.  For two drawings it is (999/1000)^2.  For 3 drawings (999/1000)^3, etc.\n\nFor 6588 drawings, the odds that it would have gone this long is (999/1000)^6588 or 0.00137226009.  This is very close to the probability that it will be drawn on the next draw (0.001).  They are both low probabilities but not out of the bounds of expectation.  If you check the draws, you'll probably find sequences of numbers that have gotten drawn more than a dozen times...\n\nI know you don't want to hear this but to end up with most likelihood of having money in the long run, the best odds are not to play at all.  The lottery odds always favor the state since the payouts average less than the expected number of tickets.  Perhaps not for a single draw, but odds will win out in the long run.
315719
You need to get into the lottery drawings to be able to buy tickets to the games. Because they are so hard to find you must be willing to spend large amounts of money to get one. Hotels will be very expensive due to this reason you must book ahead. Remember the whole world will be in Germany this summer!
565661
Occasionally, if there is a big jackpot. Some lucky person won $22 million Thursday night, but it wasn't me. No. I lose, but not a lot.
487485
£1 a ticket choose 6 numbers if all come up win jackpot or smaller prizes for 5, 4 and 3 numbers. Its a tax on stupidity really