Lotto 649 Results for Saturday 12/26/15 - Next Jackpot $20.0M

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The winning Lotto 649 numbers for Saturday Dec 26, 2015 were:

12 16 22 29 35 40  and Bonus 08

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There were no (0) Lotto 649 Jackpot winners this drawing.

• (0) Jackpot winner $15,857,643.50 - None

So, the jackpot grows to $20.0 million.

But, there were two (2) regular second place winners matching 5 of 6 white balls + the bonus:

• (1) 2nd Place winner of $157,407.80 - Grand Forks, BC
• (1) 2nd Place winner of $157,407.80 - (WC) Manitoba

Guaranteed $1 Million Prize Draw : 50593738-01 - Ontario
Guaranteed $1 Million Prize Draw : 67870300-05 - Quebec
Guaranteed $1 Million Prize Draw : 68354514-02 - Quebec
Guaranteed $1 Million Prize Draw : 77221082-02 - Quebec
Guaranteed $1 Million Prize Draw : 83888176-06 - Deer Lake, NL

All Provincial results have been posted below.

ALC

Atlantic 49:
Numbers: 11 13 34 35 43 49 Bonus 23
(0) Match 6 - $1,000,000 - None
(0) Match 5 + Bonus - $64,900 - None

ALC Guaranteed: NumberA6695031-01 : (1) - Prince Co, PEI

ALC TAG: Number 402948 : (0) Match all 6 digits - $100,000 - Truro, NS

BCLC

BC 49:
Numbers: 02 13 19 21 38 42 Bonus 22
(0) Match 6 - $2,000,000 - None
(0) Match 5 + Bonus - $75,000 - None

BC Extra: Numbers
16 51 60 84 - (0) Match 4 - $500,000 - None

OLG

Ontario 49:
Numbers: 02 09 26 30 36 46   Bonus 25
(0) Match 6 - $1,000,000 - None
(0) Match 5 + Bonus - $50,000 - None

Ontario Encore: Numbers
5372354 - (0) Match all 7 digits - $1,000,000 - None
_372354 - (1) Match last 6 - $100,000 - One

LOTO-QUEBEC

Quebec 49:
Numbers: 23 26 30 34 43 46   Bonus 38
(0) Match 6 - $2,000,000 - None
(0) Match 5 + Bonus - $75,000 - None

Quebec Extra: Numbers
8774802 - (0) Match all 7 digits - $1,000,000 - None
_774802 - (0) Match last 6 - $25,000 - None

WCLC

Western 649:
Numbers: 08 15 27 31 36 48   Bonus 02
(0) Match 6 - $2,000,000 - None
(0) Match 5 + Bonus - $50,000 - None

Western Canada Extra: Numbers
4869835 - (0) Match all 7 digits - $250,000 - None
_869835 - (0) Match last 6 digits - $100,000 - None

Duplicate ticket estimating calculator coming in Spring 2012

Have you ever wondered how many duplicate lottery tickets are in each drawing?

We have pondered this question many times over the past few years and have found little information. Most research, ours including, present methods that quantify the minimum number of tickets that must be sold before a duplicate is found. But, nothing quantifies the probable number of duplicates, triplicates, quadruples, etc. that are actually present in a single lottery pool.

However, we have recently discovered a closed form solution for estimating these numbers, and we are currently developing the implementation of this.  We expect our development and testing to be completed within the next few months and are intending to release this duplicate estimator in Spring of 2012.

We are not sure if we should present this calculator in gadget or web page form. So, if you have any preference, please let us know by leaving a comment.

Odd Powerball Numbers Counter Mega Millions Even Numbers

Like clockwork, the Powerball lottery counterbalanced Mega Millions all odd number drawing with its own set of all even numbers.

On Tuesday March 8th, Mega Millions drew the odd number white ball combination:

03 17 19 41 55 (all odd and 4 prime).

The next night, Powerball's winning Wednesday night numbers were selected:

12 28 28 40 48 (all even and all divisible by 4).

The chances of all even or all odd number combinations are approximately 2.57% for Mega Millions and 2.37% for Powerball. This means that we would expect to see between 4 to 6 occurances of both odd and even combos within a year. However, the laws of randomness have been tilting the scales to the even side only in both of these games.

During the past Mega Millions year, we observe 3 all even combinations and only 1 all odd. The yearly Powerball deviation is more extreme with 5 all even combos and 0 all odd combos.

While this imbalance may seem to contradict randomness, we need to remember that the probabilities of flipping a coin are 50% heads and 50% tails.  During any short term observance, we may find streaks of all heads or all tails for a while.

Thus, we must not find it unusual to see that only one side of the lottery even-odd bell curve has received the majority of occurrences recently. We must conclude that in total, the outside sets perform as expected. While we know that all odd number combinations are overdue, we must play the odds and say that we are sure that either all even or all odd numbers will be drawn, but we don't know which. Since there is a 50% chance either occurring, we need to continue playing the two outside sets of numbers to be sure of capturing the next winning combination.

Introducing the USA State Lottery Promotions Calendar

During the past few years, we have noticed that various lottery states offer a variety of promotions to their players. But, it has always been difficult for many of us to see what is available without going from site to site.

So, we have decided to take advantage of Google's Calendar facility to record and share this information with you.

At present, we have just begun to enter the promotions. But, we were very excited to release this information with you as a work in progress.

The calendar is shown below. In time, we will be adding it to new pages on our blogs and website.





Hope you like it!

JL............

Texas Lotto's Sure Prime Pickings

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As the Texas Lotto jackpot grows, we discover that the game is prime pickens for its own crazy combos. This was evident in last Wednesday's drawing when 5 of the 6 numbers picked were all prime numbers. The combination for February 2, 2011 was:

11 19 31 37 42 43

With a game format of requiring players to correctly match 6 of 54 numbers, we know that there are both 27 odd and even numbers. Of the odd number subset, we can identify 16 that are also prime numbers (including the number one).  These are numbers that can only be evenly divided by itself and the number one.

Had players limited their playing combinations to only prime numbers, they would have matched the five red numbers shown above and won nearly $1,600 dollars. This drawing illustrates that the: Texas Lotto's Sure Prime Pickings.

Lottery Leads UK Searchs in 2010

According to Metro.co.uk, the word "Lottery" was the thing that UK Brits searched for most in 2010 on Yahoo. This was followed by the term "Job Centre" and "Weather" was third. 

According to the article, the poor economy has pushed the people to experience many money worries. Everywhere, people are hoping to secure their future by winning a substantial prize and climbing out of debt.

For those of us who specialize in providing lottery related information, we are not surprised. After all, rising costs, layoffs, and unemployment are being experienced on both the North American and European continents. People everywhere are having financial difficulties, and both the National and State operated lotteries offer players the opportunity to resolve their financial woos, with little capital outlay. Let's see if the same terms are as popular in the United States as well!

How to Win a Little Bit of Money in the Lottery

Our current development effort has been focused on calculating the amount of money a lottery player would win if they were to use a wheeling strategy. For those who wonder, a lottery wheel refers to playing all the possible combinations using a small subset of numbers. For example, if you select 7 numbers to be wheeled in a 5 number game, there would be 42 possible combinations.

Similarily, we can also utilize a varying amout of bonus balls (Mega Balls, Powerballs, Hot Balls) in our wheel. Supposing that you wish to wheel 5 bonus balls with the above example, there would be a grand total of 42 times 5 or 210 total combinations to be played.

However, we believe that spending $210 on a single drawing is a lot of money. So we wanted to see what would happen if we simply select 5 white ball numbers and wheeled the bonus balls only. The problem we encountered was : What five balls and bonus balls should we play?

For this, we decided to: select the first 5 white balls listed in our Hot and Cold Analysis, and obtain the bonus balls from the Hot Cold analysis as well. Then we applied this strategy to the Mega Millions, Powerball, and Hot Lotto games and reviewed the past 6 months drawings (26 total) to see is we won anything.  This is what we found:

• For Mega Millions, we used the white balls ( 2, 4, 10, 13, 20 ), and the Megaballs ( 9, 13, 18, 19, 25, 26, 31, 36, 41 ). This means we spent $9 in each game or $234 total. We would have had 3 ( 3-white + MB ) and 7 ( 1-white + MB ) winners, returning $660 back to us. Deducting the $234 that we spent, we would have profited $426.
• For Powerball, we used the white balls ( 7, 10, 16, 17, 20  ), and the Megaballs ( 13, 15, 20, 27, 30, 34, 39 ). This means we spent $7 in each game or $182 total. We would have had 1 ( 3-white + PB ),  1 ( 2-white + PB ),  5 ( 1-white + PB ), and 4 (  PB only ) winners, returning $181 back to us. Deducting the $182 that we spent, we would have lost $1.
•  For Hot Lotto, we used the white balls ( 1, 13, 14, 15, 26  ), and the Hot Balls ( 4, 6, 7, 15, 17 ). This means we spent $5 in each game or $130 total. We would have had 2 ( 3-white + HB ),  2 ( 2-white + HB ),  3 ( 1-white + HB ), and 5 (  HB only ) winners, returning $155 back to us. Deducting the $130 that we spent, we would have profited $25.

As you can see, we would have earned a profit on both Mega Millions and Hot Lotto, and would have lost only one dollar on Powerball.

Since each of these games allows us to buy a multiplier, we recommend that this be done in all cases. If we did, the Powerball would have returned a profit of approximately $179, Mega Millions $1,512 profit, and Hot Lotto $205 profit.

Pick 3 Performance Review

It's been 20 weeks since we first introduced our NC, NJ, and TX Pick 3 pages (May 3rd). Since that time, twelve of our "Way Overdue" delta recommendations have have won in straight combination payouts. The breakdown for each State is:

• North Carolina: 3 winners (one in June, 1 in July, 1 in August)
• New Jersey: 2 winners (2 in September)
• Texas: 7 winners (1 in June, 3 in July, 1 in August, 1 in September)

We believe this Pick 3 Performance Review supports our belief that that all numbers will eventually be selected, and that playing overdue numbers will pay out profits to the patient lottery player.

Three Important Changes to Our Hot Cold Pages

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While we were adding the two Texas Lottery games to our Hot Cold Lottery Number Analysis pages, we made 3 significant modifications to all the pages.

1. First, we added a pull-down menu on the left side of the page. This allows players to more easily find and review the same analytics for all  12 lotto games we support.
2. Second, we expanded our previous hot cold number results from 6 to 26 drawings.
3. Third, we completed the lottery number combination calculation to accurately display the number of possible combos when playing: hot numbers only; cold numbers only; both hot and cold numbers; neutral numbers; and both neutral and hot numbers.

Next on our agenda is to implement these changes on our Even Odd Lottery Number pages, and then complete the programming enabling you to get our Lottery Power Picks for both Lotto Texas and Texas Two Step.

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Lotto Texas and Texas Two Step Hot Cold Lottery Number Pages Released

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We are pleased to announce that we have completed the development of our new Lotto Texas and Texas Two Step Hot Cold number analysis. For your convenience, you can access these pages from the following links:

• Lotto Texas Hot Cold Lottery Number Frequency Analysis
• Texas Two Step Hot Cold Lottery Number Frequency Analysis

Like all of our other pages, you will see the frequency that all numbers have been selected during the past 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 year, and all time, along with the expected probabilities, and methodology for selection. These pages are always updated with the latest results.

Besides the links above, you can access these pages directly from all of our other Hot Cold pages, our complete site map, and from our research analysis page.

JL..........

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Fed Cuts Rate 50 bp - Grab the Lottery Annuity Options

In an emergency action, the Federal Reserve and other key Central Banks around the world lowered their interest rates by 1/2 of one percent early this U.S. morning.

The US rate was lowered from 2% to 1.50%.

This is an important action for stimulating the global economy, but should also have an immediate effect on Lottery Players who are offered a choice between accepting the Cash or Annuity Jackpot options.

As noted in Powerball and Mega Millions Jackpot Analysis articles:

The Cash Jackpot offer should be increased as interest rates decline.

If they aren't, Winners should opt for the Annuity Option.

At present, the yields offered by all of the LPP covered annuity lotteries (Mega Millions, Powerball, Hot Lotto, and California Super Lotto Plus) exceed an annually compounded 4.10% yield.

With stock prices declining daily, and with interest rates being lowered, we do not believe that individual investors can beat Lottery Yields, nor find a safer haven in an environment where banks and investment houses are going bankrupt.

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