Lotto 649, UK Lotto, and Irish Lotto Full Wheel Calculators Now Released

In the third phase of our Full Wheel Payout Calculator releases, we have now posted the three 6/4x pages for your use. These include the:

• Lotto 649 (Canada) Full Wheel Calculator
• UK Lotto Full Wheel Calculator
• Irish Lotto Full Wheel Calculator

For each of these games, (as well as those previously released), you have the ability to compare a wheel's possible payouts whether you had the corresponding bonus ball or not.

In addition to the links above, you can also find these calculators on the Lottery Research Page.

During the following week, we will be reviewing each of these pages to insure that we have calculated everything properly. If you find an error first, please let us know by replying to this blog post.

Enjoy!

Thunderball Picks 5 White Balls All in the Twenties

On Saturday, September 11 2010, the UK Thunderball Lottery drew the 5 white ball sequence

23 24 26 28 29

The interesting fact about these results is that all the numbers were within the same "decade" grouping of 20's. This is indeed a rare occurrence in all lotteries since there are very few combinations because there are only 10 balls numbered between 20 and 29. Using strict combinatorials, we find that there are only 252 possible combinations out of the total 575,757 possible in the Thunderball 1-39 number range. In decimal, this equals 0.000438 of the total combinatorial population.

Because sequences of this nature are rarely selected in any lottery, most serious players shy away of this type of strategy.

Yet surprisingly so, there are 10 winners listed as matching this 5 white ball sequence on the official Thunderball results site.  Go figure!

UK Lotto Reaches £10 Million

Image by jaqian via Flickr

For the first time in 3 1/2 months, the UK Lotto has grown to £10 Million. Most of the jackpots won are approximately £2.4M, £4.5M, and £7M.

Previously, a wopping £17 Million jackpot was won on April 14, 2010 after a quadruple rollover; and, £10 Million won  on December 30, 2009.

Continuous jackpot rollovers of two or more drawings in the UK Lotto are very rare. And, this occurrence is only the third this year!

Good luck to all in tomorrow night's drawing!

Cheers,

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