Blog Description Copyright @AnthonyDotNet http://www.lottoprediction.com Mon, 05 January 2026 10:27:00 Mon, 05 January 2026 10:27:00 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2026/january/05/illamanín’s-el-gordo-win-a-big-prize,-a-small-paperwork-slip,-and-a-community-compromise/ Spain’s El Gordo Christmas lottery paid out €2.7 billion. In Villamanín, locals won €35 million, but a registration oversight left €4 million unclaimable, leading to a townwide compromise. Spain’s Christmas lottery is called El Gordo, which translates to “The Fat One.” Every year it draws national attention as it distributes a total payout measured in billions. This year, El Gordo awarded €2.7 billion (US$2.8 billion) across Spain. In the small village of Villamanín, tucked into the mountains of León province and home to fewer than 1,000 residents, the drawing brought a major win: townsfolk collectively landed €35 million. But part of the prize became complicated when a registration oversight meant that €4 million of the winnings could not be claimed. A small town system built around tradition Villamanín is isolated and quiet, especially in the colder months when the population can drop to around 100 residents. To help keep local celebrations running, the village has a fiesta committee of roughly a dozen people aged 18 to 25 who oversee festivals and make sure there is funding for community events. One way the committee raises money is by selling shares of the Christmas lottery to locals, nearby residents, and visitors. According to Diario de León, the committee sold 450 official shares at €5 each, keeping €1 from each sale to support annual fiesta funding. The oversight: 50 shares were not registered The issue arose when the committee did not register 50 of the shares with the lottery office after one member left them at home. Buyers must have all shares registered with the lottery administration before the drawing in order to have the right to claim prizes. When the winning number 79432 was announced, those unregistered shares could not be used to claim winnings. As a result, affected ticketholders collectively missed out on about €4 million (US$4.7 million). A community meeting and a workable compromise The committee met with residents, and some attendees raised concerns and questioned whether the organizers had acted improperly. A committee member, as reported by El País, responded emotionally: “We have stolen nothing. Tonight, we have lost friends.” After more than three hours of discussion, the town reached a compromise designed to help people receive payment without taking a costly legal route. Organizers said there was no ill intent, describing it as a genuine management mistake. Two options were discussed: pursue the full prize through the courts, or have all winners agree to accept a 10% reduction while the organizers would receive nothing. The second option prevailed. Residents felt the legal route could bring significant personal financial costs, potentially forcing people into loans or mortgages, and adding further risk for those involved. Instead, winners agreed to accept the 10% reduction. In practical terms, winners who would have received about €80,000 are accepting closer to €66,500 (US$78,216), a difference of around €6,000 (US$7,057). Committee members agreed to forgo their winnings to help reduce the gap, totaling about €2 million (US$2.35 million). “It is the only solution if we want to get paid,” a meeting attendee told Diario de León. Claim deadline and the mayor’s hope Winners of El Gordo prizes have three months from the draw date to claim prizes. Villamanín mayor Álvaro Barriales told the local paper he hopes the situation can be resolved without harming relationships in the town: “I only hope that it is fixed. This is a very united town, and I would not like this to divide and confront the neighbors as is happening.” http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2026/january/05/illamanín’s-el-gordo-win-a-big-prize,-a-small-paperwork-slip,-and-a-community-compromise/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2026/january/05/illamanín’s-el-gordo-win-a-big-prize,-a-small-paperwork-slip,-and-a-community-compromise/ Mon, 05 January 2026 10:27:00 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2025/september/15/north-carolina-man-turns-family-numbers-into-$2-million/ A man from North Carolina just ran into the kind of problem most of us wouldn’t mind having: figuring out how to spend $2 million. Meet Daryl Steinhoff from Clayton. He wasn’t out there chasing some fantasy. He just did what most people only talk about—he bought a lottery ticket online. Quick. Simple. Done. The next morning, he gets an email. And let’s be honest—most emails are boring: bills, ads, spam. But this one? It basically said: “Congratulations, you just became a millionaire.” His family numbers matched five out of six Powerball numbers. Normally, that’s worth $1 million. But because he spent an extra buck on the Power Play option, his prize doubled to $2 million. He called his daughter. He called his girlfriend. Then he claimed his prize and walked away with about $1.43 million after taxes. Still a great return on a $3 ticket. He says he’ll put the money toward a new home—smart, responsible, solid. Hopefully, he leaves room for a little fun too. Meanwhile, the jackpot he was chasing grew to $1.8 billion and was eventually split by winners in Texas and Missouri. But let’s be real: two million is still a life-changing outcome. Moral of the story: sometimes luck shows up out of nowhere. Not because you earned it, not because you were due, but simply because you took a shot. And every once in a while, the universe says, “Here you go.” http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2025/september/15/north-carolina-man-turns-family-numbers-into-$2-million/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2025/september/15/north-carolina-man-turns-family-numbers-into-$2-million/ Mon, 15 September 2025 15:44:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2013/april/08/guidelines-prior-to-collect-lottery-winnings/ As soon as you hit the jackpot, you will be thrilled of course. But before you go and collect your lottery winnings, here are some guidelines for you. Keep the Winning Ticket at a Secure Place The best thing to do with the ticket that you own is to sign it. The officials of the lottery says that in this way you can protect your ticket even if it gets stolen, nobody else will never be able to claim it as theirs. Also you must keep a copy of your signed ticket with yourself. You may find a separate and secure place to keep the original ticket. Keep Your Identity Hidden If you do not wish to receive phone calls from people like creditors, charities etc. then do not let the lottery to disclose your name. A lot of lotteries disclose the names of the winners. If you remain anonymous, you will get some time alone to plan your finances and take decisions.  Stand By For A Few Days  It will be good if you delay to claim your prize. Also you may apply for some days off in your office. Unless the sum of money becomes yours legally, do not leave your existing job. You may also consult with your advocate and know what steps can be taken to claim the winning amount of money by being anonymous. Gather Your Team of Professionals Your professional team will know well that how you may collect the money and spend it wisely. Seek their help to make a proper financial strategy. Your team will help you examine all the financial impositions of all your choices before making any decision. A group comprising a financial advisor, an advocate and an accountant with proper certification shall advise you some well-planned ways to obtain and manage the money you will win and thus it will help you to understand your real financial situation. It may happen that you do not get all the professionals at once. Also you may face some professionals who will be wolves in disguise. All you have to do is to select the advisors all by yourself to avoid any fraudulence. You may take references from your trusted sources like your family members or friends too. Also, you may seek help from those people who have won lottery in their past as they will guide you according to their experiences. How Your Team Member Will Guide You The financial advisor whom you will choose shall guide you in spending and saving your money in a right way. He will also help you to decide where and how to invest your money. Your accountant shall make you aware of minimizing your taxes and will tell you that how much you will have to pay to Uncle Sam. On the other hand, your advocate will be dealing with the legal matters like developing the plans of estate or preparing important documents. Avoid working with those people who tries to force you into something. Plan wisely so that you gain a secure future ahead. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2013/april/08/guidelines-prior-to-collect-lottery-winnings/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2013/april/08/guidelines-prior-to-collect-lottery-winnings/ Mon, 08 April 2013 12:09:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/19/can-you-believe-that-some-people-complaint-about-winning-the-lottery/ People say winning a lottery can give you hard times rather than good ones. Some added that it is nothing more but a curse rather than bless. And such a condition has definitely been the cause of desperation and life destruction to so many lottery winners. Countless of jackpot recipients fail to pursue a good life after winning a lottery. Some live on food stamps, some end in jail, some get a broken family, some become drug and alcohol addicts and many more. Fortunately, there are also many jackpot winners who lead a happy life after winning a lottery. Lottery winning brings a better life to them like it should be. They get what everyone wants to get, better wealth, higher education, more secure financial planning and the most important thing is, a happier life. They do not always need to be associated with a larger house, more luxurious car, bigger savings, or more lavish lifestyle. A more successful life refers more to a more improved existence and that’s what many lottery winners fail to accomplish. According to some psychologists, there are a lot of psychological aspects that affect the lives of lottery winners to be good or bad after winning. Most successful lottery winners share some things in common, so do the unsuccessful ones. Those having a good life possess and do the following things while those ruining their life tend to forget these things: 1.    Determination Stephen Danish, a psychology professor from the Virginia Commonwealth University says that lottery winners who get success in their lives are those having determination even before they win. Those who have good goals in their lives and always stick to them will not have bad life in the end. No matter if the goals are for long term or short term, general or specific goals, lottery winners who are determined to their goals will have a more successful life at the end.  Shorter goals will help the winners achieve them faster and long term goals will need harder work. The more specific the goals are the better and more regular life they will have. The professor also added that life after winning the lottery can be very tough and only people with determination can face their life more confidently. Professor Danish makes a note of better preparation made by the determined lottery winners. Those who are not with strength of mind get weaker easily by people begging, asking, and threatening to get some share of the money. They will end up having no money at all though the professor also said added that there’s nothing wrong with lottery winners sharing some windfall to others as long as they remember to keep a good portion for their future. 2.    Ambition Another psychological aspect that most successful winners have is ambition. When playing the lottery, some players are ambitious and some others are not. The most ambitious people who want to win the lottery will do a lot of things such as using statistics, working in groups and many others. After winning, these people will still have many ambitions in life and they tend to be more successful with their winning money.People with ambition usually use their jackpot to get something bigger in their life. They will at least keep their money in the bank to get some interests. They do not really get into some people who are trying to get some benefits from them. Instead, they keep moving to get their ambition. They look selfish because they do not seem to care and share but people like them will fight hard to achieve their ambition and it is unlikely that they will spend their money for useless things like parties, girls or luxurious lifestyle. 3.    Self Control Another psychological aspect that affects the success of lottery winners’ life is self control. This is actually closely related to the previous aspects, determination and ambition. If people are determined and ambitious, they will be able to control themselves. People with good self control will not get carried away easily. They would know that living a luxurious life will just ruin their luck instantly and even though they want to and they can do it, they can draw back. People with self control know exactly when to stop. Having parties, helping friends, or sharing some windfall for charities are good to do but it is important to stop when the budget made for that part is fulfilled already. Stop having fun and get back to the right path. Based on some analysis done by some psychologists, it can be noted that most lottery winners being successful after winning the lottery are those who are psychologically more mature than the others. Being determined, ambitious and organized will help lottery winners gain success in their lives. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/19/can-you-believe-that-some-people-complaint-about-winning-the-lottery/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/19/can-you-believe-that-some-people-complaint-about-winning-the-lottery/ Wed, 19 December 2012 05:35:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/03/a-fake-powerball-winner-shares-hoax-on-facebook-beware!/ Technology is like two sides of a coin. On one side, it can help people get connected to the world and make life easier and on the other side, it can cheat a lot of people with many frauds. One example is on social network like Facebook. There are so many people who use it to take some advantages and now a bad man using a Facebook name Nolan Daniels is doing his bad game on it by making use the Powerball Fever which has just happened in the US last week. And it seems that a lot of people are still very gullible or perhaps ‘blind’ especially when it is related to their human nature’s greediness or easy money. Well, it is true that everyone wants to taste some share from the Powerball jackpot won last week but what is going on Facebook is really stupid and proves that people are still easily deceived despite the late technology they have lived with. There is a photo of Nolan Daniels on Facebook holding fake Powerball winning ticket and he said that he wants to share $1 million to anyone who is willing to share his picture and like it. So many people fall for that picture and even though more people are posting warning statements about that fake news together with a link to the news, more shares and likes still come every minute and now it already hits more than 2 million shares! Unbelievable! The saddest thing is that people still believe that it is true although it can be clearly seen from the picture that the ticket the man is holding is fake and the most stupid thing is that they thank this liar. One comment says ‘Yes, I shared ur photo, thank you for sharing, especially on the holidays... Very thoughtful of you. I have someone like you that can’t drive for 3 yrs but would love to afford a car then for them. Thanks’. The other even says ‘That would be nice id like to think id share, sure i would has i have always help the ones i could, whoever gets your gift i hope they share and it would hopefully keep going around, congrats!!!!! This thing goes like crazy. So many people still like and share the pictures even some evidences are already presented by other Facebook users. A knowledgeable user says ‘Just because that is really a blue jay sitting in a tree. If somebody believes it is a penguin. You can show them all the proof in the world, but it will remain a penguin to them....life!’ Most of the deceived Facebook fans on this picture are old women. Well, the case ‘ liking and sharing’, may not be that dangerous but it is annoying as it is shared every second to people’s Facebook users’ walls. This may lead to some crimes or give inspiration to others to do so if not stopped. A lot of people join the lottery playing and win every week but it should not make others think that the winners will really share the money that way. Lottery winners do share some of their winning but it should be done in a more proper way rather than sharing pictures on Facebook. Therefore, people should really be careful when there are provoking items on the internet. Not all what you see on your Facebook, Twitter or other social network is true. To all lottery winners, keep up with the spirit of sharing your luck to others and keep playing responsibly. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/03/a-fake-powerball-winner-shares-hoax-on-facebook-beware!/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/03/a-fake-powerball-winner-shares-hoax-on-facebook-beware!/ Mon, 03 December 2012 06:03:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/01/urgent-things-to-do-immediately-after-winning-a-lottery/ You must have known about the Powerball drawing this week resulting in two winners to claim nearly $580 jackpot. This is such a big prize and no wonder that almost all Americans suffer from acute lotto fever on Wednesday. The tickets sales increased rapidly at almost 130,000 entries in a minute. This ticket frenzy and the unbelievable sales have just proved that lottery has become very popular and more American people want to get some instant cash. It will also indicate that once the winners are identified, they will be the most popular and the most sought people. Your life will not be the same again and you will need to adjust yourself with so many things so that you can cope with the new life.  Winning the lottery is of course such a blessing and people would not mind to be a new millionaire. However, there are aspects, excess and consequences of becoming lottery winners and they are not that easy or simple. People will know instantly that you have just become a millionaire and they will make you some object of different interests. The hours after the winning are very crucial for the lottery winners to decide what will happen to them next. Lottery winners share their tips on what urgent things to do after winning the lottery. Make sure the ticket is signed and securedThis is something that lottery winners often forget to do. Chances for the winning tickets to be stolen are quite big so signing the ticket after the announcement is very important to make sure that nobody can take the winning.  It is also crucial for the winners to keep the ticket somewhere safe before the plan is set. Hiring an Accountant and a LawyerChaos is usually the thing that comes up after a lottery winning. Once a lottery winner scoops millions of dollars, everything will change dramatically. Hiring a lawyer is highly recommended to help the winners manage the money and all other legal matters related to it. When winning, you will need to take care of taxes, charity, beneficiary and many other things to settle. It is not yet to mention relatives and acquaintances who suddenly become people you need to give money to. Talk to the accountant and the lawyer and they will give the best advice. Have a Full Protection to Yourself and the FamilyProtecting the family and people you love will be another urgent thing you have to do after winning the lottery. There are so many cases where the lottery winners and the family are being kidnapped so that the villain can get some money.  Hiring a bodyguard will sound too much but making sure that everyone in the family is protected is highly advised so that nobody can take the advantage and no lives can be harmed.  Avoid the Media by Claiming the Prize in a Secret Time and PlaceMedia will always try to get a good news item and covering a full report on all lottery winners’ activities will be really interesting for them. The more the media know about you, the more insecure you and your family lives would be. If possible, keep everything secret to the media to minimize the troubles you can get. The least the media know the better. Have a good and Wise PlanWinning a lottery as proven to be a good thing that can change someone’s life but it can also lead to disaster if not well and wisely planned. It is no problem if you want to taste some luxurious life but just keep in mind that it will not last forever. Never spend the money entirely on luxury. Instead, invest it or save it. Quitting a job after a lottery winning is not a good idea either because if you don’t have a fixed income even it is just a little, your money will run out very fast.  It is very important for lottery winners to pay attention to and do those 5 urgent things directly after winning so that they can get the biggest benefits from the money they have just won. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/01/urgent-things-to-do-immediately-after-winning-a-lottery/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/december/01/urgent-things-to-do-immediately-after-winning-a-lottery/ Sat, 01 December 2012 15:11:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/29/powerball-fever-has-made-$425-million-powerball-jackpot-increased-into-$550-million-this-week/ Powerball Fever has just attacked America. Something really surprising has just happened this week. The Powerball official has decided to increase the amount of the prize which was previously set for $425 Million to be drawn on Wednesday to be $550 Million. Unbelievable! This will be a good chance for the lottery punters to strike it rich. The decision to raise the amount of the prize is caused by the profound ticket sales. More and more lottery players buy the tickets after knowing that the jackpot was hideous. And now, after the jackpot becomes $550 Million, it seems that the number of lottery players joining will increase rapidly. If won on Wednesday, it would be the second biggest Powerball jackpot in history. The jackpot will be $360 million if taken cash but perhaps the winner would prefer taking it as annuity because there will be longer period for the winner to get free income every year. According to the officials, the prize can even reach up to $600 million. It is going to be one of the biggest lottery prizes this year. Not bad for a Christmas present! http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/29/powerball-fever-has-made-$425-million-powerball-jackpot-increased-into-$550-million-this-week/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/29/powerball-fever-has-made-$425-million-powerball-jackpot-increased-into-$550-million-this-week/ Thu, 29 November 2012 02:54:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/03/6-biggest-american-lottery-winners-and-what-they-planned-to-do-with-their-money/ Lottery winning always brings people to wow and there are so many winners whose lives change spectacularly after they scoop the cash.  Although the chance to win is relatively small as there are so many players while there are not enough prizes for everyone who joins, there are many of them who, either with their skills to predict the lottery numbers to be drawn or with the luck they have already got within them, could bring home quite a lot of money. And lottery prizes, be it $5 or $500 million will still make the winners smile and feel contented. Do lottery winners plan to live a luxurious life after winning the lottery? Do they mess up their lives because they go to parties and forget who they were? No they don’t. Most lottery winners do plan unwise things with their money. In the history of American modern lotteries which started in the state of New Hampshire in 1964, there have been so many lottery winners who could transform their lives into something new, and better, after winning the lotteries, especially the big jackpots. Millions of lottery players have been doing great with their lives and here are 6 of them: Eddie Nabors from Dalton, the State of Georgia and Harold and Elaine Messner from New JerseyThese three winners won a big jackpot of $390 million in Mega Millions on 6th March 2007. These three people were regular players of Mega Millions and they had been playing the lottery for quite a long time before they won. Just like other winners who did not plan to spend their money on luxury like what other people thought lottery winners might be doing with their winning, these three millionaires spent their money to help their family, relatives and friends.When asked about what he was going to do for himself with the money he just got, Eddie Nabors, who worked as a truck driver, just said that he wanted to go fishing. Carolyn and Jim McCullar from Washington, the winner of $380 Mega Millions Jackpot on January 4, 2011The McCullars said that they were very thankful for the prize but they did not have the intention to change their lives into opulence afterwards. Instead, they saved their money in the bank, gave some amount to their 6 children and helped the disadvantage people. They never had the intention to go around the world, buy a new car or have parties. A Syndicate of Eight Meatpacking Plant Workers from Nebraska Won $365 Million on February 18, 2006Eight workers from a meatpacking company, ConArga, consisting of one female and seven males shared a $365 jackpot in 2006. Most of them were immigrants and as they were not from rich families, they used their money to help the other members of the family. One of the syndicate members from Congo, Alain Maboussou used the money to study and get his business degree. The Kainzes from Illinois, and the Rosses from Michigan, Won $363 millionOn May 9, 2000These two families shared $363 million but they did not feel that they have become millionaires. They used their money to pay for the debt, invested on their brewery and renovated their house. There were no plans to have a lot of fun with the money. Frances and Robert Chaney and Steve and Carolyn West from Oregon, the winner of $340 Millions of Powerball Jackpot on October 19, 2005The Wests really know how to invest their money. They bought a big house with the money because they knew how easy it was for the money to just disappear if they did not buy a big thing. Louise White from Rhode Island, the Winner of Powerball Jackpot of $336.4 Million on February 11, 2012This winner from Rhode Island was one of the many lottery winners who knew how to deal with the law when winning the lottery. She appointed a lawyer and asked him to take care of all the legal matter dealing with her money which she kept in a safe deposit box in a bank. She also made a trust that would give benefit to her famil http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/03/6-biggest-american-lottery-winners-and-what-they-planned-to-do-with-their-money/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/03/6-biggest-american-lottery-winners-and-what-they-planned-to-do-with-their-money/ Sat, 03 November 2012 14:29:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/03/people-are-awesome-great-stories-about-lottery-winners/ Not many people are as lucky as Chris and Colin Weir who won $161 million jackpot and not many winners are as generous as them. While most people change their lives dramatically after winning a big jackpot, Chris and Colin Weir still run their ordinary lives and spend some of their money for charity donation instead. A day after winning the lottery, the couple received so many letters from different countries in the world to ask for some donation. Chris and Colin had already thought of giving some of their money for charity but they never thought that there would be so many people asking for help. They just did not expect to receive so many requests and of course they could not fulfill all of them. A case like this often happens to lottery winners and people just do not want to miss any chances to get some shares. Don’t lottery winners want to share? They do, they always do and in fact, more and more lottery winners are willing to share more for people around them. Here aresome of the stories: $55.16 Million Jackpot Winner, Sheelah Ryan from Seminole County, FloridaThis winner won the jackpot in 1988 and she spent her winning to establish a foundation called the Sheelah Ryan Foundation which gave assistance to abused women, provided scholarship to students and also gave training and course programs to the unemployed. In addition to that, the foundation also gave meal to the old people. Every year, the foundation donated $200,000 for charity. This is such a great thing to do from the lottery winning unfortunately, Sheelah died 6 years later of cancer. Thankfully the foundation still continues giving help to others.  Barbara and Ray Wragg,  Sheffield, EnglandThis couple won £7.6 million (more than $15 million USD) and they donated almost $6 million to help people with cancer at the Weston Park Hospital and also for Children Hospital in Sheffield in 2000. They also gave some of the money to the war veterans and took 50 of them for a trip in Italy. Anonymous Taiwanese Teacher Donated All the Winning MoneyA teacher from Taiwan won NT10 million in 2005 and she donated all the money to some educational and cultural programs in the country. This lottery winner did not take a penny from the lottery jackpots and all of it went to the poor children who could not afford their education there in Taiwan. Anonymous Worker From Taichung, TaiwanAnother Taiwanese winner won a jackpot of NT320 million or ($9,864,669 USD) in 2007 and donated almost 75% of the money to the Children Charity Association and to the employee who sold the lottery ticket to him. To everybody’s surprise, the employee took the money and gave extra to make it big enough ($3million) to be donated to the Taichung Family Assistance Centre. Chris and Colin, the Winner of $161 Million JackpotsThis couple won the biggest lottery jackpot in the history of UK Euromillion and they did the first donation by helping a boy who needed a new prosthetic leg to substitute his amputated leg due to the rare cancer he suffered. This boy was one of the torch bearers in London Olympic 2012 and he could walk normally after being helped by Colin and Chris Weir.Chris and Colin also donated quite a lot of money from their winning for the development of an art centre called the Beacon in Greenock. This art centre’s focus is education and employment opportunities and they think that they can do more for the people by donating their money here. The £130,000 from the lottery winners was such a great help to build the centre.In addition to that, the couple also donated £900,000 to a sport training centre in Largs. The institution needed as much as £1.2m and the lottery winners gave 75% of the total cost needed to construct the building which will start in June 2013. There are still many other stories about lottery winners who had great will to help people with their winning. What they have done is such a great inspiration and hopefully all lottery winners would also be willing to help others. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/03/people-are-awesome-great-stories-about-lottery-winners/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/november/03/people-are-awesome-great-stories-about-lottery-winners/ Sat, 03 November 2012 00:13:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/24/what-the-national-lottery-jackpots-are-spent-on/ People often talk about how to win a lottery and how amazing it is when somebody won a jackpot. People also ask how the winners will spend their prizes but has there ever been a real search conducted to know how the lottery prize is spent in reality? Since first established in 1994, the National Lottery has created 3,000 new millionaires and public was not really informed on what the lottery winners spend their money on. Recently, Camelot and the Oxford Economics have conducted a research to investigate the behavior of the lottery winners after winning the lottery and here is the report.  How Does Public Expect Lottery Winners to Spend their Money? Consciously or unconsciously, whenever a lottery winner is announced publicly, people will predict what the winners will do after the winning. According to the research, most people will expect that the lottery winners will change their lives dramatically after winning. Luxurious lives such as buying a new car, a new house, joining an exclusive club and quitting present work are the things that most people expect to be done by the winners. Most people even expect that lottery winners’ lives are turning into such a Rockefeller’s life afterwards. In fact, not all of the winners are doing the things. During the 18 years of the National Lottery operation where there are 3,000 millionaires, only half of the winners spend their money on luxury. According to the research, more are still living their normal life in spite of the instant cash they get. Property Of all the winners taking the total £8.5 billions from the National Lottery, almost £3 billions are spent on property, which is good as it is considered as an investment. Most lottery winners, whose income in average is around £2.8m, indeed buy a house with their money.    Investments for Future Income The second thing that lottery winners spend their money on is prospective investment. Most lottery winners are trying to get a potential asset with the money they won so that they can get more income in the future.  According to the finance expert, it is a good thing to do which means that lottery winners have already planned the best for their upcoming life rather than spending the money on some useless things. Around £2 billions out of the total £8.5 billions is spent on this investment.   Share for the Family The next most popular thing on which the lottery winners spend their money is the family. A lot of lottery winners care a lot about their family and people around them and this is such a good awareness. The money invested for the children’s education and saving is around £1.61billion while other family members and relatives take £1.17 billion from the total £8.5 billions of the National Lottery jackpots won during 18 years.   Donations The National Lottery winners also contribute to the education in the United Kingdom. According to the research, the amount of money donated for the development of the education has reached around £750 millions while the tax generated from the lottery is around £500 millions.   Starting a Business A majority of lottery winners (almost 60%) quits working after they win the lottery. This might not sound good as the prize will not guarantee the winners’ life forever. Luckily, most of the winners quitting their job have a good plan to start their own business using the money they just won. This business is also good for other people as it can employ more than 3,195 workers which means that it helps improve the economy. From the data presented by the Camelot and the Oxfords Economics it can clearly be seen that lottery winners do not only spend their money on luxurious things. Lottery players plan their future well and they also care a lot about other people. It is a good fact to know and hopefully more lottery winners are getting wiser when spending the prize they won. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/24/what-the-national-lottery-jackpots-are-spent-on/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/24/what-the-national-lottery-jackpots-are-spent-on/ Wed, 24 October 2012 02:50:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/20/why-lottery-winners-delay-the-winning-claims/ The lottery world is still surprised with the news of brothers from New York waiting for 6 years to claim their winning. Many people are still wondering why Andy and Nayel Ashkar had to wait for a long time to contend what they could have celebrated years before. They said that the main reason is because Andy was about to get engaged and he wanted to make sure that his girlfriend marry him because of love and not money. That sounds like a good reason and it is indeed a good thing to wait for a couple of days or weeks to officially claim the winning.  Some lottery winners delay their claims and apparently, there are different reasons why they do not want to claim the prize directly.  Some of the most common reasons why the lottery winners prefer delaying the claims are: Publicity The first reason why lottery jackpots go unclaimed for quite a long time is because the winners do not really want public to know his winning. Most of them are not ready with the overnight popularity that they would get after winning the lottery. They are not ready with the consequences. Most people have already known how their life would never be the same once public knows about their winning. There will be scams, frauds and many other fraudulent activities from people knowing that somebody is being rich. Even people who were nobody to the winners will say that they are friends, relatives and acquaintances just to get some share of the money. In addition to that, press will make publication which will even make things worse. The bigger the jackpot is, the bigger publicity will be made. Local, national and even international newspapers will make the winner as the headlines and there will be no privacy anymore. This is the thing that often keeps the lottery winners from claiming their prizes immediately. Financial Plans Another reason why some lottery winners do not claim their prize immediately is because they do not know yet what to do with the money. Most lottery winners need to think about it thoroughly so that the money will not just be wasted. Some of the winners of big jackpots also think that it is a good idea to have a financial consultant to help them make the plans. This consultant should be someone experienced in helping the lottery winners with their instant cash so because lottery jackpots need special treatments to make it more useful for the owner. Annuity or Lump Sum Payments The next reason why lottery winners delay the claim is because they are perhaps still unsure whether to take the annuity payment or the lump sum payment. It is something confusing to decide because these two kinds of payments will make very different amount of money to take home. The amount of money taken in lump sum payment can be around half of the annuity payment but in annuity payment, winners will need much longer time to get all of the money. It will need long considerations and that is why some winners delay claiming the jackpots. Bank Account The last thing that often restrain lottery winners from claiming the lottery right after it is announced is that they usually need to confirm with their bank related to their winning. After the money is taken, there will be a great amount of cash to flow to their account and it should be communicated well, so that the account is ready to receive the transfer. Those things might be the causes why lottery winners have to wait for a very long time to claim their prize but most of them do it because they are just not ready with the changes that will happen to them after the winning. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/20/why-lottery-winners-delay-the-winning-claims/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/20/why-lottery-winners-delay-the-winning-claims/ Sat, 20 October 2012 19:33:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/03/avoid-life-destructions-after-lottery-winning/ Bitter and sweet things have happened in lottery world. This month is a particularly shocking month especially with the news of a lottery winner’s death, Amanda Clayton, as a result of, based on temporary investigation, drug overdose. It is not yet concluded whether the death is caused by pure overdose or a murder but before the case is examined further, the officers state that it is caused by drug use. Learning from the unexpectedly heartbreaking news of the death of Amanda (25), the winner of one million dollars Lotto jackpot in Michigan, there are many things that lottery winners should learn from this case in order to avoid many problems that might happen after winning a lottery. Winning a lottery is everybody’s dream and the jackpot can really change people’s life but winners have to be aware of certain things that might happen to them after that.   The winners will become subjects of many terrors be it from the closest people who want to get some shares of the windfall or from others who feel jealous with the luck. Even before buying the tickets then winning the lottery, players should be ready for the consequences they might face. This young Ms Clayton was perhaps not ready for the upshot of her winning and that’s why she troubles herself with drugs. There are a few things which will be much better anticipated before and especially after lottery winning. Be Ready with Media HypeA lot of people want to win a big jackpot in a lottery to change their life but they are not really ready with the ‘changes’ and consequences. The winning will take some effects along with it and one of them is an overnight popularity. Once public know of this success, there will be less or even no privacy for the winners. Their life will totally be different from the previously quiet, peaceful and free life. Winning a lottery will be a great story to tell and the press will not just let the chances to make stories slip away. There will be dozens of interviews, TV conferences and other releases that require energy and thoughts. If not anticipated, these things can make the winners feel sick both mentally and physically. Anticipate Frauds from People AroundOnce public knows that somebody is having million dollars, suddenly there will be hundreds of new friends getting closer to him. These people are opportunist and they will try to use many ways, from the friendly, subtle ones to some violent techniques in order to get some shares from the jackpot. Family, relatives, colleagues and even acquaintances will suddenly be very nice but in the end they just want to get some money too.It also happens in Amanda’s case. According to her best friends, before winning the lottery, Amanda was a nice, quiet girl who did not have too many friends. She lives an ordinary life with her two children peacefully. After the winning, many people tried to claim to be her friends. They tried to call her, drop by her apartments and see her at work. At the beginning it looks and feels nice but then it is getting more depressing because all of the friendship boils down to the money.  Never Quit the JobsThe amount of money scooped from lottery jackpots might make people think that they will not need to work for the rest of their life as the money will be more than enough. This is a false opinion. No matter how big the prize is, it is always important for lottery winners to do activities to support their life. In addition to the regular salary to receive, working can give positive aura, better social life and make people enjoy life more. Spend the Money WiselyEasy come, easy go. This proverb should always be in all lottery winners’ mind when they win a big money. As it is relatively easy for them to get the money, it will probably much easier for the money to go. That is why it is very essential to save the money in the bank, pay insurances or for the children’s education rather than just spending it on parties. There’s nothing wrong with celebrations but it is much better to be ready for the worst time in life. In Amanda’s case, perhaps she had known that she would not have lived long because she had spent some of the jackpot for her young children’s college. Losing the mother is certainly the most terrible disaster to happen for the two children but at least she had prepared their future.   If planned and faced carefully and wisely, winning a lottery is not that bad and many people have proven to be successful in their life even after winning very big jackpots. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/03/avoid-life-destructions-after-lottery-winning/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/october/03/avoid-life-destructions-after-lottery-winning/ Wed, 03 October 2012 02:18:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/24/the-knack-and-art-of-computerized-lottery-predictions/ Interested to be a lottery predictor? Well, a lot of people love playing the lottery but not many of them want to be the predictors. They do predict the numbers for themselves when they buy the tickets but not many are confident enough to suggest lucky numbers to the lottery players to buy. Can lottery be really predicted? This question appears again and again and it seems that everyone is still in doubt that lottery numbers can be predicted. Quite a few people know that the winning numbers drawn in any lottery games in the world are repeated and statistically replicated. There is no such things as good luck or bad luck or coincidence in lotteries as all. Everything is set with a program and that’s why people can see that number 23 usually comes after number 9 was drawn in the previous week. And people will also know why number 14 will come next week because it hasn’t been seen for months. It is all repeated and if the players pay very close attention to the data of the winners, they will be able to predict the winning numbers. The Internet and Computerized Era for Lottery Games and Predictions The internet has brought great advantages to the world as everything can be much faster, simpler and more accurate. It also happens to the world of lottery games. People can now have easier access to the games they want to play because they can buy the ticket online, watch the drawing online, see the results online and also predict the winning numbers online. In terms of predicting the lottery online, players are supported a lot with the invention of software and tools that can do much faster and more accurate calculation and analysis on the predicted numbers. With just some clicks, lottery players can come to a website offering hundreds kinds for software for lottery predictors. Is it that easy? To tell the truth, it is not that simple. There are of course some steps to do. Predictors will need to input data, analyze it and make some conclusions. Data input is the  will take time and energy to collect the data. But once the information is collected, the tools will help a lot to predict the winning numbers. The internet can also help the predictors as it gives instant information about the winning numbers. It is also important for predictors from all areas or countries to stay connected as their opinion can become the basis of the world’s predictions. That is where the internet plays the role to keep them connected and well-informed. Computers, Technology and the Arts of Predicting Lotteries Online Technology has led to a sophisticated life aspects including lotteries.  With the powerful command of the software, computers and fast internet access, lottery predictors can easily work their formula to get closer to the jackpots. The most difficult part when predicting the lottery is to get the data, store them and analyze. With the advancement of technology, it is possible to do, yet, there is a huge load of work predictors need to perform. In addition to that, there are also skills needed to scrutinize the data because tons of data will mean nothing without proper analysis.  Then again, it is a matter of skills. A lot of people have the ability to use the software, operate the computers and do the analysis. However, the analysis is not always perfectly done. Not many people are smart enough like Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo who could use the right analysis to predict the lottery. Still, lottery predictors in this era are performing easier work if they can use the software to assist them. There are dozens of websites and hundreds of software that can be employed to help predict the lottery winning numbers. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/24/the-knack-and-art-of-computerized-lottery-predictions/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/24/the-knack-and-art-of-computerized-lottery-predictions/ Mon, 24 September 2012 02:44:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/23/benefits-of-joining-national-lottery-syndicates-in-uk/ Lotteries have been very popular worldwide and one of the most liked is the National Lottery in United Kingdom. It is one of the biggest and as it has so many players, it contributes a lot to the booming millionaires in the United Kingdom. Until early 2012, there have been more than 2.900 millionaires created from this National Lottery. According to the Camelot Group who has the license to run this game, the number of National Lottery players keeps increasing and most of the ticket buyers are playing the game in groups. They form syndicates in which they cooperate with friends, relatives or colleagues to predict the winning numbers and share the windfall if they scoop the jackpots. There are many lottery syndicates in UK that often give big winning chances. These groups rank the highest on top UK National lottery syndicates because more players have their faith in them. Some of the best syndicates are Big Fat Lottos, Love my Lotto, You Play We Play, Tips 4 Winning and many others. However, players do not have to choose one of these to take part in collective playing. Players can join those existing syndicates of course, but they can also create their own syndicates. Why Do Players Form National Lottery Syndicates? Cooperative work has always been proven to be very effective to gain better results and so does syndicate work in the National Lottery games. There used to be a few syndicates in the National Lottery and the winning was not as frequent as nowadays when players smartly choose to play in groups rather than on their own. More and more lottery syndicates pocket big jackpots such as the latest Leeds Syndicate which scooped £1.3 million and the Asda group which won £ 6 million. Playing individually does not give many chances to win but within the groups, the players can get good advice, inspiration and ideas when predicting the winning numbers together. In addition to the recurrent winning, players will also get extra thrills when playing in syndicates. Sharing the thoughts with friends, feel others' anxiety when waiting for the numbers drawn and celebrate the winning together with the group members are the precious moments that money can’t buy. The joy will double when players know they have contribute to others' winning and the disappointment will not hurt much because they have friends to share. It feels far away different from playing individually. Playing in syndicates will also lighten the work and the cost. The members will not have to monitor the draws because the manager will take care of everything. Real Advantages of Playing in Syndicates Cheaper National Lottery is one of the lotteries in the world that does not charge too much from the players. In addition to its tax free, the tickets can also be bought cheaply especially for syndicates. With only £10 per month players can already take part in the National Lottery with 80 tickets. This will help the players play wisely and responsibly because they will just spend around 30p for the lottery. More Chances of WinningNobody could explain why the odds of winning the lotteries when playing in syndicates are higher than when playing individually. This could increase if there are more members in a group. Easier, Simpler and More ComfortableAs long as the player is not a manager of the syndicate, it will really be easier to play in a syndicate because everything will be handled by the leader. There will be someone to collect the money, buy the ticket and watch the draws for all syndicate members. In fact, playing the lotteries should be fun anyway so choosing any methods is players’ right. Nevertheless, from the facts and figures obtained from the National Lottery Commissions, playing in syndicates will give more chances to win and that must be everybody’s aim of joining the lottery. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/23/benefits-of-joining-national-lottery-syndicates-in-uk/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/23/benefits-of-joining-national-lottery-syndicates-in-uk/ Sun, 23 September 2012 06:41:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/21/playing-lotteries-in-syndicate-that-changes-bus-drivers-lives/ Not many people believe that lotteries can change people’s lives greatly but what happened in Corby, Northampton shire in mid of March 2012 proved that lotteries can surely turn people’s lives like in a Hollywood movie. 12 bus drivers played lotteries in a syndicate and this group won £38 million in a Euromillions lottery, making each member £3, 2 million richer than before. Fantastic! The winning did not just take an overnight work to happen. It all started years before when 12 bus drivers decided to make a syndicate to play in lottery games. The twelve men were Neil Tayton, 58; Ally Spence, 57; Dave Mead, 54; John Noakes, 49; Stephen Derrick, 53; Chris Smith, 34; Charlie Gillion, 65; Jim Patton, 55; Charlie Connor, 40; Alex Robertson, 57; and Derek Wilson, 51 and another member who wants to stay anonymous. They decided to play together as they think that it was more fun. Moreover, they just needed to pay £2 per week so they think that they always play responsibly. For some months, they were just doing their regular syndicate lottery playing; some collect the money, buy the tickets, watch the draws and inform the other members if they get near with the jackpots or if one of them won a small prize. The members are free to choose their own numbers so it is pretty fair for the all the players. Everything was a kind of plain lottery game. The syndicate manager, Chris Smith then told the syndicate members that they should change the tactics. He said that modifying the numbers and joining the Irish and also the Euromillions lottery could give better chance. This change made one member, a female bus driver called Hazel Loveday decided to get out from the syndicate. She said that she could not afford the money and perhaps, she also feels bored because the group never won. Perhaps she was not really aware that playing in lottery games needs patients and she was sorry to learn the fact that the syndicate she left 6 months before could win the jackpots. On Friday 16 of March 2012, the syndicate manager, Chris Smith did his routine job as the leader of the group to monitor the Euromillions drawing. He was watching TV with the tickets in his hands and he could not believe his eyes and ears when the winning numbers announced matched exactly with the tickets his syndicate bought. They bought 3, 4, 12, 23 and 50 and these were the numbers for the £38 million. All of sudden, Smith and his syndicate members became millionaires in UK. This great news spread very quickly to the other members and they all gathered to celebrate the victory. When asked whether he would prefer winning the jackpot for himself, Smith said that it would have been nearly impossible for him to win it on his own. He totally agreed with the statement that playing in a syndicate can bring more luck to him. Now the 12 lucky bus drivers can do whatever they want to do with the money. If they want to, they don’t need to work long hours as bus drivers because the money will be enough to start a business for their retirements. One thing for sure, they can now get what they could not afford before.  Just like a typical lottery winner, Wilson is planning to build a house and buy a new Audi 6. Noakes is also intending to buy a new Ashton Martin. Some of the syndicate members want to spend the money with their family. Alex Robertson is planning to take his mother to an expensive holiday in Australia while Connor wants to have a wedding party he could not afford before. Whatever intentions they want to do with their money is their right. They are an example of a lottery syndicate who plays lotteries responsibly and manage to win money that can change their lives. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/21/playing-lotteries-in-syndicate-that-changes-bus-drivers-lives/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/21/playing-lotteries-in-syndicate-that-changes-bus-drivers-lives/ Fri, 21 September 2012 03:02:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/20/joining-a-syndicate-to-get-closer-to-winning-the-lotteries/ Are you feeling upset for losing in lottery games all the time? Do you usually join the lottery as an individual or in a group? Have you ever made a syndicate when playing?  If you never tried playing the lotteries in a syndicate then you should try setting up one to try to get close to your luck. Why joining a syndicate? There are reasons why setting up a syndicate is a good idea to win lotteries. According to the surveys, around 25% of the lotteries are won by syndicates. Each 4th jackpot winning is usually scooped by a syndicate. By joining a syndicate, people can increase their chances to win the lotteries. In addition to that, players will likely get more benefits in the games such as the chances to play around 35 lines of Lotto at the same time, and less tax to pay when winning. Syndicate members will also be able to buy the online tickets using their Direct Debit where they will not miss a single draw. What should you do when joining a Syndicate? There are a few things to care about when joining a syndicate and especially when setting up one. The first thing is to decide whether you will just join an existing syndicate or be a manager of your own. Each option will have different consequences because playing as part of syndicate will just require you to obey the rules in the group while being a manager will surely make it more complicated because you will have to set up everything for the members. The manager will have to do a lot of errands for the groups. He will have to collect money from other members and check the results after each draw. When the syndicate wins, the manager  must share the prize fairly so that everyone is happy. But if the syndicate loses, it is the manager’s job to keep the members encouraged. It is also the manager’s task to make sure that the syndicate agreement is complete. If you have decided to make your own syndicate, you will have to pick the team members. It doesn’t matter whether your team members are your colleagues, friends or family. They all will give you more chances to win. The more members you have, the bigger chances your syndicate has. One thing to remember is that all members should equally be positive to win. Everyone should have the same objective and do equal work to try to win. Is it Necessary to Sign a Group Agreement? Signing a group agreement is very important and all members have to agree on the group agreement before they start joining. This agreement will be the basis of whatever is done in the group. All members get information about when the syndicate was formed, who the manager is, the names of the other members, the payment, the shares and other stuff. It is highly recommended that everyone sign the agreement before joining the syndicate. Some lottery advisors even suggest that all members sign the agreement in front of a solicitor or witnesses so that it has more power. The agreement can also be amended when there are more new members or new policies to apply.A lot of players have proven that playing the lotteries in syndicates can give more chances to win. Furthermore, it will give more excitements because there are more people involved so the challenge is bigger. It will definitely be more fun to try. It does not have to be a big syndicate to start. Ask a few friends or colleagues to join your syndicate and it will grow bigger naturally especially when the group starts winning. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/20/joining-a-syndicate-to-get-closer-to-winning-the-lotteries/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/20/joining-a-syndicate-to-get-closer-to-winning-the-lotteries/ Thu, 20 September 2012 03:20:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/15/how-do-lottery-syndicates-win-jackpots-by-making-group-lottery-predictions/ In the past, almost all lottery players believed that winning a lottery was a pure luck. Even the winners assumed that their winning was a coincidence. Not many people knew that everything had already been set in lottery games and anyone could win it as long as they were willing to learn. Nowadays, as technologies have advanced, more people get much smarter and they start to find out that the winning numbers in lotteries and other games can be predicted. If done perfectly and carefully, lottery predictions have been proven to be very effective to help players scoop millions of dollars from the house. Some hard working lottery players have tried many ways to predict the lottery and they are all successful. People will definitely remember Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo who managed to make the roulette houses get bankrupt when he could predict the winning numbers in some casinos in two years respectively. He was even banned from playing in all casino houses in the US because, with his intelligence and data analysis, he could predict the winning numbers and bring home the biggest jackpots. Garcia Pelayo was willing to do a time consuming survey an analysis in order to be able to predict the lottery. Other players should also do the same if they want to win. If doing the survey and analysis alone is considered complicated, tiring and time consuming, lottery players can try to form a syndicate to predict the lottery numbers. There are some people who do a group work in predicting the lotteries and one of good solid lottery prediction syndicates comes from Bradford University and College in West Yorkshire who managed to scoop the jackpots of millions dollars by conquering the mathematical probabilities in the lottery systems. A group of professors and lecturers from those two universities agreed to work together to learn how the lottery systems work then they studied and analyzed the results together. At the beginning, they were just using two boxes and dozens of paper pieces, as many as the numbers of numbers played, when they tried to beat the odds. This is how they worked with the boxes and numbers: First they wrote each number on each piece of paper and put the pieces in one of the box. Then every member of the syndicate had to take six numbers out until they got eight lines from 48 numbers of the total 49 numbers. After that, they used the left over to make a new line from the second box so that they could have 17 lines. From these 17 lines, they could see that each number was repeated at least twice. Then the members analyzed these lines using their computer programs based on the lottery drawing results every weekend They kept analyzing the numbers for more than 4 years and they could finally hit the the winning numbers 15, 18, 23, 31, 37, 49 with the bonus ball 38 so that they could scoop and bring home £5,299,849. It might sound like a tiring job because the lottery players had to work in group. It also took a long time to keep monitoring the winning numbers for about 4 years but it was worth the work. This method will also be useful to be tested nowadays. Trying to predict the winning numbers in a group or a syndicate will lighten the work. Lottery predictions will not seem very hard to do because the tasks are shared. The winning will also taste sweeter not only for the money but also because they could beat the lottery systems. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/15/how-do-lottery-syndicates-win-jackpots-by-making-group-lottery-predictions/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/september/15/how-do-lottery-syndicates-win-jackpots-by-making-group-lottery-predictions/ Sat, 15 September 2012 15:46:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/31/how-to-play-lottery-use-lottery-predictions-or-use-random-guessing/ Are you frustrated for not being able to crack any lottery winning numbers so you lost a lot of money? Are you a typical loser who spends more money to buy the tickets but never wins even a small amount? What do you usually do before buying the tickets? Picking the numbers that you think is going to come up as jackpot? Well, then you need to change your mind set if you want to win. If you think that lottery numbers are just picked randomly then you are wrong. Lotteries have been set up by the house and what you need is a little hard work to be able to win it. Spend sometimes to learn the lottery patterns, how the machines work and also how the program is set. You can start predicting the lottery results manually using the data collected or using some statistics provided by the sites. Or, you can also use some software to help predict the winning numbers. There are so many lottery prediction software that you can use and using the software is definitely easier and simpler than just using manual prediction although some people trust the second as it gives closer numbers to the jackpots.  Random Factor The first thing to do before predicting is to change the mind set. You should convince yourself that there is no such randomness in lottery drawing. If lottery drawings are really random, then it is not possible to use lottery prediction. You should believe that everything has been set. All lottery houses employ sophisticated computer programs and there is one thing to know that no matter how excellent the program is, there are always chances to crack the systems. There are flaws and these flaws even make some impressions that the numbers drawn there are random. Flaws in Mechanical Systems For those who love playing lotteries using mechanical systems these following flaws can be recorded and analyzed when predicting the lotteries: Period when the balls are being mixed The ball stacks before they are being dropped into the mixing machine Paddles position when mixing the balls Size of the balls Flaws in Computerized Systems Even for the computerized lottery systems, there are flaws that can also be used to predict the winning numbers. However, the flaws are not as many as those of mechanical lotteries. The flaws are mostly related to the number generators which sometimes operate poorly so that there are chances of number repetitions. Some samples of winning numbers repetition happen in the Illinois Little Lotto. The winning numbers drawn on Monday, 3rd of February 1997 was 01 03 12 16 17 and it matches perfectly with the numbers drawn on Thursday, 12th of November 1998. Winning numbers on Monday, 29th March 1999 was the repetition of the winning numbers on Friday, 23rd of January 1998. If you still call it as randomness or a coincidences then there are more than 20 times coincidences that have happened.  Is Prediction Possible? Yes it is. It is very possible to predict the winning numbers. However, there are some efforts to do to make it accurate. One of the most important thing lottery predictors have to do is listing the draw history file for the game and record the winning numbers. For mechanical lotteries, it is always good to observe how the machines work and analyze it. Yes, it needs hard work, long time and tons of efforts but if you can do it like Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo, then you will be able to beat the lottery houses and make them broke. For computerized lotteries, you will need to be smarter as the predictions will involve the use of some software. That may sound more difficult but life is full of challenges so challenge yourself to predict the winning numbers and scoop the cash. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/31/how-to-play-lottery-use-lottery-predictions-or-use-random-guessing/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/31/how-to-play-lottery-use-lottery-predictions-or-use-random-guessing/ Fri, 31 August 2012 03:36:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/29/statistical-methods-used-for-lottery-predictions/ Winning a lottery is such a sweet experience in life. Getting a lot of money from a little spent on lottery tickets can create euphoria. For lottery players, it does not matter if the prize is just small. For most of them, it is not the amount of money they get but it is more to the winning satisfaction. Lottery players are willing to do a lot of efforts in order to win a lottery. They study the statistics, apply mathematics, use random picks, and even they go to the psychics to get the lucky numbers. Many strategies and methods are used in lottery predictions and each player has their own prediction to give promising results. Genetic Algorithm (GA) One of the most frequently used lottery prediction is the Genetic Algorithm (GA). According to Wikipedia, Genetic Algorithm is a searching technique which is employed by computer scientists to get some possible solutions in order to optimize the searches and solve problems when conducting searches. Genetic algorithms is actually a special group of evolutionary algorithms which employs methods from evolutionary biology like mutation, inheritance, recombination / crossover and natural selection.When predicting the lottery result using Genetic algorithms, lottery players can implement this method as a program of computer simulation where a group of unreal representations of candidate solutions is optimized in order to get more improved results and better solutions. Then the solutions are presented in some encoding which are evaluated, modified, and then selected. Generally, this Genetic Algorithm, together with the neural, fuzzy logic and other methods, is used to analyze stock market. Lottery players began to use it in lottery predictions when they realize that if the marketer can use those methods to get benefits then why can’t they? So far, Genetic Algorithm has been employed by some lottery predictors and some lottery prediction software programs. This algorithms is also used by LottoPrediction.com as one of the methods to know which numbers to appear in many games.  In addition to that, players and predictor also share similar opinion that using statistics can be another good way to predict the winning numbers. They claim that statistics can really make the predictions more precise and accurate. Though they do agree that using statistics will require much longer time because they will need to collect more data, they still like using this method as an alternative to Genetic Algorithm as it usually gives better results. There are some other methods used in lottery predictions such as mathematics, psychics, random picks and others but they are not as popular as the professional predictions using the Genetic Algorithm and also statistics. Some people even believe that intuition and believe are the strongest factors that can help them win the lottery. No matter which you believe, there are always chances for you to win the lottery. However, the chances will never be there if you do not even try to get closer such as by predicting the lottery seriously and buying the tickets. Try your luck now. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/29/statistical-methods-used-for-lottery-predictions/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/29/statistical-methods-used-for-lottery-predictions/ Wed, 29 August 2012 01:17:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/27/is-2012-the-best-year-for-lottery-players/ Have you heard about the biggest Powerball Prize won this week that had reached up to $337 millions? This prize won in the state of Michigan has been the biggest prize won this year and according to the latest reports, this jackpot is the 3rd largest in the history of Powerball and the 7th in the history of US lottery. A lot of people love playing lottery games but most of the players do not really know that each year will bring different fortunes. Some Chinese fortune tellers explain that different years will bring different kinds of fortunes. Some years are good for business, some others are good for farming and many other years are good for different fields and this year of 2012 seems to be a perfect year for those who love betting games. Lottery players, with their different kinds of lotto predictions and methods are able to win so much money that they almost blow the whole lottery systems. This is true as there have been many huge jackpots won from January until the most recent month, August. At the beginning of 2012, some lottery predictors said that this year can be the best year for lottery players and they could forecast that there would be many big jackpots and prizes won in many kinds of lotteries and other games. People did not really believe in lottery predictions or predictors who mentioned this idea but it seems that the truth starts to be revealed now that until mid of year 2012, a lot has certainly happened to those who put their fortunes on lotteries. To see the real evidence of the opinion, below is the data of big lottery jackpots won during the first 8 months of 2012. #Date of WinningAmountGamePlace 1 August 20 £148 million(US$232.5 million) Euro Million UK 2 August 16 $337 million Powerball Michigan, US 3 July 27 $52 million Mega Millions California, US 4 July 03 $86 million Mega Millions New York, US 5 June 23 $60 million Powerball Connecticut, US 6 June 13 $240 million Powerball Iowa, US 7 May 29 $32 million Mega Millions California, US 8 May 15 $25 million Mega Millions California, US 9 May 04 $118 million Mega Millions Illinois, US 10 April 25 $173 million Powerball Pennsylvania, US 11 March 21 $70 million Powerball New Jersey, US 12 March 20 $656 million Mega Million Illinois, Kansas, Maryland 13 Feb 22 $70 million Powerball New York 14 Feb 11 $336 million Powerball Rhode Island 14 Jan 24 $71 million Mega Million Georgi   There are 15 big jackpots in total won until mid of August 2012. The data presented here is only the representative of the prizes over 20 millions. In each lottery drawing, there was much more money taken away by the players as there were more than just one winner. The table shown above only contains big winners and there are other players who won quite big prizes of $1million or below that. A few months ago, there were more than 5 people who won $1 million in one Powerball drawing and there were always more than just one person winning smaller prizes. It means that aside from the big jackpots, there was so much more money given for free. Considering the fact that the prediction about lucky 2012 has really brought some fortunes to lottery players, it is not an odd thing to try everyone’s luck this year. 2012 has not come to an end as there will still be another 4 months waiting. Don’t hesitate to try joining lotteries. Who knows it is your chance to win at the end of year 2012? http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/27/is-2012-the-best-year-for-lottery-players/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/27/is-2012-the-best-year-for-lottery-players/ Mon, 27 August 2012 02:13:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/23/learning-some-tips-to-win-lotteries/ Although some people are still a bit cynical about lotteries as one of the ways to get a lot of money without working hard, this game can really give people wealth  as it offers great amount of luck to the winners. Millions of people around the world have become lottery winners and they have proven that this game can really help them improve their life. And anyway, is there anyone who does not like to win more than 350 million dollars from the most recent Powerball game?  Most people love easy money and winning a lottery can be a good and easy way to earn much money without spending much time working. Yet, winning needs some strategies and knowing the tips and tricks will definitely make the chances bigger. It is wise to know several tricks from different experts to increase the winning possibilities. Related to the most recent Powerball jackpot of more than 350 million dollars, some experts from the ABC News website revealed some tactics that can be used to predict which numbers to appear as the winner.  The first strategy offered by the ABC is that lottery players should never buy numbers that had already appeared in the previous draws. The chances to win are smaller if people choose some lucky numbers from the previous games. It is always better to try picking new numbers or picking old numbers but arranging them into new combinations. This idea seems all right but Brian King from Coast to Coast AM does not really agree. He even suggests the opposite thing. He said that some numbers have big probabilities not to appear as lottery winners so choosing numbers which often appear can be a good idea. He based his theory on the coin flipping. Logically, the heads and tails have the same probability of 50% to come up but in fact, sometimes the tail come up more often than the head or vice-versa and so do numbers. Some typical numbers have bigger chances to win.  While the ABC advises people to do several researches and collect data to make some statistics so that they can choose the least frequent numbers to appear, King strongly suggests that people trust their intuition and believe in coincidences. According to King, lottery winners are often those who look out for twist of fate to change their lives rather than those who put it on statistics. Meanwhile, Glynnis McCants, a celebrity numerologist, thinks that luck in lottery winning deals with life path. She claims that someone who has number 5 as her or his life path will have much bigger chances to win the lottery. To know the life path, people have to break down and add the numbers in their birthdays. For example; if someone was born on the 13 Aug 1980, his life path will be 1+3+8+1+9+8+0= 30, 3+0=3, so the life path is 3. If someone’s life path is not 5, the chance to win a lottery is quite small. Another thing that can affect the luck of winning a lottery, according to Paul Smith, a dowsing practitioner, is the use of ESP skill when predicting. Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) is people’s ability to forecast things in the future without involving their normal senses. It includes dowsing, some subconscious mind that can control the responses of the muscle to decide in some problems including when people have difficulties to choose the best numbers. All of those tips can be tried but no matter which tips or theories people believe and choose to use in picking the numbers, it is always wise to avoid spending all of the money to buy lottery tickets. Most people get bankrupt because they are too curious, angry and impatient when buying the tickets. Always allocate some money to buy the tickets and never use other budgets on lottery. Stop buying if the allotted money has run out. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/23/learning-some-tips-to-win-lotteries/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/23/learning-some-tips-to-win-lotteries/ Thu, 23 August 2012 04:12:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/14/what-would-you-do-with-your-winning-money/ Being rich is everybody’s dream because it means that you can do whatever you want to do dealing with money. You can visit places anywhere in the world, buy luxurious things, live in a big and lavish house and move to higher rank in the society. This may not happen suddenly as you have to earn money with hard work and patience. However, you will have more chance of experiencing this if you are one of those who devotedly buy lottery tickets. You may think of how small chance due to the odds you have to beat to win the jackpots but there are evidences that many people have experienced the winning. So, what have they done after they got their fortune. Do they do exactly what you think you might do when you win the lottery prize? You can ask Steve and Carolyn West who now live in luxury after their winning of the largest single ticket of Powerball jackpot ever. It was in October 2005 when Steve and Carolyn together with Carolyn’s parents, Bob and Frances Chaney, won $340 million in the lottery game. They then got the net amount of $164 million before taxes in January. Wonder what people can do with that amount of money. What did they do after that? Certainly moving out from their ranch house in Medford, Oregon and into a much bigger house of 6,400 square feet on a land area of 6 acres! So to list their activities using the money, they have bought new houses, travelled to Hawaii and Europe and of course purchasing some more-detail things for their personal needs. They also said that they don’t change much like Steve who still clips coupons. He had experienced tough situation of bankruptcy in May 1999 after he lost his job in a lawn care centre. He has been used to living in frugality and the winning even gives him more things to learn. He found out that it is not about what you can do with the money, but being around family is still the most precious. You may think that when you have money you will be happier, but it’s not totally true. The West’s big family also had to experience of losing one of the members, Bob Chaney, at the age of 73. He died of brain injury after an accident in his fantastic French country style house which was bought with the winning money. He didn’t even have the chance to ride in his new Hummer and take the Alaskan cruise he had always dreamed of. His wife, Frances, also had an accident that resulted in hip injury so that she has only had one big trip after the winning. The family also budgeted $100,000 per month instead of the previously planned amount of $300,000 by their investment counselor. Despite the new cars they bought, the children still drive their previous cars. They also experienced uneasy feelings due to different treatment by some friends resulting in moving to other schools. Yet, the family thinks that most friends still treat them the same and they keep their friendship. The friends even think it is surprising that the family most of the time think more about others rather than themselves. They have donated a lot to recreation centers, schools, needy people and Carolyn even keeps on working as a book keeper in a transportation company. She earns $500-$600 per 2 weeks but it’s her friends she really needs there. Steve also continues helping her brother taking care of the lawn-care business. Carolyn sometimes still buys lottery tickets at the same place where they bought the winning ticket although she also thinks that she may never win again. But, lottery is still about the chance. And you still have the same chance as many other people. So what will you do when you win the lottery jackpot? There are a lot to learn from the Wests so just  make sure that you will be happier and your life will be more meaningful not only for you yourself, but also for others. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/14/what-would-you-do-with-your-winning-money/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/14/what-would-you-do-with-your-winning-money/ Tue, 14 August 2012 03:22:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/10/how-to-share-happiness-of-winning-a-lottery-jackpot/ Sometimes good fortune can just fall on careless and irresponsible people but at other times, it falls on the good and kind-hearted ones who certainly understand how to spend their winning money. Those people are usually generous so that they don’t only waste their money on themselves without sharing the happiness for others. They realize that there is always part of the windfall need to be given to the people in need. This is exactly what happened to Jackie and Gilbert Cisneros. They scooped a net $266 million in Mega Millions lottery in 2010 and that was the eighth largest total jackpot in the history of that lottery game. Gilbert was visiting an L & L Hawaiian BBQ when he decided to buy a Mega Millions ticket. And you know what happened next; he beat the odds of 175,711,536 to 1 in that one of the biggest lottery games in the world. It certainly does not happen every day, not even every year, and the Cisneros really take the chance to do good things in their life. The Cisneros may now live as one of those millionaires with that lavish style and they now have a luxurious house in Newport Beach. However, they never forget their previous low-leveled Latino environment in Pico Rivera, California. They feel the need of giving something back to their hometown where they had lived and bought the winning ticket that had changed their whole life. Gil had learned from his own experiences in life to help him decide how to spend the money. He experienced difficulties to continue his study to college like many in the same neighborhood experience. It was lucky for Gilbert who had the chance of attending college due to scholarship and he wanted to give the same opportunity for other students. That is why he understands well how to share his happiness that is by giving scholarship to students from El Rancho High School, the only high school in Pico Rivera. The school actually has a good rate of graduation reaching up to 90 percent but not many of the graduates are lucky enough to be able to continue their study to college. They give the scholarships through Hispanic Scholarship Fund to prepare fifty scholarships with the amount of $2,500 each which start in 2012. Although the institution mentions Hispanic in its name, the scholarship gifts are also available for all students. Gilbert’s wife, Jackie may not have experienced the bitterness to be in a working class as her grandfather was a former mayor of Pico Rivera. However, she seems to understand well on the situations that she supported fully to her husband’s dream of helping people. In honor of Jacki’s grandfather, Frank Terrazas Legacy Scholarship Program is also going to be made to provide scholarships to students in the future. The Cisnero’s scholarships will reach not less than$1.25 million in the next five years. This family is such a generous lottery winner because they also support the community programs that encourage post-secondary learning. This story may be a good example of being wise lottery winners. You need to remember of wise things to do when you win in a lottery game. Just choose the ones closest to your heart like the Cisneros who concern a lot to the education aspect. You may think of donating some of your winning money in other areas such as sports, arts or perhaps simply by helping the poor. By sharing and spending the windfall for others, you will give more essence to the fortune as there are more people who can enjoy the same happiness as you do. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/10/how-to-share-happiness-of-winning-a-lottery-jackpot/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/10/how-to-share-happiness-of-winning-a-lottery-jackpot/ Fri, 10 August 2012 05:04:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/08/the-biggest-uks-euromillions-jackpot-spent-on-prosthetic-leg-for-teenage-olympic-torch-bearer/ Olympic Flame was carried by more or less 8,000 people as it took a long journey to the UK. Those flame torch bearers were people who could give inspiration to those who watched the relay. It could be the moment for them to shine and inspire people worldwide with their courage and struggles. One of them was a 13-year-old boy, Kieran Maxwell a boy with one leg. Kieran Maxwell, a teenage Olympics torch bearer who lost his limb due to very rare cancer, will now enjoy better life and be able to be a “normal” boy again. This can happen since he has got a new prosthetic leg to replace his leg after it was amputated year. The new prosthetic limb came from a very generous couple who had won the biggest UK’s lottery. In October 2010, this 13-year-old cute boy was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a very rare and aggressive form of cancer. This kind of cancer usually affects more or less 30 children per year. The amputation for young Kieran Maxwell had to be done below his left knee despite the undergoing chemotherapy. The amputation was needed to stop the spread of the cancer. However, the old replacement limb was considered heavy and it slowed down this active boy in doing his activities. Kieran’s parents, Nicola and Alistair from Heighington near Darlington, have been raising fund to buy a new and lighter prosthetic leg for their son. This is because they knew that their beloved son would be one of the Olympics torch bearers who would passed Bishop Auckland, County Durham on the Olympics Relay last month. The help came to young Kieran Maxwell after he fell while he was carrying the Olympic torch while passing the street. At that time he was still wearing his current replacement limb which was considered heavy. Colin and Chris Weir, the winners of the biggest Britain Euromillions lottery heard about what had happened to Kieran. They were touched by story of Kieran and decided that they could do something useful to make Kieran’s life easier. These couple of Ayre had scooped $ 161 million pound sterling in the lottery draw last year. Instead of using the money buy what they wanted, they came up to calculation of five-digit amount of money to help Kieran get a new and light prosthetic limb. This unexpected donation came from Colin and Chris Weir after their neighbor, grandmother of Kieran’s friend at school told them about him and contacted them asking whether they could do something for Kieran. This inquiry aroused their sympathy and directly made up their mind to share their prize cash to buy a new prosthetic limb for the boy. The kind and generous couple said that they were very proud of getting the privilege to support Kieran to get a new limb. They were also touched by Kieran’s parents in their efforts to raise the fund for their kid in order to get their dreamed new limb. Kieran’s parent stated that when the boy heard about the good news, he could not stop screaming and dancing around. The family still could not believe about the miracle that came to them. They were still pinching themselves, they said, showing that it was still unbelievable for them to get what their son had been dreaming of to have. The emotional parents also said that it would not be enough for them to be grateful to the Weirs for what they had done and donated to their son. According to some information, both Nicola and Alistair planned to continue to raise the fund, but it would not be for them. The fund would be handed over and proceed to Toma Fund, an organization that aims to help teenagers who are suffering from cancer. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/08/the-biggest-uks-euromillions-jackpot-spent-on-prosthetic-leg-for-teenage-olympic-torch-bearer/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/08/the-biggest-uks-euromillions-jackpot-spent-on-prosthetic-leg-for-teenage-olympic-torch-bearer/ Wed, 08 August 2012 02:22:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/08/a-great-example-story-of-wise-lottery-winners/ All lottery participants dream of winning the jackpots in the games they join. They expect to have the best luck to change their lives and they have so many plans to do with the winnings. Living as a millionaire is certainly something people cannot resist. However, they need to prepare themselves to keep on being clearheaded as the winning can lead them to disasters instead. There have been stories that lottery winners, due to their carelessness, end up in bankruptcy and unhappiness. If you don’t want to experience this, you might as well look at one of the wise lottery winners in history. Eddie Nabors, a truck driver from Dalton, Georgia, who shared the largest Mega Millions jackpot of $390 million in 2007, did not have any feelings that he would be so lucky. When he was having his weekly coffee at a Dalton shop, he decided to buy lottery tickets of $10 worth using the quick picks. One of his tickets had the numbers of 16-22-29-39-42 and he was not dreaming of winning it although of course he still had the hope. The jackpot reached $355 million and fortunately for him that all the six numbers in one of his tickets matched the winning numbers. He was so lucky because to win it, he only had the chance of 1 in 176 million. He did not realize that he had won until his co-workers told him about the winning ticket from Dalton. He then shared such huge jackpot that had risen to an amount of $390 million. He took the lump sum option of winning and scooped about $80 million after paying taxes. This 52 year old Nabor seemed to have learned a lot from other winners’ success and failure stories. He decided not to be overwhelmed by the situation since he knew that he could just fall like many other unlucky winners who could not adjust to millionaire life style that lead them to bad habits such as drugs, paranoia and also isolation. He was in the modest condition of living with his mother and he also has 3 children and also six grand children. Her daughter had to live in a mobile home so Nabors decided to buy her a house. He also paid off mortgages for all his family, his mother, sister and others and bought his son a boat for fishing. You may think of what he decided to buy himself. Instead of buying fancy cars or going on expensive travels, he thought of something very simple, he wanted to go fishing which is his favorite activity in his free time. He said that he was thinking of asking his son to go fishing together. He also decided to quit from his job, yet it is unquestionable. With his new found wealth, he certainly did not need to work very hard as a truck driver. A lot of things you can learn from his story. You can be one of the luckiest people in winning lottery because everyone has the same chance of winning. You just need to be prepared to avoid problems that have made those who had been initially-lucky lottery winners to be even the unluckiest people. Remember to keep on being low-profile and don’t waste your money. Do not easily buy things that you don’t really need. Think of investing it and donating some of your money for charities. You don’t earn the money so think that many other people deserve the shares including your families and friends. If you can keep on being wise with the money, you can be ensured that you will just survive in the long run http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/08/a-great-example-story-of-wise-lottery-winners/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/08/a-great-example-story-of-wise-lottery-winners/ Wed, 08 August 2012 02:06:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/03/simple-lottery-tips-to-increase-chances-of-winning-the-lottery/ Some people believe that lottery is a game of luck that involves random numbers to be drawn and certainly cannot be predicted. They can only hope that good luck will be theirs in each drawn and they don’t try to find the ways of increasing their chance of winning except choosing the numbers they believe to be the lucky numbers. However, you need not join those people because you certainly can increase your chance to win the jackpots if you know the secrets. To understand the secrets you need to follow these directions: Bear in mind that lottery is indeed a random game but from the drawn numbers we can see that they create patterns that then can be seen and predicted. The analysis on the patterns is based on mathematical calculations and can be proven scientifically. It is not about superstition or any other illogical beliefs, so you can count on it. The randomness of lotteries have been created by the use of coins, dices, cards and others but in fact these methods of randomness do not work as perfectly as expected. Patterns still exist.  Do not play low numbers. This can happen when you select combinations of numbers involving birthdays or anniversaries. This will make you select numbers that range only from 1 to 31 as these numbers represent dates. In fact, the numbers that have been drawn in many lottery games usually cover high numbers than those of dates. Choosing higher numbers will increase your chance of winning. After all, if you happen to win with the low numbers, there will be bigger chance of you to share the winnings with so many other people as they also usually select those kinds of low number combinations. It is better to be the different one with no one to share the winning I suppose.  In selecting the combinations of lottery numbers to purchase, it is better for you not to select the combinations of numbers that have been drawn in the previous draws. It is unlikely that exactly the same numbers will come up again in the next draws or it will be drawn in even many draws after that. From the analysis of the winning numbers so far, the chance of the same numbers drawn has probability of nearly zero.  Avoid playing consecutive numbers. As many people think that any numbers can just be drawn in a lottery, they tend to choose any numbers they like. They think combinations of consecutive numbers can be one of the random numbers to be drawn but in fact, from the draws in the history of lottery winnings, there have never been any consecutive numbers such as 5 6 to win in the game. Moreover with combinations of consecutive numbers like 1 2 3 4 5 or 6 7 8 9 0, you will almost certainly never win in lottery games.  Almost the same to the previous tips is that many people like to select pretty combinations with the same last digits. For example because they think that 8 is their lucky number they then select combinations like 8 18 28 38 48 or others. Remember that many people may have the same thoughts as you do. You certainly don’t want to share your winnings with those many.  The same number combinations with least chance to win are those with multiples such as 3 6 9 12 etc. Just think that random numbers are not pretty combinations of numbers. You need to select random numbers yet with more probability to win.  The last but not least of these tips to win in a lottery is that you need to be creative and eager to select your own numbers. Quick pick option will discourage you to be creative in working on your combinations of numbers. In fact, from the lottery history, the winners usually created their own combinations of numbers. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/03/simple-lottery-tips-to-increase-chances-of-winning-the-lottery/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/august/03/simple-lottery-tips-to-increase-chances-of-winning-the-lottery/ Fri, 03 August 2012 02:03:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/28/important-advice-for-lottery-winners/ Besides planning wisely on spending the cash won from the lottery jackpots, the winners of the lottery can do something necessary and useful for those who also win some certain lottery games. We can see how it works from the story of Julie Avery and her partner John Stinchcombe and his friends John and Pearl Ackerman who share their grand prize. The cash they shared in 2006 was about 11,544,846 pounds sterling. Those winners were chosen to give advice to the new winners in One Night lottery game from Gwent Lotto. The Camelot chose them to be the “millionaire advisor”. Julie Avery and her friends have given wise example on how to spend their money by buying their first house together in Crumlin. Even now, they have already had a plan to have a lifetime travel to America. There are some tips from Ms Avery to the new winners. First, keep the money for some time before sharing it with friends and family or invest it. Second, before deciding on how to spend and invest the money, it is good to get as much advice as possible. Third, always spare some money for emergency. Fourth, stay to be who you are. Fifth, think carefully before moving to other place and community. There are other winners from neighboring areas with various amounts of cash to get. The biggest jackpot was received by Les and Samantha Scadding in 2009 (45.5 pounds sterling). http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/28/important-advice-for-lottery-winners/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/28/important-advice-for-lottery-winners/ Sat, 28 July 2012 23:24:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/27/want-to-win-the-lottery-jackpots-stay-positive-and-patient!/ Do you know the secrets of winning lottery? There may be some answers for this question but there are at least two of the most important, those are positive thinking and patience. You may have been trying to be persistent buying lottery tickets for many years and haven’t got the best luck to win any of the prizes. However, you may need to hear the story of this lucky man from Redondo Beach in California, Greg McCammon. Sometimes you may find the times when you cannot easily select the lottery numbers and their combinations in order to hit the jackpot. Some people believe that buying the same numbers in each drawing will be one of the best ways. If you are one of these people, you may need to be patient. It took ten years for Greg McCammon to finally win the Mega Millions jackpot on 10 July 2012.  He first bought the ticket in the lottery game in 2002 and played the same numbers ever since. His patience finally paid off as he finally scooped $341,215 as the second prize in the lottery. You may not believe that it will also take that long time for you to win but at least the positive thing you can learn is that you should never give up. With consistency and positive thinking you will win eventually. McCammon now has the chance to buy things he had wished for at least ten years such as buying a brand-new car on his own and also paying off all his bills. Another story of patience comes from Bob Fidler, 74. This man, who currently lives in Cuba, Illinois, first bought the Illinois Lotto tickets twenty years ago. He had decided to buy the tickets when the jackpot already reached $3 million. He kept on buying 4 tickets for each drawing with the number combinations that represent the special family dates and birthdays. He had the thought that one day he would win at least from one of the tickets. You may never guess that this will work but FINALLY...It has. 11 July 2012 was the biggest day for him because as usual he bought those 4 combinations of numbers he had consistently bought and all those four tickets were the winning tickets at the draw. You may be wondering how much he could get from those four tickets. The tickets won $27.50, $27.50, $802.50, and $4,047,802.50 consecutively from the first to the fourth tickets. The total of the prizes reached $4,048,660; his being persistent definitely paid off. You need to realize that good luck may come to you at the best time. You should never think that you may be too old to win the lottery prizes because like what happens to Bob Fidler, he now can afford to buy a new Cadillac XTS. Even that he had to wait and keep on being positive and patient for not less than twenty years, nobody would mind replacing his position right now. He also dreams of sending his grandchildren to college while his wife thinks of going on African Safari.However, staying positive does not always mean that you need to wait for that long time like Greg McCammon who waited for 10 years or Bob Fidler who needed 20 years of playing in the lottery. If you can start to join the lottery games earlier starting from now, you may have better luck to win the prizes sooner than them. You may even win in the first time you start buying the lottery tickets. There is no other way of proving it unless you try. Just make sure that you think positively and never give up easily. The next ticket may be the winning ticket after the failure of the first ticket. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/27/want-to-win-the-lottery-jackpots-stay-positive-and-patient!/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/27/want-to-win-the-lottery-jackpots-stay-positive-and-patient!/ Fri, 27 July 2012 05:32:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/27/winning-a-lottery-jackpot-don’t-forget-to-share/ Not everybody has the same luck in this life, but you must make sure that when you get that luck, you also have a great opportunity to do good things that you might not do at other times. That is exactly what you should do when you win a jackpot or any of the prizes in a lottery game. We need to think of what good things we can do with the winning money instead of thinking of our own needs. You should try to learn from those many experiences by many winners of lottery in the world. Most of them have been so lucky but not many of them who can manage their money and finally end up with the condition of being broke. Sometimes it is not only about the way you spend the money but also the way you show your gratitude with the winning. You should realize that in the winning there are some parts that we should share with the people in need. Two people who have been so wise in doing this are the couple who luckily won the largest jackpot in Euro Millions lottery in July 2011, Christine and Colin Weir. This couple who currently live in Largs, Scotland, has just celebrated the anniversary of the winning earlier this July. They scooped the biggest-ever amount of winning, not less than £161 million in Euro Millions on its draw, 12 July 2011. Due to such big fortune, they have certainly become centre of attention for publication. People keep on following on their news to see how they spend the money. As it’s said earlier, this couple has been wisely spending the money mostly for charities instead of carelessly wasting their money. For a year since their big day of luck, Christine and Colin have shown to be a perfect example of how to be grateful for the luck. Colin Weir, who is a retired TV cameraman, and his wife Caroline, who used to be a nurse, have been very generous giving £1 million donation to the Scottish National Party in its aim to found the independent Scotland separating from UK. As other people would do first with the winning, the Weirs also did not forget giving lots of gifts to their family and friends.They definitely realize that the lottery winning is also a privilege for them to be in the position of giving to the people in need. They also helped a lot in rescuing the Waverley steam boat so that it’s not decommissioned and they have given the sponsorship for a young race driver in the European Italian F3 European Abarth. They also have big contribution in a tennis academy placement in Spain by funding it. They seem to feel strong concern for the sports world since they also share some of their fortune to the National Sports Training Centre in its project of refurbishment and also to Largs Thistle Community Club to be revamped. There are a lot of things that you need to learn of which is that we do not need to think too far to help the other people. The easiest is by sharing some of your wealth to the closest to you in heart. The Weirs are deeply concerned with their country and they definitely love sports. Some other people may wish to do more charities with the animals’ life or the orphanages with which they feel more connected. It does not matter whether you also want to celebrate your winning for your pleasure but remember that there are a lot out there who also have the rights to get the part of the fortune. So, what good things are you going to do with your coming fortune? http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/27/winning-a-lottery-jackpot-don’t-forget-to-share/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/27/winning-a-lottery-jackpot-don’t-forget-to-share/ Fri, 27 July 2012 05:21:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/24/lisa-dougan,-an-inspiring-teen-millionaire-lotto-winner/ Millions of people in the world love betting games and there are stories about lucky winners who just won a big amount of instant cash from the lottery, ironically end up destroying their lives in misery. Dozens of lottery winners, those scoping millions of jackpots from many casinos or online games in almost all parts of the globe are involved in financial problems right after they spend days of their victory. They do not really know how to start their new life with all the money they have in their pockets and instead of making their future brighter, they ruin it completely. That big problem arises because those winners are not smart enough when dealing with the cash they won. Although players usually use many strategies to win a lottery, they do not do the same to the money they win. After winning, they suddenly feel the euphoria and do not think that spending money is much easier than earning. Like what often happens to almost all lottery winners, once people win in a betting game and get instant cash, suddenly their life changes drastically. They start perform luxurious living as if they are from the Rockefeller family! They completely forget that they will still have much longer lives ahead them and they just have fun with this ‘instant bonus’ they get. Fast cars, expensive life styles, drinks, lavish clubs and girls are the most common things lottery winners spend their money at.  Joining expensive clubs, partying every night and finally, they end up in debts and criminal problems. Not many lottery winners even remember to save the money or make some investment for their future. Luckily, among a few winners who neither spent fortunes directly on leisure nor acted like a rich person after winning a lottery is Lisa Lougan from Bathgate, West Lothian who won £1.56 million in a Lotto drawing in March 2004. When winning Lotto she was just 17 yet she had already known what to do with the money. She could have acted like the granddaughter of Hilton hotel owner; buying expensive bags, hanging out with her teenage friends to some expensive boutiques or taking holiday in a warm sunny place but instead, she chose to do her normal life like nothing ever happened. When she won the money in 2004, she was the youngest winner in Scotland and definitely she got many temptations to spend the money. Lisa remembered how her friends asked her to have fun with the prize but she did not think that it was wise enough. She did enjoy her fortune but she got some advice from Camelot, a lottery organizer who suggested that she should take care of the money rather than spending it for some luxury. Unlike other lottery winners who stop working and spend their time dining out to some expensive restaurants, this humble lucky girl keeps doing her low-paid job everyday though she has millions of pounds in her account. She runs a very ordinary life. She got married with a security guard and has two lovely kids now.  She gets up early morning, prepares breakfast and the kids’ needs and goes to work. She does not try to taste luxurious life with the prize but now she feels secure with the saving she has. She never has problem with money and she believes she will not screw her life and the life of her loved ones just like other common lottery winners. Now she is almost 26 years old and she never regrets for what she did when she won the lottery. She is one of successful lottery winners who should inspire other winners so that they do not turn their luck into disasters just because they do not know how to deal with the money wisely. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/24/lisa-dougan,-an-inspiring-teen-millionaire-lotto-winner/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/24/lisa-dougan,-an-inspiring-teen-millionaire-lotto-winner/ Tue, 24 July 2012 04:34:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/what-you-dont-know-when-you-play-lottery/ There are thousands of lotteries and other gambling games in the world where people could spend their money to have fun while hoping that they can multiply the initial amount of money they spend. Casinos, clubs, and many other places provide interesting games that attract players to dig deeper into their pockets or their wallets. Most players do not realize that they had spent too much money until they found out that they do not have a penny left. However, there are also a few smart people who could win the games by using their brain and intelligence.  From the recent Mega Million lottery drawing which paid more or less $462 million to the winners, everyone could see that there is enough money that can be shared among the participants.  There are some benefits that players can get from playing in some gambling games.  Looking back to the $462 million won in the previous Mega Million, it is clearly seen that lottery can always give a lot of chances for the players to be richer if they know how to get their victory. From many surveys done, the many winners of the lottery did not spend too much money to buy the tickets. They just took a small amount of their budget but they carefully chose the numbers and they won! By using their own smart and careful strategies, they can make lottery as a good way to get more income. Another benefit from joining a lottery is the fact that it is actually a cheap investment which can get more profits. Not many people are informed that the lottery tickets’ prices are actually lower that the real values so a ticket worth $1 may only cost the players $0.75 or even lower than that. Though it is not always true that ticket buyers can win, the chances to get the money back is very big. Furthermore, it is not that bad to buy some lottery tickets with the low prices especially after knowing that some significant portion of the money in the games played goes to fund state governments, such as for the education subsidies. The next advantage from joining a lottery is that players are actually training their brain when they try to predict the next numbers to bet on. This exercise, according to some sources, has helped players to be smarter.  Despite the fact that most players do not really know that lottery drawing can be analyzed, they have unconsciously done some practices with their brain. Lottery and other betting games can actually be studied and predicted. There is no such RANDOMNESS of the balls, numbers or spins in the games. For the first attempts, players may think that they are just unlucky because they miss but if they are willing to try, they could always foresee the typical numbers to be drawn. It definitely needs a long time to think and know which numbers to come out but it is not impossible to get closer and closer and to win some share of the money one day. Players only need to pay attention to all details, to the smallest ones, of the games in order to learn the flaws of the machine so that the typical numbers drawn can be predicted. This is one of a good brain exercises. Despite those benefits of playing in a lottery or other betting games, there are definitely challenges and hard times that players will have to face. It can be seen clearly that people can get more money and other great things from the betting games if they know the tricks and strategies but they have to work hard. Learning, observing and also analyzing the games will definitely help players to be winners so that they can get a lot of money. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/what-you-dont-know-when-you-play-lottery/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/what-you-dont-know-when-you-play-lottery/ Sat, 21 July 2012 17:35:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/win-the-games-smartly-like-gonzalo-garcia-pelayo/ Betting on a game has been one of people’s favorite activities. In almost all parts of the world people love spending their money on gambling no matter what kinds of games they are playing. People have been addicted to various betting games be it online games or the off line ones and they even often spend too much money or get bankrupt because they do not use any strategies when doing it.Actually, all games are winnable if the players know the strategies. If they are willing to learn and pay attention to how each game is played, there are always chances to make the casino pay us the money back with much more profits. There are no games which are designed or protected so perfectly that it is impossible to get a lot of money from them. No matter how sophisticated a game is, it is still potential to learn its trick, its system and its rules so that players can get a clue to beat the system and win all the money. People used to believe that it is hard to conquer the casino or roulette house and get some money from it but now the times have come for the gamblers to take control. This, however, will definitely require proper strategies and tricks.  One of good examples on how to win a game smartly has been showed by Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo, a Spanish man who managed to win a lot of money from many kinds of roulette games in two different countries, Spain and the US. He really knows how to trick the casinos. This unsuccessful record man made amazing earning from roulette games in many casinos as he was able to learn how the systems work. Some roulette places had to give away millions of dollars to this man as he could win many roulette games using his biased roulette wheel theories. He was really brainy but one thing for sure is that he did not only do an overnight study to know all of the tricks. Everything began in early 1990s when he started to notice that there was a kind of wheel bias in each of the roulette game played. Numbers appeared on the wheels were not purely random but they were affected by some factors. He noticed that a little imperfection or defect in the gears of roulette’s wheel can affect the possibility of some typical numbers to come out. He also learned that a few differences in the pocket sizes also influenced it and sometimes the gears weren't mounted perfectly horizontally and that made some numbers come up more often than others. He could learn this after he visited casinos and joined in thousands of roulette games. He had quite enough money to do it so and he observed carefully how the wheel spun. It was neither an easy nor instant work to do because he had to observe hundreds thousands of spins performed there. He worked hard with his sight and mind because he noted all of the spins which could reach hundreds or thousands a day. He tried to get all complete and accurate data from the games he attended and finally he could conclude that there were some numbers that often appeared on the wheels. After he collected enough data, he analyzed them using his computer and after all was set, he started betting at various casinos and winning quite a lot of money from them. His continuous success made him banned by the casinos in 1992. They even tried to take some legal actions to get their back.  This was actually a ridiculous effort because Gonzalo did not do any crime when winning all the money. It was actually one great proof that players can win the games if they want to spend time learning the games before they place a bet there. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/win-the-games-smartly-like-gonzalo-garcia-pelayo/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/win-the-games-smartly-like-gonzalo-garcia-pelayo/ Sat, 21 July 2012 08:18:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/play-lottery-online-and-get-the-benefits/ People may wonder why those online lotteries are becoming more and more popular nowadays and there is now such big number of people interested to join various online lottery games available on many web sites. In the past, lottery games were probably as interesting as of those today but there are more reasons why they are now becoming more attractive for people around the world. For you who have experienced purchasing lottery tickets by going to retailer yourself and hoping for your good luck, you may need to see what benefits if you join the lottery games through online lottery ticket purchasing companies. So, what are the main factors of the growing number of online lottery players now? These are some of them: The simpler ways of purchasing. When you are interested to buy any tickets of any lotteries, you don’t even have to leave your comfortable home. You just need to get connection of internet to log on to any ticket purchasing sites available. The instructions of ticket purchasing are usually simple and most of the time the lottery ticket sites will offer many helps for new comers in the sites No need to keep on checking your numbers. In the past, you would have to update to the winning numbers by watching the draws on TV. By playing online, you won’t need to spend more time to watch the draw of the lotteries if you don’t want to or can’t do it. You will always get notifications each week through email about the winning numbers. This will be very important for you who join the lotteries held in other countries. Online lottery games are secure and safe. Although you may think negatively that online participation in a lottery game is not as safe as holding the actual ticket yourself, most lottery ticket purchasing companies can guarantee that it is safe. You will get the scan of your actual lottery ticket that has been purchased with your name on it. There have been many evidences that online lottery ticket purchasing is something reliable as well as the actual purchasing. No more losing lottery tickets. If you are a bit messy to keep things, it is certainly a solution. You don’t need to worry no more that you forget where you keep your tickets as you don’t have to keep them yourself. You also can be ensured that the physical ticket is safely kept by trustable company. Wide varieties of lottery games to join. There have been so many lottery games in each country in the world and now all are accessible and there are no restrictions of playing lottery games online. You may want to join any games in many other continents that were a dream of the past. You don’t have to go there yourself because there will be people on your behalf purchasing the tickets. No complication of going abroad, you can do it only by sitting in front of your computer for a very short period of time. The more games to play, the more chance to win. As you don’t need to spend more time to go to retailers to purchase any lottery tickets and continuously check on the winning numbers, you can buy as many tickets as possible. If you can have more tickets, then you will have more possibilities to win from one or more of your lottery tickets. With the number of lottery games offered in the ticket purchasing companies offered online, you may wish to find the best game with the better odds to beat. Easier ways of claiming the winning. When you win in a lottery games in any locations in the world, you won’t need to go the far distance to collect the prize yourself. The winning will be claimed on your behalf and the winning check will be sent directly to you as soon as possible. There are some reasons of people buying lottery tickets; you may have your own. However, no matter what your reason is, it is certainly for better life in the future. We never know what our luck is in a lottery but with the less complication in buying the best lottery tickets on line, why not give it a try and test your luck? http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/play-lottery-online-and-get-the-benefits/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/play-lottery-online-and-get-the-benefits/ Sat, 21 July 2012 06:23:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/winning-a-lottery-wise-things-to-do-next/ Winning a lottery is not impossible to happen to you, as this good fortune will be able to change everything in your life. However, when you experience this, you will also have to respond wisely, because it may not happen to you twice. You will also have more chances to lose it and this will lead to even worse conditions. First, you have to keep the confidentiality of your winning before you completely claim the money, especially if the prize is worth a very large amount of money. Second, which is not less important is that you need to really know how to claim your winnings. For this, you can check on the ticket and the lottery ticket agency from which you have bought the ticket. To make it safer, it is also recommended that you also make the copy of your winning ticket and keep it in a deposit box in a bank. It is also a good choice to hire a lawyer to help you manage everything concerning the claim of the winnings and any legal actions you may need to take. About the prize money, you also should consider some of these followings: How much money should you spend on taxes? As all winnings are included in taxable income, you need to think of how much you will receive. Making a trust will be a good option to minimize estate taxes. Another way of minimizing the taxes is by giving some of the money to charities or gifting some of the money to families or friends. You also have to share happiness to as many as people, don’t you? Which option of winning will you choose? Lottery games usually have two options of winnings either as a lump sum or annuity. It will depend on how you want to manage the money. If you already have plans on how to manage the money, you may as well as taking it as a lump sum or if you are not very sure of how to spend the money safely, you can take it as annual payments. Taking it as annuities will also give you more time to think of how to find the best investments with the most profits. How will you divide your lottery money with your spouse? If you have bought the lottery ticket together with someone else/your spouse, you may need to think of having a joint right. Everything may be fine if you can keep your relationship/marriage run well, but there may be some cases that you have to split and you do not want the money to be taken only by one party. Both parties should have equal right of the lottery money. What about for joint-purchasing of the ticket? This should have been agreed before you decide to purchase the ticket with another partner or some other individuals. A partnership is the best option to form, as everybody will get the money equally or depending on their contribution on the purchasing. This may also apply in the case of ‘syndicate’ offered by some lottery companies. Should I keep my identity? Definitely yes! You may want to be famous with your lottery winnings as usually winners are publicly announced by Medias. However, you may need to remain low profile because this will also help you to be secure with your windfall. To claim the money anonymously, you might as well form a blind trust with the help of an attorney. What should I do if I don’t know how to manage my money? As most people don’t have capability to manage money very well, a good accountant or any advisors on finance may worth to hire. They will give you the best options on how to spend your lottery winnings. Can I spend some money for fun? There are times to celebrate and enjoy the money. You should not too worry either although you still have to be careful in spending the money. Consider to buy only things that you really need and save the rest for later. Putting the money into longer term investment will still be the best option to take, as it will give you more interest that you can receive and spend for longer periods. Should I quit my job? Most of the times, people cannot live doing nothing. When you work, it does not always mean that you badly need the money. Keeping on doing your job is actually good as long as you don’t have to work very hard. It may also help you to avoid spending all the money you have. Taking some time off the work is also a nice thing to do instead of totally quitting your job. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/winning-a-lottery-wise-things-to-do-next/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/21/winning-a-lottery-wise-things-to-do-next/ Sat, 21 July 2012 04:09:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/14/you-have-no-idea-how-much-people-spend-on-lotteries/ What is Lottery? A lottery game is defined as a contest or a gambling game (in some cases is held for raising money as charity) in which tickets are sold and prizes are drawn. Lotteries are very popular nowadays and they can come with various formats and methods of drawings. This gambling game is believed to be first operated in 205 and 187 B.C. during the Dynasty of Han in China but was recorded as the first lottery in Sluis, Netherlands in 1434. With advances in technology especially with the availability of internet nowadays, there are more and more on-line lottery tickets purchasing services, making it easier for many people who are interested in buying a lottery ticket. How many people play lottery? There haven’t been a fix number of people who play the lottery games in the world. However, it has been estimated that every week there are over 200 million of people joining Euro Millions, one of the most widely played lottery games worldwide. The lottery games are held publicly in more than 100 countries on all the continents in the world. In a study held in US, at least 57% of the adults reported that they bought lottery tickets. How much people spend on lotteries? It was found in 2010 that in US alone, the lottery sales reached up to $58 billion that year with New York contributed the most with the lottery sales of US $ 6.2 billion and Massachusetts at the second place with the total ticket sales of $4.2 billion. In 2001, Japan reached the total ticket sales of $7.9 billion ($US) in Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank Lottery. Following these were the U.K. national Lottery, Loterias y Apuestas del Estado of Spain,Lottomatica of Italy, and France's La Francaise des Jeux. Canada reached the total sales of $7.2 billion ($Can). How about in UK? In a more detail survey on Euro Millions lottery game in the UK, someone can spend about £3.00 each week with the purchase of 2 lines in the game whereas lottery ticket sales are of £ 2.80 in average per person per week. Euro Millions sales in each country are shown as below (Euro): France 866 million Portugal 580 million UK 478.6 million Austria 80 million Ireland 59.1 million Belgium 28 million Luxembourg 21.8 million Switzerland 4.91 million The biggest lottery Jackpots Each continent provides such big prizes as shown in the following figures of the largest prizes ever won in lotteries: PrizeLotteryCountrYearNotes $ 656 million Mega Millions US 2012 World's largest prize £161 million EuroMillions UK 2011 Europe's largest prize ₱ 741 million Grand Lotto 6/55 Philippines 2010 Asia's largest prize R$ 195 million Mega-Sena Brazil 2010 South America's largest prize AUS$ 106 million OZ lotto Australia 2009 Australia's largest prize The demographics on online lottery 70% out of the adult population in UK play in any of the National Lottery on a regular basis as well as 33% of the adult population in France who play regularly at least once a week. The percentages on the proportion of male and female players and ages in those 2 countries are as follows:  UKFrance Male : Female Players 43% : 53% 47% : 53% Ages 18 to 35: 33% 36 to 45: 20% 46 to 55: 22%55+ : 22% Under 35: 37% How about the statistic on the lottery ticket sales? There have been more than 200 million people joining in the online lottery games and previously, there were only less than 1.5 million online players in which the sales were less than 1% out of the total ticket sales. However, the number has now been growing by 60.9%.  Retail SalesInteractive SalesPostal & Online SalesTotal Amount of money £4,759.7 million £214.8 million £38.3 million £5,012.8 million It can be compared with the total sales made by the Swiss lottery company which made 28 million online transactions in the same year. Which countries are best penetrated by online sales? The following countries have been best targeted for online sales of lottery tickets: Malta 78.1% Sweden 74.9% Denmark 69.4% Netherlands 65.9% United Kingdom 62.9% Finland 62.5% Germany 59% Luxembourg 58.9% Portugal 58% Austria 56.8% http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/14/you-have-no-idea-how-much-people-spend-on-lotteries/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/july/14/you-have-no-idea-how-much-people-spend-on-lotteries/ Sat, 14 July 2012 16:13:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/derren-brown’s-lottery-prediction-trick/ In the history of lottery prediction, there has been a British illusionist Derren Brown who successfully predicted which six numbers would come out of the lottery machine. He guessed the numbers to be - 2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39 – and amazingly, it was totally correct. It had invited a lot of speculation what helped him in making the correct prediction on the drawing results. Finally, Brown revealed his secrets in which he could finally guessed the correct balls to come out in the lottery. He said he simply asked a group of 24 people to guess first. However, he also mentioned that those 24 people had to clear their minds from any hopes of winning before. They then had to write down which 6 numbers would be the results of the lottery drawing. He called the method as the unconscious ‘automatic drawing’. He finally obtained the numbers for each by adding up all the 24 guessing and then divided by 24. It means that he got the mean of the numbers guessed by the 24 people in the group.Brown said he followed the technique of the Wisdom of the Crowds. This theory was mentioned in a book written by James Surowiecki The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. The book, which was published in 2004, suggests that the decision or prediction can be better made by a group of people than by an individual even by an expert. As one classic illustration in the book, there was a statistician named Francis Galton who got surprised by the correct guess made by the big number of people in a county fair in Plymouth in 1906. The group consisted of 800 people who joined a contest to estimate an ox’s weight. He then added up all the guesses made and counted the mean number and surprisingly, this was the closest guess to the correct answer. Despite the explanation made by Brown a week after he successfully stunned the viewers with his accurate guess, some experts still couldn’t accept the tricks he declared. A professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford called it as mathematically ‘complete rubbish’ and another professor of Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, David Spielgelhalter added that there was a difference between guessing the weight of an ox and guessing lottery balls. He said that lottery balls certainly couldn’t be predicted. Some others also called his explanations to the tricks were disappointing and ridiculous. There are many other theories speculated to be the tricks used by Brown. One of them is the one that he used split screen trick or false wall. Although his successful trick in guessing the lottery numbers drawn has reaped many negative feedbacks from the skeptics, on the other hand some people still find his trick interesting and entertaining. In future, we may find other people who can apply the same Wisdom of Crowd theories to predict other lottery results. There should also be more researches conducted to check if this will really help participants in a lottery to correctly select the numbers to win any prizes in a lottery game. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/derren-brown’s-lottery-prediction-trick/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/derren-brown’s-lottery-prediction-trick/ Mon, 14 May 2012 05:47:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/why-lottery-syndicates-win-lottery-what-is-wisdom-of-crowd/ The wisdom of crowd is the process of considering the group opinion as a better answer for a question compared to only one’s opinion. It includes the answers of estimating quantity, general knowledge and also spatial reasoning. In the book titled The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, James Surowiecki wrote about a lot of different case studies and also anecdotes about this wisdom of the crowd. One of the case studies is about a statistician Francis Galton who found out that the crowd in Plymouth could guess the exact weight of an ox while each individual and cattle expert couldn’t. He did it by finding the mean of all 800 guesses, which was 1197 pounds, was even closer to the real weight which is 1198 pounds. The definition of the crowd itself is any group of people even if the group is not cohesive for example a corporation, a group of researches and also general public. For example, when they are asked to predict on which horse will win in a race, the members of the group do not have to know each others’ prediction. The application of the effects of the wisdom of crowd fall into 3 categories, those are prediction markets, Delphi methods and the traditional opinion poll extensions. The prediction market is a speculative or betting market made to make verifiable predictions. The results of this method are the current market prices. The Delphi method is the way in which a final prediction is obtained by asking a panel of independent experts. These experts are also given chances to revise their earlier opinion after they listen to others’ opinions and this process finally moves toward a single ‘correct’ prediction. There are some benefits of this theory application. Surowiecki showed that the public and internal corporate markets’ success is the evidence that a group of people with different points of view (but the same motivation especially to make the best guess) will be able to make accurate prediction. He also gives another example that is his publisher who can make better results by assigning a lot of individual authors compared to a team with smaller number of members. The theory of Wisdom of Crowds was then also proved to work as claimed by the illusionist Derren Brown. He could accurately predict the UK National Lottery results in September 2009. He guessed the numbers to be -2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39-, and those were the exact numbers drawn from the lottery machine. When he was asked how he could do it, he said he only asked a group of 24 people using the unconscious ‘automatic writing’. He previously asked that group of people to free their minds from any thought of winning and then they had to write down the numbers of the six lottery balls. He admitted that he only added up all the numbers for each ball and then divided them by 24. Although there have been a lot of criticism to the concept, there’s always a possibility that this concept may be true. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/why-lottery-syndicates-win-lottery-what-is-wisdom-of-crowd/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/why-lottery-syndicates-win-lottery-what-is-wisdom-of-crowd/ Mon, 14 May 2012 05:45:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/want-to-predict-lottery-use-your-intuition!/ People apply different methods in selecting their lottery ticket numbers. Some use algorithmic and mathematic calculations to predict the numbers. Yet, most of them rely much more on their intuition to choose the numbers. They often link their intuition with their dreams as clues for their ‘lucky’ numbers to win thousands even millions of dollars, pound sterlings, and euros. As human’s basic nature, intuition is getting sharper when they themselves are in danger or perhaps people they care about are in the middle of dangerous situations. However, Mark Zilberman studied some artificial intuition devices (AID) employed to predict best business opportunities such as investments and stock market including lottery ticket numbers. Analyzing the ratio of winning tickets to total number of tickets sold in European numerical lotteries during the period between 1980 to 1989, he found that the weaker the Earth’s geomagnetic activity is, the higher the ratio of winning tickets sold. He, further, described the AID software which was able to analyze a set of data entered through systemic algorithm and then presented the result numbers.Besides the artificial devices, people can empower themselves by enhancing their intuition or psychic power to select the winning lottery numbers. The most essential thing to do in sharpening the intuition is totally clearing their mind. It can be achieved through meditation exercises. Having clear mind, they will be able to get rid of their doubts of bias numbers and let the inner subconscious mind tell the numbers. If meditation or clearing the mind does not work, just ask someone to give you quickly fire questions. Then, let him or her ask you ‘a number’ periodically during the session. Your spontaneous answers should be recorded meaning that you have been directed to the numbers. As experienced by some of the lottery winners applying the law of attraction, the power of positive mind, you can apply it in every single aspect of your life including when you decide to buy a lottery ticket number. Harold Gibson, finally won a $3 million prize from an Illinois Lottery second-chance drawing in April 2012 after keeping his faith of winning for 38 years. Then, another believer is Daniel DiBella from Newington, Connecticut who successfully won $1 million after making a wish on his wishing well and keeping his faith that it would come true. The very first step to do is identifying your main objective as a lottery ticket winner. Next, visualize clearly in your mind what you are going to do when you win, how you feel after winning the money, what you will buy and do with the money. Most importantly, you have to remove all the doubts from your mind since any forms of doubt will block the positive energy you send to the universe. In conclusions, intuition can be scientifically studied through computerized and non-computerized experiments. Audio-visual feedback is also able to train the intuitive prediction ability. In fact, the computerized intuition tests are reliable indicators of how good the intuition quality of someone’s real daily life is. When people can direct their intuition ability well, they can direct it to predict anything including the lottery numbers. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/want-to-predict-lottery-use-your-intuition!/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/want-to-predict-lottery-use-your-intuition!/ Mon, 14 May 2012 05:42:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/amazing-stories-about-the-biggest-lottery-winners/ Indeed, the ‘lottery curse’ has been the public secret that a lottery winner will soon meet their doom after the winning. However, there are still some who can get themselves free from this curse and stay wealthy with their winning money. In fact, some of the winners do not even realize that they have won the lottery since they forgot where they put the ticket. People often buy lottery tickets just for fun since they know that their chance of winning is very small, especially for big lottery jackpots like USA Powerball or Euromillions. Only by chance that a winner’s girlfriend checked the trousers before putting them into the washing machine and amazingly found a jackpot winning ticket that worth around £1.5 million. Then, worried neighbors called the police because they thought that their neighbor was being burgled due to the noise they created. When the police entered the house, they finally found out that they were actually having a very big celebration for their £2 million jackpot win. Two brothers, George and David Russel from Windsor, have been playing the lottery together for ten years. They usually buy the quick picks. Since last year, however, they decided to stick on the same chosen numbers for every draw. Eventually, their ‘magic’ numbers hit for the $649,000 prize on March the 28th, 2012. They shared $324,500 for each. After their winning, will they stop playing lottery? They said NO and they will keep playing the lottery and who knows next time they will win not thousands of dollars but MILLIONS.Have you ever heard about the SECRET of law of attraction? Well, perhaps, these two winner stories are the best examples of it. A 60-year-old man, Harold Gibson, finally won a $3 million prize from an Illinois Lottery second-chance drawing in April 2012 after playing for 38 years. He even joked that he was the first person to buy the lottery ticket in his hometown in Waukegan, Illinois. What is his SECRET, then? He kept on his faith that when it’s his turn, then it’s his turn. His patience and faith were finally paid off. After his winning, he donated 10% to his church and bought a big house with a swimming pool. Now, he is enjoying his time in his pool. Another believer is Daniel DiBella from Newington, Connecticut who bought himself a wishing well and put it on his front lawn. Every time he had a wish, he would go there, make a wish, and hope it will come true. One day, before he bought a lottery ticket, he went there and made a wish. Did the wishing well work? YES, he DID win $1,000,000 Jackpot. His faith on his ‘magic well’ has endowed him a great amount of money right to his lap. William Lindsay from Woodridge, Virginia likes buying lottery tickets when stopping for gas. For the April 25th Powerball draw, he had a bunch of tickets, 15 tickets from New York, 10 from Virginia, and 5 from DC.  Then, he checked his numbers from New York and Virginia and none of them hit the numbers. He was about to throw all the tickets to trash including the DC tickets that were unchecked before he finally decided to check them first. To his surprise, one of the tickets matched the first five numbers for the second prize of $1 million. Soon, he bought himself and his daughter a brand new car and would be getting around DC in style. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/amazing-stories-about-the-biggest-lottery-winners/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/amazing-stories-about-the-biggest-lottery-winners/ Mon, 14 May 2012 05:41:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/world-biggest-and-most-popular-lotteries-and-jackpots/ At the first launch, in the early 20th century, lotteries as the forms of gambling are considered illegal in all over the world. Not until the World War II, in the 1960’s casinos and lotteries were mushrooming in many countries, such as USA, most of Europe, and the United Kingdom as a means to obtain more revenue besides taxes. However, in most Islamic countries, lotteries remained illegal but some organizers still run the lottery business secretly and if they get caught, they will be sent to jail. The prize for the lottery winners varies in a certain amount of cash or goods. Yet, it causes risk to the organizer if there are only few tickets sold. Thus, the ’50-50’ draw is getting more and more popular wherein the organizers will endow 50% of the income from all the tickets sold. Today’s lotteries let the purchasers to choose their own numbers on the lottery ticket which allows the possibility of multiple winners.The most popular lotteries Lotteries in big countries such as the USA, the UK, and in other European countries offer huge prizes for the winners. In such a big business with millions even billions of dollars, pound sterlings, and euros, a reliable lottery organizer is highly required. Thus, some states or countries cooperate to establish a huge lottery game. The most popular ones are Euromillions Rollover Jackpot, UK Lotto, USA Powerball, USA Mega Millions, and Australia Powerball. The biggest jackpots ever won Believed as the world’s largest lottery having the largest first prize jackpot, Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad (Spanish Christmas Lottery) grants the main jackpot €720 million, about US$939 million using a Dec 24 2011 exchange of 1.3048. Some of the lottery ticket numbers pre-printed in 5-digit numbers were sold multiple times in several so-called ‘series’. As an example, the ticket with the number ‘58268’ was printed 180 times under different series number in 2011. Therefore, the jackpot was shared to multiple winners and paid out as €4 million (approx US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 ticket owners.Federal taxes require at least 25% from all lottery winnings. Yet, lottery winners often pay more than 25% and have to pay additional to the IRS when they file their returns. In USA Mega Millions, 3 winners won on March 30, 2012 received total cash pay out $474 million from the total $656 million. In Mega Millions, 2 tickets from Georgia and New Jersey won $390 million on March 6, 2007. The cash payout was $233.1 million, the third largest in American lottery history. On 12 July 2011, in the UK, £161.7 million (US$260 million) was won by a single ticket jackpot in the pan-European EuroMillions. Interesting facts about lotteries Behind the roller coaster of lottery games, there are some very interesting facts. First, the ‘lottery curse’ somehow is proven to be true. Chelmsford wealth counselor Szifra birke stated that “roughly one-third of lottery winners get very serious financial problems or go bankrupt within five years of their winnings.” Then, a study done in California revealed that 40% of the total lottery players are unemployed. Studies in Maryland, Michigan, and New Mexico show that people with low education and those living in poverty buy the most lottery tickets. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/world-biggest-and-most-popular-lotteries-and-jackpots/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/world-biggest-and-most-popular-lotteries-and-jackpots/ Mon, 14 May 2012 05:38:00 5227 http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/lottery-prediction-is-not-a-myth!/ Most people think that LUCK is all we need to win the biggest jackpot or at least win secondary prizes in playing a lottery game. They select or pick the lottery winning numbers at random and put their hopes on the lottery machines. If they are lucky, they become the winners, but if that is not their day to win the prize, they think they are unlucky. They keep on trying by using this way, hoping their luck will approach them one day. Well, actually it is not always 100% true. We cannot always rely on luck only in this game. Sometimes, people realize that they can also select their winning numbers by using their birthdays, children’s ages, dates of anniversaries, even their friends’ shoe sizes. Yet, they are not reliable and not valid sources in playing this game. This is because to win the lottery game is like doing mathematics exercises. It needs numbers, calculations, statistics and knowledge of numbers probabilities. However, not all people are good at mathematics. So, how can they win the lotto game and grab the biggest jackpot they have always hoped to win? Well, actually in lotto games, it is not very surprising that the winning numbers appear in more than one or two drawings. The numbers that are drawn usually have similar patterns with the previous winning numbers, which often happens, even sometimes in a big prize drawing.  This pattern can be tracked to make our number selections easier to do, which means it can raise our probabilities to become a jackpot winner. In a lottery game, choosing a consecutive number in your set numbers will give you smaller chance to win the game. This is because consecutive numbers have never been the winning numbers to draw since this game was played long time ago. For example, if the lotto game has 49 numbers, never select 1,2,3,4,5,6 or 40,41,42,43,44,45. Last digit numbers never appear to be drawn, as well.  So, the set numbers of 3,13,23,33,43,53,63 and so on cannot be relied on to get the prize. Selecting varied numbers is a good idea to have more chance of winning. Knowing the sum of the set numbers is also considerable. If you pick numbers 2,5,8,10,19,43,51,  the sum of the numbers is only 138, which is still lower than the winning numbers usually drawn. It means that we have to pick bigger numbers to get bigger sums. Splitting between odd numbers and even numbers is also recommended. The reason is that it never happens in the history that the winning numbers contain all odd numbers or all even numbers. Winning numbers are the combination of both number groups. 8,12,24,32,40,42,60 or 3,7,11,21,45,51 are not suggested combination to make. Be aware of using numbers from the calendar since it is only containing 31 numbers at the most, while the range numbers in lotto game is wider. We can see here if the game has 49 numbers, so your choice of lower numbers is not a great idea. To solve this kind of thing is by picking high numbers at the beginning and the low numbers at the end. We can track numbers that have appeared in the previous drawings to select our own numbers. From here, we usually can see that some numbers have been drawn in the previous games (these numbers are usually called HOT numbers). If there are some hot numbers not used in the game you are playing yet, they can be considered to select. If you play the same COLD numbers in every drawing because you think it is a must, so your chance to grab the prize needs to wait for a long time to come. http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/lottery-prediction-is-not-a-myth!/ http://www.lottoprediction.com/blog/2012/may/14/lottery-prediction-is-not-a-myth!/ Mon, 14 May 2012 05:33:00