Secret To Winning The Lottery

When I was in college I had to take a class called Business statistics. It involved long drawn out formulas that I have never used again and probably wouldn't recognize if they came up, bit me, and then stomped on my head.

On the other hand I did memorize how to calculate your odds of winning the lottery. That my friends was a simple equation and one that keeps me focused on sweeps.

I will say over the past week my husband and I played the lottery almost every day. We did this based on something a psychic said to me. Every day I won a free ticket or $1 or $2 which I used to buy new tickets. I have another power ball ticket I need to cash in for $4.

The point is that I am not the person to ask about the secret to winning the lottery. The odds are definitely against you.

Still I figured I'd post this video for my readers who actually think they might be the next Mega-Millionaire

I Won Again

My decision to buy lottery tickets with my buy one get one free tickets as well as my free ticket wins paid off for me in a small way.

I used the same strategy as I did last time, looking for a series of used scratch offs that were tossed away and selecting the next available one from that game. I lost on my first ticket but won $7 on my second ticket.

I was shocked to discover that I actually matched THREE numbers on Mega Millions, one of them the Mega Number. This netted me $10 additional dollars.

The funny story was a non-win. I checked my pick 4 ticket. I handed the cashier my coupon and just asked for 2 Pick 4 tickets. I wound up being in the evening drawing and since I don't generally play this game I had no clue about box or straight. She handed me back my tickets and they've sat in my purse all week. When I checked the number it turned out that three IF's stood in the way of me almost winning $1,200.

The first thing was the time of day I purchased my ticket. Had I purchased them an hour earlier I would have been in the morning drawing. Had I realized that I could have asked for box I could have had the numbers in any order and my numbers began 75 and not 57. The final problem was the third number was off by one. You see I ad three of the four numbers and for that I get Jack Nothing. Oh well, better luck next time.