Mathematician Reveals to Decrease Your Odds of Splitting a Jackpot!

Everyone dreams of winning the lottery. Nobody dreams of finding out you’re splitting your life-changing prize with other winners. A mathematician has recently revealed a strategy that can increase your chances of maximizing your lottery winnings, and it’s easier than you may think!

When playing a popular lottery game like Mega Millions ® or Powerball ®, you select a set of five numbers and a bonus ball. If you match all six numbers, you win the jackpot! 

There are no lottery numbers that are more likely to win than others, but there are numbers that are more likely to be chosen than others. Naturally, people are going to select numbers that have meaning to them whether it be birthdays, anniversaries, or ages. 

Since many enter the drawings with this mindset, when the lottery results come in and the numbers drawn are heavy on numbers that could be significant to people, you can expect an increased likelihood of a split jackpot.

What’s the way to go against the grain? Simple, have a computer randomly generate the numbers for you!

Dr. Curtis Bennett, the Richard D. Green dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University Long Beach put it simply, 

“Thus, it is my personal belief that you are probably best off just having the computer choose random numbers for you."

Lotto.com offers a quick pick tool that will choose your numbers! You can find the option on the top of your screen when picking your numbers. Ordering multiple tickets? No worries! The quick pick tool can be used for all of them.

If you don’t like the set of numbers that were chosen for you, simply click the button again to get a new set of numbers.

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