Winning My Lotto

I have decided that I am going to win the Irish lotto. I am not a guru, I am not going to sell you a bullshit system that doesn't work, even though I am going to add a few affiliate links in there somewhere that you are free to buy or not. All I need is for you to be patient, as I am learning as I go, but you must know that I am determined in finding a way to increase my chances of success at winning the Irish lotto.

I have looked at several lotto systems that are available on the net, some of them free, some of them not, and I have played a few panels in the past and I have won twice: 42 Irish pounds nine years ago (yes, that was before the Euro became the common European currency) and €10 two year ago. Like most lottery players, I have spent more money on lotto tickets than I have won.

Today, this is all going to change: I am going to study a few lotto systems and try them out; not with real money at first, but if I find a system that is not too expensive to use and that seems to work, I might try it out for real.

The first thing to do is to study the last lotto draws: I am working with the Irish lotto because I live in Ireland. I am going to ignore the lotto plus draws for a start, as they just make things too complicated.

To play the Irish lotto we must pick 6 numbers between 1 and 45 (it used to be 42 but unfortunately this was changed to 45 a few years ago). For geeks and mathematicians (and I know they are out there somewhere), this gives us a big number of possible combinations to choose from: 45 x 44 x 43 x 42 x 41 x 40 =5,864,443,200 possible winning combinations.

Given the fact that each panel costs €1.50 to play, if we were to play all the possible lotto combinations, we would have to spend €8,796,664,800 on lotto tickets. The Irish lotto jackpot can range between €1.5 and €14 million, depending on when the last big prize was won, and in the event that we win, we may have to share the prize if there is more than one winning ticket, so simply playing all the possible combinations is not only extremely impractical (I imagine it could take up to a month for the poor sod who decides to fill in the lotto tickets, and another few weeks for processing all the tickets), it does not guarantee that the win will be higher than the spend, even in the event of a big rollover.


Since I am very stubborn (it is not always a default, especially if you call it determination), I am not going to stop here in my lotto winning quest, and there are a few things I need to look into, that will greatly reduce the number of conbinations, especially if I am willing to settle for a slightly smaller prize: instead of winning ONE huge prize, maybe I can win SEVERAL smaller prizes and a lot of the possible combinations that have a minimal chance of being drawn could be eliminated in order to reduce the outlay.

Time is getting on, and there is no rush for winning my lotto, so I will take time to study these later on. If you want to follow my progress and be part of my big lotto adventure, bookmark this blog or subscribe to my RSS. I am a real person just like you, and I hate BS as much as you do. I have lots of free advice that could make you rich as long as you stay wise and don't go crazy on spending lots of money on lottery tickets.