Are Lottery Numbers Random?

 

Why should I use lottery software to analyze and process lotteries?

Needless to say, lottery results are random, but opening lottery analysis software you will find an interesting fact. For example, with "odd, even" you will see that lottery draw results rarely contain all odd numbers or all even numbers. This means that picking a lottery entry like 1, 3, 5, 11, 21, 31 would be a poor choice because it almost never comes up. A mix of odd and even numbers that are roughly equal is best. Similar observations can be made by analyzing high/low numbers, prime numbers, hot/cold numbers, and consecutive numbers.

Nothing meaningful can be discovered by analyzing the results of one, two or 10. To discover a trend, you need a minimum of 30-100 lottery results. If you analyze 100,000 or more lottery results, you will find that the numbers are distributed very evenly. Lottery results are random and meaningless. But there are hot numbers and cold numbers within a certain number of periods. There is a pattern!

Any random system will exhibit non-randomness for a short period of time. For example, if you flip a coin 10,000 times, you will get an almost equal number of heads and tails. However, you will not get heads, tails, heads, tails, heads, tails ....... There are times when you might get one head - 4, 5 or more heads one after the other, for a short time, and the results are not random. The same is true for lotteries. You can do this experiment yourself if you're interested and toss a coin 50 times to tally the results yourself.

In the long run, lottery numbers are random, but in a short period of time, some numbers may appear more often than you expect. What we need to do is to use lottery software to help us find the short term patterns of the lottery and increase the probability of winning.