Scratch card type games seem very appealing to many lottery players. Winning the main draw for many people seems so unlikely that they don;t even enter and prefer to use their money on scratch cards. I think this is a mistake.

Although there have been many winners in scratch type games, winning a prize in this way is really based on pure luck.

It is a matter of being in the right place at the right time. “So is the main draw”, I can hear many people saying!

Well maybe it is and maybe it isn’t.

How many math experts have won on scratch off games? How many multiple lottery winners won on those games?

Not many I am betting.

Yet there are many mathematical whiz-kids that have landed 2 or more lottery wins playing, (you guessed it), the main draw. Also many “ordinary” winners who have multiple wins under their belt also won in the main draw.

Why is this?

Game of Luck or Game of probabilities?

The lottery is about luck. Of course it is. Not many people would dispute that (except a few multiple winners that have in the past). But, as one 5 time jackpot winner said “the more I play, the luckier I get.”

You see people who know how to deal with probabilities recognised tat the lottery is not just based on luck. It is based on probabilities. And, anything that has laws (the law of probability) can be beaten when you know how to apply certain principles based on that law.

Many past lottery winners claim to have done that.

In these coming weeks we will explorer as many of the principles as we can and discuss how multiple lottery winners may have employed formulas to work with those principles to land their many wins.