Is it a good strategy or a bad strategy to choose your lottery numbers based on birthdays? To explain this, you must first understand two important principals with lottery numbers. First, lottery numbers are chosen at random, meaning that absolutely any combination has an equal chance of being drawn. Second, there are thousands of other players choosing lottery numbers based on birthdays.

So, the short answer is, no, choosing lottery numbers based on birthdays is not a good idea. Here’s why: although every combination has an equal chance of being drawn, if there are more people that have winning tickets, the jackpot prize will be split amongst more people. What do birthday numbers have to do with this? Simple, the are a great many people that consider the lottery to be mystical and, so, choose sentimental numbers based on birthdays of themselves or loved ones. So, the numbers one through to twelve represent months and are over-represented and the numbers one through to thirty-one represent days of the month and are also over-represented.

When a lottery draws low numbers below thirty-one, there tend to be more winners. When it draws high numbers above thirty-one, there tends to be less winners. This is almost entirely due to the fact that people choose birthday numbers. Now, a win is a win and it is highly unlikely that you will ever win in your lifetime, but choosing higher lottery numbers gives you better odds of receiving a bigger prize if, one day, you beat the odds and actually win the lottery. Whatever system you use, good luck with it and hopefully, one day, you too will claim a big lottery prize.

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