A Player's Guide to Lotto Strategies, Second Edition

This book contains analyses, from the point of view of an industrial mathematician, of the most widely-read lottery winning systems and it is revealed whether they work, appear to work, don't work, or are merely a scam. Authors treated include Gail Howard, Larry Blair, Richard Lustig, Ken Silver, Professor Jones, Iliya Bluskov, Henze and Riedwyl, and some others. The principal feature of this second edition is a simplified treatment of Gail Howard's number pattern theories, which are followed by her many readers and which have been used by other authors such as Ken Silver and Richard Lustig. The entire book also has been reformatted for easier reading.

The book also contains original material: an analysis of the expected result of using several lottery wheels in two actual lotteries, Florida Lotto and Florida Fantasy Five. Also given is a formula for calculating the probability that someone or other will win a particular lottery more than once, something that is generally underestimated when such an event is reported in the press. Also discussed is an obscure paper by Microsoft engineer Jeremy Elson on the optimal bet in Mega Millions.

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