Is it worth taking a risk by playing all possible Lotto combinations?
For many years, Lotto has been the most popular lottery game in our country. Old players remember it well under the name Duży Lotek, as well as the paper tickets that needed to be manually marked in a specific manner. Today, Duży Lotek has become Lotto, and replacing the manually filled tickets, modern devices connected to a single IT system have appeared, but two things have not changed. Namely, the dreams of players about winning big money and the emotions associated with it. Because you can win really big money, sometimes even tens of millions of zlotys during large accumulations. Emotions are also not lacking - every draw delivers plenty of thrills. So it remains to try your luck and play. This can be done by selecting your own numbers, opting for a random pick, or employing some system. Lotto itself offers a system play, but if someone wants, they can also play with their own system. There are many possibilities here, so it's worth learning something about them.
Does betting on all combinations make sense?
Probably each player has at some point considered attempting to beat the system by betting on every possible combination in Lotto. At first glance, this seems quite reasonable, but if you delve into the details, you'll quickly find many flaws in this solution. There are over 13 million possible combinations in Lotto, to be exact 13,983,816. Ensuring a win would require submitting a separate ticket for each combination, and here we encounter the first two issues. Firstly, if someone really wanted to bet on all the tickets, they would need to prepare over 40 million zlotys because one ticket costs 3 zlotys. This is not an amount that you typically have available, so you would have to make considerable efforts to obtain it. Creating all these combination tickets would also present a significant challenge; it's hard to even imagine how this could be accomplished technically. And most interestingly, even with the appropriate funds and somehow managing the tickets, you wouldn't actually make any profit. For the simple reason that even in the biggest accumulation, no prize has exceeded 40 million so far; all were significantly lower. Moreover, there's no assurance that yours would be the only winning ticket. Should another player also win, the prize would have to be divided.
Or maybe your own number system?
The creativity of players in creating their own systems is truly remarkable. Birthdates of themselves, their children, or their spouse, phone numbers, or even shoe and collar sizes - these are just some of the ideas for numbers that will be marked on the ticket. Some people consistently bet on the same numbers for years, trusting they will eventually be drawn. Among the lucky ones who managed to hit the jackpot, there are several for whom such a system brought luck. An interesting way to select the numbers to mark could also be their analysis over previous draws. Theoretically, the number of occurrences of individual numbers should be very similar to each other, because it results from probability theory. However, in practice, there are differences, and quite significant ones, even reaching several percent. Therefore, is it worth betting on the most frequently drawn numbers? Mathematics says no, because each draw should be completely independent and fully random. In practice, these differences come from somewhere, so maybe it's worth risking and betting on the most frequent numbers to increase your chances.
Lotto - what possibilities does system play offer?
If someone wants, they can play the system offered by Lotto itself. The principle of such a system is very simple. You can mark more than six numbers instead of the usual six on a typical ticket. The lottery organizers allow up to twelve such marks, which significantly increases the probability of winning. Tickets in the system game are treated as several independent single tickets. A 7-number system corresponds to seven single bets, whereas 12 numbers result in 924 bets. This is nothing more than the number of simple bets that can be created from the selected system numbers. This translates into the cost of playing the system game, as you have to pay a multiple of the base rate and the number of single bets. System play is a very interesting solution for many players because it significantly reduces the number of tickets to be sent. Each system also boosts the chances of winning. While in the case of a single ticket it will be 1 in 14 million, with a 7-number system the chances of hitting the jackpot increase to 11,997,688, and with a 12-number system, it is as high as 115,134. An additional advantage of system play is that if you win a certain grade prize, there will also be higher-grade winnings, so the total payout amount will be significantly higher.