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. Veteran players still recall it as 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 instead of 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. Since it is possible to win substantial amounts of money, potentially reaching tens of millions of zlotys during large jackpots. Emotions are also not lacking - each draw provides more than enough. So it remains to give luck a chance and play. Either by choosing your own numbers, or by a random pick, or by using some system. Lotto itself offers a system play, but players can also use their own systems if they prefer. There are many possibilities here, so it's worth learning something about them.
Does betting on all combinations make sense?
Probably every player has thought about trying to cheat the system and bet on all possible combinations in Lotto. At first glance, this seems quite reasonable, but upon closer examination, you'll quickly find many flaws in this solution. Lotto has over 13 million possible combinations, precisely 13,983,816. To be sure of winning, you would have to send a separate ticket for each combination, and here arise the first two problems. Firstly, actually betting on all combinations would necessitate over 40 million zlotys, since one ticket costs 3 zlotys. This is not an amount that you typically have available, so you would have to work hard to get it. Creating all these combination tickets would also present a significant challenge; it's hard to even imagine how this could look technically. And most interestingly, even with the necessary funds and managing the tickets, you wouldn't make a profit. For the simple reason that so far, no prize in the largest accumulations has exceeded 40 million; all were significantly lower. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the jackpot would be the only one. Should another player also win, the prize would have to be divided.
Or maybe your own number system?
Players' creativity in inventing their own systems is truly extraordinary. 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 have been betting only on specific numbers for years, believing that 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. Instead of marking six numbers, as on a typical ticket, you can mark more. 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. In a 7-number system, there will also be seven single bets, but with 12 numbers, the number of bets will increase to 924. 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.