From: "Fat Freddy's Cat" 
Newsgroups: uk.legal uk.finance
Subject: Re: Lottery syndicate - is this guy breaking any laws?
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:20:54 GMT


"Ronald Raygun"  wrote in message 
news:1vPwh.5165$9S5.2501@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> nobody wrote:
>
>> The site below claims to have a system to increase your chances of
>> winning the National Lottery.  I could be missing something, but as far
>> as I can see his system is the totally obvious - buy more tickets to
>> increase your change of winning.  However he attempts to hide this with
>> his system where you only need to match 5 balls instead of 6
>>
>> I think that the site is misleading and I think his maths is wrong,
>
> Can you put your finger on what exactly is wrong with his maths?
>

Plenty,

but lets not put maths in the way of gullibility.

There are folks in here who genuinely belive that by buying two tickets they 
have doubled their chances of winning.
What they dont realise is that they'd have to multiply their chances of 
winning by approx 14 million to be guaranteed a jackpot, all they have 
'doubled' is their chance of winning from 1 in 14 million to 2 in 14 
million.

i.e. two tickets does not halve the odds from 14 to 7 million, but from 14 
million to 13,999,999...

but like I said, the public are easily mislead on simple mathematics - 
political statisticians have been doing it for ages.

g.