Pick winning lotto numbers

It's a lot of fun to buy a lottery ticket on your wedding anniversary, and pick numbers based on the day, month, and year of your wedding date. It's a romantic gesture, too. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much to increase your odds of winning. Here are a few ideas on how you can pick winning lotto numbers.

The lotto is, by its very nature, random. The smiling lady who picks the ping-pong balls with numbers on them out of that air-driven machine doesn't have extra numbers up her sleeve, and despite what sore losers may think, the fix is not in over at the lottery board. But there are a few techniques you can use to pick winning lotto numbers effectively, and give yourself a more-than-even chance of hitting the right combination.

What it comes down to is something much greater than the lotto, than you or me, or the multi-million dollar prize. It has to do with universal principles of order and chaos, that are not yet fully understood, and perhaps never will be.

Down through the millennia, people have always observed how random events sometimes tend not to be so random. "Bad things happen in three's," my mother always said. "I'm on a winning streak!" is often heard at the dice tables in Vegas. Ever get some unexpected money, just when you need it most? There are strange forces at work. You can't make it happen, but you can understand it a little better, and use this knowledge to pick winning lotto numbers.

Chaos is complete randomness. But have you ever heard the term, "order out of chaos?" It happens. Something scientists and statisticians call "chaos theory" attempts to bring some order out of chaos and observe the random nature of the universe in an attempt to find order. Here's the skinny on how to use chaos theory to pick winning lotto numbers:

The first thing to do is get a printout of all winning lotto combinations for the previous year to date. You may be able to find this on your state lottery commission's web site. Get those numbers into a spreadsheet on your computer, and get ready to do a little math. To pick winning lotto numbers, make a grid to show how many times each number shows up in the winning string. Find the single number that shows up the most. And trust me, there will be one or two numbers that appear much more frequently than the others. It doesn't make sense--the law of averages says that each number should appear with the same frequency--but nonetheless, this is what happens, and for some strange reason, it defies the odds. Let's say, for the sake of example, that the number 12 shows up most frequently.

Now you're getting close to being able to pick winning lotto numbers. Take that number, and that will be your first pick. Now you need to get the other numbers to go with it. Part of chaos theory holds that certain elements, such as numbers, will gravitate to other certain numbers. Why? Don't know. But it happens. Now, take your spreadsheet of the year's winning lotto number strings, and eliminate all instances where the number 12 does not occur, and recalculate your spreadsheet to determine the other five numbers that show up most frequently. These other five numbers are attractors to the first number. Now you have your pick, based on chaos theory. Play this string of numbers consistently to increase your odds.