Of course, it may not be which numbers you choose, but where you choose them that makes the difference. Greystanes in NSW topped the list of Australia's top 20 lotto-winning suburbs for 2009, now being home to $9.4 million in new Lotto winnings. But that amount was shared between only two winners. If you're looking for the spot that struck it lucky the most often, you'd need to travel to Perth in WA or Campbelltown in NSW, with four winners each.
So you have to ask, are they winning more often because they're buying more tickets in these places?
"That's not necessarily true," Croucher says. "You could buy one and I could buy 50 and you could still win. Of course, it does increase your chances if you buy more tickets, but it doesn't guarantee a win. Basically, the luckiest suburbs are random, and it all comes back to that statistical variation."
Which means that hightailing it to Greystanes to buy your next ticket won't necessarily improve your chances of a big win.
Whether you use a dartboard, astrology, numerology, special dates, or whim to choose your numbers, play the same numbers religiously for years or change them each week depending on the weather conditions, there's only one way to improve your chances of winning: buy a ticket.
"If you don't buy a ticket, the chances of winning are easy to calculate," Croucher says, who admits to going the autopick option to choose his numbers. "That is, there's no chance of winning at all."
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