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Timothy Falcon Crack, Professor Emeritus of Finance, University of Otago

Can picking personal Lotto lines change the odds of winning? We ran the numbers

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Many of us know devoted Lotto players who stick to a set of numbers, such as family birth dates, they hold to be personal and unique. But what if hundreds of other players are making exactly the same choices?

We analysed a Lotto New Zealand dataset spanning 400 million played numbers across 70 million lines – groups of six numbers chosen together or “six-tuples”, as we call them.

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