How to do better in lottery game By Jeff Claassen Star-Telegram Staff Writer Academics who have studied lotteries don't win the game more often than anyone else. Instead, play as many different numbers as possible. The lottery is not a raffle, with a steadily smaller selection of possible numbers with each drawing. Instead, it's a random selection.
Birthdays are a bad choice.
Winning lottery numbers are randomly generated, and it's best to choose as wide a range of numbers as possible. For example, in Lotto Texas, players should choose all through the range of possible numbers, from one through 50. Birth dates, however, go no higher than 31. Random number generators, the small gadgets that spit out possible number selections, do no better than quick-pick systems in which state lottery computers randomly choose numbers. None of the most personal methods of choosing numbers, including birthdays and portents from dreams, will work better than another.