Lottodog
Digging out the Best Numbers
Better lottery numbers for UK, USA and European Lotteries by Lotto dog
We are selling information, nothing more. When you buy information from us you are not entering any lottery.
We generate our numbers using robust statistical methods. It is always possible that one or more other people will pick the same number as the one we supply, causing a prize to be shared between you and other winners.
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Bigger prizes with statistically proven numbers for all lotto games - Lottodog
Lottodog uses cutting edge statistical techniques to choose lottery numbers - it is the smart way to play the lottery.
Bigger prizes with Lottodog numbers
People are not very good at choosing lottery numbers. They pick their numbers in similar ways so they end up with the same numbers over and over again.
They share their prizes with more people than they should and more often than they should.
So how do you find those numbers that other people don't pick?
By using a Lottodog number! We have carefully analysed the results of all lottery draws to date and found which numbers are popular and which are unpopular. Use one of our unpopular numbers and make it less likely you have to share your prize.
We only sell a number once. When you buy a number it is removed from the Lottodog database and will not be sold to anyone else.
We aim to cover every major lottery in the world. We are adding new lotteries all the time. These are the first ones we have analysed, but check our Full Product List for up-to-date coverage.
- Irish National Lottery: Lotto
- Euromillions
- UK National Lottery: Lotto
- French Francaise des Jeux: Loto
- German national lottery: Lotto 6 aus 49
- Belgian national lottery: Lotto
- Spanish lottery: la primitiva
- Portuguese Jogos Santa Casa: totoloto
- Brazilian: mega sena
- Singapore pools lottery: Toto
- Hong Kong JC Mark Six
- Florida lottery
- California lottery: Super Lotto Plus
- Megamillions
Please contact us if you have a lottery you would like us to cover.
The numbers people choose
It is well known that people often choose numbers up to 31 because they like picking significant dates like birthdays. People also like seven, thirteen and other numbers that may "look" random to them. Making patterns on the lottery card is another favourite.
This can lead to some extreme events. On Saturday, 14th January 1995, 133 people shared the jackpot of the UK national lottery. That day the winners each won £122,510 instead of the £16 million they were probably expecting. A few months later an astonishing 20,264 people picked 5 in the Belgian lottery winning a prize in Belgian Francs worth less than 13 euros when a usual prize was worth about 700 euros.
Every week people are picking the same numbers, so a typical number is picked many more times than it should be by sheer chance, and many other numbers are not chosen at all. This means smaller prizes when the popular numbers come up.
Lottodog numbers
We use econometric methods to discover what players of the lottery tend to do. This is not simply choosing the individual numbers by their popularity. For example, a number of people compute the least popular individual numbers, say 48, 41, 24, 39, 46 and 45. If you just use these numbers you risk sharing a prize with a lot other people who have been clever, but not quite clever enough. We look at all the characteristics of the number combinations and the way they relate to each other.
Digging out the data
We start by collecting all the data we can on the number winners in every lottery draw and at all prize levels. We combine information about the prizes with numbers drawn on that day. Digging out the data is not an easy or pleasant task. Even some of the official lottery websites contain errors in their data.
Sniffing out the best numbers
Next we look for the relationships between the numbers drawn and the number of people who got them right. We use sophisticated statistical methods to tell us how often people pick all odd numbers, diagonals on the lottery slip or Fibonacci numbers etc., over one hundred distinct characteristics of the number.
We can then predict the popularity of every possible number combination. Finally we rank the combinations in terms of their popularity and pick those we project to be the least popular. These are the best numbers and the numbers we sell on this site.
Lottodog numbers win bigger prizes.
How good are Lottodog numbers? We use the expected value of winnings to express how good or bad a particular number combination is. If a random number has an expected value of 1, then a typical number chosen by a human being would have an expected value of about 0.75 while a Lottodog number would have an expected value of about 2. The actual expected values depend on the lottery.
For a single lottery draw in any of the lotteries we cover we expect the value of your prize with a Lottodog number to be twice what you would have won had you used a random number and nearly three times what you would have won had you picked your own numbers. For some lotteries our expected value is even higher.
And remember you can use your Lottodog number over and over again.
Lotto Dog - providing lottery numbers which are statistically better for all lotteries
The numbers people choose
It is well known that people often choose numbers up to 31 because they like picking significant dates like birthdays. People also like seven, thirteen and other numbers that may "look" random to them. Making patterns on the lottery card is another favourite.
This can lead to some extreme events. On Saturday, 14th January 1995, 133 people shared the jackpot of the UK national lottery. That day the winners each won 122,510 pounds instead of the 16 million pounds they were probably expecting. A few months later an astonishing 20,264 people picked 5 in the Belgian lottery winning a prize in Belgian Francs worth less than 13 euros when a usual prize was worth about 700 euros.
Every week people are picking the same numbers, so a typical number is picked many more times than it should be by sheer chance, and many other numbers are not chosen at all. This means smaller prizes when the popular numbers come up.
Lottodog numbers
We use econometric methods to discover what players of the lottery tend to do. This is not simply choosing the individual numbers by their popularity. For example, a number of people compute the least popular individual numbers, say 38, 37, 41, 20, 14, and 34. If you just use these numbers you risk sharing a prize with a lot other people who have been clever, but not quite clever enough. We look at all the characteristics of the number combinations and the way they relate to each other.
Digging out the data
We start by collecting all the data we can on the number of winners in every lottery draw and at all prize levels. We combine information about the prizes with numbers drawn on that day. Digging out the data is not an easy or pleasant task. Even some of the official lottery websites contain errors in their data.
Sniffing out the best numbers
Next we look for the relationships between the numbers drawn and the number of people who got them right. We use sophisticated statistical methods to tell us how often people pick all odd numbers, diagonals on the lottery slip or Fibonacci numbers etc., over one hundred distinct characteristics of the number.
We can then predict the popularity of every possible number combination. Finally we rank the combinations in terms of their popularity and pick those we project to be the least popular. These are the best numbers and the numbers we sell on this site.
Lottodog numbers win bigger prizes.
How good are Lottodog numbers? We use the expected value of winnings to express how good or bad a particular number combination is. If a random number has an expected value of 1, then a typical number chosen by a human being would have an expected value of about 0.90 while a Lottodog number would have an expected value of about 1.50. The actual expected values depend on the lottery.
And remember you can use your Lottodog number over and over again.
The economics behind lottodog
Behavioural economics can be used to explain why people choose similar numbers, even when these numbers have a lower expected payout. Behavioural economics is the study of the way people behave, especially in doing things that don't necessarily make economic sense.
Econometrics is the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial problems.
Expected value is a term used by economists and financial experts. It is the weighted total of all possible outcomes, with that outcome outcome weighted by the probability of each occurring.
Lotteries are often described as 6/49. This means choose 6 numbers out of 49. The many European lotteries are 6/49 and lotteries of this size have nearly 14 million possible combinations. The Florida lottery is a 6/53 lottery which has almost 23 million combinations. Newer lotteries like euromillions and the US multi-state lotteries Powerball and Megamillions are even larger at 76 million, 146 million and 176 million respectively. We are continually researching new lotteries, but so far we have estimated the popularity of over half a billion number combinations.
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We are selling information, nothing more. When you buy information from us you are not entering any lottery.
We generate our numbers using robust statistical methods. It is always possible that one or more other people will pick the same number as the one we supply, causing a prize to be shared between you and other winners.