I am not Cedar, but your question are not of such value, that it can be answered by Tarot.
ON the other hand it can be answered with great security with mathematics.
Let us assume you will play Lotto.....in order to win the Jackpot we must pick 7 number between 1 and 36
Here you shall have the result, And I hope you loose your sudden interest in "Gambling" (You always hear someone win, but you never hear about those 99,99% that never win the big number in Lotto...or any other lottery, after all, every payout, together with the surplus to the company, comes from people who play this game))
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So, to figure out your odds of winning, multiply together all of the fractional odds of picking a given number correctly, as stated by the red fractions above.
1/36 × 1/35 × 1/34 × 1/33 × 1/32 × 1/31 × 1/30 = 1/42072307200
So, at this point, your odds of winning are 1 in 42072307200. But, since you can choose your winning numbers in any order, your chances of winning are somewhat better than this. Your chance betters by the number of different ways that a sequence of 7 numbers can be written down, which for 7 numbers is 7! (7 factorial) or 5040. Divide 42072307200 by 5040 to account for this, to get 8347680
In other words, there are 5040 different ways that the 7 numbers you choose can be filled out on your lottery ticket--if you choose your 7 numbers correctly, any of these ways will make a winning ticket.
That's it! You have a
1 in 8,347,680
chance of winning the lottery you described.
(How do I pronounce this number?)
Here are some other odds for the sake of comparison:
You have about a 1 in 2,000,000 chance of being struck by lightning.
A pregnant woman has a 1 in 705,000 chance of giving birth to quadruplets.
Someone eating an oyster has a 1 in 12,000 chance of finding a pearl inside of it.
Good luck! And sorry to say that the only way to increase your chances of winning is to buy more tickets! Choosing birthdays, your age, addresses, years, phone numbers, etc. does not help at all!
__________The calculation is taken from;
http://www.webmath.com/lottery.html
Where you can put in your own numbers and calculate the lottery you want to attend.____