Chosen number selections can enhance the way you currently play the lottery. In fact, they have the potential to transform how lotteries are played altogether.
Lottery Quick Picks Are Random
When you ask for a quick pick at a lottery kiosk, the ticket machine generates a completely random number sequence. That randomness may sound fair, but here's the catch: the very next person who buys a ticket at the same kiosk could receive the exact same numbers you just got.
It may sound unlikely, but it's not far-fetched at all. This is similar to the well-known “birthday paradox”, which asks: how many people do you need in a room before two of them share the same birthday? The answer is surprisingly small - just 23 people. Likewise, at lottery kiosks, it doesn't take as many tickets as you might think before duplicates start appearing.
In our No Duplicate Lottery Numbers article, we applied the birthday paradox math to lotteries. Depending on the lottery's odds, duplicate tickets can appear after as few as 2,308 tickets (for Bank-A-Million) or as many as 20,127 tickets (for Powerball).
Do you think your local lottery kiosk sells that many tickets each draw? Depending on location - and especially the jackpot size - the answer is often yes. That means duplicates are not just possible, they're happening regularly, sometimes even within the same kiosk.
Duplicates Everywhere
Across hundreds of kiosks, each generating random quick picks, the duplication problem grows exponentially. Even if one kiosk doesn't sell enough tickets to create duplicates, the combined sales across all kiosks guarantee they exist.
And it's not just quick picks. Players choosing “favorite numbers” also create duplicates - sometimes with thousands of others who picked the same dates, patterns, or lucky numbers. The result? Thousands upon thousands of duplicate tickets every draw.
Who Benefits From Duplicates?
For lotteries, duplicates are no problem at all - they sell the tickets regardless. Whether the winning numbers are duplicated once or a hundred times, lotteries make the same profit. That's why they have no incentive to prevent duplicates by assigning unique numbers. It would be far too complicated and, frankly, doesn't benefit them.
For players, however, duplicates are bad news. Every duplicate ticket represents one less unique combination in play, reducing the overall chances of someone hitting the jackpot. The more unique plays there are, the better the odds that someone wins.
A Better Way - Chosen Numbers
Instead of relying on random quick picks, visit ChosenNumbers.com. Simply select your lottery, and our method provides the next unique sequence from our pool. If the person behind you does the same, they are guaranteed a completely different set of numbers.
If just 2,308 people (in the case of Bank-A-Million) use ChosenNumbers, duplicates would be eliminated entirely. The more players who use our unique selections from our pools, the more unique plays exist - and the better the odds of producing a jackpot winner. It's that simple.
Lotteries may never change their quick pick system, but we can enhance the game ourselves. By systematically selecting unique numbers, ChosenNumbers.com improves your chances without changing the rules. It's designed for the benefit of players - and it could change the way lotteries are played.