Indiana Lucky 5 Lottery Tips
Indiana Lucky 5 5/36 has had over 7,000 drawings since the game began on November 5, 1993, making it a number handicapper's dream.
It is the best lotto bet you can make in Indiana. Each play costs $1 and consists of two boards.
You choose five numbers from 1 to 36. The odds of winning the first prize jackpot are one 376,992. The jackpot is $50,000.
Compare that to the jackpot odds of one in 12,271,512 of winning the
Hoosier Lotto 6/48;
or the jackpot odds of one in 195 million of
winning Powerball.
The Lucky 5 jackpot will not make you mega rich, but when you win it, you will be very, very happy.
Below are a few lottotips to help you play the game
smarter, but Gail Howard's book,
Lottery Master Guide, explains all of her
successful methods of
number selection in great detail with examples
of patterns shown throughout.
Advantage Plus software
makes all the charts for this game; and the Wheeling Software to use is
Wheel Five Plus.
GAIL HOWARD'S LOTTERY STRATEGIES
TO HELP YOU WIN
Indiana Lucky 5
Here are a few lottery tips on number selection from Gail Howard's lotto strategy book,
Lottery Master Guide, which have been customized
for this specific game: Indiana Lucky 5.
(Additional best tools for this game.)
Lottery numbers are randomly drawn. However, randomly drawn numbers form patterns
that can be tracked and used to our advantage. Having carefully analyzed all the
drawings in past
lotto results of more than 160 different Lotto games worldwide, with
histories going back as far as 1955, Gail Howard has verified the following incredibly
simple rule:
That which is MOST POSSIBLE happens MOST OFTEN.
That which is LEAST POSSIBLE happens LEAST OFTEN.
The key to Gail Howard's successful lotto number selection methods is playing
the probabilities. If you play a pattern that occurs only five
percent of the time, you can expect that pattern to lose 95
percent of the time, giving you no chance to win 95 percent of
the time. So, don't buck the probabilities.
How to WIN Indiana Lucky 5 Lotto
ODD-EVEN LOTTO NUMBER TIPS
When you select your Indiana Lucky 5 Lotto numbers, try to have a relatively even mix of odd and
even numbers. All
odd numbers or all
even numbers are rarely drawn, occurring less than
2 percent of the time. The best mix is to have 3/2 or 2/3 which means three odd and
two even, or two odd and three even. One of these two patterns will occur in
66 percent of the drawings.
HIGH-LOW LOTTO NUMBER TIPS
Winning numbers are usually spread across the entire
number field. If we take a
number field and cut it in half, we have the low half and the high half. In a
36-number game like Indiana Lucky 5, numbers 1 to 18 would be in the low half, and numbers 19 to 36
would be in the high half. All
high numbers or all
low numbers are rarely drawn, occurring
only 2 percent of the time. The best mix is to have 3/2 or 2/3 which means three
high and two low, or two high and three low. One of these two patterns will occur
in 66 percent of the drawings.
LOTTERY NUMBER GROUP STRATEGIES
Look at a list of past winning numbers for Indiana Lucky Five, and you'll see,
more often than not, that one or more of the
number groups is not represented. For
example, in the combination 5-8-14-17-32, there are no 20's. Tracking and studying
Number Groups can help you decide which group to omit and which group to give extra
heavy play.
LOTTERY GAMES SKIPPED STRATEGIES
List the number of
games skipped (games out) since the last hit (win) for each of
the
winning numbers during the last five games. Then mark the number of times each
skip occurred. If any skip from 0 to 5 did not occur, play the Lotto numbers that
are out that many games. (
Help working with lotto games skipped.)
LOTTO NUMBER SUM ADVICE - PLAY A BALANCED GAME
After you choose five numbers you want to play, add them together and make sure
that the
sum of the five numbers adds up to somewhere between 69 and 116. Sums that
fall within that range will account for over 70 percent of all
lottery jackpots won.
REPEAT HITS TIPS
In Lucky 5, on average, one lottery number will be a
repeat hit from the last drawing every
other drawing or 56 percent of the time.
HOT NUMBER LOTTERY SECRETS
Numbers that have been out (losers) for four games or less account for about half of
the
winning numbers.
Losing numbers
that have been out for seven games or less
account for about two-thirds of all the
winning numbers. Numbers out ten games or
less account for 81 percent of the
winning numbers. This tells us that hot numbers are
more likely to hit, but don't forget to include at least one
long shot in your
group of 5.
COLD NUMBER LOTTERY SECRETS
It is difficult to know when a
cold number will end a long losing streak. If you play a
number every drawing because you think it is
due, you could be chasing it
for many months. (Number 45 in New York Lotto sat out 100 drawings before it
finally hit.) Although, when a number has been out for 70 games or so, it might be
worth chasing.
Lottery Pools and Lottery Syndicates
POOL YOUR WAY TO LOTTO RICHES
Several of the
102 Lotto jackpots won with Gail Howard's lottery systems
were won by groups of people
who pooled their money. Sharing the ticket cost with others stretches your Lotto
budget. By playing with a group, you can afford to buy more lottery
tickets—and play larger wheeling systems—than you could (or should) by
yourself. Draw up an agreement and have the members of your pool sign it.
How to Get Lucky in Lotto
CASH IN ON THE LUCK OF OTHERS
When you form a Lotto pool, your group is also pooling its aggregate luck. A
jackpot could happen because of the luck just one member brings to your pool.
Select your partners carefully. Share your luck with winners, not losers. Avoid
negative people. Not only are they unlucky, but they dampen enthusiasm and drain
energy from others. You want to enhance your own luck, not dilute its strength. One
quick way to tell winners from losers is simply to ask them: "Do you think you
are a lucky person?" Many people quickly admit, "I'm unlucky. I never win
anything." They won't bring good luck to your group either.
CASH IN ON A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
No one should play games of chance out of desperation because they need the
winnings. The needy have a greater fear of losing the hard-earned money they gamble
with. It is just one of life's dirty tricks that the very fear of losing blocks the
winning forces. Thoughts are charged with energy, especially when triggered by
emotion. Fear attracts exactly that which one fears. A strong desire for a goal
that is charged with positive energy, attracts a positive response, especially when
every effort is made to attain that goal.
Lottery Wheels
USE BALANCED WHEELING® SYSTEMS
Balanced Wheeling® Systems allow you to bet a large group of numbers (more than 5), play scientific combinations of that group of numbers, and get a specific
minimum win guarantee.
Balanced Wheels
® force all the winning numbers that are in your group to come together to give you at least one prize if some or all of the
winning numbers are in your chosen group.
It's true that the more numbers you wheel, the easier it is to trap the winning
numbers in your chosen group. But to get the most leverage for your money, the optimum
number of numbers to wheel is not more than four or five numbers over HALF the numbers
in your game. For Indiana Lucky 5, choose 28 or less numbers to wheel.
Otherwise, you'll be spending MORE money chasing a SMALLER guaranteed prize.
You benefit more by wheeling a carefully selected group of lotto numbers.
THE BEST WAY TO WHEEL ALL THE LOTTO NUMBERS IN YOUR GAME
Any one wheeling
system that covers ALL the numbers in the game is too spread out, making the win
guarantee not worth the wager. There are smart ways to wheel all the numbers in
the game by using Trap-by-Overlap and other wheeling strategies covered on pages
137 to 142 in Gail Howard's lotto book,
Lottery Master Guide.
Most of Gail Howard's lottery winners used a Balanced Wheel in addition to her Smart Luck
® number selection methods.
You can use a
FREE interactive Balanced Wheeling System that won multiple jackpots.
Read about Gail Howard's
lottery winners, too.
And when you win a jackpot with Gail Howard's lotto systems, tell us about it so you can be added to Gail Howard's growing list of winners.
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Save Money by Knowing Lotto Numbers to Avoid
Lotto players who select their lottery numbers thoughtlessly or foolishly are destined to lose even before the drawing takes place.
By knowing which
number combinations and patterns to avoid, you'll have an advantage over such players—and save money, too.
AVOID NUMBER COMBINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN BEFORE
Many players like to bet the numbers that have won someone else a big jackpot, and
by doing so, they are almost guaranteed NOT to win one themselves. In Lucky 5
with seven drawings a week, a set of five numbers has a chance of being drawn once
every 1,035 years. This should also answer the question Gail Howard is so often asked,
"Shouldn't I keep playing the same set of numbers every week because they are due
to hit sometime?"
AVOID BETTING FIVE CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS
Even four
consecutive numbers is a very rare occurrence that, in most Lotto games,
has never happened once.
AVOID BETTING ONE LOTTO NUMBER GROUP
Never choose all five numbers from one number group, such as all single digits, or
all teens, or all 20's, etc. All five winning numbers drawn from one group is
highly unlikely.
AVOID THE COMBINATION 1-2-3-4-5
The most popular set of numbers most often played is: 1-2-3-4-5. Thousands of
tickets are bought with this combination every drawing. The selection
is too far out of balance to come up in a random drawing.
AVOID PATTERN BETTING
Pattern betting is an even more popular method of marking bet slips. Patterns of
numbers marked in a row to make a straight line, either across the bet slip
vertically or diagonally get heavy play—which means sharing the prize with
others if the numbers are drawn as winners. Other designs such as patterns of
initials or numbers or crosses also get heavy play.
AVOID NUMBER MULTIPLES
Other popular combinations that get heavy play are the number multiples, especially
5-10-15-20-25 and 7-14-21-28-35.
AVOID ALL SAME LAST DIGITS
Many people like to play same last digits, such as 3-13-23-33, or all digits that
end in seven, or some other favorite lucky lottery number. Even four same last digits occur
in less than two-tenths of one percent of all drawings. Winning sets of numbers
with no more than one repeated last digit represent nearly 90 percent of all
drawings.
AVOID ALL SAME LAST DIGITS
The majority of Lotto players like to play the calendar numbers, such as birth
dates and anniversaries—and their children's ages. This means that the most
heavily played numbers are 1 through 31. Lucky 5 has 36 numbers. If you play
only the calendar numbers, you might be sharing your jackpot with dozens of other
winners. It's not to say that you shouldn't play your personal numbers if you feel these lucky numbers are good to play. But Gail Howard recommends that you include a couple of high
numbers so that just in case your numbers do hit, you win a prize that's worth
something.
NIX LOTTO QUICK PICKS
Quick Picks are used by lazy people who want to be in the action without putting
any effort into winning. When you read articles about jackpot winners, it appears
as though they all used either Quick Picks, birth dates, or their children's ages.
The vast majority of people do play that way. If the majority of tickets sold are
Quick Picks, then it makes sense that the majority of jackpots won should be won
with Quick Picks. However, when you see the actual statistics, as Gail Howard did, you'll find that you have
a better chance of winning by picking numbers randomly out of a hat than by using
Quick Picks.
In Lotto, the Trend is Your Friend
The shortest, easiest way to search for Lotto
numbers that have
the greatest probability of winning is to track the trends. Gail Howard's Smart Luck strategies show you how to understand and use historical data.
Advantage Plus is the
best lotto strategy software which has a vast assortment of charts and reports
that allow you to examine your lotto numbers in an infinite variety of ways.
Advantage Plus teaches you to understand and use historical data.
See all Smart Luck
lottery software and
lotto books
or the full
lottery product guide and list of
best Indiana lottery software and books
to use for Indiana Lucky 5.
Good Luck with Gail Howard's Smart Luck®.
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