Statistics demonstrate to us all a lot of things that can be both beneficial and unusable for a lot of reasons. There's countless good cases of attention-grabbing truths and statistical analysis which never appear to be particularly applicable to individual's everyday lifestyles. Do you fully understand, as an example, that in '85 the standard National Aeronautics and Space Administration numerical probability for a crash to happen to a NASA space shuttle was 100,000 to 1. Following the space shuttle Challenger devastation it was changed to one-hundred to one!

So picture the amazement of people looking on the time when Danny Leake, an amateur golfer, accomplished an unbelievable 'hole in one' in the same golf hole 2 days in a row while playing at a golfing event in The Lone Star State. This is something that is so extremely uncommon that the chances of it taking place have never been estimated. Pity such a serendipitous guy did not play the lotto that day instead!

What would you think of a guy who earned a regular working man's wage but spent most of it on lottery tickets? Well there is a New York man who does just that.Ray Otero foolishly believes that buy ploughing his money into lottery tickets he is increasing his chances of winning a jackpot prize with each purchase (by sheer number of tickets).

Of course what Mr. Otero fails to realise is that statistically you have no better chance of winning the jackpot with 500 tickets than you do with 1 when the numbers on the tickets are chosen randomly!

Statistics can tell us some depressing things. For example, if someone purchases a UK lottery ticket on a Monday, for a weekend draw, they are more likely to be dead when the draw takes place than they are of winning the jackpot prize!

You see unfortunately the odds of winning the jackpot ion such a draw are fourteen million to one while the odds of being dead are much lower. In fact you even have a better chance of becoming a saint because the odds are only killed by lightning are roughly 2650000 to 1!These low odds apply to every ticket you buy. Therefore ray Otero's approach does not increase his odds of winning a top prize!

Take heart though because you can do certain things that dramatically increase the odds of you winning a huge lottery prize and they don't require you to spend a fortune doing it! Lottery wheeling, for example, is a great way to increase your chances of winning a top prize on the lottery.

When you wheel and extra number in your pick of 6, so that you pick 7 numbers instead and then "wheel" so that all numbers end up on a ticket together two things happen. Wheeling systems require you to invest more money in the lottery, because you must buy more tickets, but by doing so, and by doing it in a mathematically precise manner, you increase your chances of winning the lottery jackpot.

When you wheel 7 numbers instead of 6 you go from a 14 million to 1 chance of winning the lottery to half a million to 1 - just by adding an extra number and the price of the tickets only adds up to £28!

So, if Mr. Otero had only played a 6 from 49, or similar type of lottery, and wheeled his numbers he may well be a very wealthy man by now.