Both our 'locked filters' came up plus the number set of 6 numbers for the 2nd ball in the draw (blue background) having all 5 numbers correct in just 97,512 lines (only 4.6% of all possible lottery combinations) for the EuroMillions draw ($68,000,000) of the 20th of June. We are using LotWin's lottery software in case you didn't know.

Then I probably went a bit too far trying to halve this to 45,241 lines (2.135% of all lotto lines) by also adding a number set for the 1st ball. More...

Often the quetion arises if it would be possible to find a set of lines that would have won in every draw.

With the help of our beloved lottery software LotWIn Lottery Line Builder it is easy. I have done this for you for the UK National Lottery and here is the list of the best lines available sorted in order of number of wins:

In red you can see the total number of times each line has won a prize. In total this set is 66 lines and it had 1 jackpot, 3 lines of 5, 129 lines of 4 and 2,142 lines of 3 correct. More...

In forex trading we say "the trend is your friend" and it has worked well up until now but I ain't gonna follow this for Friday's EuroMillions draw.

Using lottery software par excellence LotWin 2008 Lottery Line Builder (the version that you cannot have yet) I'm NOT selecting consecutive 1-1-1-1-1 and I'm locking the following filters:

and Sum of Digits 1-1-1-1-1: More...