Lottery wheeling is a method of arranging lottery ticket numbers in a way that will allegedly improve chances to win multiple-tier lottery prizes. Wheeling was designed for players who wish to play with a bigger amount of numbers than the set required for a lottery ticket. Using mathematical formulae based on Combinatorics it generates tables that would give either full or partial coverage of all possible combinations of numbers a player selects for a lottery draw.
Broadly speaking, probability to hit a jackpot of a popular lottery is quite low. Most popular US lotteries have odds ranging from 1:176 million in Mega Millions to 1:11 million in Michigan lottery to mention a few.
The objective of a wheeling system is to upgrade player’s chances to win lottery prizes. Although it is important to note that wheeling does not give better chances than the same number of entries selected via any other method.
Wheeling systems do not intend to win the main jackpot of a lottery. They largely target at winning smaller lottery prizes. If some of the numbers a player wheels are present among lottery’s winning numbers he will receive some of the lottery’s second-tier prizes.
Full and Abbreviated Wheels are perhaps the most popular among different types of lottery wheels .