Birthday numbers: lottery balance
The most common picking strategy of all. Six numbers between 1 and 31, just like the dates on any calendar. This is how the combination would have played out since 1955.
Your result after 72 years
Mathematical average across all prize tiers and draws in the selected period. Playing the same numbers hundreds of times, this is roughly what you'd get back on average. Your actual result depends on whether the right numbers were drawn.
Breakdown of your matches
What if you had invested in an ETF instead…
The same weekly amount, invested monthly into an S&P 500 ETF, would be worth today:
Gain: +654.006 € (+17,350% over 4.997 draws)
We use the S&P 500 with dividend reinvestment. The MSCI World is very comparable in the long run.
A look back and a look ahead
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About the combination "Birthday numbers"
Birthdays are the most emotional way to play the lottery. A child's birthday, your own wedding anniversary, the date of a special moment. That makes the numbers meaningful, but unfortunately also predictable. Millions of people pick according to exactly this pattern, and all of them stay within the range of 1 to 31, because no month has more than 31 days.
The result: the high numbers from 32 to 49 are systematically neglected, the low ones heavily over-played. If a pure birthday combination were drawn, the prize would have to be shared with an above-average number of people. The probability of winning is exactly the same as for any other combination. Birthdays don't win less often, but if they hit, you share with more people.
