Cross on the ticket: lottery balance
A diagonal cross drawn on the ticket. This is how the combination would have played out since 1955.
Your result after 72 years
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: +690.384 € (+17,350% over 4.989 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
The owl has something more for you, in both directions
About the combination "Cross on the ticket"
Anyone who draws a visual pattern on the lottery ticket, a cross, a diagonal, an L, belongs to the school of pattern pickers. The combo 4, 10, 18, 25, 32, 46 forms a diagonal cross on the classic 7-column ticket.
Mathematically that means nothing. The visual pattern is fixed by your pen; the drum knows nothing about it. The chance is the usual 1 in 13,983,816. Where it does matter: pattern combos are picked above average because humans love visual symmetry. In the rare event of a win, you'd split the jackpot with other pattern players, which thins the per-head payout. Visually a nice ticket, statistically a weaker payout than random numbers.
