Merkel's birthday: lottery balance
17.07.1954. numbers taken from the birthdate. 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
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About the combination "Merkel's birthday"
Using birthdays as lottery picks is one of the most common, and worst, strategies. Angela Merkel was born on 17 July 1954. From that come the numbers 17, 7, 19 (from 1954), plus two fillers like 24 and 38, plus 49 for an upper anchor.
The result across 70 years of data shows the usual: no math magic, an average lottery outcome. What makes this combo specific is the distribution. Birthday picks are massively popular because everyone uses their own dates, which makes numbers 1 to 31 overrepresented in tickets. If you also include 38 and 49 (like this combo), in the rare event of a win you'd take home a bit more, because fewer others would pick exactly this mix. A nice tribute to a person; not great lottery advice.
