Lottery Glossary

The following definitions will help you understand some of the terms used in our lottery guide:

Best number analysis – The determination of the frequency of a particular number in the lottery draws.

Best number – The most frequently drawn number.

Bias – A tendency – sometimes artificially induced - for an event to happen more frequently than is statistically normal.

Box – A bet on a combination of numbers as a particular group.

Cluster analysis – The evaluation of numbers according to which ones are frequently drawn together.

Frequency analysis – An assessment of the likelihood of a number being drawn, based on the number of times it has previously been drawn.

Hot number – A number that has statistically been less frequently drawn and – some would argue – therefore more likely to be drawn in future.
Positional digit analysis – An assessment of which position each ball gets drawn in.

Skip / Hit chart – A diagram that illustrates the dates and frequency of when a particular ball is selected.

Regression analysis – A method of tracking and evaluating lottery biases.

Wheeling system – A method of betting more than six numbers without covering every single possibility.