The most difficult part of the challenge of learning all the strategies to win pick 4 and to finally win is to get the accurate background required to play a lottery. You will find all the history of the lottery you are about to play on the Lottery web site of your state or country.

But the difficult part is figuring out what is important and what is not from this information that you are able to collect from these websites. The important piece of information found in these websites are to be stored as a collection of data that will later be very useful for you in winning your pick 4 lottery. So you should make a data list and thus taking some time out and do your research on it.

The first statistical question that you need to consider is when you pick the numbers that you are about to play, should you pick a number that just came out in the last drawing? Or should you leave all those numbers that came out the last time. Well the answer from the statistical point of view is of course you should pick those numbers that came out during the last draw. The chances that none of the previously drawn numbers will reappear are only 31% whereas the numbers that appeared last time may reappear at a much frequent rate. In 69% of cases at least one of the numbers that just came out will reappear. This is of course different in other lotteries!

there is a 43% chance that that one number from the previous draw is going to reappear, 20/5 chance that two of the numbers of the earlier draw is going to reappear, 4.5% chance that three numbers will reappear and a 0.5% chance that four numbers will repeat. Then you will think about how many chances do you have of a three number win.

Well your chances with that is not many unfortunately. You can expect to hit 3 correct numbers only once in every 56 picks.

From the history of the lottery you need to check how many even numbers and how many low numbers appear and reappear at each draw. You will be able to locate a pattern of this appearance and soon you will understand how to predict the winning numbers and combinations for the coming draws.

A question that comes next is how many drawings should be looked at when you are trying to find the right numbers to play with. The answer is half of the number field divided by the numbers in a set.

So what you learn from all these statistics is that in your selection at least one number should be from the last draws. You ought to play numbers with 2 to 4 even numbers and 2 to four high numbers. Eliminate from your selection those numbers that reappeared most frequently in the earlier draws.

Remembering these things are going to help you pick out the right selection of numbers in order to win pick 4. This is how you can use the history of the lottery to your own benefit. The past of the lottery you will be able to distinguish certain patterns which will make your selecting of numbers a lot easier to do. By eliminating the numbers that are less likely to recur you gradually come closer and closer to the winning numbers and winning combinations. With the help of such logic and statistics as well as mathematics soon you will be able to predict the winning numbers as fast as it can get.