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Putting Derren Brown’s ‘magic’ into practice

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

You may recall Derren Brown’s infamous ‘Lottery trick’ back in September last year. Followed by 2.7 million TV viewers, the illusionist explained how he could predict the numbers drawn in the upcoming EuroMillions lottery – a trick that certainly amazed the whole country and got people thinking.

Derren said that he had used a method dating back several centuries, a method primarily used at cattle shows to guess the weight of an animal.

Derren Brown’s explanation

The theory goes something like this: A group of people each guess the weight of an animal, the average of all the guesses are then likely to be correct. For example, some might guess a Black Angus cow weighs 1,200 pounds, others 1,400 pounds. As such, the likely weight should probably be in the area of 1,300 pounds.

Derren Brown claims to have used the exact same method to forecast the winning combination. He had a group of 24 people, each guessing the first, second, third, fourth and fifth main numbers in EuroMillions. He then took the average of each of the main numbers suggested.

You can believe in this method or not, but it is one way of choosing the lucky numbers to play. One might argue that this method is as good as another, but at least this is more fun than re-using the trivial birthday numbers!

Putting Derren’s strategy into practice

With Gluto.com, this theroy can somewhat be replicated, but on a much larger scale. In our Beta Syndicate, each member suggests their own set of numbers to be played in the following draw, and the average of all suggestions will then be the final combination that the syndicate participates with. No illusions necessary!

For all those not signed up to a Gluto.com syndicate, follow this link to get your week for free!

15 million euro up for grabs tomorrow night!

Happy Winnings!

Another lottery syndicate wins again

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

As if we at Gluto.com needed to convince people again and again of the benefits of playing the EuroMillions Lottery as part of a syndicate. Last Friday night, the huge 100 million euro jackpot was won by a ’syndicate’ from the south of France! These clever people figured out that by playing the lottery as part of a syndicate, each member increases its chances of winning.

According to lottery sources, an estimated 25% of all jackpots are won by syndicates. With Gluto.com you increase your chance of winning by 3,600% and win up to 6 times more cash than you would by playing on your own. There is no magic to it – our syndicate members combine their efforts and as a result, every single member benefits.

Make sure the next time you play the EuroMillions, you do so as part of a Gluto.com syndicate!

Happy Winnings!

 

 

Leading edge design for a leading edge website

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Many of our members and readers have enquired about the design and designer of the Gluto.com brand identity, especially the logo. We worked with a leading European designer, Stephane Meheux, who created the design after spending time playing as a syndicate member and learning about the Gluto.com values and objectives. He mentions that he wanted to portray the fun and excitement of the EuroMillions lottery, while also highlighting the professional manner in which the site is operated. We are incredibly pleased with the outcome and highly recommend Stephane.

You can see some more of his work at http://www.stephanemeheux.com/

Viva the Gluto.com revolution!

 

Keep on rolling, all the way to €60 million

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

You have to love the EuroMillions. While our previous blog entry discussed whether it is the most difficult lottery in the world to win, another roll-over this week illustrates how difficult it really is to win the jackpot. However, every cloud has a silver lining, or in this case, a gold lining. Next Friday’s EuroMillions draw has an estimated jackpot of 60 million euro!

It might be an idea to increase your amount of syndicate shares this week!

The New Revolution: Gluto.com

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

As we put the final touches to the revamped and redesigned Gluto.com, our heads continue to shake in disbelief about the lackluster, mundane and untrustworthy lottery service websites that exist today.

Time for change

For research purposes, we signed up to a number of the more well known lottery services, which offer EuroMillions syndicates, in order to benchmark our own service and see what customers were experiencing. My own personal experience can only be described as that of cattle and herd – in other words, I was treated as a number and bombarded with generic information, none of which was relevant to me. It wasn’t fun or interactive at all, and thus it comes as no surprise that I didn’t win even 1 euro.

These websites seem to have been developed in order to make a quick ‘buck’ and leave the customer hanging. Email responses to queries never came, while updates of how my syndicates were performing were confusing. Lets be honest, the service that they intend to offer, similar to Gluto.com, is appealing and in demand from today’s lottery players – however, they aren’t practicing what they preach. Unfortunately, whereas Gluto.com intends to revitalize the sector, the sad truth is that they (the cowboys) are the mass, thus customers continue to be disappointed and the reputation of online lottery services has been tarnished.

This blog entry isn’t meant to become a bashing exercise against these ‘cowboy’ run websites. Rather, it is a chance for Gluto.com to express where we feel changes are necessary, and what we have focused on to ensure that fun, quality and superior customer service is restored to the lottery service market.

1.  Customer Service

Yep, that ambiguous term that is flashed around more than customers care to hear. Yet, this is incredibly important. Gluto.com is built around being able to deliver a personalized lottery experience, where we respond to enquiries within 24 hours, provide concise and relevant information, all of which is made available on an easy to use and interactive website. Ironic as it may be, but we have to thank all those poor quality competitors with disgraceful customer service, as they have demonstrated to us how a lottery service shouldn’t be!

2.  Quality

From the design of the website to the corporate identity, the software and security implemented, to the team that has been built to ensure a superior service offering, quality is found at every level at Gluto.com. International designers were brought in at an early stage to help create the site, in order to reflect the Gluto.com brand values.  Leading technology specialist Magic Mo has developed a system ensuring usability and interactivity. The list goes on. In other words, not only is the evidence visual when comparing Gluto.com to the others, but the quality of the service runs far deeper. The second rate, redundant and broken down alternatives should take a leaf from our book.

3.  Fun

Fun and excitement is the best way to describe the EuroMillions lottery. Jackpots reaching well over 15 million Euro provides us all with potential to win life changing prizes every week. Gluto.com mirrors the EuroMillions in that the site brings back the fun and excitement to online lottery services.  With the likes of the Lotto Insights helping you get nearer to that huge jackpot, while by having your friends join gives you the chance to win even more cash prizes, Gluto.com will not only guarantee customer satisfaction, but will keep you on the edge of your seat each week. That’s what an online lottery service should do.

A breath of freash air is what Gluto.com offers today’s lottery players and how the cowboys from the past will be put to rest.

Cracking the lottery code

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Millions of heads dropped in disappointment last week after not winning the dumbfounding EuroMillions lottery jackpot of €125 million. With unemployment soaring and households looking for extra income, many have turned to the likes of weekly lotteries in an attempt to turn around their misfortune. But how many of these people really thought about the numbers they selected? How do you choose the correct lottery combination? Had these people strategically selected numbers, based on statistical analysis, how many would have turned around their misfortune?

A calculated guess?

Part of the fun and excitement of the lottery is being the underdog. As many already know before even buying the EuroMillions ticket, the odds are heavily stacked against you (1 in over 76 million). However, if lotteries are games of numbers and combinations, then surely statistics can give us all a better chance of guessing correctly the upcoming number combination. Furthermore, the theory of probability states that all numbers in a lottery will be drawn on an equal number of times over an infinite period of time. Albeit a long time to wait, it does give us more insight into how to crack the code.

Tools at your disposal

In order to find this information aggregated and in a user-friendly format, players choose Gluto.com, as it is designed to do precisely this. Gluto.com has developed a number of tools called ‘Lotto Insights’ that provide lottery players with the ability to look at what numbers are hot and cold, which numbers are most frequently drawn together, while also determining the level of luck for each upcoming draw. Graphs and benchmarks enable the user to see for themselves which numbers are more ‘lucky’. This is possible, as Gluto.com has analysed all the numbers and combinations drawn since the EuroMillions began, back in 2004.

The Lotto Insights are part of the overall service, which is designed to help its members win more often, as opposed to waiting for infinity to come around.  So much so that members play as part of a syndicate, which in itself increases their chance of winning. Therefore, in Gluto.com’s eyes, a collective effort is the key to cracking the code, which lotto authorities tend to agree with, claiming that syndicates win 1 in 4 lottery jackpots.

The way forward

It has to be said that while these tools present great opportunity to improve players chances of cracking the code, the excitement and adrenaline that come with pure luck, or winning being ‘written in the stars’, is enough to keep many going back for more, week after week. However, should the current state of the economy continue to wreak havoc on people’s livelihood, out will go the romantic idea of looking to the stars, and more time may be spent using tools like these.