Millions of people wait for the Mega Millions results every Tuesday and Friday, to see if they're the next big winner. For only $1, you can play Mega Millions in 12 different states and have a chance at winning millions and millions of dollars. If you're a single winner, you'll win a minimum of $12 million dollars. But most jackpots are much larger than that. In fact, the largest jackpot won to date was one by only 2 winners--one in George and one in New Jersey. Those 2 lucky people got their Mega Millions results and discovered that they had to split the prize of $390 million dollars!

That's a pipe dream for most people, even though several other large multi-million dollar jackpots have been won. But you do have about a 1 in 40 chance of winning a prize with the Mega Millions results, and those aren't bad odds for the $1 to pay to play. Of course your odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in over 175 million, but the odds of winning $150 from a single ticket are about 1 in 14,000, which is much better. The odds of winning $10,000 are about 1 in 650,000. Not bad for a $1 ticket.

While you may look at those odds and think that there's no point in playing, you have to remember that you could someday be that 1 who beats the odds. The official website supplies Mega Millions results as well as a random number generator you can use to pick your numbers to play. But many people use a system to choose their numbers, hoping for better odds of winning a prize.

Lottery systems that guess Mega Millions results and other lottery results have been around since lotteries have been around. But that they're still around does tell you something. If no one won with such systems, people would surely stop using them.

These systems are based on calculations, statistics and mathematical probabilities. They're not cheats or illegal in anyway. They simply use the law of averages and probability to give you the best odds possible of picking the correct Mega Millions results.

In a system that uses math to generate numbers for you, typically it takes the last several results and uses those to try to predict which numbers are more likely to come up next. There's no guarantee, of course, and no one will tell you there is. But it does increase your chances of picking winning numbers.

Using a system to help you come up with numbers is not going to make you an instant winner. In fact, the longer you use a system or a technique that's designed to look at past numbers to predict future numbers, the better it will work and the higher your odds of choosing the correct numbers will be.

No matter if you use a mathematical system or you choose your loved ones birthdates every time, waiting for the Mega Millions results can be fun and exciting.