Unfortunately there are no great revelations here. We can’t tell you anything that will improve your chances of winning the lottery over anyone else, other than to buy more tickets.
What we can give you is tips on how to win big if you do win.
It goes without saying that the first thing you have to do to win it is be in it. So make sure you’ve bought your ticket or tickets.
The odds against winning the lottery are the same for everyone, but reduce with every extra ticket you buy. Let’s take the Lotto for instance. The odds against winning with one ticket are about 1 in 14 million. Buy two tickets and that immediately goes down to 1 in 7 million. Buy 20 tickets and the odds are 1 in 700,000. Not everyone can afford 20 tickets each week, but if you were to join a lottery syndicate of say 20 people, you could have those extra 19 tickets for only £1, albeit only a share of those tickets. Still, it’s worth considering especially as 1 in 4 jackpots in the UK are won by lottery syndicates.
To win the lottery, you first of all have to take part. You’d be surprised by the amount of people who daydream about winning the National Lottery but fail to buy a ticket. Without a lottery ticket, you obviously have no chance of winning the jackpot, but there are a number of other things you can do to improve your chances of taking home the biggest jackpots.
How to choose your lottery numbers
While some people choose their lottery numbers entirely at random, others like to make their selection based on something personal to them. Anything from their date of birth, ages of their family, house numbers they’ve lived at, to their favourite numbers. The thing to watch out for, when choosing your numbers based on things like birthdays or anniversaries, is that these numbers will tend to be low ones – 31 or under if a day of the month, 12 or under if a month of the year, and Lotto numbers go all the way up to 49.
What’s more, if you’re hoping to win a lottery jackpot you’re also going to be hoping that your prize is as big as possible. If you choose numbers based on dates, you’re more likely to have to share your jackpot with all the other people who selected their numbers along the same lines.
You should also remember that just because a certain choice of numbers looks as though it would be unlikely like a consecutive run, it’s no more unlikely than any other selection. It is entirely down to chance and statistically you’re just as likely to see this type of combination in the lottery results as any other.
How to boost your chances of winning a big Jackpot
One of the easiest ways to make sure you choose lottery numbers completely at random is to buy lucky dip tickets. This will maximise your potential jackpot and chances of winning. Chosen automatically, you can be confident that these lottery tickets are randomly generated.
Of course, to stand any chance of winning a lottery jackpot, you must first have a ticket. By having two tickets you immediately double your chances of winning. Four tickets will quadruple your chances of winning…and so on.
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