Playing the National Lottery is relatively straightforward, but here are some tips to help you make entering the lottery fun and stress free.
1 – Reduce The Odds Against Winning
The odds against winning the Lotto jackpot are around 14 million to 1, with EuroMillions its 116 million to 1. You can reduce those odds by getting as many tickets for each draw as possible. The only way to do that without it costing you a fortune is to sign up with FreeNationalLotteryTickets and get as many free tickets as you can.
2 – Have A Plan
If you don’t plan ahead you may forget to buy a lottery ticket. Long queues and faulty terminals could both cause you to miss a draw if you were to leave buying a ticket until the last moment. Get buying your lottery ticket early into your normal routine to avoid disappointment. Alternatively, buy your tickets online. You can arrange to buy Lotto tickets continually online without ever having to doing anything again once it’s been set up. When playing EuroMillions online you can buy tickets for up to 4 weeks at a time and you will be notified in good time when your entries run out.
3 – Keep Your Ticket In A safe Place
Make sure you don’t lose out on a winning ticket, as many do, by losing your ticket. Have a safe place where you always keep your ticket. Put your tickets in your safe place as soon as you get them and you’ll always know where they are, even if you forget to check them right away. Several lottery jackpots worth many millions of pounds have been missed out on simply because the winning tickets were lost or misplaced by the rightful owner. Our second golden rule is therefore to have a specific hiding place that you use from week to week. When you buy your tickets you should put them in this place as soon as possible so that you always know where they are when you come to check them.
4 – Check The Results Promptly
Regularly prizes go unclaimed, not because players have lost their tickets, but because they have forgotten to check the results and never knew they had won in the first place. Check your numbers as soon as possible. That way not only will you reduce the chance of forgetting. Alternatively, why not sign up to our free Lottery Results Email Service and we’ll let you know if your numbers come up.
5 – Claim As Soon As You Can
Although you have up to 180 days from the draw date to claim a prize, delaying could cost you money. If you were to win a large prize, the interest you could gain from having the winnings in your bank account rather than with Camelot could be substantial. Details on how to claim can be found on the reverse of your ticket.
6 – Keep It To Yourself
As the winner of a major lottery prize in the UK, you are given the option of having publicity or not. It must be difficult to not want to shout your news from the rooftops, but our advice would be not to choose to have publicity. Once you agree to publicity, you can’t change your mind and the attention that a large win would draw, would be something very few people are prepared for. Make the decision not to tell anyone (apart from your partner), even close friends and family for say 3 months. Then once the excitement of the win has settled down you will be far more likely to take a balanced decision regarding who you tell. If at that point you choose to have publicity, the lottery operators would still be more than happy to publish your details to the press. The majority of big winners don’t choose to have publicity and many of those that do, later regret it.
Everyone is different and as such will approach how they play the National lottery in different ways. What is important is that whatever you do, make sure you enjoy it.
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