Tips To Win The Lottery
Don’t use family birthdays – this is a popular mistake!
Sure it lacks originality but more than that it reduces your chances of winning the lottery. Just think about it — the days and months only go up to 31 and 12. Even if you do win the lottery using your birth digits, the chances are you’ll have to split the winnings with more people. After all everyone’s birthday begins with 19 or 20 (and anyone whose under 21 should not be playing the lottery). The same applies to buying a ticket when there’s a bigger jackpot — more people play so the odds are more people win. Let’s be honest you don’t want to have to share your winnings with strangers anymore than you want to hear from your second cousin twice removed after a 20-year silence.
Don’t make a nice pattern!
Diagonal lines, straight lines, star shapes, boxes, flag, christmas tree, zig-zags – doing this on your slip is silly. You might think you’re being smart but again, you and thousands of other people will have the exact same thought.
Don’t use multiples of numbers
They tell us tens of thousands play 7-14-21-28-35-42 as their personal favorite combination, same for 5-10-15-20-25-30 does this sound like you? If so stop it. Even if you win you’ll have burnt your good luck allotment to win a share of a tiny jackpot.
Check ball frequency!
They tell us it’s all totally random, but certain balls have a knack of being drawn more frequently than others. Work out or use a lottery software program to see how often each number has been drawn in the most recent 100 past draws. Try to select some hot, average and cold numbers for each combination. In other words, for a Pick-6 game select 1,2,or 3 hot numbers, 1,2, or 3 average numbers and 0,1, or 2 cold numbers per combination.
Actually check the results!
You’d be surprised how many people don’t check whether they’ve won the lottery. What’s more, winning tickets have to be claimed within 180 days of the draw, otherwise the money goes off to the Lotto’s Good Causes fund. A ticket worth £9,476,995 was once distributed in this way and it was the 24th prize in excess of a million pounds to be unclaimed.
Become a worker!
Camelot recently released a list of the top Lottery-winning professions. Builders and workers have been the biggest winners, followed by administrators and managers. The unluckiest in the Top 40? Funeral directors.
Go for a tarot card reading
It’s worked for some people. Housing officer Janette Wright was told by a tarot card reader that one day she would come into money. A few years later, she bought a Lucky Dip and promptly won a £1,633,505 Lotto jackpot.
Do a good deed
Geraldine Gimblet defied odds of odds of 3,921,270-1 to win $ 2 million on a lottery scratch card, just days after finishing paying for her daughter’s breast cancer treatment, for which she had to use her life savings.
