Friday, August 6, 2010

Better Odds in the Lottery

Here are some simple steps you can take to increase your odds of winning the lottery. Using some simple very easy to do things that anyone can do it is possible to change the bad odds that lotteries give and turn things more in your favour.

The odds of winning a standard forty-nine ball lottery, such as the National Lottery in the UK, are approximately 14 million to 1. You have virtually no chance of winning. If you want to win a jackpot prize in a 6 from 49 draw with a normal lottery ticket you are dreaming. There is a simple step that can dramatically improve your chances of winning the lottery is to play every number - all 49. This means you will have at least 1 number correct on one of your tickets.

Having at least one number correct may not sound like much. Guaranteeing that just one number is a winner on a lottery ticket doesn't seem to be a very good way of winning the lottery, does it? What is the point of ensuring you have at least 1 correct number? The simple truth is that just guaranteeing that one number is correct reduces your odds from 14 million to 1 to 1 in 1,712,304.

In order to achieve this all you need to do is buy 9 tickets in the UK. In fact even in a lottery that has 59 balls all you need is ten tickets to ensure you have one number right by playing every number.

This means for a £9 stake in the UK or a $10 stake in New York you increase your odds of winning a jackpot prize to 1 in 1,712,304.

There is also a 1 in 3 chance of 3 odd numbers and 3 even umbers turning up on the winning ticket. Half the lottery numbers that are drawn have no consecutive numbers in them.

If you also want to take advantage of something that happens in 43% of the time in UK type lotteries never pick a number that was in the previous weeks draw!

By using any of the above steps or by combining some of them or all of them you will give yourself a real fighting chance of picking up some prizes in the lottery.

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