The British Way to a Lottery Win

The UK have a bi-weekly lotto draw known as The National Lottery. It is drawn midweek and has a more popular draw at the weekend. The National Lottery is a basic 6/49 draw. To win the jackpot all 6 numbers that you put on a lottery ticket must match all 6 numbers drawn by the lottery machine on the day of the draw. Because the advice given here applies to this draw it can also be used for any 6/49 lottery played anywhere in the world as long as you do your number research in the country you wish to play the lottery in.

Playing a 6 from 49 draw like the British lottery doesn't give you much chance of winning when you purchase your ticket using normal lottery strategies (random picks, choosing significant dates et.).

In fact you have very little chance of winning a good prize because the odds are very heavily stacked against you.

Obviously you need something to reduce the standard of odds of winning from 1 in 13,983,816 to something a little bit more realistic.

The UK Lottery has remained the same since it first began in 1994 on November the 19th.Since then there is a stream of data that shows quite clearly how many times certain numbers are drawn and how many times certain combinations of numbers are drawn together.

Just by choosing numbers that are drawn more often can greatly increase your odds of winning a big prize. You should also stay away from number combinations that are never drawn.

An example of this would be numbers that increment by 1. A number sequence like 6,7,8,9,10,11 has very little chance of being drawn! You should also avoid picking all odd or all even numbers as they are drawn only about 3% of the time. Don't pick numbers that increment by a set amount or follow some obvious pattern as they will have very little chance of being drawn.

So, the first step to increasing your odds is to pick lottery "hot" numbers and avoid the bad numbers! But there is more you can do.

Try to have a relatively even spread of numbers if you can. When you have a list of frequently drawn numbers try to choose them from a wide range. Be sure you pick numbers from across the board. Having all numbers below 10 or all numbers above 40 is not the way to go. Be sure to spread your number choices out from the hot list that you have.

It is often advertised by the National Lottery that syndications win more often. Although this is true it is not for the reasons mist people think.

Buying more tickets does not increase your chances of winning the lottery contrary to popular opinion. The odds are so heavily stacked against you that buying a handful more tickets makes only an infinitely tiny fraction of a difference - not enough to count.

However, when a syndicate uses a wheeling system to pick numbers and play they can reduce their odds from 1 in 13,983,816 to just 1 in 499,422 - with only two extra numbers and a weekly cost of £28. If you play in syndication wheel your numbers!