How to Increase Your Lotto Odds

Here are some simple steps you can take to increase your odds of winning the lottery. The chances of winning a lottery jackpot are staggering. However, there are simple steps that you can take to reduce these odds and stack lady luck's charm son your side.

When you play a lottery ticket in a standard lottery draw such as the British lottery there is only a one in fourteen million chance of picking all 6 winning numbers. There is almost no chance of winning. Playing a 49 ball lottery gives you almost no chance of winning the jackpot. 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.

This may not sound like anything special. 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.

Statistics show that in a 6 from 49 lottery draw a third of all winning lottery number combination's have 3 odd numbers and 3 even numbers. There are no consecutive numbers in roughly half of winning lottery draws.

43% of the time there is never a number in a lottery draw that was in the winning line the previous week - so stay away from the previous weeks winning numbers.

If you use some, or all of the above steps you can increase the likelihood of picking winning numbers and thus winning lottery prizes.