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I never win anything..... How can I increase my chances of winning the National Lottery??

As with anyone else, we keep our fingers crossed in the hope of winning a large prize, but in the meantime, enjoy the fun of waiting to see if our numbers come out on a Wednesday or Saturday night.

There are several other systems and programs which promise to increase the odds of winning, some of which require regular updates of the latest winning numbers, to try and work out the most common numbers. However, when it is an entirely random draw, every ball has the same odds of being included in the winning lottery numbers. You must also ask yourself one main question - if a computer program works to provide you with the winning lottery numbers, why does the author need to sell it when they could just live on their weekly winnings?

How to actually win the lottery.

There is no great secret for success in winning a really big lottery prize and sorting all your financial worries in one foul swoop. Anybody can manage it. All you have to do is buy a ticket with the numbers that are going to be drawn at the next draw. If you do this I can GUARANTEE you will win the lottery.

OK, so on a more serious note, there is no sure-fire method of ensuring that you win the lottery.

What is the UK's National Lottery?

Many countries throughout the world have introduced a state lottery system which is used to raise funds for the government, charities or a combination of both.  They have proved popular and many pay out prizes in excess of £1m each week, making millionaires the whole world over.  Everyone dreams of winning, but the odds against winning the biggest prizes (the jackpot) are stacked against you.

Since the UK National lottery (now known as UK Lotto) was introduced in 1994, millions of people have taken part in the draws.  However, as the number of lottery draws increased, with the main lottery draws now on a Wednesday and Saturday, with extra draws on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, with daily play draws and the latest Dream Ticket draw; people need to become more choosy over which draws they enter and balance the odds of winning.

The main concept of the UK National Lottery has remained the same from the start - for each £1 line, you select 6 numbers from 49 and the draw consists of six balls being released at random, plus a bonus ball. Prizes are awarded for matching 3,4,5 or 6 of the main balls; with further prizes for matching 5 of the main balls plus the bonus ball.  The chances of winning the main prize by matching all 6 main balls is around 1 in 14 million !!

Although the UK Lotto Draw remains one of the largest tax free lump sum lotteries in the world, the prizes for matching less than 6 numbers reduce significantly (with smaller prizes generally on a Wednesday unless it is a rollover when no-one won the jackpot on the previous draw).  For example, you generally receive around £2,000 for matching 5 numbers, £75 for matching 4 numbers and £10 for matching 3 numbers.  The odds of winning any prize at all are 1 in 54.  Saturday 29th May 2004, was the UK lotto's first triple rollover jackpot, with an estimated top prize in excess of £21m, although more recently, this level of jackpot prizes has been less, as less people play the lottery and more draws are introduced.

The UK Lotto Draw is run by Camelot, a syndicate of various companies, who also run (in conjunction with the operators of the national lotteries of France and Spain) the EuroMillions Draw.

The Chances Of Winning The UK National Lottery

The odds against winning the National Lottery are huge - the chance of winning a prize (any prize that is) is 1 in 54, so that means on average you need to pay £54 by entering 54 lottery draws just to win a £10 prize!  We have provided a full breakdown of the odds of winning the various UK National Lottery prizes here.

How Can I Improve My Chances of Winning the Lottery?

Other than being able to see into the future and finding out the winning lottery numbers for a given draw before you even buy your ticket, the best chance of winning a major prize in a lottery is to create a syndicate, whereby several people pool their entries on the understanding that any winnings are split equally between members of the syndicate.

Many people set up syndicates at places of work, or between family members to pool their entries into lottery draws in order to reduce their odds of winning any prize.  However, the rules of the syndicates have to be carefully set up in order to cover the position if one player is unable to pay their contribution for some reason, or what happens to the smaller prizes and also to cover the position if someone wants to leave the syndicate.

The Official National Lottery Website contains a standard syndicate agreement which can help overcome the legalities and arguments which may arise when setting up a syndicate (for example, what happens if someone forgets to contribute one week).

Another way of improving the odds is to join one of the alternative online lottery syndicates - the one we would recommend is the UK based LoveMyLotto which offers packages starting from just £10 per month and for that fee, provides a range of entries for your online syndicate, including:

  • 2 entries in the Wednesday National Lottery draws each week
  • 2 entries in the Saturday National Lottery draws each week
  • 2 entries in the National Lottery daily play draw each week
  • 2 entries in each Friday EuroMillions Lottery draw (run by the National Lottery)
  • 2 entries in each Friday UK millionaire raffle (run by the National Lottery)
  • 10 entries in the Premium Bond Draw
  • Each syndicate consists of only 21 people!
 LoveMyLotto - low cost online lottery syndicate

If you want even more entries, LoveMyLotto offers two further packages, up to £34 a month, which includes the following benefits:
Why Play Lotto, when you can Love My Lotto?

* The premium bond draw is drawn once a month by ERNIE, a completely random number generator operated by the UK government since 1957 - with a guaranteed £1 million prize and hundreds of thousands of other tax-free prizes every month.



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