How do I win the lottery?

Question

Come on there's gotta be some kind of formula to reduce the odds!

Answer 1

Buy a ticket you cheap-wad,

Answer 2

Yes, you can reduce the odds, I have formulated a plan which covers 10 numbers and guarantees 3 in a single line if 3 of them come up, it costs £10. Obviously if more than 3 come up you win more lines. My best run was 10 weeks out of 11. Take your 10 numbers and pair them off and number them 1 - 5 and enter them on the ticket 123 124 125 134 135 145 234 235 245 345.
you can do it with 12 numbers (£20) 14numbers (£35) etc but you are coming into syndicate stakes then.
Good luck

Answer 3

After seeing the results, travel back in time to the previous day and buy the ticket with the numbers which you know are going to win.

However if you do this, you could drastically change the route the world will take, and the chances are your winnings will be a deficit
on the rest of your life.
If you don't mind paying 12p in every pound spent on lottery tickets to the government, or government deciding what the money is used for, you could win by buying a ticket, but remember the money paid out is less than the money taken in.

Answer 4

Many people might tell you to review old winning numbers and calculate the odds but this will be as good as picking the numbers according to family members birthdays...

My offer to you is play scratch games instead. The odds are much better and you will know if you won in an instant. You can always try it offline but there is one or two big scratch games site online at the moment that offer much better odds than what you are used to. Simply google the term "online scratch games" and you should find some good results.

Remember, only play the games you like and as log as you enjoy it that is always a good start.
Good Luck!

Answer 5

Um, yes. The 'formula' is 'The more tickets you buy, the better your chances of one of them having the winning numbers'. Fact is, that whether your chances are 1 out of 135 million or 50 out of 135 million, you're still going to lose most of the time and if you continued buying 50 tickets per week for the rest of your LIFE, the odds of you winning would STILL be outrageously low. The only way to increase those odds to say, 1 out of 4, is to buy 1/4th of ALL the possible number combinations. So if you have a few spare million dollars, go for it.

Answer 6

with a 1 to 49 numbered 6 number lottery - it's like picking the right square from a checkerboard - 27 miles long

you have a better chance of being struck by lightning and then run over in the parking lot on the way to your car - in the same day - than winning the lottery

millions will play - but 1 wins - o u c h

Answer 7

Here's two ideas. First it's been proved dogs know when their owners are returning home more than an hour beforehand and become restless. So with 49 dogs in kennels, just before the lottery closes you note the number of the kennels where the dogs are restless and put that number on your lottery ticket. then when the result is announced, just those dog owners are allowed to retrieve their dogs. The second idea is grass, it's supposed to show stress more than 40 minutes before being cut, so with 49 plants attached to stress monitors.....

Answer 8

Get a degree in economics paying particular attention to econometrics and probability, I find it easier to get a first, but hardly the type to boast, I haven't won anything on the lottery, obviously econ teaches one to be tight, or frugal etc I like to stick to the same poor sweet numbers each and every time. As long as I've brought a ticket then Im not too concerned about formulas.

Answer 9

I always thought that the odds for getting all six numbers were 14,000,000 - 1.

If that's the case you would need to buy 14 million tickets, in every available combination.

Not really worth it for a £2.8 million prize, but when it's a double or triple rollover...... ask your bank manager for a loan?

Answer 10

Try to find the algorithm of the winning combination by entering the data of all the previous winning combinations for the past 30 years. There's got to be a pattern somewhere....

Answer 11

I would take your money out of your pocket and fold it inhalf and call it doubling you money.

A word to the wise is, dont play the lottery it also known as "A poor persons tax"

Justin