You have dreams about buying a mansion with sixteen rooms and a tennis court, and a customized Lamborghini, but you are working in the chip station of McDonald’s. Here are 14 ways you can made your dreams come true by winning the lottery:
- Spread your bets
The odds of winning the Lotto are 1 in 45,057,474. So, if you purchase 45,057,474 different lottery tickets, you will win.
2. Buy Euro-Millions tickets
Euro-millions jackpot is 1 in 139,838,160. So, it follows if you purchase 139,838,160 Euro-millions tickets, you will win. Just remember – if you are filling them out by hand, the cashier leaves at 10.
3. Get Bank authorisation
If you are buying 45 million tickets, you might want to make sure your bank will authorise that sort of money leaving your account after your lunch break.
4, Buy more tickets
If you don’t have 90 million bucks lying around, you might want to spend more than £2 on lottery tickets. The more you play, the more chances of winning.
5. Join a syndicate or pool
A syndicate is a group of people who each buy a set number of tickets and agree to share the prizes.
6. Don’t give your money to a stranger (or even a friend).
Just because Bob looks honest, doesn’t mean he’s not going to emigrate to the Seychelles when the syndicate wins big, and he’s got the tickets.
7, Check your ticket
Unclaimed wins are quite common, due to players forgetting to check the numbers – or misreading the numbers. As a rule – check and then check again.
8. Don’t lose your ticket
If you don’t have your ticket, you can’t claim your winnings. Many people have sworn blind that they bought the winning lottery ticket and are surprised when the cashiers don’t want to pay them £2 million without proof.
9. Don’t use birthday dates
A lot of people use birthdays for their choices. The problem with this strategy is that birthdays generally only number up to 31. What about the other 28 numbers?
10. Use a mixture of dates and ages
If you want to use birthdays for your choices, you can mix it up by using dates and ages. Although this won’t work if you are over the age of 59, obviously.
11. Try the most common numbers
Lots of people and websites and programs claim that they have tables and files and formulas which can predict which numbers are most likely to win. Maybe they can, who knows?
12. Get your favourite pet to pick the numbers
One chap got his numbers from a chicken, which stepped on his calculator and generated the numbers. He won just over a grand.
You might dress up as a chicken or as Barbie or something and do the chicken dance and the numbers might appear to you.
13. Pray
You can pray to God or to the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever your preference is. They might give you some inspiration.
14. Buy a lottery ticket
I thought I would leave that one for last. You must be in it to win it.
Personally, I’m not sure there is any short-cut to picking the winning lotto numbers.
You are probably better off saving your lotto money and putting it in the bank, but don’t tell anyone I said that.
David Owen Nunes
David is many faceted, fascinating, fastidious, fair, fabulous and the other F word. He works in the Pensions Industry, plays occasional golf, and dreams of being able to write full time.
