National Lottery

Every now and again we hear of people who struck it lucky and won the lottery jackpot. People become instant millionaires for correctly guesssing six numbers, transforming their lives forever and giving them the financial security and luxurious lifestyle we all dream about. But with a 14 million to 1 chance of actually landing the UK National Lottery jackpot, it seems too good to be true.

The lottery isn’t a game of luck, it’s a game of probability and by playing a certain way you can dramatically increase your chances of winning a life changing sum of money.

Joining a syndicate is one way to improve your chances slightly. The more tickets you are able to purchase the more number combinations you can play. However, each ticket will still only have a 1 in 14 million chance of winning, so buying tickets in bulk will make little difference to your liklihood of winning.

By joining a syndicate with friends or co-workers, or joining an online syndicate such as Big Fat Lottos, can reduce the odds of winning to half a million to 1 if you know how to play your numbers right.

A technique called wheeling plays on the laws of probability and is a popular method used by lottery syndicates the world over. Wheeling involves players choosing a certain selection of numbers. Although the UK National Lottery only plays six numbers, with wheeling you can play with more.

There are different wheeling stratergies, but the simplest and fatest to learn involves choosing numbers and purchasing various lottery tickets with every possible combinations of those numbers. Therefore, if correctly guess at least three numbers you can guarantee that the majority of your tickets will win a cash prize. If you are lucky enough to match four or five numbers then the pay out will be significant, although this is all still down to luck.

The more tickets played and the more syndicates you play in, the higher your chances of winning big will be. Short of faking lottery tickets this is the best method to ‘cheat’ the lottery into paying out.