What Are My Lottery Chances And How Can I Considerably Improve My Chances

By Sian Williams

If I had a lottery ticket for every time I've heard "well I take part in the Mega Millions lotto because the top prize is much more larger"...

Okay, in my head I'm thinking "do you realize you have ten times less prospect of winning?"... I do try to be polite about it.



Fact remains, lottery organisers love creating games with extremely long probability. Why? Because it means more rollover jackpots. Which means prizes which seize newspaper headlines. Which makes more attention and higher ticket transactions.

Except what's more crucial - the media profile of your chosen game? Or your odds of winning the lotto?

Here is a brief prompt of what lotto odds look.

A regular six balls from 49 lotto gives you about a 1 in thirteen million opportunity of winning for every ticket. Long odds yes, but hey this is a lotto! But wait one moment...

A classic Power Ball type draw is typically 5 balls plus a bonus ball. That may sound easier to win, but it's essentially far more difficult it hurts! Purchase the U.S. Power Ball, that's simply 5 balls from a given 53 which is followed by one ball from forty two -- fact remains your odds are now around 1 in one hundred and twenty million for the top prize. only to have the same prospect of winning! Understand more about national lottery syndicate contracts.

How about EuroMillions? It may at first sound harder to win, however it's essentially simpler! The Euro game is 5 from 50 plus 2 from 9. Although that's in reality a one in 76 million prospect, almost twice as simple to win as the U.S. Power Ball.

The U.S. MegaMillions is far worse. 5 from 56, plus one from 46 -- that gives you surprising odds of one in 175 million!

There's also a reduced reason to be uneasy at big rollovers. If lots more people take part in there's a greater probability of various winners, which means sharing that massive top prize that was harder to win in the first place!

Thus are power ball type draws solely designed to confuse players about lotto odds? Maybe - nevertheless I'll leave that one for the conspiracy theorists. Let's solely focus on increasing your chances of winning the top prize shall we!

Here's the brief, sharp advice for playing more sensibly...

Take part in the game which provides you the best opportunity of winning a life changing amount of money. Sure, 100 million does look good fun, but would it make your life any different to winning 10 million? Naturally not. Thus why settle for ten times less possibility of really winning!

So if you play a power ball type draw, the top, cheapest, most effective way you can advance your lottery odds right now... is to vary the game you are playing.

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