Random Mathematical Ways To Increase Your Chances Of Winning The Lottery (11 items)

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  (#7) Don't Buy Your Ticket Too Far In Advance

  Though it sounds really stupid, it's also legitimate: the reason you should buy your tickets closer to the draw date is to minimize the likelihood that you lose said ticket. Even if you're the type of person who never loses anything, life is unpredictable. If you buy your ticket a week in advance, you have a full week of days to suffer a fatal accident, which would likely negate your win, unless someone was banking on that and knows you have a ticket.

  Regardless, there's no reason why you shouldn't buy your ticket as close to the draw date as possible, so just try to do that.
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  (#1) If You Choose 5 Numbers Up To 55, The Total Of Your Numbers Should Be Between 104 and 176

  Official Lottery News has some mathematical guidance for you on how to best improve your chances of winning (though take it with a grain of salt as they benefit from you not winning).

  According to them:

  Don’t pick consecutive numbers. If playing a jackpot with five winning numbers where the numbers go up to 55, the total of your numbers should be between 104 and 176. According to studies, 70% of all lottery jackpots have sums that fall within that range. You can use our quick pick automatic number generator on all our lottery games makes it easy to pick a good set of numbers.
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  (#9) Play Smaller, Less Popular Lotto Games

  When people think about winning the lottery, they tend to envision the $100 million+ jackpots. But while those big beautiful numbers look enticing, they're that large because so many people are buying tickets. Sure, the smaller lottery games have lesser jackpots, but they have higher odds of winning.

  There's a direct causal link between the number of players and odds, obviously. A $1 million jackpot might look a lot less shiny than those huge numbers, but your odds of winning that smaller jackpot are astronomically better.
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  (#5) If You Have To Pick Your Numbers, Chose Some Over 31 To Increase Your Winnings

  As most people tend to use dates to fill out at least some of their lotto numbers, all numbers 31 and below are picked more frequently than higher numbers.

  That said, picking numbers above 31 doesn't necessarily increase your chance of winning, but it does decrease your likelihood of splitting the pot if you do magically win. 
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  (#8) Some Places Produce More Winners, So Move There

  If you want to increase your chances of winning the lottery and drastically upheave your life, you're in luck! You can do both by moving to Romford, Dumfries, or Birmingham, the three most British sounding places on Earth. That's because they are in Great Britain, but they produced the most lottery winners in the nation. 

  According to lottoland.co.uk:

  Romford in Essex boasts the most 'significant' lottery winners per 1,000 people in the UK (that is, people who have won prizes of £50,000 or more). Dumfries in Scotland has the most lottery millionaires per 1,000 people of anywhere in Britain. Birmingham has the greatest overall number of lottery millionaires for any post code in the country.

  Of course, there are analogs. Lottosend says that local Massachusetts and Michigan lotteries tend to pay out more. 
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  (#3) Buy With A Group Of Friends

  Buying tickets in groups, often referred to as a syndicate, increases your chance of winning using the same concept as buying more tickets on your own. There's a give and take with buying more as a syndicate. Generally, your group can afford to buy more tickets together than you can on your own. So, your chances of winning are naturally increased.

  If you win, however, you obviously need to split that money (unless you're particularly nefarious), so you'll win less. Despite this potential downside, it is still a good idea to go in on a bunch of lottery tickets with friends or family.

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