There's a lot of lotto out there.
Make your numbers count...
There are no scientific methods that can help you win the lottery, but you can increase your chances of winning big. Confused? Read on...
Luck of the draw
One person buying a £1 lottery ticket has a 1-in-14 million chance of winning the jackpot.
Buying a £1 ticket every week means you may hit the jackpot in 270,000 years.
If the credit card repayment can't wait that long you could just buy more tickets. But, ultimately, winning the lottery still depends on luck.
There are those who believe there are strategies that will increase their chances of winning the lottery.
"Scouring the internet for lottery winning methods only unearths charlatans."
Not just winning on the lottery, but winning the jackpot, getting all six numbers.
People with a vested interest will tell you otherwise. They may have a book to sell or a mathematical equation to prove.
Meanwhile, scouring the internet for lottery winning methods only unearths charlatans.
A common recommendation - when not asking you to buy their book to learn more - is to study form, as if numbered balls were racehorses.
Then there are the strategists, who tell you to look for numbers that are randomly selected most frequently.
True, certain numbers are selected more than others. But that's luck. Problem is though, even the numbers selected less frequently come up a hell of a lot.
