Andy Coates Blog

Winning the lottery is a dream for nearly everyone, wouldn't it be fantastic never having to worry about money again! Even with only 1million pounds in your bank you would on average earn about £50,000 interest each year, you could actually quite comfortably live off the £1,000 interest you receive each week. Or even with that amount of money you could start that business you have always dreamed about!

So back to the original topic "how to win the lottery", here in the UK and Europe we have the choice of playing the UK Lottery, The Euro Lottery and the Irish lottery. For these purposes we will use the UK National Lottery as an example when doing the calculations and touch on the Eurolottery a little later on.

Here is the average prize breakdown and odds for the UK Lottery

Match 3 Numbers: £10
1 in 56.66 chance of winning

Match 4 Numbers: £65 (on average per person)
1 in 1032.4 chance of winning

Match 5 Numbers: £1,500 (on average per person)
1 in 5,5491.33 chance of winning

Match 5 Numbers and the bonus ball: £300,000 (on average per person)
1 in 2,330,636 chance of winning

Jackpot: £2,500,000 (on average per person)
1 in 13,983,876 Chance of winning.

So if we play one line on the lottery we have one chance in 14million (rounded up for clarity). If we play 2 lines we have 2 chances in 14 million and so on and so on. Carrying this further if we put on half the possible combinations, 7 million lines we have a massive 50% chance of winning the lottery. Taking this to the extreme if we put on every single combination of number, a whopping 14 million lines you have a guaranteed chance of winning the lottery. This may sound far fetched but has been achieved by an Australian gambler called Peter Mandral, who used this method to win on more than
one occasion. His biggest win (investment?) was in the Virginian lottery, where the jackpot (because of rollovers) had reached $27 million. Obviously you need a large outlay at least 14 million (plus the actual administration cost) to put on all of those lines and you would need to time it until there is at least a triple rollover where the jackpot is more than your outlay. But even then there may be more than one jackpot winner which would half the jackpot making the winning prise possibly less than your initial outlay! Either way this is still a gamble but there is only a 1 in 14 million chance of someone else winning! So there you have it "how to win the lottery" all you need is £14,000,000 and allot of lottery slips!

How I win the lottery!

From above we can surmise that the more lines you put on the lottery the more chances you have of winning, I play the lottery online in a syndicate which enters me into the Euro lottery with 36 lines each week! This gives me a massively increased chance of winning instead of playing 1 line a week i am playing 36 lines a week, the equivalent to playing 36 weeks in one go! For more on playing in a syndicate online check out my website here –> Euro lottery <–( check out the keyword sniping! )

And just for all you mathematicians out there here are the odds calculations!

How to work out the odds of winning the lottery

For 6 numbers these are the calculations:

a: Possible ways of obtaining 6 numbers out of 49
(49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44)

b: Possible combinations of 6 numbers out of 49
(6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 )

c: Overall combinations of lines = a/b = 13,983,876