Do you make use of a system for choosing your lottery numbers? If therefore, are you aware that using such a system might actually reduce your prospects of landing a big win? The only way to genuinely enhance your chances of winning the lottery is to buy more entries - and do not let anyone tell you differently, it is just a matter of statistics. However, you will find some steps that you may take to guarantee that, in the event that you do win, you are more more likely to win a larger sum of cash. Let's use the UK lottery being an example. Every week that there's a jackpot winner it appears that the prize is shared among a amount of people. Therefore, the best way to maximise your winnings in the event that your numbers are chosen is to minimise the number of individuals you have to share the prize money with. Although you can find no guarantees in a game of chance such as a lottery, there are actually several ways in which this could be done.

First off, it's surprising how lots of people use dates to select their numbers. It can make it easier for them to remember should they want to play the same numbers every week and they might also attach feelings of good luck to certain dates, such as birthdays, anniversaries etc. This means that the "date numbers", 1 to 31, are picked more frequently. So ensure that you have at least 2 or 3 numbers outside of this range.

Don't pick numbers that have recently been drawn. Lots of people believe in "hot streaks" and also will be selecting these.

Do not pick numbers based on an arithmetic sequence e.g. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24. This really is an extremely common practice and you may wind up sharing your jackpot with a whole lot of mathematics teachers!

Don't pick numbers which form a pattern on the entry slip, e.g. a cross or possibly a box. Again this technique is more commonly used than you might imagine and you might have to express your prize with a whole lot of folks.

Do not make use of a tips service to select your numbers. It doesn't matter whether or not the service is according to some advanced statistical analysis, the total amount of ink on each ball or the dream visions of some spaced out hippy, you won't be the only person using it and so you'll be guaranteed to wind up splitting your winnings with a whole bunch of other winners.

The most effective way to pick your numbers will be at random. You may draw them out of a hat or use one of a range of random generators which are available online for just that purpose. This won't improve your prospects of winning - but at least in the event that you do win you will be much less more likely to have to share your loot with a few of dozen other "lucky" punters.