The internet is a wonderful tool for looking up past lottery numbers. You can find various sources that can be very reputable and give you the chance to have a look at the previous and popular numbers. The first place to look will be the official operator's website of course, to view what numbers are already drawn recently. If you do this you will be able to, perhaps give yourself a system and work out what numbers will be the best to play.

One example is looking at past lottery numbers will give you an idea of what numbers are popular, that are unpopular and also which number sequences often appear. You can also investigate which bonus balls usually be drawn and if that specific month has popular numbers. What do we do with these details? A lot of people would state that you should disregard it entirely because there is just not a foolproof way of choosing winning lottery numbers. Therefore are we wasting our time in attempting to find a set of numbers which will definitely win? Because none of us can predict them, remember?

At the same time, if we look-at the evidence we can decide what is very likely to come out again. You can find two ways to think about this. On one hand we can say that a popular ball is the best choice because we know the equipment likes it and it very likely to be picked. But what if this ball has run out of luck? What if as a result of probability it's been picked a lot of times that it is unlikely to be chosen again? At the same time people would state that the balls that are rarely drawn are bad luck and its pointless picking them but what if this means it's their time to shine. You can either go for the numbers that will be less more likely to come out or go for the ones which have been picked out a great deal - which ever way you want to play it is up to you.

When looking online look for other clues - for example are you looking at the numbers for the midweek draw and the weekend draws separately? Are you looking at the machines that will be doing the draws? How about the prize fund? Does it appear to make a different to the numbers drawn? We have already said the final results are largely random but this doesn't mean we cannot try and apply some other pattern to it!

Don't forget that no system at all is foolproof. You'll find an abundance of sites offering some so called foolproof systems but there are actually in fact none - you can find web pages that offer you a system in return for a fee but anything that offers you a so called foolproof system isn't telling the truth. You'll find lots of good books available that will offer some hints and tips on the way to win of-course and feel free to read this if you need more ideas.