Does an Actual Lottery Strategy Exist?

A Jacksonville man just won $1 million with a lottery couple of days ago. While compared to the huge winnings we have all heard about, winnings going up to a billion dollars and more, this doesn’t seem like a huge win, it would make most of our lives way easier. And for some of us this would mean we’d be set for life. Obviously, lottery is a game of chance, game of luck, game of numbers, and the chances of winning a Jackpot, or even the $1 million, are pretty low. Then again, usually it doesn’t cost much to try. And people do win with lottery.

However, I was just thinking, does an actual strategy exist for playing lottery?

After a little research, there are people who claim there are strategies that we could all be using. Whether they work or not, that’s obviously another story.

Some say that while you can buy more lottery tickets (which doesn’t sound like a very creative strategy), we could spend money instead on lottery pools. Lottery pools in essence give you more chance of winning without spending more. What’s a lottery pool? In simple terms, it’s meant for increasing your chances of winning a fraction of the jackpot X times. So imagine you have 50 people, each of whom has bought a ticket. If nobody wins, nothing happens. But if one ticket wins the jackpot, it will be split between 50 people. So while your potential jackpot winnings are 50 times lower now, your chances of winning anything at all increase 50 times.

In the past there have been times when lottery pools have won jackpots. In 2011 a 7-person lottery pool won $319 million Mega Millions jackpot. 2012, a 49-person office lottery pool won $172.7 million Powerball jackpot. Another $241 million jackpot was won by 20-person pool. Obviously, it’s still difficult to win, it does make things easier. There’s was also a news that one lottery pool of 26 people won $1 million after 20 years of trying.

So lottery pools sometimes could be called a strategy, I guess.

Some people also recommend choosing the numbers yourself instead of auto-pick. But instead of doing it like many other people do, use a good mix of numbers, from high to low. The fact is that most people, when choosing the numbers manually, they choose numbers/dates from birthdays and other special days like that. And as a month only has maximum of 31 days, many higher numbers are not chosen often. So choosing more higher numbers might mean that there’s less chance of having to split your winnings with other ticket owners, should you actually win.

There are also so called professional lottery strategies, but going into them would complicate things too much. Plus, after going over them, they don’t really make that much sense. So instead, pick your numbers and buy USA Powerball tickets online. It’s up to you whether you also want to choin some lottery pools or not.

Or you could just play the imaginary lottery and claim the imaginary winnings like I’ve done sometimes. The chance of winning them is huge and you could do it daily!