How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery: 10 Easy Tips (2 of 6)

2. Spread your “lucky numbers” out

There’s no such thing as a number that’s “due.” Every time you think a 21 hasn’t been picked for a while, so it must be high time for it to go up, you’re just fooling yourself. But there is such a thing as picking the same kinds of numbers everyone else picks. If you use birthdays, anniversaries, and cute patterns, you’re shopping in the crowded aisle. Spreading your choices across the full range (including higher numbers people avoid) doesn’t boost your odds of winning, but it can boost your odds of not splitting the jackpot if you do win.

3. Avoid “popular” combinations

What happens when two or more people pick the same numbers? They share the jackpot. That means your real enemy isn’t just probability but other humans thinking exactly like you. Skip obvious sequences, like 1-2-3-4-5-6, clean patterns like 5-10-15-20-25-30, and pretty much anything that looks “pretty,” like 11-22-33-44-69. Random-looking sets may be boring, but if you hit that combo, you get all the money!