3 Methods to Win at Lotto

Smart Luck^® lotto strategies can help you beat the lotteries' long shot odds. You can apply skill to the lotto game because you can choose the lottery numbers you play and make them winning lottery numbers. As in card games that combine chance and skill, the skillful lotto player enjoys an advantage over the unskilled player - and wins lotto prizes far more frequently.

About Lotto Games

Lotto is traditionally a game in which the player chooses six lottery numbers from a larger group of lotto numbers. In state lotteries, the group of lottery numbers can be as few as 25 (West Virginia's Cash 25) or as many as 59 (New York Lotto). The fewer lottery numbers you have to choose from, the easier it is to win lotto prizes. Pick-5 lotto games (excluding Powerball type games) have much lower odds than pick-6 lottery games with the same number fields.

In lotto, where a dollar bet can win millions in cash, the odds against winning lotto have to be astronomical. But if you choose the best game to play and follow our other lotto strategy methods to reduce the odds, you can make it easier to win!

Choose the Best Game to Play

In addition to the multi-state Powerball and Mega Millions games, most states have at least two of their own lotto games. They usually offer a Lotto game with big jackpots and almost unbeatable odds, and one with a smaller lotto number field (and smaller jackpots) for players who like to win prizes more often.

In response to overwhelming player demand for a lotto game that's easier to win, most states complied by offering the pick-5 game (sometimes called Fantasy 5, Pick 5, Cash 5, etc.) in which just five numbers (not six) are marked on a game panel. These pick-5 games are usually the best games to start with.

Of course, Powerball, MEGA Millions, and EuroMillions games have the highest odds against winning thanks to the additional bonus number from a separate number field. (See wheeling with Powerball and choosing the Power Ball number for more info.)

See our list of odds of winning by number format to find the best game to play.

About Handicapping

Many people would not bet a bundle on a horse without first studying its past performance. Handicapping means studying the past in an effort to project the future. Wall Street analysts do the same thing. They chart stocks, bonds, and commodities, studying past price action to determine future price trends, in order to reduce the odds against the investor.

In lotto number handicapping, we analyze the past action of the common winning lottery numbers to help us determine which numbers have the greatest probability of being drawn.

Number Selection Strategy

Having carefully analyzed all of the lottery drawing results of more than 200 different lotto games worldwide, with histories going back as far as 1955, (using ADVANTAGE GOLD™ lottery software), we have verified the following incredibly simple rule:

Playing the Probabilities

So, the basis of our lottery strategy is to play the probabilities—or, to play that which is most likely to happen. If something rarely or never happens in lottery drawings, or if something has never happened before in the history of lotto drawings, shouldn't common sense tell you not to expect it to happen for the very first time just because you bet on it?

For example, six consecutive numbers (such as 1-2-3-4-5-6) have never been drawn in any state or international lotto game. It is highly unlikely that, if it has never happened before, it will happen this week just because you put your money on it! Our common sense lottery formula tells you not to play six consecutive numbers on one game panel.

Many people play a lotto number because they think it's "due." It is a mistaken notion that in Lotto, everything has to even out. That simply is not true. In New York, Lotto number 45 sat out 100 drawings without a single win. There have been several Lotto games in which a lotto number has gone more than 70 games without a hit.

In the twice weekly New York 6/59 Lotto game, each six-number combination has a chance of hitting once every 433,245 years!! So, it would be pointless to play the same six numbers week after week, year after year, because you think they are "due" to hit. Would you bet your money on a racehorse that had lost the past 50 races, thinking he's "due" to win? Of course not!

Strategy Resources

• Free strategies for how to win the lotto customized for your game
• Most Probable Range of Sums^®
• How the 70% lotto Balanced Game^® works
• Full list of lotto software for strategy and wheeling

Using a Balanced Wheel

Balanced Wheels^® give your money more leverage and dramatically improve your chances of winning lotto prizes. They are the most important tools a lottery player can use to get immediate odds improvement. These lottery systems allow you to choose a large group of lotto numbers which are placed in a scientifically determined lotto pattern on your bet slips to give you a specific win guarantee.

If you trap the six (five or four winning lottery numbers) in the large group of lotto numbers you have chosen, you are guaranteed to win at least one specific prize (which varies depending on the win guarantee of the chosen wheel). But you could win several lottery prizes, or even the first prize jackpot—as dozens of our big lottery winners already have. Winning several lotto prizes all at once make these lotto systems exciting, fun and profitable to use.

Get the Most Popular Wheeling Software

To get the best chance of winning the easiest games, use these pick-5 wheels in Wheel Five Gold lottery software.

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Or, if you prefer bigger jackpot games, choose the pick-6 and pick-7 wheels in Wheel Six Gold to help you improve your odds of winning more prizes!

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Wheeling Resources

• What is lottery wheeling
• Why Balanced Wheels^® produce so many winners
• Try lotto-winning free lottery systems
• Full list of lotto software for wheeling and strategy

What to Buy

For best results, use Advantage Gold together with a wheeling program that works for the pick-size of your game like Wheel Five Gold for the easiest to win pick-5 games.

If you're still confused about which products can help you tackle strategy and wheeling for the game you play, see our Lottery Products Guide.