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This is perhaps one of the best kept lottery secrets — the Mini Lotto is a Polish lottery draw that has some of the best odds to offer its players. Poland does have its own main lottery draw but this was set up as a secondary competition to offer players another chance to win — much in the same way the National Lottery has its main draw and other draws like Thunderball and so on.

Entering is also cheap, at around twenty five pence per ticket and draws take place on six days a week, so there is plenty of opportunity for players to win small sums or even the main jackpot. Last updated on January 4, by Jeremy Rapaport. UK National Lottery Odds: 1 in 9.

Irish Lotto Playing the Irish Lotto will give anyone entering one of the best chances of winning. Mini Lotto This is perhaps one of the best kept lottery secrets — the Mini Lotto is a Polish lottery draw that has some of the best odds to offer its players.

To win the Jackpot, EuroMillions requires you select five numbers from and two Lucky Star numbers from Because of this, the chances of a single ticket winning the jackpot in a EuroMillions draw is 1 in ,, Luckily, EuroMillions gives you 12 additional opportunities to win prizes from matching the five main numbers and one Star Number 1 in 6,, chance of winning to only matching two numbers 1 in 22 chance of winning.

EuroMillions HotPicks is a relatively new lottery that launched in January When buying a EuroMillions HotPicks ticket, you choose how many numbers you would like to match as few as one or as many as 5. Then you pick your numbers from just like regular EuroMillions. When a EuroMillions draw takes place, the five main numbers draw are also used as the numbers for EuroMillions HotPicks. Unlike normal EuroMillions, with EuroMillions HotPicks, you must match all the numbers you have chosen if you opted for a pick 1 you only have to match 1, a pick 2 requires you to match 2 etc.

In addition to EuroMillions, the other major lottery we get asked about a lot is Lotto. Drawn every Saturday and Wednesday the UK Lotto requires you to successfully pick six numbers from a pool of fifty-nine.

You must match a minimum of two to win a prize and match all six the five main numbers and the bonus ball to win the major jackpot.

The odds of picking all six numbers correctly in a National Lottery draw are 1 in 45,, Many lottery players employ tactics that they think or hope will improve their chances of winning, from playing every single week, to using "lucky" numbers like a birthday to playing the same numbers every time in the hopes that they'll eventually be selected, to only using Quick Pick , where lottery machines automatically select a group of numbers.

But there's a difference between what people think will work and what is actual mathematical probability. In fact, there is only one proven way of boosting your chances to win the lottery, according to Harvard statistics professor Dr. That's because the odds of winning any given lottery remain the same despite the numbers selected or even if you buy a ticket for every drawing. Whether you play the lottery every day, or you're buying your first-ever lottery ticket on a lark, the odds of winning any individual drawing or scratch-off ticket remain the same.

In fact, even if you've won the lottery once before, you still have the same odds of winning the next drawing as anyone else who buys a ticket. That also means that regularly buying lottery tickets — whether it's every day or every week — does not improve your odds of winning, because the odds of all lotteries are independent. And even buying a few extra for a particular drawing doesn't improve your chances all that much, especially when the odds are roughly million to one as is the case with the current huge Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots.



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