7 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Lottery Dreams

Seven Deadly Lottery Sins

In life there’s always two ways to do something, the right way and the wrong way. Sadly, we often do things the wrong way without even realising it until it’s too late. And your weekly lottery picks are no exception. As you might expect, we study user data and lottery trends to gain valuable insights into the methods and motivations of our players.

One shocking fact we uncovered is that a disproportionate amount of players sabotage their chances of winning. 

Based on the statistics there's a significant chance that you, too, are committing at least one of the following Seven Deadly Lottery Sins!

Lottery Sin #1: Top Payout Blindness

Only focusing on big tier 1 prizes is the most common mistake made by lottery players. It’s also one of the costliest. So understand, first of all, that, generally, the bigger the main prize the bigger the odds are against you winning it. Second point; the higher the main prize, the greater the hype and the more people buy tickets. Therefore, even if you manage to beat the odds and win the top prize, you're far more likely to end up sharing it – which brings us on to our next point…

Lottery Sin #2: Ignoring The Odds

As with any game of chance, winning the lottery is all about beating the odds. If you are struggling to underrstand why is it so hard to win the lotter then learning the odds of different lottery games can make all the difference, and may even cause you to reconsider your favourite lottery. Once again, don’t just focus on the main prize odds (which can vary wildly) but also look at the various prize tiers the game offers, and the odds of winning one of those.

Lottery Sin #3: Thinking Your Numbers Are Lucky

Ever wonder why so many lottery wins, even hard-to-win main lottery prizes, end up being shared out? The answer is simple; it’s human nature. You might think your numbers are “lucky” or “special” but they’re anything but. Most people, consciously or otherwise, to pick the same numbers. We see a lot of people who pick the number 7, for example. We also see a lot of people who try the reverse psychology approach, and pick 13. Most common of all, though, are all the people picking numbers based on dates (between 1 and 31). A large proportion of whom all end up with the numbers 19 and 20.  

Lottery Sin #4: Looking For Patterns

It’s much the same story with patterns – e.g. picking numbers based on either numerical or visual patterns (drawing shapes on the ticket). Once again it limits the amount of numbers you pick, while also increasing the chances of having to share your winnings.

Lottery Sin #5: Trusting In Systems

Some people put their faith in hot or cold number theory – picking numbers based on the results of previous draws. The flaw here is that each lottery draw is a unique event and any correlation between one draw and the next is purely coincidental. Therefore, you should be very wary, and indeed highly sceptical, of any of the (billions of)  so-called “lottery systems” out there. 

Lottery Sin #6: Believing In Lottery Hocus Pocus

Beware the so-called lottery “gurus”. Same goes for astrologists, psychics and other charlatans who claim to know tomorrow’s winning lottery numbers. After all; if you knew tomorrow’s winning numbers would you tell anyone? 

Lottery Sin #7: Giving Up

Saying “I’m never going to…” about something is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because you don’t even give yourself a chance. You’ll find loads of moaners out there more than happy to rain on your lottery parade – but don’t let them. Sure, the odds against a top prize win are stacked high against you, but I’m sure there have been times in your life where the odds seemed equally insurmountable but you pulled through regardless.

So stay the course, because as long as you’re in there’s always that chance, no matter how slim, that your numbers will come up. And if they finally do could but you forgot to play could you ever forgive yourself? Many big winners have played for years, with an almost religious devotion, before winning big. No doubt you’ve probably read countless such stories.

And what is it they always say? Usually something like, “I knew it would happen some day!”