Some lottery games aren't all they're cracked up to be. And this can be either a big deal-maker - or a deal-breaker - for you. But only if you know what to look for.
For example, our country's Powerball didn't jackpot on Saturday after weeks of no-wins. It may go to $30 million this coming weekend. But the twist is this... $30 million is as high as it's allowed to accumulate. Then it MUST be drawn and the prize distributed.
If no-one gets all 6 numbers plus the Powerball number, the jackpot will be divided up and go to those 2nd division winners who have 5 numbers with the correct Power ball lottery number.
So if you expected your chances of winning lottery jackpots to be higher, this is not the game you should be playing right now. Check and see whether your lotto game has restrictions like this.
Another lottery strategy example: Some countries and states give out lottery prizes tax-free - but some don't. Do you know which ones?
You should. Depending on the tax demanded, it makes up to 40% difference on your winning figure, and you could be taking home far less than you thought.
And which prize package should you take... an Annuity (the prize paid out by installment over 20 years or more), or a Lump Sum? The difference will surprise you.
Sometimes the information gets plain nasty. For example, in some countries or states, if you give any part of your winnings to a family member, it is considered a gift - and you pay additional tax or a duty on it. Not many people know that.
Now's the time to take a good look at your current lottery game, and check it out for problems like these. The small print is usually on their websites.
The Top 5 Most Asked Lottery Ticket Questions
You've won the lottery. Great!
Your heart has stopped pounding, your pulse has steadied. You look again and yet again at the ticket in your shaky hands, daring to acknowledge your good fortune.
But don't get too complacent. You may have won the big prize, but it's Saturday night - and you can't get into the lottery headquarters to present your ticket until Monday. You have a problem. The security of your ticket is the first priority. You can't put it into a safe deposit box because the banks are closed. You don't trust it in your wallet, and that flimsy safe in your bedroom is the first place anyone would look if they knew you had a winning ticket.
How do you keep this fragile piece of paper absolutely secure for the next 36 hours?
This kind of scenario goes through the minds of many winners. Some believe they will be able to keep it safe by taping the ticket to their chest and sleeping with it under their pillow. Others will put the ticket in the fridge, thinking this will be the last place a burglar would look. (Wrong - skilled burglars are far more savvy than you realize!)
There are many other questions about tickets besides security that winners need to worry about. Here are the top 5 problems, along with some solutions...
1. Your ticket is stolen. What can you do?
You should protect your ticket first by signing it with your name and address. According to the Washington lottery website, a lottery ticket has the same authority as currency. A ticket is a 'bearer instrument' which means the person holding the ticket is also the owner. So when you sign the back of your lotto ticket, that act will make the ticket yours officially, because only the bearer whose name matches the signature on the ticket can claim its winnings.
2. You got your ticket as a gift. Who gets the money?
You do. But often when a winning lotto ticket is given as a gift, there can be problems if the giver receives nothing back. Since the prize is seen as 'found' money - money that cost little to obtain - there may be resentment that the gift ticket giver didn't receive any part of the winnings. The answer is simple. Why not split it with the giver? Even a 90/10 split will go a long way to keeping the friendship.
3. Can your family make a claim on the prize?
Generally no. But if you worry about your family claiming a portion of the prize, then why not split the money up equally among all the family? There is no better way to unite a group of people than to include them in your good fortune.
4. So you missed the winnings claim expiry date. Can you get an extension?
Few lotteries will extend a deadline. The best way to avoid this is to make a regular trip to your lotto store within a few days after each game, and have them put the tickets through their counter machine. You get added security this way by knowing there won't be any mistakes in the numbers either.
5. What happens if you lose your ticket?
You will lose your money, because in order to claim your prize you must present your winning ticket intact. Without your ticket, there is no proof of ownership, and this means you won't be able to collect your winnings. So your first and essential step is to sign your ticket when you buy - in case it ends up in someone else's hands. By signing your name and address, it acts as strong security against someone else trying to claim your prize if your ticket is lost or stolen. So the news is bad - usually your money is gone for good unless you have the physical ticket. Even a photocopy is unlikely to get accepted by the lottery organization. You've got to keep it safe.
Your heart has stopped pounding, your pulse has steadied. You look again and yet again at the ticket in your shaky hands, daring to acknowledge your good fortune.
But don't get too complacent. You may have won the big prize, but it's Saturday night - and you can't get into the lottery headquarters to present your ticket until Monday. You have a problem. The security of your ticket is the first priority. You can't put it into a safe deposit box because the banks are closed. You don't trust it in your wallet, and that flimsy safe in your bedroom is the first place anyone would look if they knew you had a winning ticket.
How do you keep this fragile piece of paper absolutely secure for the next 36 hours?
This kind of scenario goes through the minds of many winners. Some believe they will be able to keep it safe by taping the ticket to their chest and sleeping with it under their pillow. Others will put the ticket in the fridge, thinking this will be the last place a burglar would look. (Wrong - skilled burglars are far more savvy than you realize!)
There are many other questions about tickets besides security that winners need to worry about. Here are the top 5 problems, along with some solutions...
1. Your ticket is stolen. What can you do?
You should protect your ticket first by signing it with your name and address. According to the Washington lottery website, a lottery ticket has the same authority as currency. A ticket is a 'bearer instrument' which means the person holding the ticket is also the owner. So when you sign the back of your lotto ticket, that act will make the ticket yours officially, because only the bearer whose name matches the signature on the ticket can claim its winnings.
2. You got your ticket as a gift. Who gets the money?
You do. But often when a winning lotto ticket is given as a gift, there can be problems if the giver receives nothing back. Since the prize is seen as 'found' money - money that cost little to obtain - there may be resentment that the gift ticket giver didn't receive any part of the winnings. The answer is simple. Why not split it with the giver? Even a 90/10 split will go a long way to keeping the friendship.
3. Can your family make a claim on the prize?
Generally no. But if you worry about your family claiming a portion of the prize, then why not split the money up equally among all the family? There is no better way to unite a group of people than to include them in your good fortune.
4. So you missed the winnings claim expiry date. Can you get an extension?
Few lotteries will extend a deadline. The best way to avoid this is to make a regular trip to your lotto store within a few days after each game, and have them put the tickets through their counter machine. You get added security this way by knowing there won't be any mistakes in the numbers either.
5. What happens if you lose your ticket?
You will lose your money, because in order to claim your prize you must present your winning ticket intact. Without your ticket, there is no proof of ownership, and this means you won't be able to collect your winnings. So your first and essential step is to sign your ticket when you buy - in case it ends up in someone else's hands. By signing your name and address, it acts as strong security against someone else trying to claim your prize if your ticket is lost or stolen. So the news is bad - usually your money is gone for good unless you have the physical ticket. Even a photocopy is unlikely to get accepted by the lottery organization. You've got to keep it safe.
The 'Lucky' Lotto Shop - Real, Or a Myth?
How much does luck play a part in your lottery winning? The following newspaper item will make you think twice about how luck affects your winning opportunities...
According to this recent article, there exists a lucky lotto shop which has consistently had the highest number of lotto winners in the country... 32 first division winners and 158 second division winners.
But before you start emailing me asking how to buy some tickets from this place, let's read right to the end of the article where it says... "The pharmacy (drug store) rates fifth highest in the country for volume of sales, with about 3500 tickets sold each week..."
So this is the real reason.
The secret is "quantity." They had long queues of eager players.
Play a lot of tickets, get a corresponding lot of wins. Part of the success of any lottery system is due to this very fact, and it's the same reason this 'lucky' store achieved so many successful winners. The more you play, the more they pay.
But here's the twist...
If you don't have the right number combination to start with, playing a lot of tickets won't help you at all. It's more important to own a small razor-sharp selection of the right numbers than a great stack of 'maybe' numbers.
There's far more to a system than just playing more tickets. But frequency - both in the number of tickets you play and the period you play them - is key to your lotto success.
So, there is no such thing as a lucky shop. If you play in a so-called lucky shop in your town, you won't be any luckier than if you played at the shop with the least number of sales.
Understand how the figures work and don't be fooled. Use a system that works to get your success, not the place they are played.
According to this recent article, there exists a lucky lotto shop which has consistently had the highest number of lotto winners in the country... 32 first division winners and 158 second division winners.
But before you start emailing me asking how to buy some tickets from this place, let's read right to the end of the article where it says... "The pharmacy (drug store) rates fifth highest in the country for volume of sales, with about 3500 tickets sold each week..."
So this is the real reason.
The secret is "quantity." They had long queues of eager players.
Play a lot of tickets, get a corresponding lot of wins. Part of the success of any lottery system is due to this very fact, and it's the same reason this 'lucky' store achieved so many successful winners. The more you play, the more they pay.
But here's the twist...
If you don't have the right number combination to start with, playing a lot of tickets won't help you at all. It's more important to own a small razor-sharp selection of the right numbers than a great stack of 'maybe' numbers.
There's far more to a system than just playing more tickets. But frequency - both in the number of tickets you play and the period you play them - is key to your lotto success.
So, there is no such thing as a lucky shop. If you play in a so-called lucky shop in your town, you won't be any luckier than if you played at the shop with the least number of sales.
Understand how the figures work and don't be fooled. Use a system that works to get your success, not the place they are played.
One Lottery Win For Life? Not According to These Amazing Double Winners
If it happened once, that would not be very interesting. But if it happened twice, then you would start to sit up and take notice.
I'm talking about lotto winners and their remarkable success in winning lottery prizes twice in a row. How do they do it? Are there ways to win lottery games regularly so that you run off with a price more than once?
Here's what I found after some research on how some players were winning the lotto twice:
- A woman who won $1 million playing a Pennsylvania Lottery... won another million on the same game in June that year.
- Pennsylvania lottery officials said other winners have experienced lucky multiple winning streaks. A Carbon County man won four times - collecting over $2.5 million in the late 1980s and '90s.
- A husband and wife separately won replica Pocono pace cars in the Pocono Race for the Riches game in 2000.
- In Australia a 70-year-old Taree grandfather who had already won $1 million in Lotto was one of three winners sharing in the game's First Division prize of $500,000.
- In Ireland, for the second time in eight years, a group of 33 colleagues from the Clonmel Nationalist newspaper traveled to Dublin to collect their Lotto winnings. In October 1993, the syndicate won £400,000, but in 2001 they more than doubled their winnings to £1m. Each member won £30,303.
- In New Zealand, a Rotorua couple celebrated the end of an extraordinary year, having won two major lottery prizes in 2005.
The more I looked, the more common it was to win more than one prize. You can see similar results by Googling "lotto win twice." The chances of winning lottery games more than once seems to be quite common.
So is there a secret factor among these double winners? Instead of having one lottery win for life, how do they manage to double the chances several times?
As I researched further, gradually the puzzle came together... and it turned out to be this:
The regular winners play regularly!
Or, to put it another way, repeat winners play repeatedly. Many of the articles I read reported that the winners were regular players, both before and after their double wins.
It confirms what I have saying for years... you MUST play often. Winning the lotto challenge is partly a game of chance, but the greater part involving your luck can be manipulated by playing more often.
One lottery win for life? Not according to these players.
I'm talking about lotto winners and their remarkable success in winning lottery prizes twice in a row. How do they do it? Are there ways to win lottery games regularly so that you run off with a price more than once?
Here's what I found after some research on how some players were winning the lotto twice:
- A woman who won $1 million playing a Pennsylvania Lottery... won another million on the same game in June that year.
- Pennsylvania lottery officials said other winners have experienced lucky multiple winning streaks. A Carbon County man won four times - collecting over $2.5 million in the late 1980s and '90s.
- A husband and wife separately won replica Pocono pace cars in the Pocono Race for the Riches game in 2000.
- In Australia a 70-year-old Taree grandfather who had already won $1 million in Lotto was one of three winners sharing in the game's First Division prize of $500,000.
- In Ireland, for the second time in eight years, a group of 33 colleagues from the Clonmel Nationalist newspaper traveled to Dublin to collect their Lotto winnings. In October 1993, the syndicate won £400,000, but in 2001 they more than doubled their winnings to £1m. Each member won £30,303.
- In New Zealand, a Rotorua couple celebrated the end of an extraordinary year, having won two major lottery prizes in 2005.
The more I looked, the more common it was to win more than one prize. You can see similar results by Googling "lotto win twice." The chances of winning lottery games more than once seems to be quite common.
So is there a secret factor among these double winners? Instead of having one lottery win for life, how do they manage to double the chances several times?
As I researched further, gradually the puzzle came together... and it turned out to be this:
The regular winners play regularly!
Or, to put it another way, repeat winners play repeatedly. Many of the articles I read reported that the winners were regular players, both before and after their double wins.
It confirms what I have saying for years... you MUST play often. Winning the lotto challenge is partly a game of chance, but the greater part involving your luck can be manipulated by playing more often.
One lottery win for life? Not according to these players.
How to Win the Lotto - Win the Lottery Faster With These 3 Speed Tips
If someone told you that you would win the lottery jackpot at the end of the next 100 games, how fast would you play those? I'm guessing you'll be playing like crazy, night and day, until you reach that magic figure. The reality of this theory is not too far-fetched. Because it's well-known that you can improve your luck simply by increasing the amount of anything you do.
I used to own a couple of community newspapers many years ago, and I would sell the advertising to retailers for them as well. One thing I noticed is that for every 10 stores I would visit, I would get at least 4 sales. So if I needed 8 sales, I only had to visit 20 stores. Insurance salespeople know the same percentage relationship between sales calls and sales. For every 100 sales calls they make, they will get a guaranteed number of clients - and the number very rarely varies.
So the secret for increasing the number of wins you get in any lottery game is to step on the gas - to do more so that your winning odds increases. Here's three ways to do it:
1. Do you only play one game a week? Try adding another game. If you play correctly, you'll be doubling your chances.
2. Instead of only buying one or two tickets at a time, buy 50 in the same game. You have immediately increased your winning chances by a huge margin.
3. Join a syndicate. This automatically increases the number of chances for winning. Look at the Powerball lottery winners stories on their website. You'll see that there are a large number of syndicates picking the winning lotto numbers.
So ramp up your winning odds and get the most number of lottery winning numbers by playing more often. Expand your reach faster and you'll be surprised how effective you'll become.
I used to own a couple of community newspapers many years ago, and I would sell the advertising to retailers for them as well. One thing I noticed is that for every 10 stores I would visit, I would get at least 4 sales. So if I needed 8 sales, I only had to visit 20 stores. Insurance salespeople know the same percentage relationship between sales calls and sales. For every 100 sales calls they make, they will get a guaranteed number of clients - and the number very rarely varies.
So the secret for increasing the number of wins you get in any lottery game is to step on the gas - to do more so that your winning odds increases. Here's three ways to do it:
1. Do you only play one game a week? Try adding another game. If you play correctly, you'll be doubling your chances.
2. Instead of only buying one or two tickets at a time, buy 50 in the same game. You have immediately increased your winning chances by a huge margin.
3. Join a syndicate. This automatically increases the number of chances for winning. Look at the Powerball lottery winners stories on their website. You'll see that there are a large number of syndicates picking the winning lotto numbers.
So ramp up your winning odds and get the most number of lottery winning numbers by playing more often. Expand your reach faster and you'll be surprised how effective you'll become.
How to Win the Lottery - When is the Best Time to Start Playing to Win?
Many people like a routine. They very rarely act on a whim, but have set times for doing tasks. And it also applies to any major changes they make in life. For example, giving up smoking or losing weight seems to bring out a peculiar attitude in most people.
They want to do it, but they want to work it into their own pattern. So they're often set up for a period of rejection and failure. Want to know what stops them succeeding? It's very simple...
They always say they'll start on Monday.
It doesn't matter what day of the week it is at the moment. Many people will start a new project, change of habit or lifestyle on Monday. Sometimes it'll be a new year project, but mostly it's a defining start of the week date.
When they play lotto, it's often the same thing. They know the futility of playing with a quick pick computer number selection from the lottery store. They agree that a good system will do more for them. But they are reluctant to take the step and make the change.
It's the Monday thing all over again. And months or years later, after they see hundreds or thousands of winners achieving their goals they wonder how they got left so far behind.
Life and opportunity is short. You need to start right now... not on Monday, not in the new year, but right now.
So how do you get off your comfortable seat and take the action you need?
One of the best ways is to visualize your outcome. If you're going to play a high stake game with many millions of dollars in the jackpot, it's easy to imagine how you could spend it. Make a list. Fill out everything you've ever dreamed of. Imagine doing and possessing all the things on your list.
They want to do it, but they want to work it into their own pattern. So they're often set up for a period of rejection and failure. Want to know what stops them succeeding? It's very simple...
They always say they'll start on Monday.
It doesn't matter what day of the week it is at the moment. Many people will start a new project, change of habit or lifestyle on Monday. Sometimes it'll be a new year project, but mostly it's a defining start of the week date.
When they play lotto, it's often the same thing. They know the futility of playing with a quick pick computer number selection from the lottery store. They agree that a good system will do more for them. But they are reluctant to take the step and make the change.
It's the Monday thing all over again. And months or years later, after they see hundreds or thousands of winners achieving their goals they wonder how they got left so far behind.
Life and opportunity is short. You need to start right now... not on Monday, not in the new year, but right now.
So how do you get off your comfortable seat and take the action you need?
One of the best ways is to visualize your outcome. If you're going to play a high stake game with many millions of dollars in the jackpot, it's easy to imagine how you could spend it. Make a list. Fill out everything you've ever dreamed of. Imagine doing and possessing all the things on your list.
How to Win the Lottery - Climbing the Lottery Strategy Ladder For Low Risk Winnings
I retired from ladder climbing yesterday. Over the past week I had been painting some of my house, and it's a three story place. So I used my trusty Little Giant ladder to get to some high parts.
I enjoy doing this kind of work myself. My lottery income - using my skill in picking winning lottery numbers - means I have time to myself and can spend it as I wish.
So a little exercise and sunshine, doing what I want, is just fine.
But I got thinking. Friend of mine fell off a ladder a couple of days ago. It was just 3 meters (10 feet), but he broke his arm badly. He will need 6 month's therapy at least, and his life will be severely restricted.
No driving, writing or table tennis.
The accident rate for Do-It-Yourselfer's around the world is very high indeed. I have two other friends who have fallen from high places and permanently damaged themselves. They need to win lottery prizes to help with their health problems.
I knew I was toying with danger every time I climbed that ladder. A strong gust of wind, an insect distraction, and my days as a writer could be over.
Now, I'm not accident-prone. In fact, I can hardly remember any time when I have fallen accidentally in my lifetime - just once on a motorcycle, out of 20 years of riding - and not much else.
So today I decided to hire some professional painters. I'm giving up the risk and letting someone else manage it for me.
Winning the lotto game is the same. Even though the stakes are low each time - maybe just $10 or $20 a game for some - it is still a risk. You play against extreme odds.
So, like the house painting, it makes sense to employ a professional system to take the risk from you - to use an effective lottery strategy to improve your chances of winning lottery.
So many of us try to save money by doing the risky tasks ourselves. But you get better results employing professionals. Find a good system today and use it instead of your lotto quick pick or birthday number choices.
I enjoy doing this kind of work myself. My lottery income - using my skill in picking winning lottery numbers - means I have time to myself and can spend it as I wish.
So a little exercise and sunshine, doing what I want, is just fine.
But I got thinking. Friend of mine fell off a ladder a couple of days ago. It was just 3 meters (10 feet), but he broke his arm badly. He will need 6 month's therapy at least, and his life will be severely restricted.
No driving, writing or table tennis.
The accident rate for Do-It-Yourselfer's around the world is very high indeed. I have two other friends who have fallen from high places and permanently damaged themselves. They need to win lottery prizes to help with their health problems.
I knew I was toying with danger every time I climbed that ladder. A strong gust of wind, an insect distraction, and my days as a writer could be over.
Now, I'm not accident-prone. In fact, I can hardly remember any time when I have fallen accidentally in my lifetime - just once on a motorcycle, out of 20 years of riding - and not much else.
So today I decided to hire some professional painters. I'm giving up the risk and letting someone else manage it for me.
Winning the lotto game is the same. Even though the stakes are low each time - maybe just $10 or $20 a game for some - it is still a risk. You play against extreme odds.
So, like the house painting, it makes sense to employ a professional system to take the risk from you - to use an effective lottery strategy to improve your chances of winning lottery.
So many of us try to save money by doing the risky tasks ourselves. But you get better results employing professionals. Find a good system today and use it instead of your lotto quick pick or birthday number choices.
How to Pick Winning Lottery Numbers and Increase Your Lottery Payouts
This morning after breakfast I set my Roomba robot vacuum cleaner down on the kitchen floor, and pressed the 'on' button.
It gave a happy beep, and set off on its whirring, random path round the room.
In the middle of the floor was a small piece of fluff from our cat - probably a result of it cleaning itself in the middle of the night.
I call little bits of rubbish like this my 'control.' They help tell me when the floor has been properly cleaned.
And sure enough, when I returned an hour later, the control piece was gone.Success!
This is very much how a good lottery system works.
It crisscrosses around winning numbers in a seemingly random pattern.
Then, at some point one of the paths crosses a set of numbers, and a prize is won.
The most effective lottery systems will do this very quickly.
You can speed up the winning process even more by using these three tips:
1. Scale up. Think big... you won't get the best results by only playing just a few tickets each game. Time and time again it has been proven that to achieve great success, you need to do great things. In order to get large winnings, you need to play big. But that doesn't mean spending all your housekeeping in one go. It's always best to concentrate your larger investment in one game - but play less often.
2. Stick to your knitting. By that I mean you should play only one game, and resist any temptation to spread your playing investment around to other games. Many people are attracted by the larger payout and jackpots in multinational games like Powerball, Mega Millions and Euromillions. This is fine if they are available to you, but don't disregard your local games either - they could be hidden opportunities. While smaller lottery games may have a correspondingly smaller jackpot payout, the odds of winning are often better for you because fewer people play.
3. To really increase your winnings, play your chosen lottery game more frequently. Double up - it increases your chances a lot. I sometimes put two of my robot vacuum cleaners down in the same area, and the cleaning gets done much faster than twice as quickly. It is the same with anything... if you increase the number of times you play, buy tickets or increase the frequency of all these things combined, you're going to get faster results. This snowball effect is how great success in any field of endeavor is achieved.
Now you know the answer, get out there and start sucking up your game's winning numbers!
It gave a happy beep, and set off on its whirring, random path round the room.
In the middle of the floor was a small piece of fluff from our cat - probably a result of it cleaning itself in the middle of the night.
I call little bits of rubbish like this my 'control.' They help tell me when the floor has been properly cleaned.
And sure enough, when I returned an hour later, the control piece was gone.Success!
This is very much how a good lottery system works.
It crisscrosses around winning numbers in a seemingly random pattern.
Then, at some point one of the paths crosses a set of numbers, and a prize is won.
The most effective lottery systems will do this very quickly.
You can speed up the winning process even more by using these three tips:
1. Scale up. Think big... you won't get the best results by only playing just a few tickets each game. Time and time again it has been proven that to achieve great success, you need to do great things. In order to get large winnings, you need to play big. But that doesn't mean spending all your housekeeping in one go. It's always best to concentrate your larger investment in one game - but play less often.
2. Stick to your knitting. By that I mean you should play only one game, and resist any temptation to spread your playing investment around to other games. Many people are attracted by the larger payout and jackpots in multinational games like Powerball, Mega Millions and Euromillions. This is fine if they are available to you, but don't disregard your local games either - they could be hidden opportunities. While smaller lottery games may have a correspondingly smaller jackpot payout, the odds of winning are often better for you because fewer people play.
3. To really increase your winnings, play your chosen lottery game more frequently. Double up - it increases your chances a lot. I sometimes put two of my robot vacuum cleaners down in the same area, and the cleaning gets done much faster than twice as quickly. It is the same with anything... if you increase the number of times you play, buy tickets or increase the frequency of all these things combined, you're going to get faster results. This snowball effect is how great success in any field of endeavor is achieved.
Now you know the answer, get out there and start sucking up your game's winning numbers!
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