Playing the lottery is great fun. But arm yourself with some great lottery tips and you might just walk away a lottery winner too. (And don’t forget you can always go here to find latest lottery tips )

The most important lottery tip you can learn, is that nobody can “beat the system”. Every single ball has exactly the same chance of coming up as any other. So any crazy lottery systems claiming to pick numbers with a better chance of winning, or eliminate numbers with less chance of winning is utter rubbish.

Here’s 5 quick lottery tips based on avoiding the way a lot of other people pick their numbers – check here for more in-depth lottery tips

If you pick lottery numbers the same way as most people do, then when you hit the jackpot, you share that prize with everybody else who picked the same numbers.

[1] Don’t pick numbers that have already won, especially not from recent draws. Many players believe that winnings numbers are somehow lucky and therefore more likely to come up. Of course that isn’t true, but a lot of people do it.

[2] Don’t pick numbers based on an arithmetic sequence, such as 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, or 01, 11, 21, 31, 41, 49. People like number patterns – you would be stunned at how many people pick this way every single week.

[3] Don’t pick numbers according to a ‘tip’ service. Just imagine how many other people will use the same numbers!

[4] Don’t pick numbers purely according to family birthdays. Enormous numbers of lottery players choose the day of the birthday of family members when selecting lottery numbers. But there are only 31 days at most in a month – which means an awful lot of people pick all their numbers in that range.

[5] Don’t make a pattern on your playslip. Diagonal or straight lines in any direction, star shapes, boxes, zig-zags etc. You might think who else would do that? The answer is anywhere from tens of people to tens of THOUSANDS of people!

The easiest way to pick better lottery numbers, is to pick them totally at random. So pull bits of paper out of a bag. It won’t guarantee NOT picking a ‘bad’ set of numbers, but at least there’s a good chance you won’t be sharing your lottery millions with a loads of other ‘lucky’ winners.

One final pointer. Find out how your chances of winning the lottery can be better if you play LESS often.