Here are five great tips to help you next time you purchase a lottery ticket. These suggestions won't increase your odds of winning but they can radically improve the sum you gain if you do win the lottery.

These 5 lottery winning tips are focused around avoiding the way a lot of other people pick their numbers. If you pick your numbers using a procedure that is unique to you, if you should scoop the jackpot you won't have to split it with numerous other winners. If you do make the error of selecting your numbers in the same way as a lot of other persons, you could just end up with a nice little earner rather than the life-changing amount that you could have won.

Here are the simple tips for making sure that your lottery jackpot is the slab of cash that will change your life:

1. Do not decide on numbers that have won in the past, especially not from recent draws. A lot of players think that winning numbers are somehow lucky and consequently more likely to be drawn again; of course this is not true but many of the population still pick their numbers in this way.

2. Don't pick numbers based on sequences, such as 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 01, 11, 21, 31, 41, 49. A lot of people love number patterns and you would be stunned at just how many people decide on their numbers via this routine every single week.

3. Do not decide on numbers that have been recommended by a lotto tips service; just think of how many other people will use the same numbers!

4. Don't pick numbers based on dates of birthdays. Enormous numbers of lottery players pick their birthday or the birthday of a family member when choosing their lotto numbers. But as we all know there are only thirty-one days at most in a month which means an awful lot of people pick all their numbers from that range.

5. Don't pick your numbers in a pattern arrangement on your play slip such as diagonal or straight lines in any direction. This is a very simple way of picking your numbers and as a result many others are probably picking their numbers in the same way.

The smartest way to go about selecting better lottery numbers is to choose them totally at random. You can do this by what ever method you are most comfortable with. One option is to write the numbers for your selected lottery on separate pieces of paper and then pull them from a hat; by choosing this sort of selection process you really are guaranteeing that your numbers are randomly picked. Selecting your numbers using such a method does not eliminate the possibility of ending up with a bad collection of numbers but it undeniably reduces the potential of you having to share a lotto win with many other lottery players.