The Jan. 10 Powerball winner will be taking home a grand prize of $800 million. Woah! That’s a lot of money to miss out on. If you don’t want to be left in the dust then you’re going to need all the help you can get. Turn the luck in your favor and put these techniques into play!
1. Let technology control your fate! Experts say that by allowing a computer generator to pick the numbers, ticket buyer’s opportunity of winning actually goes up. Around 70 percent of previous winners used a computer system like Quick Picks to choose the digits.
2. If you’ve won with certain numbers in the past, play them again! A man named Richard Lustig has won the lottery 7 times and he’s positive that by replaying his numbers, he’s increased his odds.
3. Pool your tickets. A method known as “pooling” is where a handful of people share the expense of tickets in order to buy larger quantities of them. This will allow hopeful winners to use more numbers and different variations of them. However, it also means sharing the dollars though, so think wisely before using this tip!
4. Track numbers. Yet another idea is to play “hot numbers,” or numbers that have shown up multiple times throughout a specific game. On the flip side, people can also look for “cold numbers,” which, obviously, are just numbers that haven’t appeared in a while, and count those ones out. Easy enough right?!
What do you think HollywoodLifers, are you going to put some of these devices to use? Let us know!