Australia is in the midst of a stream of mammoth lotto draws and this week could be your chance to become a millionaire.
It's the biggest line up of jackpots ever advertised in Australian lotto history and everyone wants to get their hands on the prize money.
Tuesday July 28: $15 Million Draw Super 7's Oz Lotto Draw: 806
Thursday July 30: $80 Million Jackpot Powerball Draw: 689
Saturday August 1: $20 Million Draw Tattslotto Draw: 2925
Double million dollar lottery winner Terry Fisher has created two websites and a book to help Aussies improve their chances of winning.
Visit his websites:
www.ozlottoblog.com
www.winpowerballblog.com
Some of his tips for this week's multi million dollar line up include:
Your best bet is Powerball's record $80 million jackpot
Play a system entry in lottery
Play all 45 numbers
Make sure you have around the same amount of odd and even numbers
Take the mystical route
Meet psychic Danae Thorp, owner of Melbourne’s The Spellbox shop, which is enjoying an upswing in sales in the lead-up to the massive Lotto jackpots of the past couple of months.
Danae appeared on A Current Affair on June 19.
Watch the video
She admits that when it comes to games of chance, people make their own luck.
But she says there are some fun ways people can invite good fortune into their lives for the big lotto draw.
Danae's tips:
Get some green candles
Light them inside a square box inside a larger triangle
Danae says this will invite manifestation of the earth powers.
Herbs could also be burnt – try cloves and cinnamon
Also smear a little patchouli oil on your ticket.
Other magical tips for lottery wins:
Fill out a lottery ticket at home
Light one green candle for each of the numbers in order to fill the ticket during the spell
Sit in front of the candles and watch each one, trying to see a number in its flame
Fill out the lottery ticket according to the number you saw in each candle
Snuff out the candles and leave them as they are for three days
On the fourth day play your ticket. If this fails, play the ticket on the third day next time. Repeat this procedure, going back and forth if need be
Tips from Lottery Syndicate World
OK – so the world of spells and magic is certainly not for everyone. Punters interested in grounding their luck in the physical realm can try adopting their strategy using simple reason.
According to Martin Waterhouse - publisher of the internet's foremost lottery syndicate review and lottery tips site, Lottery Syndicate World - these tips won't increase your chances of winning, because only more entries can do that. But if they could potentially increase the amount you win if your numbers do come up.
The trick is to avoid the way a lot of other people are likely pick their numbers. 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.
So that million-dollar jackpot could be reduced to a few thousand.
Here's those quick tips for making sure that your lottery jackpot is the life changing sum you are looking for:
Don't just 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. Many people do that already.
Don't pick numbers based on an arithmetic sequences, 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.
Don't pick numbers according to a professional 'tip' service. Just imagine how many other people will use the same numbers.
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.
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, fastest way to pick better lottery numbers is to pick them totally at random. So pull scraps 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 hundred other 'lucky' winners.
The Science behind winning
Statistics professor Stephen Clarke, from Swinburne University, calculated the odds of hitting the big one back in 2006.
"The average Australian, even if they buy their ticket a couple of hours before the draw is made, they've got more chance of dying before the draw is made than they have of actually winning the first prize," Dr Clarke says.
But you do have a much better chance of scooping some of the pool and here's how you can increase your chances of winning more money.
The professor's top three tips for increasing your winnings are:
1. Keep away from group syndicates — that way, if you do win, you don't have to split the prize.
2. Don't go for expensive system entries. You get more numbers, but the odds aren't very much greater.
3. Don't choose popular numbers such as birthdays and anniversaries. Again, this will ensure there are fewer people to share the winnings with.
