How to play the Euro Millions lottery

And no, I'm not talking about filling out the playslip with your 5 main numbers and Lucky Stars.

I'm talking about maximising your chances to win the Euromillions jackpot. Now there are loads of pages on the web all trying to bamboozle people into using their system that will make you a lottery winner.

Really, spending 150 dollars on a lottery software programme is actually more stupid than blowing that same amount on say this week's Euromillions lottery draw (if you want to, click here: play euromillions online)

So what can you do? 2 things essentially:

1. Know your odds
The UK National Lotto odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 13,983,816, that is to say picking all 6 numbers correctly. This translates into roughly the same as flipping a coin and getting heads 24 times in a row.

Ok, so the Euro Millions Lotto odd are far worse, 1 in 76,275,360 of picking the jackpot numbers, but why do I prefer it? Well from matching 3 to 4 numbers in the UK Lotto, your odds shoot from 1 in 56 to 1 in 1031, whilst the Euro Millions Lotto offers 5 lower level tiers with odds that are less than the 1 in 1031. The highest of these 5 Euro Millions Lotto low level prizes will pay out roughly £25.00. This I add to my Euro Millions Lotto budget, and allows me to play more often (for the jackpot of course) without having to go over the lotto budget.

2. Be Random
We all have our favourite numbers and most use birthdays, anniversaries etc to help pick numbers - DON'T - everyone does and by being more random you will increase your chance of not having to share the Euro Millions Lotto jackpot with anyone, although it doesn't increase your chance of hitting the jackpot. (There was a draw a while back - UK lotto - whereby the jackpot winners actually got less than the next lower prize tier).