If you are looking for tricks to win the lottery, it's important to know up front that there are no real guarantees for this. Many have claimed to have found the right way to win lottery jackpots and lower-tier prizes over the years, but their loopholes and claims were soon shut down for good reason.

There are however, pointers to increase your chances of winning and, here, we can start with frequency. The more times you enter, the more significant your chances of winning could be. The US Powerball and French Lotto can be good for regular frequency. Each of them are drawn three times per week, where many other global lotteries only happen once or twice per week. So, with the US Powerball or French Lotto, you have opportunity to win at the start, in the middle and toward the end of any given week.

You can also look to the lotteries with the strongest odds. Again, there are no guarantees that these ratios will work out for you when the draws come around, but there is enough of a track record to put one higher than another in terms of the chances of winning the jackpot or any prize. Take, for instance, the French Lotto again. Here, the chances of winning any prize are about one in six. That's really low in comparison to, say, the German Lotto's one in 31, Swedish Lotto's one in 55 and Polish Lotto's one in 57 in the same category.

If you want to improve your chances of winning the lottery, the Irish Lotto can be a good choice among lotteries with the best jackpot odds. The chances of winning the main prize for this draw are approximately one in 11 million. Those odds are stronger than the Polish Lotto's one in 14 million and German Lotto's one in 15.5 million, but not as good as the Austrian Lotto's one in 8 million or Swedish Lotto's one in 6.7 million.

This also is not a guarantee, but might help you feel more confident with the numbers that you enter - use your own manual selection. When entering the lottery in person or online, you can generally go for your own picks or those of a computer-generated selection. Those who opt for their own numbers often base these on important dates in their lives.

Birthdays, anniversaries and other milestones can feature. For example, the fourth day of May might be important to someone who enters the lottery and they could therefore select 4 and 5 for their ticket to represent the day and month of the year. The actual year could be included, too. For instance, 1941 could be spilt into 19 and 41. For those who are into numerology, they might take signals from this for their ticket numbers as well. And there are dreams, which many take note of, especially the numerical representations therein.

At the end of the day, though, to reiterate, there are no guarantees for which numbers you pick. It all comes down to chance and the anticipation of seeing if your numbers came good.

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