Just about everyone would love to discover how to select lucky numbers. Many people will tell you there is some insider secret strategy to winning big lotto jackpots . Have ever really thought about what it would be like to win a huge prize from your state lottery? How you could finally pay off your bills, but a new house of your dreams, get a new Cadillac, and go on a really nice vacation, and live like you’ve always wanted?

If you are like most lotto players, you’ve probably figured out that the big winners have some angle that the rest of us just aren’t privey to yet. Maybe they have a super secret strategy . Heck, there are even people who have won the lottery more than once. Surely those folks have  some sort of inside track to choosing the wining numbers, don’t they?

The sad thing is that while the odds aginst winning are astronomical for the uninformed  , plenty of people have dveloped systems to improve their chances of winning, and increasing the size of their jackpots when they win. However, the vast majority of these folks fail to refine their systems to the point where they have real value. Instead, they just sit on the sidelines of the real game, wishing they could be big winners. After all, it is quite a bit of work to refine any system, especially one as complicated as any system has to be to get winning numbers on a regular basis .

What happens if you get it right? Have you heard about the man who actually did spend the time working all the bugs out of his lottery system? In fact, by the time he was done tinkering, it was a roaring success. It was so successful he won more than once, and kept on winning. . Naturally, he was in the news, as you’d expect someone who has won multiple lottery jackpots to be. He caught the attention of the wrong people, who wanted to discover his secret to winning.One day they actually tried to kidnap him and force him to reveal his secrets. During his escape, he was actually shot for his efforts! Of course, that got him in the news one more time! .

There are some common strategies lottery players use to pick their lucky numbers. You probably use, or have used some of these yourself, with different degrees of success  :

Dates - 

No, this is not having your date pick the lucky numbers for you, it is the common practice of using birthdays or aniversaries for picking lucky numbers. According to lottery experts not only do many people use this technique, this is the most popular method people use to choose their lucky numbers . Unfortunately that means it has one big drawback. Since it so popular, and people are choosing their numbers from a pool of only 31 numbers (the number of days in a month), any winner you get will likely be shared by many other people. You don’t want to share your jackpot with 7 other like minded people, do you?

Recently Drawn Numbers -

You can go to the state lottery website and it will show you which numbers have hit recently, and which haven’t. Many serious players use this info to pick their numbers. Unfortunately, just because the numbers haven’t hit for a while doesn’t mean they are “overdue” to deliver you a big jackpot winner any time soon. You can use this method, but you’d probably be better off trying something else.

8 Year Strategy -

What about using the same strategy that the man who got shot for his troubles uses?  That one has demonstrated success behind it, so it only makes sense to try it out, wouldn’t you think? No question about it, if you can discover a winning system without spending 8 long years refining it so it works, that is the fastest and easiest way to go. It’s all about finding your lucky lotto numbers, right?