Not winning your lottery games? Here's 10 ways you're filling out tickets wrongly

A woman hands over her ticket in a Florida lottery store. Did she use the Silver Lotto System?

My eyes bugged out as I watched the guy fill out his ticket at my lotto shop. He searched the wall posters for inspiration, then jotted some numbers down.

Then he looked out the window (car licence plates?) and wrote some more. I think I even saw him fill in the time from the wall clock!

Most players fill out their tickets by guesswork when they don't have a System to go by.

These unfortunate people use superstition, mumbo-jumbo and useless numbers from all sorts of places, even lottery dice.

Yes, there are many ways to pick your tickets. This lottery dice is not one of them!

And they usually don't get a penny back in winnings for their efforts.

I know. Because in 20 minutes hanging round the lotto outlet while waiting for my mother-in-law to finish her shopping, I counted 14 people getting their tickets checked.

And not one payout among them.

Lotto players sit among discarded lottery tickets at a bar in Alaska.

If you read this list, you'll quickly see why losers crash. So all you have to do to winis by NOT following these 10 examples...

They use birthdates as the numbers
They fill their tickets using numbers diagonally
They fill in their ticket cross-ways, up and down
They use numerology by picking a name, then by matching each letter with a number (a=1, b=2, c=3 etc) they fill out the coupon
They see a psychic
They use the date
They mix and match different systems
They toss a dice
They use a free software system from the hundreds available
They use (un)Lucky Dips!

There is absolutely no way that any of these efforts will produce a single dollar, except by the remote chance of hitting a million to 1 shot.