Winning the big lottery; man I had big, big dreams of this for a long time now. Last Friday when she got up there to 640 million dollars, I just knew it was going to be a special night. Well I didn’t win, but I did daydream pretty hard and I think I got my money’s worth from all the cool dreams I had. So I didn’t win it and more than likely, the odds would say you didn’t win it either. What do we do now?

Well there’s two train of thoughts here. If you only play the lottery when it’s super big; then that is a great method for playing the lottery. I use to make fun of people who only play during the really big times, know that the smaller ones like 5 or 10 million would change their lives forever. I now take that back and believe it is a good way and a safe way to play the lottery. If you only play it when its really, really big; then you want be losing a lot of lotto money for tickets. So please keep playing, if you just like the 200 or 300 million dollar jackpots. This is a low-cost and efficient way to play. As long as you spend 5 to 20 dollars or around that range. Don’t go crazy and spend hundreds or even thousands, like some folks were doing this past Friday. That is just plain crazy!
Now the other way to play the lottery and this is the way I am currently doing it, is to play each and every drawing. I decided the odds for the Powerball and Mega Millions are just too steep for my blood. If I could win 100 to 300 thousand dollars, this would be life-changing money for me. No, it wouldn’t last my whole life, but it would be a nice little nest egg to play with and I would have tons of fun investing money like this. In Georgia, they have a game called Fantasy 5. You just pick 5 numbers between 1-39 and there is no powerballs or megaballs to worry about. Just a simple and straight 5 numbers and this is something you could win in your lifetime. I have hit 4 numbers before, so I just need to figure out a way to snag that 5th number and hope it’s a big jackpot on the night I win it.

The Fantasy 5 in GA, starts out at the 50K mark. This is a lottery game that draws their numbers nightly. So you don’t have to wait day after day for the drawing to come. If you don’t win today, then you have another drawing coming up in 24 hours and I like that. If there is no 50K winner, then the jackpot for Fantasy 5 rolls over to the next night. It keeps going up, until there is a winner and then it starts back over again at the $50,000 level. It got over 1 million dollars last weekend and I really wished I had won it then. So as you can see, its not a super big lottery, but one that is fun to play and really not that expensive. If you match just two of the numbers, you can cash-in the ticket and get a free Fantasy 5 ticket for the next drawing. If you match 3 numbers, you will win different amounts. It is usually between 8 to 12 dollars, but it all depends on how many other players matched 3 numbers too. If you luck up and get 4 numbers right, you can usually expect about $100 to $150; but I wasn’t that lucky when I got my 4 numbers right. It only paid about 60 or 65 dollars then; which was a lot lower than it normally pays out for matching 4 numbers.
Tip #1 – Play Smaller Lottery Games

If you live in Georgia or near the Georgia border, go buy you a Fantasy 5 ticket and you can play the same number for multiple draws. My pattern right now starts out on a Friday morning. Every Friday morning, I go to the same Exxon Gas Station, which is about a mile and a half from my house. I actually pass another lottery store on the way to this Exxon Station, because I like the people who run it better than the other store. I will hand in my play slip for Fantasy 5 and it will have 5 numbers filled in. On the left side of the play slip, I will darken in the box for “7” next to the big letters of M-U-L-T-I-D-R-A-W. Players have a choice, where they can play the same numbers for 2 – 14 days on a single play slip. So playing it for 7 days, will cost me seven dollars; which isn’t that much. If you can afford a dollar a day, you could do this same formula too. If you could afford 2 dollars a day, you could fill out the play slip the exact same way, but just fill in 2 sets of 5 numbers. This would give you better odds of winning. You can actually pick up to 10 sets of numbers on a single Fantasy 5 play slip. You may choose your numbers each and every time or you can just fill in a few unique numbers and just darken in the “QP” on the play slip; which stands for Quick-Pick.
Tip #2 – Play Everyday
By me playing a set of numbers each and every day of the week, I have a chance to win the lottery every day. I do try to play the Mega Millions some too; since it is only a dollar to play. The Powerball Lottery Game has decided to go up on their ticket prices and it will cost you 2 dollars, if you want to play just 1 number on it. I wish I had enough money each week, where I could play the Mega Millions twice weekly, the Powerball twice weekly, and the Decades of Dollars Lottery Game twice each week. Decades of Dollars is the one that will pay you a $1,000 a week for life! Yes, you heard me right, if you win it, you would get $1000 each and every week for as long as you live on this great Planet Earth! However, this is another lottery game that is like Powerball and it will cost you $2 to play just 1 set of numbers. If I wanted to play all 3 of these big lotteries (6 nights a week) and continue my Fantasy 5 routine, it would cost me $17 per week or about $70 a month. Spending seventy bucks a month is a little pricey and if you didn’t win anything, you would be out of a nice piece of change. Most would figure (or assume) they would win some, so in reality you might get “lucky” and end up paying 40 to 50 bucks a month, to play all 3 big lotteries and the Fantasy 5; seven days a week. Leave off the Fantasy 5 numbers and you could spend 4 dollars on Powerball, 4 dollars on Decades of Dollars, and 2 dollars on Mega Millions Lottery for a grand total of 10 bucks per week. This would only be 3 dollars more, than what I am spending now and 6 out of 7 nights, you would have a chance at a really, really nice prize. As tempting as that sounds, I still like the fact, I am saving 3 dollars per week and playing a game that I could actually win in my lifetime, without having too much luck on my side.
Tip #3 – Pick Hot Numbers
Playing the same set of numbers for 5 to 10 days in a row, is an effective way to play. Sometimes we get discouraged when the numbers are not even close to ours and we will want to make changes. If you will make the commitment early and pick 1 set of numbers and play them for an entire week, you will see the numbers do come back to you. Stay positive and you must play if you plan on winning. You got have a ticket, so go out and buy 1 today. Please don’t forget me and if this blog post inspired you enough, to go out and buy a few tickets and you did happen to win; then please, please don’t forget about the poor online blogger, who is dreaming of a winning ticket! Thank you and I wish you the very bestest of luck possible!!! Have fun and enjoy lottery friends