Consecutive lottery numbers increase shared prize winnings

During the National Lottery on Saturday 23 January last year the UK lottery numbers drawn were 24, 25, 26, 38, 39, 40 which some may consider strange and may encourage regular lottery plans to take a risk on consecutive sequences for the future.

There are some keen National Lottery followers who think the odds of consecutive numbers being drawn are larger than ‘unconnected’ numbers; however, this is just not the case. The odds for any combination consecutive lottery numbers being drawn are always 1 in 13,983,816 which makes the sequence of: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 just as likely as any other consecutive sequence.

The inherent problem of entering a pattern of lottery numbers for many players is this will actually increase your chances of sharing any potential jackpot.

If you want to reduce your chances of having to share the jackpot it is recommend buying a National Lottery Lucky Dip ticket or just randomly pick the numbers yourself. The odds then of you taking the jackpot prize are still 1 in 13,983,816, however, it is unlikely (although not completely impossible) that another person will have picked the same lottery numbers as you.