Let me warn you up front – virtually every lottery system out there is total junk. So be prepared for some honest lottery system reviews… a lot of people aren’t going to like this…
The creators and publishers of junk systems would love to pay me fat commissions to promote their products. It ain’t gonna happen! Because I won’t see you waste your money buying rubbish that does not help you one tiny bit.
It makes me mad that there is so much rubbish out there. Some of it is well meaning, but a lot isn’t. And the bottom line is the same anyway – they make money selling you junk, and you get ZERO benefit out of it. How do they escape prosecution? In some cases, very careful wording. In others, it beats me!
The Good
This is a depressingly small list which I would love to add to – so please do tell me anything I’ve missed.
1. Lottery Syndicates – simple and cannot fail. More tickets means a better chance of winning. You do of course trade a better chance of winning with having to share the prizes. But that’s reality. And who minds sharing if you actually do win. Love My Lotto is a current favourite. But also check for Special Offers from the BFL Syndicates.
2. Win Lotto Systems – a book and software package from Mark Collard/Prof William Foster. The book is a rare gem in a mine full of nonsense – sensible, logical lottery playing tips and strategies.
Read my detailed Win Lotto Systems Review
3. How to Win More: Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win – good solid advice on playing the lottery. (This ones on Amazon).
4. How To Win Scratchers – if you buy scratch off lottery tickets, this will give you some solid strategies such as knowing which is the best scratch-off ticket to buy each week. (NOTE: please do NOT buy any other lottery products from ‘Ace Lee’ though – see below)
The Bad
Please don’t buy any of the lottery books or systems below. They are a waste of your money. If you want to discuss any of them in more detail, contact me, but please don’t put any more money in these peoples pockets.
Lottery Audit Review – Lottery Audit is a subscription service for online lottery analysis software. It’s nice looking simple software, but there is no evidence than analysing results does anything to help you win.
Richard Lustig Lottery Book / ‘Learn How To Increase Your Chances of Winning The Lottery’ – Florida lottery winner Richard is a “7 times grand prize winner” and says it has nothing to do with luck. I can’t agree I’m afraid.
Honest Lottery System / Silver Lotto System / Ken Silver – Based on silly maths, and ‘just keep trying’ when you don’t win. Ken does very well selling his systems. You’ll see pictures of his expensive cars on his website – “bought by lotto” he says. Read very carefully between the lines though, as he never actually says he won the lotto to pay for them, he just says the lotto paid for them, wonder how…
Gail Howard / Smart Luck / Lottery Wheeling – the fact is, wheeling cannot and does not increase your chances of winning. This fact is carefully left out when selling wheeling products. The ‘proof’ offered up by Smart Luck of “look at our winners” is misleading. The truth is that people who buy wheeling systems end up buying a lot more tickets and THAT is the ONLY thing that increases their chances. Smart Luck also recommend silly advice such as avoiding combinations that have never been picked before. Bottom line – in 27 years of ‘Gail’ flogging lottery systems, I would expect a hell of a lot better results IF they actually worked.
Stefan Vandevelde – Inverted Lottery System / Change Lottery Rules / Winslips.com – lots of pointless analysis of past results (now with Winslips it’s all done for you by clever computers and stuff…), together with just enough maths to sound ‘advanced’. Bottom line is the lottery is still random Stefan no matter how much you want it to be different.
The Lotto Black Book / QRV Holdings / Giancarlo Cappuccio – Larry Blair got shot in the foot but won the lottery twice. Apparently. Or maybe the photo of the lottery winner shown is just copied from the Oklahoma lottery website… the winner who actually used a quick pick to win the jackpot in 2006..!? Watch out though as there are “only 134 copies left”… oh wait, it’s said that since at least September 2009.
Updated for 2011: now we have a new sales page – I guess some of those 134 ebooks must still be left then 
. Gone are the old borrowed photos (too many people figure it out?) and instead we have new borrowed winners photos (with a disclaimer stating they didn’t actually win using this system!). Plus claims of how it must be good because look at all the people who are promoting it… who have never actually bought it, but are willing to make a fast buck if they can convince people to buy this junk. Larry is planning on using your $96.83 (ouch!) to build a library. Maybe he’ll show us a photo of that next year.
Mark Bower / Winning The Lottery In 3 Steps – our first Larry Blair copycat. Is Mark Bower’s winners photo genuine, do those winners checks look more than a little bit photoshopped with his name, or what about the Facebook style comments at the bottom of the sales pitch – genuine? Yeah, right. I actually laughed out loud at the bit in the sales letter that said it was all based on a ‘vast study’ by a ‘Belgian science man’… I think they call them scientists Mark. Totally absurd.
Formula 1 Lotto System / ‘Glen Hooke’ – silly sales letter with claims of a system developed by an MIT Professor that took 27 years to develop. He must be a slow Professor – although amusingly it used to say 9 years. Yet another system that claims to eliminate bad numbers and combinations that won’t win. If there were any bad numbers it would not be a fair and legal lottery!
Lottery Crusher – from the incredibly cheesy video to the ludicrous claims this one is not hard to avoid. ‘We have helped millions of people win’ they say, but frankly there isn’t a snowballs chance in hell that they have millions of customers. This pile of hype is just the same old useless past results analysis software yet again.
Lottery Checkmate System / Sergey Tabin – claims to make 3,000 – 10,000 per month playing the lottery, but provides no evidence whatsoever. Daft system ‘based on the game of chess’, which of course couldn’t be more different to playing the lottery.
Lotto Sorcerer – lottery prediction software based on the silly claim that tiny mechanical imperfections in draw machines and lottery balls make the lottery predictable. They don’t.
Lottery Variant System – same old garbage. Big claims, no details and no evidence except checks copied from other websites!
Lotto Hat Software – the wheeling aspects of this software might be useful, but as is typical with this kind of lottery software it’s drowned out by all the garbage about past results analysis to help you predict results. Which it can’t do of course.
Lotto Master Formula - junk system based on analysing past results, and apparently copied from another junk system anyway. Lots of highly dubious claims in the sales letter, and a couple of obvious lies too (e.g. the lottery scam letter as proof of winnings, and the ‘only 500 copies’ nonsense).
Lotto Guy Lottery System / Smart Play Lotto Wheels – more silly prediction software. But the best bit is the hilarious claims of being “University Developed, Tested and Proven” – now there’s a research paper I would love to read 
. Oh, and I’m sure the name similarity is merely coincidental.
Lottery Method / How To Win Pick 3, 4, 5, 6 / Ace Lee – bad advice based on analysing past results and drawing incorrect conclusions (his ‘Scratchers’ book has merit, see above, but not these).
‘Winning Lotto’ / 1,000 Weeks Of Lotto / Terry Fisher / LottoMasta – lots of wheeling systems which do not increase your chances of winning, plus advice on strategy which is actually wrong!
Bob Brown Lottery System / LottoMillions.com – fun story but ultimately a load of baloney. Feel free to buy a very expensive poster if you want to share in Bob’s big joke.
Winning Lottery Lines/ Schneider Software / Harry Schneider – well meaning but fundamentally flawed. Sorry Harry but you just can’t eliminate combinations as unlucky because they haven’t been drawn before. No matter what maths you wrap it up in.
Lotto Strategies For Winners / Richard Wilson – apparently he’s dying from cancer so has now chosen to reveal his amazing secret – for just $77 (because if it was free, you wouldn’t read it… right?). The winners photos are not him and have been copied without permission. The winners cheques are not his and have been copied from other websites. And the system is just more silly past results analysis and exclusion of ‘unlikely’ combinations – total rubbish.
Beat The Lotto – irrelevant past results analysis and wheeling.
VK’s Winning Lottery Method – yet more past results analysis (pointless hot and cold number theory).
Lottery Harvester – just overpriced wheeling system software offering only one system for your money. System 12 is one piece of software, System 15 is another! Plus some very dubious claims of ‘thousands’ who regulary collect cash using it, plus ‘many’ who have won $100,000+.
Lottery Statistic Analyser – first the author states that ‘no software can predict the lottery’, then provides software that does exactly that. He doesn’t however see the contradiction in this as he says it’s up to you to determine if you think the predictions are the winning numbers..! I’ll leave you to decide if that’s a circular argument or not. But needless to say using those predictions will not help you win. (From 12 years of availability the only quoted results were ’4 small wins in 3 weeks’ – now removed).
Learn Lottery – silly past results analysis and incorrect conclusions.
Chris Malcolm Lottery System – more of the same silliness. But bundled in a package of systems for everything from Pick 3 to Pick 6. So you get a lot of rubbish for your money instead.
Robert Walsh Pick 3/4 Systems – more silly analysis of past results to try and predict the unpredictable, for games with very small prizes! Well meaning, but don’t waste your money.
Lotto Puppeteer – garbage. Lottery companies make a profit regardless of whether anyone wins the jackpot. So don’t fall for the rubbish about insider lottery secrets. And as for the 10% to charity sob story – if you want to donate your winnings to charity you can do without buying this rubbish.
Hi nice site could you please tell me am I reading it correct that this Ken Silver offers a syndicate where you pay him and he chooses the numbers but he never shows you the numbers? I understand he has many people paying and “trusting” him? If true then this should be reported to the police in New Zealand.
Apparently so, or not in advance anyway. But I’ve not played in it, and wouldn’t recommend anyone else does either. You should always know your syndicate numbers in advance – there’s no good reason why not. But as far as I know there’s nothing illegal about it.
I’m a Tattersalls lottery agent (SW of Sydney), and can say with authority (which attracts a great deal more credibility than an anonymous entry here) that scanning Australia LottoBloc’s own stats, Quick Pick entries account for approx 40% of all entries, but account for less than 15% of all winning entries. The biggest group of winning entries comes from individuals (as distinct from System Entries) follow close by Sydnicates – with about 25% share of the prize pool each. By Tatts own admission, they love to promote when Quick Pick entries win cos they want more people to use them = easier / more money. We sell several forms of in-house syndicates using a popular lotto systems software, and it is rare that one of these groups does not win each week. I have no clue where ‘You’ is getting his data, but it doesn’t jell with my experience. Anyways, just my two cents worth….
Actually Ben, you just proved his point that you have to “buy more tickets” to win which is what a pool does using a system or not.
Hey Lottery Guy, I live in Minneasota and want to join a lottery sydicate that is not going to break me monthly – can you advise? Thank you for your hard work to help us win.
Hey Lorenzo
Your options are still pretty limited in the US. Wintrillions run a Powerball and Mega Millions syndicate, which may suit you. You can find that here.
To Lorenzo of Minnesota, I’m Beulah from Indiana and I joined Lotto Magic, based in FL. It’s also a milto-level deal, been around a long time.