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Want to boost your chances of scooping the massive £50million National Lottery jackpot tonight?

Change your name to John, become a builder and move to Birmingham.

According to experts on This Morning those more likely to win on the Lotto are those also named Margaret, Christine, Mary, Steven and William.

And if you buy your ticket in the Birmingham postcode then you apparently increase your chances even more because the city has a large amount of millionaires living there already.

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Betting expert Jessica Bridge from Ladbrokes offered her tips for winning the jackpot, joking with presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that people still have a few hours left if they want to retrain as a builder.

Fellow guest Adam Kucharski, author of The Perfect Bet, offered some more mathematical expertise revealing the most common numbers used are those 31 and under, because they are often people's birthdays.

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Adam recommended that now there were an extra 10 numbers to pick from - something which has caused controversy with people complaining it is now even harder to win - he said go high in your choices.

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It is now estimated that your chances of winning are one in 45 million - compared to one in 14 million before the changes.

The National Lottery revealed that the most common numbers that popped up were 23, 40 and 33 but those that were due their time in the sun were 6, 45 and bizarrely also 33 - so choose wisely.

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The numbers expert did add: "In theory some numbers have to be the most common. But it shouldn’t make a difference."

Holly and Phil were very interested in the different techniques used to try and better their chances but then soon realised they had given the game away to their millions of viewers.

"So we shouldn't have done this today and then picked those numbers! Blast!"

* This Morning is on weekdays, ITV at 10.30am