how do i increase my chances of winning the lottery?
111632
Only buying one ticket, there is no way to increase the odds in your favor as each draw brings the exact same odds of hitting your numbers.  Wish there was a way.
682887
Win the Lottery......then when you do share it with me....LOL
973124
so you want to be a professional gambler?  nothing wrong with that.\nI am presuming that you are thinking about playing in a casino, not lottery tickets.\nIf lottery tickets, no.   Mathematically it is almost impossible to win.\n\nCasino gambling, you can do.\nJust a couple of things to think about--\n1.  Do you live in a state where casino gambling is allowed, or do you live close enough to actually drive every day?\n2.  If yes to #1, do you or are you willing to learn the odds of your favorite game?  that way, you know if you are able to win that round or not, mathematically.\n3.  What do you need to earn per hour in order to live?  \nAdd up rent, car, insurance, food, clothing, and other expenses and divide it by how many hours you are planning on gambling per month.  If that amount is reasonable, go for it.\n\nWhatever you decide, have fun.
278588
Forget it. Best chance you have is the lottery.
220603
You've got to be joking.  Sorry, that's just not going to happen.  Buy a thousand lottery tickets if you want to try your luck, but even then you will have a VERY small chance of winning.
88571
This is what I'd do if I won the lottery, this way you don't have every nut-job out there and relatives crawling out of the woodwork at your door asking for everything under the sun. If you want to know how, you need to contact a lawyer and he/she will set you up.\n\nI am guessing that maybe this is the info you want, since your question was more of a statement...
275193
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_machine
997067
Play the lottery!!  Good luck!!
542214
Lottery Math will give you the odds.  See below.
410404
It is a scam / hoax / BS.\n\nThe lottery will not contact you if you win...you have to have the winning ticket in your hand and take yourself to the lotto outlet and have it scanned.\n\nIf you have any doubts...go to the website below and look up your scam-mail!
199502
It is highly dependent on which lottery.  However, regardless of which lottery (and whichever odds), the expected value is always less than 1, meaning that if you buy enough tickets to ensure a win, you will end up losing money.
11723
Look to this sites & find it:\nhttp://www.eightdegree.com/weblog/2004/12/lottery_winners.html
920478
win the lottery!\n\ngirls love money. the more you've got the more they can spend!\n\ntrue or what guys.
796216
First, choose lucky numbers.\nSecond, buy a ticket.\n\nIt really isn't complicated.
908589
Well, unfortunately, in order to have a good chance of winning the big prize, you'll probably have to spend more than the prize itself.  \n\nTo calculate the odds of winning, we start by finding the odds of getting one number.  In your scenario, it seems that there are 80 numbers, of which you've picked 40.  Neither the actual numbers themselves, nor the order they are selected makes any difference, since, presumably, each number has an equal chance of being picked.  For the first number, our odds are 40/80, or 1/2, since we have picked 40 numbers out of 80 total.  Not too bad, huh?\n\nWell, here's where it gets rough in a hurry.  We now need to get the second number.  The odds of us having this number have changed slightly, since one number is now off the board, to 39/79 (we have 39 numbers left, the board has 79 left).  This number must then be multiplied to the previous number, as only half of the situations have us selecting the first number correctly.  This comes out to 0.2468, or a little less than 1/4.\n\nContinuing along, each successive number has slightly decreasing odds, and must also be multiplied by the earlier odds as well.  So the odds on the third number are 40/80 * 39/79 * 38/78.  And so on, until we've calculated the odds of picking the 20th number (21/61) and multiplied it to the other 19 values.\n\nThe final value is a miniscule .00000003899, or 1 in 25.7 million.  By purchasing the second ticket, your odds increase to 2 in 25.7 million, with three tickets, the odds are 3 in 25.7 million, etc.  So to even have half a chance of winning, you will need to have a staggering 12.8 million tickets.  This may seem ridiculously high, but it's how lotteries, kenos, and other similar games of chance are able to do so well.\n\nHope this helps.
1170809
take a lottery.........ask yo wife 2 pray hard.........
549716
Go to "Who wants to be a millionaire" or win lotto