There is a much better way to win, and I will tell you. But first I must confess that the term "way to win" is really eye bait; it is a way to improve your ridiculously low odds of winning.

People pretend that the reason the buy tickets is to enjoy the dream of winning. But they throw away real money for this dream, and really, they hope to win. They ignore the fact that the odds of winning are critical.

The chances of winning a huge amount like $80 million, or more, are ridiculously low. There is more chance of hitting a hole in one and then being struck by lightning.

Best Strategy

Decide on the minimum amount that will change your life - say $1 million. Then find a way to bet so that that is the only prize. A lottery may have lots of prizes of say $100. This greatly reduces your odds of winning the million. And then you probably bet the $100 on the next draw. Each time you bet, the house gets a cut, and your total chances of losing increase.

How you can bet for just a $1 million prize.

It is best to make just one bet, but if you want to still be in the running each week, then bet a smaller amount for say half the prize, and hope you win twice. The chance of 2 wins is much better than the chance of 1 big win in tattslotto!

The biggest major win only prize is in horse racing where you must pick the winner of all the races that day. Choose a major race because cheating, which IS rampant in horse racing, is less likely. If you pick 6 horses paying 10 to 1 each, $1 bet should return $1 million.

This only works if the gambling provider is not taking a cut of each race, which is what happens if you manually cascded your bets. If they take 10% of the pool from each of 6 races, they end up with 47% of the pool (0.9 to the power of 6 = 0.53); at 15% they get 62%. What you need is some kind of all-in-multi where the bookie just takes 20% of the total pool, rather than a % of each leg.