The only way to really increase the odds of winning any lottery is to buy more tickets. The more tickets you buy, the more chances you have to win,  Kapoor said. I've seen it all and those tips are usually technically true but useless, or are just not true,  said Lesser, who maintains a website on lottery literacy.
Older style fruit machines would work purely on the basis of probability in terms of how much money they would pay out. Modern machines are usually set to pay out a certain percentage of any money that is put into them (usually between 75% and 80%).