Every week, you hear news that someone won the lottery. You hear hundreds of these stories every year. You play the lottery all the time, but it's always someone else that wins. It's never you. Why? Perhaps you've just been playing wrong. There are things that you could do to increase your chances of winning the lottery.

The number one thing you could do is change the game you play. Instead of playing the high jackpot games, play games with better odds. That sounds simple, right? But that could increase your chances of winning the jackpot many times over.

Here's an example - Say you're a regular Mega Millions player. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are approximately 175-million-to-1. Now, instead of playing Mega millions, try choosing a game with better odds of winning, like a state lottery game. Say you find a state lottery game that offers odds of 15-million-to-1. Just by changing to that game from Mega Millions, you will be approximately 12 times more likely to win. See how simple it is?

The problem is that we use our emotions when buying lottery tickets. We see a high jackpot and that's the game we want to play. We just want to win a lot of money, as much as possible. But that's how those lotteries get us. They make a lot of money from players like us that bet emotionally instead of with our senses.

The next thing you could do to increase your chances of winning the lotto is to join a lottery pool. See, the more tickets you buy, the better your odds of winning. But you shouldn't be buying too many tickets yourself. That would be financially irresponsible. So, playing as a group is the solution.

Let's say that, as a group, you could buy 20 tickets per draw. If the odds of winning the lottery are, say, 15-million-to-one, then with 20 tickets the odds decrease to 750,000-to-1. See how the odds change drastically when you buy more tickets?

Hopefully, now you have a better sense of what you can do to increase your chances of winning the lottery. Good luck and may you win a big jackpot one day!