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Hit it big in lotteries!Play with friends!The easiest way to boost your odds of winning a lottery is to get more tickets so you have more chances to win—and you can do that without spending an extra

dime! “All it takes is forming a lottery pool with a bunch of friends, family or co-work-ers where you agree to pitch in to buy tickets together and split the pot if

your numbers come up,” says Avery Cardoza, founder of LotterySuperSystem.com. That way, instead of playing with just a few tickets, you can end up playing with a hundred or more!

Boost your luck with scratch-o s!The trick to hitting a payday with scratch-offs is to do a little bit of homework before you buy a ticket, says Sandra Grauschopf, the About.com contest and sweepstakes expert who has won thousands of dollars worth of prizes. And that’s easier than you may think! Simply do a quick Internet search for “scratch-off lottery” and your state’s

name to � nd the lottery website for your state. It will tell you which scratch-off games offer the best odds, how many top prizes are given out by each game, plus how many of those prizes have already

been claimed and—perhaps most impor-tant—how many are still available, so you have the most accurate and comprehensive picture of your chances of winning!

—Gabrielle Lichterman

Win lotteries, sweepstakes and more!

Bookmark your favorite sweeps!The most successful sweepstakes winners make it easy to remember to submit the maximum number of entries they’re allowed, upping their chances of nabbing a prize, and you can do it, too. Bookmark your favorite sweepstakes sites (Contests.About.com, Online-Sweepstakes.com, SweepsAdvantage.com

and Winit.WomansWorldMag.com) in your browser and save

them in folders based on how frequently you can

enter, such as once, daily, weekly or monthly, says Graus-chopf. Then, to ensure you never acciden-tally miss a chance to submit an entry, she advises setting aside a speci� c time of day for entering your favorite sweepstakes

—such as while drinking your morning

coffee or while winding down in the evening—so

that it becomes a habit.

Double-check contest rules!Love showing off your creativity in contests where entrants compete for the best photos, videos, recipes, essays and more? You don’t have to be a professional to win—amateurs take top prizes all the time. But you do have to follow the rules to a T, says Carolyn Wilman, founder of ContestQueen.com and author of How to Win Cash, Cars, Trips & More! “Skill-based contests have very speci� c requirements. If you miss one component, you’ll disqualify yourself.” So locate the rules on the contest’s website or request them via mail or e-mail, then study them carefully!

Snag sweepstakes and contest prizes!

Dream of hitting it big in lotteries, sweepstakes and contests? Here are the experts’ secrets to winning cash, cars, vacations and more!

and Winit.WomansWorldMag.com) in your browser and save

them in folders based on how frequently you can

enter, such as once, daily, weekly or monthly, says Graus-chopf. Then, to ensure you never acciden-tally miss a chance to submit an entry, she advises setting aside a speci� c time of day for entering your favorite sweepstakes

scratch-off games offer the best odds, how many top prizes are given out

have the most accurate and comprehensive

—such as while drinking your morning

coffee or while winding down in the evening—so

that it becomes a habit.

Bookmark your favorite sweepstakes sites (Contests.About.com, Online-Sweepstakes.com, SweepsAdvantage.com sites (Contests.About.com, Online-Sweepstakes.com, SweepsAdvantage.com

down in the evening—so that it becomes a habit.down in the evening—so

that it becomes a habit.

Rake in more prizes

at bingo! Every bingo card has an equal

chance of winning, but you can

increase your odds of having the

winning card by competing against

fewer players, says Cardoza. “So, look

for smaller bingo venues or play

during times when crowds are

thinner, for instance, on rainy days!”

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