>They are not scams, they are “funny taxes” Or, as the cynics over here refer to it "The Stupid Tax". The odds of winning £1million on the UK National lottery

>They are not scams, they are “funny taxes” Or, as the cynics over here refer to it "The Stupid Tax". The odds of winning £1million on the UK National lottery are 14,000,000-1. If you really want to maximise your chances of winning £1million, go down your local friendly bookies and see if you can find 1,000,000-1 odds being offered on any stupendously unlikely event and put your money on that. Your bet is 14 times as likely to come up as your lottery ticket is.