TRY IT YOURSELF

1 Head to the scratchcard page of the National Lottery website. You can see how many of the top prizes for each scratchcard are left, and click through and read the back of each scratchcard to find the odds. 2 There’s a theory out there that buying scratch cards from different places increases your chances of winning. However, it turns out this is a myth, so don’t bother wasting your energy going from shop to shop. 3 There’s a roughly one-in-three chance of winning on the £250 Million Cash Spectacular, (£10 a play), compared to the one in 4.64 chance on the £1 Cash Tripler. But you have more to lose: we think this one is best left to the experts.