  We report a new result on lotteries --- that a well-funded syndicate has a
purely mechanical strategy to achieve expected returns of 10\% to 25\% in an
equiprobable lottery with no take and no carryover pool. We prove that an
optimal strategy (Nash equilibrium) in a game between the syndicate and other
players consists of betting one of each ticket (the "trump ticket"), and extend
that result to proportional ticket selection in non-equiprobable lotteries. The
strategy can be adjusted to accommodate lottery taxes and carryover pools. No
"irrationality" need be involved for the strategy to succeed --- it requires
only that a large group of non-syndicate bettors each choose a few tickets
independently.
