The easiest way is to present it. After half a decade in the televisual wilderness, Noel Edmonds has been given a £1.3m contract to continue presenting Channel 4's latest and unexpected ratings hit, Deal or No Deal.
DOND is a brave and unusual gameshow, in that it has eschewed the concept of both game and show and chosen to rely instead on pure chance. Each of 22 contestants has a sealed box containing some money. They take it in turns to open boxes hiding different sums of money and decide - or, to be more accurate, guess - whether they contain more or less than their own containers. They are trying to get one that holds the top prize of £250,000. So far, so the game an infinite number of monkeys would come up with if they binned their typewriters and started throwing boxes around instead. But wait - here comes the Banker. He periodically asks the contestant whether he would like to sell his own unseen money for a certain price and the contestant must decide - or again, strictly speaking, guess - whether he should "Deal!" or "No deal!".
You might think that seeking ways to win a game based on luck - a game devoid of any possibility that physical skill, mental agility or teamwork might skew the results in your favour - is futile. It is that kind of thinking, of course, that nearly lost us the war.
You can: make sure you are well fed and rested before participating, to ensure that, when you say "Deal!" to the banker, you do not mean "No deal!", or vice versa. How many of us have lost the mastery of opposites through hunger or fatigue? It is a little-known fact that half the burnings of Bloody Mary were brought about by people who said Protestant when they meant Catholic because they'd been up all night starching ruffs and not eating.
Also, you can: practice at home, by throwing a pack of cards repeatedly into the air and guessing whether the ace of spades is going to land on the coffee table or not. Furthermore, you can: festoon yourself with four-leaf clovers, rabbit's feet and number sevens. Good - and I cannot stress this enough - luck!