Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:45:56 UTC No. 16112088

>>16112022
>scam
nope, the odds of winning are 292 million to 1.
so you need to buy 292 million tickets to win, simple.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:58:59 UTC No. 16112107

>>16112088
Why has no one tried that?
Is there any way to buy tickets sequentially in bulk?

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:01:15 UTC No. 16112301

>>16112022
I spend like half year free time with that. I've been making algo, that icreased my probability to win compared to random numbers picked, but still not getting on winning jack-pot. But numbers predicted by my algo has accuracy bigger than what the chance was.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:07:50 UTC No. 16112312

>>16112107
Because that would cost more than what the jackpot is worth

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:14:33 UTC No. 16112320

The Lottery Post.

If you printed out all of the tickets and stacked them up.
3.75 inches for 1000 tickets thick
(292,201,338 /1000) * 3.75 = 1095755.0175 inches of tickets /63360 inches in a mile = 17.29411328125 miles of tickets.
From that you have to pick one.

Looking at one ticket per second working 24 hours a day, all year long, would take apprx. 9 years and two months. If you laid the stack flat, At 60 miles per hour, it would take you 17.3 minutes to drive by them all. If you stacked them up on top of each other and flew in a commercial jet at 40000 feet, you would only be half way up the stack of tickets.

For every extra ticket you buy or for each one you pick, you reduce that pile of 17.3 miles by 3.75 inches/1000 tickets, or = .00375 inches. Each ticket you by increases your odds of winning by 1/292,201,338. This is linear. Buying more tickets does not change the odds of each ticket, so there is no maximum anywhere except buying all of the tickets, and no minimum other than not playing.

All the lottery tickets ever drawn in the history of the lottery only reduced that stack by about one foot.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:34:13 UTC No. 16112343

>>16112022
i play once or twice a month. i win $3 somewhat regularly, biggest win was $20 one time. i try to play the lesser known ones (not the powerball or megamillions) in hopes of gaining favor with the gods through my humility and lack of greed. i mean, even a "meager" $5-10mil is still plenty to retire on if you're smart.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:34:37 UTC No. 16112344

>>16112107
Because the pot is split between all the winners so you're still risking whether or not you're the only winner. If you're in the US, you have to pay taxes on your winnings though if you structured it as a business, you might be able to deduct the cost of the tickets. Even if you neutralize the taxes and no one else wins, lottery jackpot payouts are over an extended period of time. If you want it all up front, you get a much reduced payout.
The only time it makes sense to buy all ticket combinations is if the pot rolls over when there's no winner and that pot has grown to be many multiples of how much you'd pay to buy one of each number combo.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 20:41:58 UTC No. 16112512

>>16112343
As there are usually numbers being drawn, you can be the only one buying one ticket of the most unknown game and potentially still lose until you die.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 20:56:50 UTC No. 16112531

>>16112022
>>16112022
>Has anyone here ever taken a deep dive on these lottery ?
Over here, on more intelligent place than /sci it's called dumb tax.