https://www.calottery.com/play/draw-games/mega-millions
Not everyone even plays the lottery.
But at 1 plus billion, for two dollars go buy a ticket I suggest.
Can you imagine winning? Yes, I can imagine!
https://www.calottery.com/play/draw-games/mega-millions
Not everyone even plays the lottery.
But at 1 plus billion, for two dollars go buy a ticket I suggest.
Can you imagine winning? Yes, I can imagine!
Quoted from Azmodeus:Wouldn't it be just great if one of us pinsiders hit this.
Odds are not just against anyone, they are ridiculously high against anyone. 3.2 million to one last estimate. Good luck though.
Waste of a dollar. or ten, or twenty.
I agree. A ticket is two dollars.
I'm not a mathematician, but based on the odds, I think it makes more financial sense to keep the two dollars.
Quoted from underlord:Odds are not just against anyone, they are ridiculously high against anyone. 3.2 million to one last estimate. Good luck though.
Waste of a dollar. or ten, or twenty.
Quoted from SilverballSleuth:I agree. A ticket is two dollars.
I'm not a mathematician, but based on the odds, I think it makes more financial sense to keep the two dollars.
If your odds are winning 1.6 bil for paying 2 dollars, and your odds are 320 million to one, its actually a good bet, pot odds wise. Well maybe not depending what the odds of a tie are, its probably close to a good bet though
If you want to play the lottery, here's the real strategy if you want to win big.
Put $10 a week in a bank account. Start when you're 16.
By the time you're 55, you'll have saved over $20,000 and with even small interest would probably be at $25k
Then wait until the jackpot gets to above $1bn, and spend all your $25k on one jackpot. so your 1 in 300,000,000 chance goes all the way down to a 1 in 24,000 chance which is 5x more likely than being struck by lightning.
Or, when you turn 55, take that $25k and go on a really nice vacation
Two dollars to dream.
If I was to win this there would be a wicked arcade built near me. Fullerton ca.
Quoted from Scorch:1 in 300,000,000 chance
So if one could play all 300,000,000 options... WINNER
Quoted from Scorch:If you want to play the lottery, here's the real strategy if you want to win big.
Put $10 a week in a bank account. Start when you're 16.
By the time you're 55, you'll have saved over $20,000 and with even small interest would probably be at $25k
Then wait until the jackpot gets to above $1bn, and spend all your $25k on one jackpot. so your 1 in 300,000,000 chance goes all the way down to a 1 in 24,000 chance which is 5x more likely than being struck by lightning.
Or, when you turn 55, take that $25k and go on a really nice vacation
EDIT:Spitballing compounding interest is a bad idea
And your odds of winning don't change like that. There's one winning combination, so you have a 1 in 300+ million chance of holding a winning ticket. The only odds that change are your likelihood of splitting it with yourself or another person because with more tickets the chance of duplicates goes up. That's why watching Mayweather blow $2000 on lottery tickets was just a SMH moment...
Quoted from PinMonk:Your math was way off. Even at only 2% interest, you'd have over $40k, but if you put it in stocks and averaged 10% annually (highs and lows are smoothed out over time to about that), you'd have well over $400k after 35+ years.
And your odds of winning don't change like that. There's one winning combination, so you have a 1 in 300+ million chance of holding a winning ticket. The only odds that change are your likelihood of splitting it with yourself or another person because with more tickets the chance of duplicates goes up. That's why watching Mayweather blow $2000 on lottery tickets was just a SMH moment...
My math is way off?????
2% interest (not many banks will give you that) over 39 years at $520 invested per year is $30,000. i do get 15% at least on my investments, but this example was just sticking it in the bank with 1% interest as a base case.
But, apparently, you think that the odds of winning is 1 in 300 million no matter how many tickets you buy.... so using your math, a person who spends $600 million to buy every single number has the exact same chance as a person who spends $2 on a single ticket. You do realize that each ticket you buy would have a different combination of numbers right? SMH.
Bought a couple of tickets this morning....
If I win, my new mantra will be Dennis Leary's "Im an asshole" song....
Quoted from PinMonk:Your math was way off. Even at only 2% interest, you'd have over $40k, but if you put it in stocks and averaged 10% annually (highs and lows are smoothed out over time to about that), you'd have well over $400k after 35+ years.
And your odds of winning don't change like that. There's one winning combination, so you have a 1 in 300+ million chance of holding a winning ticket. The only odds that change are your likelihood of splitting it with yourself or another person because with more tickets the chance of duplicates goes up. That's why watching Mayweather blow $2000 on lottery tickets was just a SMH moment...
if you're putting in $10 a week for 39 years, at 2% annual interest, you do not get to $40k. At 10% annual interest you'd be around $230k. and if you buy $2000 worth of unique tickets you do improve your chances of winning...
Quoted from Atari_Daze:So if one could play all 300,000,000 options... WINNER
if you were the sole winner you'd come out ahead... by probably 200M, but if you have to split with even one other winner you'd be in the hole...almost as much
Quoted from misterschu:if you're putting in $10 a week for 39 years, at 2% annual interest, you do not get to $40k. At 10% annual interest you'd be around $230k.
That's what I get for spitballing. ~$31k at 2% and ~$230k at 10% in 39 years. Nothing to sneeze at.
Quoted from misterschu:and if you buy $2000 worth of unique tickets you do improve your chances of winning...
It improves your relative odds, but your absolute odds are essentially unchanged. So doesn't really improve your real-world odds.
Quoted from Stones:Bought a couple of tickets this morning....
If I win, my new mantra will be Dennis Leary's "Im an asshole" song....
In that spirit be sure to gloat and rub it in. I’d expect no less.
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