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

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.