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Am I the only one sick and tired of not winning the lottery?

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Nephasth:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on December 29, 2011, 10:59:58 am ---seems one would only need to purchase $13,983,816 worth of tickets to guarantee a win (every possible permutation of numbers)...

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Yea, but you'd have to have a way to pick every possible permutation of numbers for the 13,983,816 tickets you buy, which would be a ---smurfette---. I don't know about the rest of the country but lotto ticket prices are going up to $2 per ticket in Colorado next month...

shmokes:
That's interesting. I wonder if the rules limit that somehow. Or maybe it is just naturally limited because there is no realistic way of purchasing that many tickets. You couldn't very well go to your local gas station and say, "13 million Powerball tickets please." And even if you could do that, it wouldn't work. Those tickets would have randomly generated numbers on them. You'd actually have to fill out 13 million entries on those cards to get specific numbers. Although, I suppose if you had the money to purchase all the tickets, filling out the cards wouldn't be a big issue. You'd just hire it done. It couldn't cost more than a few thousand dollars, I guess, which isn't much if you've already got 13 million to drop on lottery, and you're guaranteed to make like a $50-$100 million return.

Still, you'd have the problem of making such a large purchase. I suppose maybe you could just hire that out too. Split up the numbers among like 1000 people and have them go out and start making purchases. They'd each need to purchase 13,000 tickets. Maybe they could go from store to store buying 100 at a time. That'd only be 130 transactions per person. That could be done in the few days before any given draw.

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on December 29, 2011, 11:14:46 am ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on December 29, 2011, 10:59:58 am ---seems one would only need to purchase $13,983,816 worth of tickets to guarantee a win (every possible permutation of numbers)...

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Yea, but you'd have to have a way to pick every possible permutation of numbers for the 13,983,816 tickets you buy, which would be a ---smurfette---. I don't know about the rest of the country but lotto ticket prices are going up to $2 per ticket in Colorado next month...

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yeah we have a "new" one here (more or less just renamed it) but it's 3 sets of 7 numbers for $5 so 1.66 a play. and i just noticed that the regular canada wide 6-49 (one set of numbers) is $2 now..  :angry: but we have one for just our neck of the woods, thats still $1 for 2 sets of 7 numbers (50 cents a play). but the jackpot is only ever 1,000,000. enough for me anyways!  :cheers:


--- Quote from: shmokes on December 29, 2011, 11:24:16 am ---That's interesting. I wonder if the rules limit that somehow. Or maybe it is just naturally limited because there is no realistic way of purchasing that many tickets. You couldn't very well go to your local gas station and say, "13 million Powerball tickets please." And even if you could do that, it wouldn't work. Those tickets would have randomly generated numbers on them. You'd actually have to fill out 13 million entries on those cards to get specific numbers. Although, I suppose if you had the money to purchase all the tickets, filling out the cards wouldn't be a big issue. You'd just hire it done. It couldn't cost more than a few thousand dollars, I guess, which isn't much if you've already got 13 million to drop on lottery, and you're guaranteed to make like a $50-$100 million return.

Still, you'd have the problem of making such a large purchase. I suppose maybe you could just hire that out too. Split up the numbers among like 1000 people and have them go out and start making purchases. They'd each need to purchase 13,000 tickets. Maybe they could go from store to store buying 100 at a time. That'd only be 130 transactions per person. That could be done in the few days before any given draw.

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that's what that guy was doing, split up the pool into teams who went and bought as many tickets as the store would let them. i remember seeing a program on tv about it... one store refused to sell them any more tickets, so the ended up speeding across town to another store to continue buying tickets.

i do believe the lotto corporation has something against mechanically generated tickets, so you would have to fill out the ticket form by hand... but that doesn't make sense, since the "quick pick" tickets are "mechanically generated"

guess when you make the rules, you can break them.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: shmokes on December 29, 2011, 11:24:16 am ---That's interesting. I wonder if the rules limit that somehow. Or maybe it is just naturally limited because there is no realistic way of purchasing that many tickets. You couldn't very well go to your local gas station and say, "13 million Powerball tickets please." And even if you could do that, it wouldn't work. Those tickets would have randomly generated numbers on them. You'd actually have to fill out 13 million entries on those cards to get specific numbers. Although, I suppose if you had the money to purchase all the tickets, filling out the cards wouldn't be a big issue. You'd just hire it done. It couldn't cost more than a few thousand dollars, I guess, which isn't much if you've already got 13 million to drop on lottery, and you're guaranteed to make like a $50-$100 million return.

Still, you'd have the problem of making such a large purchase. I suppose maybe you could just hire that out too. Split up the numbers among like 1000 people and have them go out and start making purchases. They'd each need to purchase 13,000 tickets. Maybe they could go from store to store buying 100 at a time. That'd only be 130 transactions per person. That could be done in the few days before any given draw.

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I play the lottery twice every week.  We have a daily play lottery that runs over 7 days by choosing 6 numbers, but this type of game requires two large pots and 5 smaller pots.  The smaller games cost 20p a day per line + two £1 games.  I plumb for these £3 games, and I do hit the odd 3 numbers.  I have only hit 4 numbers three times.  My numbers come out often, and I get a return.  If I go stupid and play £5 or £10 a game if it is a rollover then I never win.  If you consider that £3 a week dead money, and it will be near impossible to win over £156 year so it is all dead money.  If you can afford it.  I do play the Euro when it gets to stupid money.

I rented a condo a several years back from the waitress who won Megabucks and had that car accident.  I think of that every time I gamble.  If you win big money, what are the odds that it can kill you or change your life for the worse.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 29, 2011, 01:36:10 pm ---I play the lottery twice every week. 

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This doesn't surprise me.

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