How To Win The Lottery - Guitars101

The Ulnarian · 02-18-2006, 09:01 PM

Ok, so I was watching the news today, as it turns out, the latest lottery is up to 350 million dollars or so!

Now here's the cool part, the odds of winning the jackpot are something like 1 in 180 million.

So....

Here's what you've got to do (lol, unless this is illegal, I dunno you'd have to check that out first).

If you get yourself a little Lottery Mutual Investment Fund together and get someone to go through all the trouble of purchasing 180 million different lottery tickets, well, I figure that your're bound to win the 350 million dollar jackpot, and you can split the earnings proportionately.

Here's the even cooler part, not only are you guaranteed to win the jackpot, but your're also going to win a bunch of smaller prizes along the way (all those 5$, 10$, 1000$, 100,000$ prizes too).

Lol, its foolproof, well, I haven't much considered taxes the odds of another party winning the jackpot as well....

Enjoy!

POD GOD · 02-19-2006, 05:35 AM

Can somebody lend me 180 million? I wanna test this theory out

El_jalepeno · 02-19-2006, 08:05 AM

Well Ulni, probability is supported by a probable chance, so even if you bought 180 million tickets, you're not guaranteed to hit the numbers, just very likely. This is based on the unknknown variable of how many combinations have actually been purchased weighed against the exact combinations available.

I say fuck it. Send the $20 to my PayPal account that you were going to spend originally on the lotto, and consider it well spent. At least I will send you a "thank you" note whereas the Lottery authority only gives you a fistful of vaseline for when you bend over to tie your shoes. Choose your poison

Rythameen · 02-19-2006, 08:13 AM

EJ is right, even if you bought 180 million tickets, you are guaranteed of winning. Case in point, when Washington state first came out with their lottery years ago, some idiot sold his house and put all the money into lottery tickets, needless to say he won some money, about half of what he had put into it. No matter what you do, the odds are against you.

**nroberts** · 02-19-2006, 10:18 AM

Here in WA we have the lotto, which is based on selection of 6 numbers from 44 possibilities. To calculate the odds of winning this lotto you look at the rules. Of these 44 numbers there can't be any repeats and order does not matter, it is a "Combination":

44 P 6 / 6! = (44 * 43 * 42 * 41 * 40 * 39) / (6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2)

The result of this is just over 7 million. So you buy that many tickets and choose all possible combinations you ARE guaranteed to win. This is how odds are calculated. Of course different rules result in different equasions and may not be combinations but there you go.

However, there is also a 1:7million chance for everyone else so you might not be the only one. I think the highest pot we ever had was in the 20 millions and 6 people won it. So if you had done this at that time you would have lost a considerable amount of money because in WA you split all pots.

Calculating the odds of making money off of such a scheme would be much harder. I think they would be rather high as most of the time the pot is less than the amount it would take to purchase all combinations.

You can't beat the house.

**Beka4MikE** · 02-20-2006, 08:25 AM

As far as I know you aren't Legally allowed to buy all the tickets.....they had some group from austrailia do that years ago and then some new law came out. Something like that ...... Ican't remember exact details