That is why you buy 1 and only 1. Buying more never improves the odds enough to really change your chance of winning. However if you don't buy 1 you can't win and a winning number is drawn twice a week.
Buying more than one is really cheap entertainment and offers more hope despite how little. Hard to buy that amount of happy delusions for less.
hmm...so with I 100 tickets I'm looking at 0.00000570 %. I like my odds. 17,000,000 tickets would give me about a 1% chance...I wounder if I can get that many in my pool before 9?
So if what you say is true, it would cost $34,000,000 to achieve a 1% chance of winning this lottery. Whoa.
The whole idea of a lottery is that you pay almost nothing for a long-shot at something huge. And someone wins it . . . always. Why not me? I don't have a problem in the world that half a billion dollars wouldn't cure.
Great minds think a like Red. $500mil or $160mil after taxes would pretty much take care of any problem I can think of except how to spend the last $ with my dying breath
there is some point at which the amount is so large that buying a ticket isnt a poor economic decision, meaning the return on investment is worth the odds. i think it is up there around 400 million when people havent won for weeks and weeks and weeks. its definitely worth a dollar to imagine it. my local bartender always buy a hundred with customer money and he always includes me in the pool without my asking, because i am a good guy. so i might split that cash with 100 members of the drunk working class in queens.
