or whatever its called is like 360 million or something. so one of you math nerds answer me this. how many different number combinations are there to guarantee that you win? hundreds, thousands, millions?

im sure this has never been done before but lets pool some dollar bucks and win this.

also, how many tickets can one play and is this illegal?

Im tired of working.

1/4/2011 5:05:23 PM

the odds of winning is on the sign numbnuts

1/4/2011 5:06:35 PM

i think $12 in tickets ought to guarantee a win

1/4/2011 5:08:34 PM

I'm in if you can find 10 more people

[Edited on January 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM. Reason : Maybe we should do 13 tickets in case Qfred is trying to trick us?]

1/4/2011 5:09:37 PM

ive never played the lottery. ive never really been poor enough to

1/4/2011 5:09:41 PM

fuck, knew i forgot to do something today

no one win it so i can get a ticket tomorrow ok

1/4/2011 5:10:49 PM

50 bucks the guy who wins has no job, >3 kids and <10 teeth.

1/4/2011 5:11:15 PM

I would never go in with someone else on lottery tickets unless we had an iron-clad contract beforehand regarding the payout, which would never happen either.

1/4/2011 5:15:17 PM

so what are the odds?

1/4/2011 5:19:44 PM

Quote :

"I would never go in with someone else on lottery tickets unless we had an iron-clad contract beforehand regarding the payout, which would never happen either."

360M
-144M (40% tax rate) may be too high I don't know
--------
216M


If I got 100M and the other party got 116M, I wouldn't care too much.

1/4/2011 5:19:48 PM

100 million split 100 times is still a million.

who couldnt use a million right now?

1/4/2011 5:21:50 PM

Yeah you would. Its all relative. If you were making 100K and someone else at your level was making 116, you'd be a little miffed as well.

1/4/2011 5:21:57 PM

write it on a napkin that everyone that invested X dollarbucks gets an even split in the money. that would hold up on judge judy

1/4/2011 5:23:00 PM

Quote :

"If I got 100M and the other party got 116M, I wouldn't care too much."

Right but if I got nothing b/c 1) someone ran off with the money or 2) hired some lawyer to weasel out of it I would care.

1/4/2011 5:25:40 PM

ill head it up... you guys can surely trust me

1/4/2011 5:28:46 PM

I'm in if I'm the one that actuallys buys the tickets.

1/4/2011 5:29:20 PM

Working to earn money and winning money are two different things.

1/4/2011 5:30:11 PM

what about making the money you won work for you?

1/4/2011 5:49:12 PM

Yeah I bought 2 tickets

1/4/2011 5:51:08 PM

I bought $5,000 in tickets for my retirement fund.

1/4/2011 5:52:31 PM

i wonder if any executive at a company ever borrowed 176 million to try and even out the odds when it gets this high

1/4/2011 6:08:41 PM

Quote :

"or whatever its called is like 360 million or something. so one of you math nerds answer me this. how many different number combinations are there to guarantee that you win? hundreds, thousands, millions? im sure this has never been done before but lets pool some dollar bucks and win this. also, how many tickets can one play and is this illegal?"

Odds are 1 in 175,711,536.
There is a decent chance that there will be multiple winners when the tickets get this high. If there was only one other winner you would make a small profit; especially when you factor in all the smaller winning tickets that you'd have. If, however, two others won you'd lose money on the endeavor.


I remember watching a documentary type TV show about a team of people who tried to buy all possible combinations for one of the major lotteries several years ago. They contracted with the owners of several gas stations to do nothing but print tickets for them all day long. One gas station backed out iirc and they ended up with an incomplete pool of tickets, but they still won.

Also, via Wikipedia:

Quote :

"In a famous occurrence, a Polish-Irish businessman named Stefan Klincewicz bought up almost all of the 1,947,792 combinations available on the Irish lottery. He and his associates paid less than one million Irish pounds while the jackpot stood at £1.7 million. There were three winning tickets, but with the "Match 4" and "Match 5" prizes, Klincewicz made a small profit overall."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery

1/4/2011 6:10:35 PM

I've spent at least 1/4 of my day planning what I will do with $220,000,000 when I win.

1/4/2011 6:16:56 PM

damn i'm blind

[Edited on January 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2011 6:28:04 PM

lol national news just showed a 200 person deep lottery line in Nevada

1/4/2011 6:54:28 PM

they did a group buy at work but i did not participate. i felt kind of bad about it until i realized that even with 100 tickets my 0.00000006% chance of winning increases to a 0.000006% chance of winning.

in retrospect, i suppose that's still better than a 0.000000000% chance.

1/4/2011 7:01:50 PM

Quote :

"also, how many tickets can one play and is this illegal?"

They'll take as much of your money as you'll give them.

1/4/2011 7:06:23 PM

when do you have to buy a ticket by for tonight's drawing?

1/4/2011 7:10:32 PM

by 10:45pm since its a draw day

I bought 2. One I picked and one computer gen.

[Edited on January 4, 2011 at 7:37 PM. Reason : good luck to meeeeee]

1/4/2011 7:16:24 PM

got 2 and will probably still be at bada trivia when they announce the #s. drinks on the house if i win!

1/4/2011 7:52:33 PM

damn two people won

Quote :

"The holders of a ticket sold in Idaho and another in Washington state will be sharing Mega Millions' $355 million jackpot from Tuesday night's drawing, lottery officials said Wednesday. The two winners from Tuesday will each get $177.5 million."

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/8881592/

1/5/2011 8:40:02 AM

I won two hundred thousand millipennies.

1/5/2011 9:15:59 AM

I didn't win.

1/5/2011 9:16:35 AM

Lost fans won big last night: the numbers were 4 8 15 (25 47) 42, so anyone playing THE NUMBERS (25,587 people, according to the site) won $150.

1/5/2011 9:34:08 AM

lol I bet 4 8 15 16 23 42 is always the most played combination of numbers in each round.

1/5/2011 10:02:11 AM

we had an office pool (13 people), bought 13 $2 tickets, plus boss bought 10 more $2 tickets.

we didn't win a damn thing. only had 4 numbers on 4 different tickets. lol

i guess there's no burning my house down this week.

1/5/2011 10:05:54 AM