[General] Lotto Run?

[Matthew H]

You forget to account for splitting the pot with other people. 2 people can
have an exact winning ticket and that is not including partial winners.
On Mar 28, 2012 12:12 PM, "Devin Boyer" <boyerd at gmail.com> wrote:

> "A jackpot-winning ticket must match all five numbers drawn from a pot
> containing 56 balls and then match the Mega Ball, which is drawn from a pot
> containing 46 numbers. Odds of winning are almost 176 million to 1. Each
> ticket costs $1."
>
> If I'm reading this right (too lazy to crunch the numbers) for $176
> million, you can buy one of every ticket.  Because "Friday's $476 million
> prize is payable as an annuity over 26 years," it seems like it would
> make for a decent return-on-investment.
>
> If only I had the $176 million...
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Wayne Neumaier <wneumaier at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Any plans for a ticket run up to Tennessee?
>>
>>
>> http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/mega-millions-jackpot-hits-record-476-million/?hpt=hp_t3
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