I've got two VA Lottery tickets here. One's a $2 winner and one is a $1 winner. I won about 4 months ago and haven't bothered to redeem them. I'll split it with you if you want.
Incidentally, there was a group a while ago who realized that if they bought all of the possible number combinations that they would actually *make* money after winning the jackpot.
So they got some investors together, and bought up all of the combinations (going to hundreds of 7-11's around the state).
It was a rare case -- * it was some state where they have fewer combinations than anywhere else * The jackpot had built up after a few turns of no one winning.
A few people ended up winning (including some who were not part of the group), but by the end after all of the 3, 4, and 5 combinations that all paid, they ended up making large sum of money.
OTOH, I had a combinatorics professor who was "convinced that the lottery is a tax on the stupid".
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So they got some investors together, and bought up all of the combinations (going to hundreds of 7-11's around the state).
It was a rare case --
* it was some state where they have fewer combinations than anywhere else
* The jackpot had built up after a few turns of no one winning.
A few people ended up winning (including some who were not part of the group), but by the end after all of the 3, 4, and 5 combinations that all paid, they ended up making large sum of money.
OTOH, I had a combinatorics professor who was "convinced that the lottery is a tax on the stupid".
Food for thought.
- T
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