The lottery is hard to win. But, is it possible to make it….less hard to win? We spoke with mathematician Skip Garibaldi about how to increase our odds of winning any kind of lottery. Are there any ways to guarantee a lottery win? What if you play EVERY number combination?
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Can’t tell if this guy is a shill or not lol
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How can you buy every ticket when there's a solid possibility that numbers will be repeated on two or more tickets?
Ya – that fantasizing about winning the jackpot for a few days every time could be called a gambling habit! Lol
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I have a question/dilemma about a math problem for you math experts: There's a sports lottery game where there's 14 football matches (each match can end in 3 ways, the local team wins=1, there's a draw=X, or the visiting team wins=2). Let's say for instance I have to guess 10 of those matches (1, X or 2). What are the chances of randomly guessing any of those 10 matches out of 14? I looked on various sites and they used the formula ''3 to the power of 10'' resulting in 1 in 59049 chance but it's incorrect and it's a ridiculously large number too, they calculated the chances assuming there's 10 matches in total and not 14. How can I calculate step by step the correct chances of guessing 10 out of 14 matches?
How do you make a small fortune gambling?????
Start with a large fortune!!!!!!!!!!
Just lost 1B dollars today. Mega millions robbed me I just knew I had the winning ticket
You are more likely to win if the jackpot rolls down to 5+bonus or 5 numbers , than matching all six numbers. Matching all six numbers is incredibly difficult, winners only manage to win the jackpot by a sheer fluke.
Can someone explain to me why its bad to pick family birth dates as lottery numbers?
Well, technically, you can win a jackpot by purchasing 1 million tickets as long as you have a number and the Powerball number then you win four dollars per ticket. If you have 1 million tickets that’s $4 million. Yet you will have to subtract the 2million you spent on the 1 million tickets and Uncle Sam will want his pieces.
i feel like much more lotteries would be won by mathematician's if it was simply a mater of math.. end of the night its 100% LUCK..
In my case lotto should take away withdraw funds. I never win anything to withdraw.
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Someone in New Jersey won yestersday🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊
That last point was a very good one:::
Play the lottery. My mom always used to tell me it only takes one ticket, if you’re meant to win, you win. A lot of people spend a ton of money every day on the lottery but I think just playing one ticket. At least you have a chance. If you don’t play anything, you don’t even have a chance. But I like what the guy said at the end, he said when you play a ticket, he gives you a little boost for a day or two, depending on when the lottery goes off that what if, and you’ve got a chance. Hopefully you’ll keep that seem happy spirit if the ticket is not a winner.
Oh yah I forgot to mention here in Canada the lottery corporation sells their scratch and win tickets, and they tell you how many big jack pots there are on these scratch tickets. When all the jack pot winning tickets are bought out, and there's no more left, only the pocket change tickets are left, like the small $10 prizes $20 prizes are all that's left to win, they still keep selling those too, yet your chances of winning the jack pots are zero, because they've all bin won already. See in stead of taking off all those stupid pocket change winning scratch& win tickets they keep selling them. Just pure greed .😤😤😤😤🧐🤔🤨😔
Here in Canada we have the lotto max, and the 6/49 lotto, our jackpots aren't as big as the USA, but we have a lot of winners, especially in the province of Quebec and greater Ontario. The lottery corporation here tells us on their commercials, "Play for fun", "Not for money",!!!! Well Geez Wizz, what's the fu…..g point in playing at all? You play to win ,not for fun, because if you don't win, where's the fun in that? In other words the lottery is saying we are rigged, so play at your own risk. Play for fun, are you Fu…g kidding me? You play for fun after you've won 50 million dollars, and have enough money now to just play for fun. 😌😌😌😌🤭🤭🤭😜🍰
i won 500 dollars on a $5 scratch ticket yesterday