7 numbers, any combination from 49. That's almost a 1 in 14 million chance someone wins, that odd doesn't change regardless of how many people purchase them (disregarding people influencing friends/relatives numbers)

Yet someone always ends up winning and it doesn't take that long, despite statistically a lottery could last 100k years without a winner.

The reality is that the lottery numbers chosen aren't actually random, but can be closer to being random by a chaos creating method such as pulling balls out of a container. Random number generation of any kind not involving a person (such as a computer e.g. using the time) is difficult, has patterns and will never be truly random. The chances of winning the lottery aren't actually 1 in 14 million, but actually incalculable by means we can't comprehend. There shouldn't be so many lottery winners, but there are because the random patterns generated allow there to be.

My point is that it's worth buying a $1-$5 lottery ticket every week, because someone will eventually win regardless of how bad the odds are for anyone to actually win.

I am betting most of the lottery winners are paid actors, almost everywhere and every country.

Never bought a lottery ticket crew.

They won the lottery by winning the lottery idiot

Unlikely but possible, its luck.

Once saw a chinese guy at a casino put in his last $500 on a single number at the roulette and won 35x his money, $17500 USD in 20 seconds, thats 1/38 odds and highly unlikely


Now imagine 1 in millions

No, it's because the lottery isn't random. The patterns from the random number generation affect the odds, but it isn't calculable by how much.

Truth. This guy knows his stuff.

Step 1 is to be old

chit on a car battery.

Are lottery numbers truly random?
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How are lottery numbers generated?
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Can computer-generated numbers be truly random?
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Is it worth buying lottery tickets?
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what gets me is they always say they were broke so took their last $30 and bought a scratcher.

who the hell buys $30 scratchers? Even if I won the lottery I wouldnt but one of those expensive things.

I’ll never win so none of this matters srs

It's kind of like The Running Man, where they find the past "winners" dead in a locker room, not on a beach surrounded by HBB's as they advertise.

I saw a documentary about a guy who won contests for a living. All day he just enters free contests and does the work to win ones where they say "purchase not required" but make it a pain to enter. Kind of like an extreme coupon person, he wasn't rich but I guess if that's your thing it beats working.

You think they would give some geek a million dollars??? Or pocket it and make it seem like someone actually won

Move to California. Californiacels are always in the news for winning the lotto