Winning the lottery

First of all, before you rush out and buy the ticket, calculate your chances of winning. Take a length of rope, about 345 feet long should do it. Lay it in a circle. Then take one grain of sand, walk into the circle and drop it. Then get a friend to blindfold you and spin you around a few times, then take another grain of sand and proceed once more into the circle. Drop the grain of sand. What would be the chance of the second grain of sand landing next to the first one? About the same chance you have of winning the lottery apparently!
If there are six winning numbers, and the lowest number is 1, and the highest is 40, your chances are 1 in 3,838,380

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Well, my father once dropped a burned-out cigarette on the pavement and it landed in the upright position...Sometimes impossible things become possible.

By the way, a friend o'mine won a lottery some 12 years ago I also buy lottery tickets but only when the jackpot reaches pretty high level.

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abdelkader Wrote:
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> Well, my father once dropped a burned-out
> cigarette on the pavement and it landed in the
> upright position...Sometimes impossible things
> become possible.

Exactly. As long as they are going to keep the price low, then why not.

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the rope and sand example is off by a factor of 4.56 from the actual probability of 1/3838380

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hahaha!

one set of numbers is only £1 now isnt it ?

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Always has been. Which, if you take the rate of inflation into account, means that the price of tickets is becoming proportionally cheaper!

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Locke Cole Wrote:
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> Always has been. Which, if you take the rate of
> inflation into account, means that the price of
> tickets is becoming proportionally cheaper!


true, but surely then the prize you may (or, as such, may not) win would be proportionally cheaper too

the prize fluctuates though

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Locke Cole Wrote:
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> Always has been. Which, if you take the rate of
> inflation into account, means that the price of
> tickets is becoming proportionally cheaper!

Doh! In Poland, they recently raised the price of lottery tickets. It has always been 3 PLN for one six-number bet. You could make three bets for 10 PLN. Now 10 PLN covers for only two bets :/ I don't know why they changed it after all long years of three-PLN-bets. Well, that ain't much - you will say, but it makes lots of people give up on playing the lottery. Back then it was like: "My son, take 10 PLN from the shelf and buy the lottery ticket" - just as common as buying bread. Everyone knew that buying a ticket for 10 PLN means making three six-number bets. It was kinda innate knowledge.

I think some kind of Polish tradition gets killed by raising the ticket prices in my country

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We have the ''state lottery'' here in Holland, which means thatt he lottery is owned by the state, and a ticket costs.... 26 euros! LOL, they earn more then a billion for the old and new lottery thing, while the prices are about 190 million in total, go and figure

Isn't it 25 euros? but you can also buy 1/5 for 5 euro, but that also means you only get 1/5 of the prize

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25 euros? I think it was close to 30, the prices have risen again.

Stupid lottery, I've been entering it for a year (not alone, with a bunch of guys from work), but I haven't won a cent :P But I don't dare to stop, you'll just see that when I pull out, they'll win some big ass prize

I've ever only won £10 a few times.

Still if you don't buy a ticket then your chances drop from something like 4898752387543286786742876762759/1 to 0.

And £51M jackpot on the Euromillions this Friday. *buys 4 lines.

Our syndicate at work got 4 numbers 4 times in a row starting the week I entered 10 years back. Only £10s since then though.