Lottery tickets!!

needsaresto said

Who here will buy them for this massive lotto coming up? Sure the 160 mill or so would be great,but I must say odd's are much lower of winning with a huge lottery. The more tickets they sell,the lower the odds are you will win right?

So if I bought lottery ticket's (I dont) I'd buy em when the prize is only 3-4 mil. Odd's would be much better!!

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Actually, the odds of winning have nothing to do with the total prize amount. The odds are all based on the chance of picking the correct set of numbers. The number of people playing only affects the odds of whether someone wins the whole pot or a portion of it - it would need to be split among the correct number pickers. The more people that play, the higher the odds of one or more people picking all the winning numbers. But the odds of picking all the winning numbers stays the same.