Mega Millions drawing tonight!!

[evosamurai]

anyone buy tickets for the near $300,000,000 jackpot??

[NoHo ART]

356 mil for tuesday

[evosamurai]

dude those numbers sucked 19, 20, 21 in a row lol

[unreal toad]

I'm in for Tuesdays draw.

[DockRat]

Can anybody explain to me why people buy 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Tickets ????

If you waste $10 on 10 tickets do they feel they have increased there odds ? :ROFL:

Jackpot probability/odds (Payout varies)
The number of ways the first 5 numbers on your lottery ticket can match the 5 White numbers is COMBIN(5,5) = 1. The number of ways your final number can match the Mega number is: COMBIN(1,1) = 1. The product of these is the number of ways you can win the Jackpot: COMBIN(5,5) x COMBIN(1,1) = 1. The probability of success is thus: 1/175,711,536 = 0.00000000569114597006. If you express this as “One chance in ???”, you just divide “1” by the 0.00000000569114597006, which yields “One chance in 175,711,536”.

DR

[DockRat]

Here is Ten Million below in red, now try to imagine 175,711,536
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE MILLION COMBINATIONS

ONLY TEN MILLION
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000

Odds are ONE in ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE MILLION

That is like having a pile of sand and diving in to grab one special granular.

ALSO; Why do people get all excited when it is so high.
If the jackpot is 10 million it is not such a big deal ? Why ?
5 million wouldn't help some out as much ? Go figure :Confused:

Play the odds.
Fantasy 5 is 1 in 575,757
DR

[evosamurai]

i just want a klondike bar

[old pudd fisher]

Screw the lottery, I don't buy the tickets. For years I have just made up numbers in my head before seeing the winnin ones and never won over five bucks. Just think of how much money that I would have wasted if I really payed for a ticket. Also I have seen homeless people asking for money and then turn around and buy a lotto ticket with the money a kind person had given for food, Oh I guess I'am getting off track. Good luck all that play :Big Grin:

[Armofisher818]

Screw the lottery, I don't buy the tickets. For years I have just made up numbers in my head before seeing the winnin ones and never won over five bucks. Just think of how much money that I would have wasted if I really payed for a ticket. Also I have seen homeless people asking for money and then turn around and buy a lotto ticket with the money a kind person had given for food, Oh I guess I'am getting off track. Good luck all that play :Big Grin:
Lol I can imagine your face if your "made up numbers" were all correct lolololol

[old pudd fisher]

Yeah thats true '' Armofisher818 '' I would be kicking myself in the butt if that happened ,but hell the odds suck and would like to spend my money else where. Good luck all It's worth a try.

[DockRat]

Fricking Scam OPF. All the news focus on a winner.
Why don't the line up all the 350 Miliion LOSERS ?
News flash 350 Million Losers and they are still pouring money into it.

Play the odds. Try the pick 6 at Hollywood Park, much better odds.
DR

[flashburn2020]

I can't win that either. wtf

[DarkShadow]

I tried to buy lottery tickets but they didn't accept my EBT.