Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🥧 Thursday, May 16, 2024

• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I usually figure the chance of someone randomly giving me a winning ticket are not that different to the chance of winning by buying one, so I choose to save my money instead. But occassionally I feel I should buy a ticket, just in case all the laws of physics and mathematics are just for show and we are living in some Matrix like simulation or in a fake world created by some sort of deity, who has decided due to my absolute wonderfulness that I should be rewarded with riches the next time I buy a ticket. Every time I discover nope, the statistics were right.

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can beat those pesky statistics! You just need to increase your chances. A $27 Powerhit ticket for example increases your odds of winning from one in 134,490,400 to one in 45,379,620! You’re guaranteed the powerball. How awful would you feel to get all seven numbers and not the powerball.

    In fact, you could go all the way! Simply buy 45,379,620 powerhit tickets and you are guaranteed a Division one winning ticket. In fact, it’s so easy I’m amazed that nobody has thought of doing this before!

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Amazing plan, I’ll do that for next week. All those people at work with their $50 a share syndicate and their “but you’ll feel so awful if we win” will be so jealous.

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