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1.4 BILLION Powerball

I'm all for playing the lottery when the jackpot gets big, and this one certainly qualifies, biggest in history...

But I only buy one ticket. Why?

The odds of winning the powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. While the odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1 in 3000. How worried are you about being struck by lightning?

Basically the odds of winning are so infinitesimal that hitting it is pure random luck and there's nothing you can do to increase your odds in a meaningful way. Buy 10 tickets and your odds are 10 in 292,201,338. Those odds are, for all practical purposes, equally infinitesimal, but your out-of-pocket cost is 10x as much.

I mean, look at Sat's 900 million drawing - can you imagine how many tickets were bought for that one? Yet nobody won...

So, buy a ticket to at least give pure random luck a chance. But buying more than one is just a waste of money.
Thanks for pointing out how stupid we all are. Now I'm going to kill myself for being an idiot!
 
Plz redistribute your Oakley wealth first...
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