Yes it does, if you make all of them the same numbers.
Well that doesn't seem fair that they could sell the same series of numbers on different machines to different people, even though of course no one would know the exact series until the drawing. Couldn't they also sell the same sequence of numbers in quick picks across several states thus increasing their odds of no one being a winner?
So assuming what I said is correct then is it guaranteed by the lottery commission that if I buy 176,000,000 quick pick tickets, that they will all be unique combinations? Or can they replicate them?
so, if you are the only jackpot winner, and you win on 1000 identical tickets, is the jackpot then divided among those 1000 individual winning tickets?
Would this reduce your overall tax on those much smaller individual payouts, thus gaming the tax?
:hmm:
Bold answers above.
Wow.
Since you're so well educated on this delusion. Tell me this:
6 sided dice, you get to pick 1
1. What are the odds of winning? 1 to 5 (1:5)
2. What is the chance of winning? 16.7%
1 million sided dice, you get to pick 20
1. What are the odds of winning? 1 to 999,999
2. What is the chance of winning? 0.002%
WTF, I'm going to directly show you where you are wrong. If you still don't get it, you are beyond hopeless.
If I'm PICKING 20 out of 1 million, why is it 1 to 999,999? That's picking 1 out of million.
It's either 20 to 999,999 or 1 to 49,999 (999,999 divided by 20).
Your math is not even consistent within your own calculation. It's fubar all around.
Odds are a representation of ways to win : ways to lose. You only have one way to ever win the lottery but there are 999,999 ways to lose. Odds are not given in percentage. The chance is a ratio of possible ways of winning to ways to lose. You have given yourself 20 possibilities but there are still 999,980 ways to lose. This is normally a fraction or percentage.
You guys are fucking insane. It's the Monty Hall problem, obviously: No earlier outcome (individual lottery ticket, or each successive ball pulled in drawing) will have any effect on the next ticket or ball pulled.
So, clearly--you dumbsticks--You are stuck with 1000 individual, identical odds of winning.
DUH!
do you honestly care this much about it that you are going against what 5+ people are telling you is right?
Odds and chances are SAME THING with different expression (repeating for the third time).
The whole time they have been arguing that you can change the odds but you can't. You can increase your chances but the odds have nothing to do with tickets. Arguing semantics but words have different meaning.
Odds are a representation of ways to win : ways to lose. You only have one way to ever win the lottery but there are 999,999 ways to lose. Odds are not given in percentage. The chance is a ratio of possible ways of winning to ways to lose. You have given yourself 20 possibilities but there are still 999,980 ways to lose. This is normally a fraction or percentage.
No.
You guys can fight over gambler's fallacy, but what you have said is wrong.
6 sided dice, you get to pick 1
1. What are the odds of winning? 1 to 5 (1:5) (your answers)
2. What is the chance of winning? 16.7% (your answers)
1 to 5 is same is 1 in 6 winning = 1/6 =16.7%.
1 million sided dice, you get to pick 20
1. What are the odds of winning? 1 to 999,999 (your answers)
2. What is the chance of winning? 0.002% (your answers)
1 to 999,999 is same as 1 in 1,000,000 winning = 1/1,000,000 = 0.0001%
Where the hell did the correct 0.002% come from from your first wrong math? Your MATH IS INTERNALLY WRONG.
1 to 50,000 IS 0.002% you thick headed idiot.
If I bought 20 fucking tickets, I have 20 times (2000%) the chance than 1 ticket.
You feel too proud to admit your total idiocy about Gambler's Fallacy (which you are conveniently ignoring).
You are wrong all around. You MUST be trolling.
Idiot number 2. No wonder you don't also grasp gambler's fallacy.
1 to 5 odds is not the same as 16.7% chance of winning. Sorry but odds are not a percentage. Yep, your chance does go up but the odds that a ticket wins stays the same as has been said before. You are only going to win once with those twenty unique tickets so odds of you winning are 1 to 999,999.
Odds tell you the ratio that a winning even occurs to a loosing event.
Chance tells you the fraction of the time you can expect to see an event.
1 to 5 odds is not the same as 16.7% chance of winning. Sorry but odds are not a percentage. Yep, your chance does go up but the odds that a ticket wins stays the same as has been said before. You are only going to win once with those twenty unique tickets so odds of you winning are 1 to 999,999.
Odds tell you the ratio that a winning even occurs to a loosing event.
Chance tells you the fraction of the time you can expect to see an event.
So...1 to 5 odds is not the same as 16.7% chance of winning. Sorry but odds are not a percentage. Yep, your chance does go up but the odds that a ticket wins stays the same as has been said before. You are only going to win once with those twenty unique tickets so odds of you winning are 1 to 999,999.
Odds tell you the ratio that a winning event occurs to a loosing event.
Chance tells you the fraction of the time you can expect to see an event.
Troll troll troll...
There's just no other way