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Old 01-10-2016, 08:19 AM
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"The odds are one in 292.2 million, which means you’re really, really, really unlikely to win. For some comparison, your chance of being struck by lightning in a year is about one in 960,000. But as lottery officials often note, you have no chance of winning if you don’t buy a ticket."

So if you bought a million tickets, the odds would be one in 292. I don't even like those odds.

I agree with Rubicon. When I was a kid near NYC it seemed like everyone played the numbers and to a lessor extent the Irish Sweepstakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_...%27_Sweepstake

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