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Originally Posted by Leondros
Interesting article on buying all 292 million combinations of the tickets:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...ations/423930/
Would be worth doing if powerball got up to $3B.
Issues include:
- Logistics of getting each combination
- Logistics of checking and signing each ticket
- Risk of not getting the full lotto amount (splitting) |
They did mention it but kind of glossed over it. Buying ever combination, you would single handedly raise that jackpot by about $175M.
By my math, a 3 way split would be pretty much break even, because of your own contribution. And a 4 way split would loss you around $165M.