Thread: How does someone win the lottery?

7 numbers, any combination from 49. That's almost a 1 in 14 million chance someone wins, that odd doesn't change regardless of how many people purchase them (disregarding people influencing friends/relatives numbers)

Yet someone always ends up winning and it doesn't take that long, despite statistically a lottery could last 100k years without a winner.

The reality is that the lottery numbers chosen aren't actually random, but can be closer to being random by a chaos creating method such as pulling balls out of a container. Random number generation of any kind not involving a person (such as a computer e.g. using the time) is difficult, has patterns and will never be truly random. The chances of winning the lottery aren't actually 1 in 14 million, but actually incalculable by means we can't comprehend. There shouldn't be so many lottery winners, but there are because the random patterns generated allow there to be.

My point is that it's worth buying a $1-$5 lottery ticket every week, because someone will eventually win regardless of how bad the odds are for anyone to actually win.

I am betting most of the lottery winners are paid actors, almost everywhere and every country.

Never bought a lottery ticket crew.

They won the lottery by winning the lottery idiot

Originally Posted by Lexira

I am betting most of the lottery winners are paid actors, almost everywhere and every country.

Never bought a lottery ticket crew.

No, it's because the lottery isn't random. The patterns from the random number generation affect the odds, but it isn't calculable by how much.

Originally Posted by andrew28

They won the lottery by winning the lottery idiot

Truth. This guy knows his stuff.

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