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You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery
- eesmith 3y agoAnd experimentally tested! > Since a ticket costs £2, the experiment represented a loss to the authors of £54. > This unfortunate incident therefore serves both as a verification of our result and of the principle that one should expect to lose money when gambling. > For a more philosophical discussion of the National Lottery and its implementation for supporting charitable causes, we recommend David Runciman’s article in the London Review of Books [Run96].