I'm not sure that's true. http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/lottery/ http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/lottery/ Summing up our conclusions, it's much better to p

I'm not sure that's true. http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/lottery/ http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/lottery/ Summing up our conclusions, it's much better to play in a week with a big jackpot than a small one (duh!) but even in a week with a near record jackpot (second largest in history) the lottery is only almost but not quite a break even proposition.