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Actually. Most lotteries become good bets when the jackpots get large enough. Assuming you don't split a pot with someone else, of course. Avoid 12345, geometr
by dnaquin 18y ago
Actually. Most lotteries become good bets when the jackpots get large enough. Assuming you don't split a pot with someone else, of course.
Avoid 12345, geometric progressions, etc.
- fallentimes 18y agoWhy would you avoid 12345 and geometric progressions?
- bbq 18y agoI assume it's because more people will have those numbers than other numbers so the pot will be split.
- anewaccountname 18y agoUnless everone thinks like the parent and those numbers become underrepresented.. and you can take it into the Nth level like a Keynesian Beauty Contest.
- tokenadult 18y agoAssuming you don't split a pot with someone else, of course. That's an assumption you can't make in a parimutuel lottery, which is the usual lottery design. Mathematician Ian Stewart, author of many good books on mathematics, gives one example of a lottery in Britain that had more than seventy winners.
- dnaquin 18y agoAbsolutely. But even then, it's a good bet at some point. That's the exact example I'm thinking of when I say avoid 12345, geometric progressions, etc. I believe that example was a simple pattern.
- zach 18y agoAnd concentrate on numbers over 31 -- many "lucky numbers" are birthdates.
- vlad 18y agoActually. Most lotteries become good bets when the jackpots get large enough. Lotteries never become a good bet. However, if one wanted to waste their money, picking a number that doesn't resemble a birthday or something someone else would choose would be a good idea. On the other hand, if you won the lottery from a $2 entry, $500K would be just as good as $15m since it was all random anyway.