You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery
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#2Matt Parker video on the subject: https://youtu.be/zYkmIxS4ksA
Re: You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery
#3It’s currently £2 per play so £54 for 27 tickets.
Matching two numbers on the last draw was rewarded with a £5 prize and a free lucky dip, but I think the £5 was only because it had rolled-over too many times.
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#4Not a "win" in the financial aspect of the game:
"... they matched just two balls on three of the tickets, the reward being three lucky dip tries on a subsequent lottery, each of which came to nothing. 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."
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#5On this theme, I really enjoyed the movie "Jerry and Marge go large" with Bryan Cranston. Based on a true story!
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#6Not worth promoting mathmatical oddities that encourage people to gamble, in my opinion.
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#7Not worth promoting mathmatical oddities that encourage people to gamble, in my opinion.
Surely you can't be serious. This site promotes social media companies all the time which you could easily argue is a much larger cause of problems in the world than gambling.
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#8If you were going to run a syndicate with 27 entrants, would you be better off buying these 27 tickets or a random bunch of 27 tickets in terms of getting a jackpot?
Or is there no difference in terms of likelihood of getting a significant win?
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#9I bought 3 tickets back in Nov 1994 when it started in England. I never won and never bought another ticket.
Re: You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery
#10Not worth promoting mathmatical oddities that encourage people to gamble, in my opinion.
They actually promote the opposite:
> 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
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n04/david-runciman/the-p...