Big numbers, small brains

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Now here’s an interesting one: a group of lottery players “lost” 27 million euros. They had chosen a set of numbers to run each week, and that set came up-whereupon they found that their ticket buyer had been allowing the system to choose random numbers instead, and they hadn’t won a cent

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[gerald_duck]

I've heard it suggested that a good way to win the lottery is to form a syndicate, take people's money but buy no tickets. Cover any small wins out of your own pocket. If there's a large win, you go to prison, but curiously this only increases by something like 25% your overall chance of ending up Inside, because the probability of being convicted of a crime you didn't commit is so much higher than the probability of winning a lottery jackpot.

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I wish my brain worked like that.

[mtbc100]

My father's does. He'd have made a good tax inspector.

I'm glad mine doesn't.

[nobswolf]

another moral is: "stay with the rules of your syndicate" ;)

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That's true. "Do what you signed up for, even if it's suboptimal."