Re: Do the math ...
"So here's a way to game the system, 1:259 million odds (ticket combinations) in a $1 play with a > $259MM jackpot should have net expected value (granted, need to adjust for taxes, risk of split jackpots, etc). Just buy out every combination of numbers and collect the jackpot."
Except lotteries are already wise to this back when Lotto odds were as low as 7+ million to 1 (6 out of 44). One of the first things they banned was computer-blotted playslips. No, they have to be hand-marked: every last one of them. Not to mention with a limit usually of five or six per playslip, and the time it takes to run them through and get them printed out, time is against you, not to mention alerts concerning problem gambling.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
