A Sure Way To Win The Lottery

There is absolute fool proof way to win every time, if you’re up for it.

Who hasn’t dreamed of becoming mega rich?

In January of 2023, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot in the United States rose up to 1.35 BILLION dollars.

Make note of that number…

1.35 BILLION

What could I have done with 1.35 billion dollars?

Anything I want.

Hopeful winners crazily flocked to stores to buy lots and lots of tickets.Sadly, I was not the lucky winner, but someone was (though it should’ve been me). The lottery is obviously a game of nothing more than pure luck to beat astronomical odds, but what if there was a way to give a player the upper hand so that a win would be guaranteed?

There is…

The odds of winning that jackpot were 1 in 302.6 million. I’m not a math whiz by any means, but I pay attention when I think numbers can actually help me. All you have to do is a little simple math to win:

There are 302,575,350 possible combinations in the Mega Millions game. You just need to buy a ticket for every one of those combinations to get a guaranteed win. At $2 per ticket, the amount to buy every combination would only total a mere $605,150,700. Most people generally don’t have six hundred million dollars laying around to buy lottery tickets, but what if you did? What a group of “investors” chipped in for that amount?

It would work.

I thought about trying to take up a collection to try this, but then I realized if I had a collection of six hundred million dollars in donations I probably wouldn’t buy a lottery ticket. I think I would simply disappear to my new home in Tahiti. However, if the lottery winnings were again 1.35 billion, assuming I actually bought the tickets, and only spent $605,150,700 to acquire the jackpot, there would still be a hefty sum of money well into the hundreds of millions of dollars over what was spent to buy the tickets, thereby generating a profit making it well worth the time and effort.

BUT…

While the plan would work, there a few inherent flaws. Buying every combination would only work if no one else did the same thing, and assuming no one else just won at random. If either of these things happened you would have to split to winnings, thereby reducing the profit. That’s a just minor inconvenience though. A more complex issue is that it would be quite difficult to take the time to fill out 605,150,700 lottery slips. It would also be an equally insurmountable amount of time to actually find a store to print that many tickets and handle them. I guess you could have helpers, but even still, you only have a few days between drawings to get it all done.

So…

Let’s just say for the sake of amusing me we did have an army of hundreds of thousands of volunteers helping who actually accomplished the task in the desired time frame, we would be back on track for the plan to theoretically work, right? Well, only until we got the tax bill.

Let’s just say we took the lump sum amount. This comes out to about $707.9 million dollars (not counting all the lesser winnings there would be because of the other winning combos). Throw in the federal tax (about 24%), and we’re down about $170 million more to around only $538 million dollars. Then, depending where you live there is also state tax, so knock off another hundred million or so for that. Let’s just figure now we’re at a rough estimate of $400,000,000.

What am I supposed to do with $400 million dollars???

Jeez. ONLY $400 million? Why would I even waste my time for that pocket change? This would severely bite into the investment amount of $605,150,700. So while I would win the jackpot, I would actually end up losing two hundred million or so. This leaves me back where I started from, relying on luck as I buy a few quick picks here and there with hopes of winning at least a few of my dollars back. I may lose a few dollars now, but in the end it will be more cost effective. Logic prevails!

You can’t win if you don’t play

They say you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than winning the lottery. Based on this information, the odds seem pretty attainable because I know people who have been struck by lightning (but I don’t know anyone who has won a lottery jackpot). I was in an airplane once that got stuck by lightning. I know that doesn’t really count because I wasn’t directly struck, but its kind of the same thing, right? Maybe if I did get struck by lightning I would feel better about playing the lottery. If it happened to others, it can (and should) happen to me (winning the lottery, not the lightning thing).

If you want to send me the $605,150,700 to try the plan, I guess I’m down for it. If not, I figure I’ll just have to keep doing what I’m doing now – daydreaming and throwing my money down the toilet. But you never know – someone has to win, so it may as well be me.

~ Marty ~

For the record, I don’t have a gambling problem… I have a winning problem.

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