Mega Millions Mania

The odd thing is, if this calculation is true, then you could gurantee a winner by buying 147 million different tickets (assuming there were no duplicates of all numbers).This would cost you $147 million, but you would win $500 million. I'd like someone to actually do this, but unfortunately, the bank laughed at me when I asked for the loan to do this. To be honest, I'd like to think I'd not do much different. I wouldn't buy a huge house, though I would fix up the one I have to become exactly what I want (a fence, new landscaping and a 4 seasons room). I'd probably buy a new car for my wife, and my immediate family members who need one. I'd set up college funds for my children, my nieces and nephews, and probably a few scholarship programs for unrelated kids.Ultimately, I'd probably invest most of it so my wife and I could live comfortably without worry about money. Money may be considered the root of all evil, but to me, it is definitely the root of all worry.Oh, and the lot behind my neighborhood that is attempting to be rezoned multi-family so they can put in unnecessary low-income apartments? I'd probably buy it and turn it into a park.

Then why would you buy the ticket? If you wouldn't buy the ticket, then you couldn't win and the question is moot.

The prize has jumped to $640 million, in just one day, and it continues to rise as more and more people are buying them.A colleague of mine has said that he heard all possible combinations have been sold at least once, meaning someone or some few are going to win tonight.I wish those winners luck (I doubt I'll be one).

Well, there are two potential issues here. For one, there are many weeks when no one wins. For instance, the drawing before was for over $300 million, and no one won it (obviously) so doing it thern would have guaranteed you a single victory.Secondly, you wouldn't just win the jackpot. You'd also have every possible combination of the lower payouts, too. I wouold suggest starting the process early. Once you get the self-pick tickets filled in, you can use them at any time, so you just need to find people who are willing to help you fill them in, or just do nothing else during your down time for a year, and you'll have all the possible combinations.The hard part is getting all of them printed. You'd almost certainly need to spread out your purchases, and with three days between drawings, you'd have to work fast, smart, and with help. You'd probably need to coordinate with the owners of a few establishments (they get money for printing a winner so they have some incentive to work with you) to have a stack of those tickets dropped off and printed, then picked up later.But beyond that, you'd need to have the money to pay for them all, in cash. That means a loan, and then some rather large stacks of money being transported.All in all, it would be quite the undertaking, but if you could pull it off, you'd be famous, and rightfully so.

I'm sure you could, but very few of them would be guaranteed.I didn't say it was practical, just possible. If it were both, I'd have done it this past week.

You're guaranteed to win. Whether others do too is another thing, but the odds are pretty much in your favor. More lottery draws are not won than are. Then you didn't do what I suggested, which is to buy all of the possible numbers.Again, not practical, but possible.