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What Are the Odds of Winning the 6/49 Lotto and How Many Stupid People Buy Lottery Tickets?

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What Are the Odds of Winning the 6/49 Lotto and How Many Stupid People Buy Lottery Tickets?

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The odds of winning on a Lotto 6/49 are 1 in 13,983,816, because that’s how many different groups of six numbers can possibly be drawn. This means the odds of winning are about the same as flipping a coin and landing on heads twenty-four times in succession. The odds of winning second place are 1 in 2,330,635. A recent Gallup Po