Tuesday, November 08, 2011

How To Win A Lottery Without Going Broke

Wondering how to win a lottery? Well, it's not easy. But I think you already knew that.

There's only one way to guarantee a lottery win - Buy every possible combination of numbers. Of course, that's not feasible.

Consider a 649 lottery, which is one of the most common lotteries. The odds of winning a 649 game are approximately 1-in-14-million. That means that there are about 14 million different combinations of numbers that you could choose. Assuming tickets cost $1 each, it would cost you $14 million to buy 14 million tickets. Yep, that would cause you to go broke (Assuming you had that kind of money to spend in the first place). I told you it's not feasible. With that being said, you probably wouldn't even have enough time to fill out 14 million 649 slips in the time between draws.

So, then, back to the drawing board. You could spend a nominal amount of money and buy a few tickets a week, like most people do. That wouldn't cause you to go broke. Can you win a lottery that way? Yes, you can. But it is highly unlikely. The odds are just not in your favor.

How, then, do you win a lottery without going broke? Well, there's no sure-fire way to win it because lotteries are designed to be difficult to win. What you can do, though, is find a way to buy a lot more tickets without going broke.

It's not a good idea to spend a lot of money on lottery tickets yourself. So the best way to do it is to buy lottery tickets with a syndicate. A syndicate is a group of people that pool their money together to buy tickets in bulk.

Here's why playing as a syndicate is a good idea. Say your lottery budget is $10 a week, for example, and that you play the 649 game. With $10, you can buy 10 tickets. With 10 tickets your odds of winning the jackpot would decrease from 1-in-14-million to 1-in-1.4-million. Now, say you join a syndicate where 10 people each put in $10 into a pool to buy tickets. That would be 100 tickets, which would lower your odds to 1-in-140,000. That's a considerable difference in odds.

So, then, after seeing this example, I think you'd agree with me that joining a lottery syndicate is the best way to win a lottery without going broke, right?

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