what's the possibility of someone winning the lottery? what's the percentage?
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Lottery Math will give you the odds.  See below.
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Knowing the winning lottery numbers would be the easiest!!!!!!!\nBut getting real now;  Invest in some good stock!!!!!!!!!!!!\nIf your a good Carpenter;  Purchase run down homes, fix them up & resell them!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never give nothing away, sell it on e-bay..........  \nOther then that work hard, live with your parents,  And by no means don't get married or have kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nIf you no any more PLEEEEEEEASE   SHARE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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If I knew the answer to this question, I would also know what the winning lottery number would be tomorrow.\n\nUnfortunately, I don't know either.
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That is essentially correct, HOWEVER...\nthere are other factors.\n\nYou have in effect calculated the expected value of your ticket if they only rewarded the top prize.  There are other prizes for fewer numbers hit as well, and these are often set values which do not change as the prize "pool" increases.  These would have to be taken into account. \nAlso, there is the slight but very possible chance that someone else hits the big prize simultaneously, (especially when the pool becomes relatively large compared with the odds:  the number of people buying tickets rises much greater than linearly) , in which case you split it.  While this would be taken into account in both lotteries, the differential between the "value" of the two would be smaller.\nNow if the odds of a lottery were, say 10,000,000 : 1, and the payout for the top prize were 20,000,000, then it might actually be worth spending $10,000,000 to purchase every ticket, guaranteeing a win!  (Not only do you win the top prize, but you have hundreds of smaller prizes too.  But again, this would depend heavily on the number of tickets in circulation).  In fact, a few years ago an international consortium did just that and purchased ~96% of possible powerball ticket combinations when the payout exceeded 4 times the (inverse of the) probability.  (They won by the way)\nIf you go for the one with the higher probability as another answerer has suggested, then by continuation of this hypothesis you should just forget about the lottery and flip coins against your neighbor for $1.\nIn any event,  the lottery is usually just a tax on people who are bad at math.
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must be odds on to win it
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Not all nationalities are allowed to join the lottery. They will be screening it very hard and the winner will still be screened further. But if a terrorist wins this, then it is his lucky day.
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Lotteries are a tax on people who aren't good at math.  Lottery software is double taxation.  You can't improve your odds of winnning something based on probability, no person or software can predict the future or better your odds.  The best way to win at lotteries is to keep your money.
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i dont know. \n\ni wish i knew the lottery numbers!
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Unfortunately, NO.  If any body claims it's a free lottery, beware of frauds. I refer a site for your info: fraudwatch.com . Browse this site for extra info.  Goodluck
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_machine
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70% chance of them winning.
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The correct answer is 68%. Good luck on the game!
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Did you participated in the lottery?  If not, how could you be a winner?
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Taking on a national lottery does seem a little foolish.\n\nThe payoff is about the same as the US lotteries (55%), but the fact that the that there is always a winner would mean that there are no huge pots to win. These huge pots seem what  brings in the large number of players in the US lotteries.
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Questions:\n    1. What is your age? Are you 18? Since you're not qualified to \n        play the lottery, why did you buy the lottery ticket? If you are \n        found to be the one who bought the ticket, you'll be \n        disqualified (see rules of the game). There are specifics \n        about age in the rules re lotteries.\n    2. Considering the situation, you have relegated the claim to \n        somebody else (by all means, it should be a member of the \n        family). Your family should get a finance manager to work \n        out some financial management in order to manage your \n        money (now the family is involved). You said a million is \n        being given to you, there are technicalities on this. Even \n        giving you a million is not easy, it may be in the form of a\n        gift, atrust fund, etc.? \n   3.  If you are found to be the one who bought the ticket, you\n        might be be disqualified (see rules of the game). There are\n        specifics about age in the rules re lotteries.
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Yes, I have. In fact. The Lottery. A one in 17 million chance of winning. People have said that your chances of getting struck by lightening are better than winning the lottery.\n\nIf you dream it, it can happen for you as well.\n\nIf you learn to meditate on (One) thing you want to change, it will change for you.\n\nSo pick (One) thing and work on it.\n\nGood Luck, is coming your way soon.
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Look to this sites & find it:\nhttp://www.eightdegree.com/weblog/2004/12/lottery_winners.html