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My coworkers and I had a fun lunch calculating minimum purchase amounts to guarantee or significantly increase winning chances for some smaller local lotteries. There’s a surprising amount of chances to do this especially if you pool your money and don’t have to wait for receipts to be printed. There was one local lottery for ~11m and would only require ~600k to be most likely to win based on the average ticket sales of that specific one.