They won $96ish million, took the lump payout of $57 million.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
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That’s a really affordable military.
lol I thought I edited it before anyone saw that.
Mistakes are forever.
Wonder what they're gonna do with their $23 million.
Hookers and blow
Great, even the lottery is P2W
stefan mandel won a bunch of jackpots in australia and the us during the 1970s and 80s doing the same thing, buying all the numbers.
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.
Everyone realizes the risk is that if someone else wins you get half the pot and if three people do you get 1/3rd and so forth. Large lotteries tend to have large sales and are more likely to have split winnings.
Didn’t Voltaire do this?