Mathematics has a foolproof trick to take prize from various lottery. Just follow the tip of the combinatory, join millions of euros and attack the ‘bad-made’ pills.
The mathematician Jacob to exposed, in an article in, its a “completely infallible” method, which guarantees 100% prize in the lottery.
“If you follow my method, you will gain the biggest jackpot possible. There is only one small but: You have to be a millionaire or at least have many rich friends“.
Take the lottery as an example Powerball from the US. To play, five different “white” numbers are chosen from 1 to 69, and a sixth “red” number from 1 to 26-this last number can be a repetition of one of the white numbers.
How many different brick tickets are possible? To calculate it, we have to resort to an area of mathematics called combinatorywhich, as the name suggests, is a way to calculate the number of possible combinations of objects.
First, master the combinator
Choosing numbers from an unmarried set, as in the case of the brick, is an example of an “n chooses K” problem, where n is the total number of objects we can choose (69 in the case of white numbers of Powerball) EK is the number of objects we want to choose from this set.
As it is not possible to repeat the white numbers, these choices are made “without replacement” – as each winning numbered ball is selected for the bodice, it is not part of the set of choices available again.
Mathematicians have a formula for calculating the number of possible results from a “n chosen K” problem:
n! / (k! × (n – k)!)
If you’ve never seen him before, a “!” Mathematical does not mean that we are very enthusiastic – it is a symbol that represents the factory of a number, which is simply the number that is obtained when multiplying an integer, or an integer, for all numbers smaller than it.
For example, 3! = 3 × 2 × 1 = 6.
In the case of the American lottery, If we replace 69 with ne 5 with kwe get a total of 11,238,513.
It is a large number of possible bullies, but, as will be seen later, Maybe not enough.
This is where the Powerball Red – It essentially means that you are playing in two lottery at the same time and you have to win both to get the larger award. This makes the lottery much harder to win.
If we simply added a sixth white ball, we would have a total of 119,877,472 possibilities. But as there are 26 possibilities for the red balls, we multiply the combinations of the white balls for 26 to get a Total 292.201.338 – Much higher.
Ok, so there more than 292 million possible tickets for the Powerball.
Now the trick to always win: simple, but expensive…
Just buy all possible tickets. Simple perhaps is not the right word, given the logistics involved and, most importantly, with the tickets costing $ 2 each, it is necessary to have more than half a billion of dollars by hand.
Is it enough to guarantee a big prize? This is a slightly complicated question to answer.
O jackpot and Powerball It accumulates every week when it is not claimed, which means that the amount it can earn varies.
But There were only 15 examples in which the jackpot exceeded 584 million Of dollars needed to buy all tickets, so, most of the time, it’s not worth it.
Profit is even reduced by the fact that jackpots They can be shared by several winners who choose the same numbers and about 30% of the earnings to be taxed.
There are investors to make fortunes with mischief
In fact, if there was a guaranteed way to always earn in the bus station and make a profit, people would always be doing so and the bullies would go bankrupt. But, Surprisingly, poorly designed bodies arise – and the more cunning investors take the opportunity to make a fortune.
One of the first examples of this type of bullies involved the writer and philosopher Voltaire. Together with the mathematician Charles Marie de la Condamineformed a union to buy all tickets in a lottery linked to the French public debt.
The exact way it did is obscure and there are some suggestions for fraud, such as not having to pay the total price of tickets, but the result is that the union seems to have won several times before the authorities ended the lottery in 1730.
Later, Voltaire wrote in the third person that “the winning lots were paid in cash and so that any group of people who had bought all the tickets could earn a million francs.” Voltaire joined numerous companies and was lucky.
But the most modern lotteries also suffered the same destination.
A famous example is the Irish national lotterywhich was bought by a union of a few dozen people in 1992. At the time, players had to choose six numbers from 1 to 36, which, according to our formula “n chooses K”, produces 1,947,792 possible tickets.
With tickets costing 50 Irish pence (the currency of the height), the conspirators raised the necessary £ 973,896 and started buying tickets for an estimated £ 1.7 million draw.
The organizers of the lottery discovered the scheme and began to limit the number of tickets each seller could sell, which means that the union could only buy about 80% of ticket combinations.
In the end, it shared the jackpot With two other winners, which gave him a deficient prize of 568,682 sterlin pounds. Fortunately to the union, the lottery had also introduced a guaranteed £ 100 prize for hitting four numbers, which raised its total to £ 1,166,000.
To the Irish National rapidly changed the rules To avoid a similar scheme and currently requires six chosen numbers from 47, increasing the number of tickets to 10,737,573.
O jackpot is limited to 18.9 million euros and tickets cost 2 euros each, which guarantees that buying the lottery will never be profitable.
Another more recent example occurred in 2023, when a union gained a jackpot 95 million dollars in Texas State Bureau.
O Rook TX has 54 choices 6, a total of 25,827,165 combinationsand tickets cost 1 dollar each, which makes this investment worthwhile. And thanks, for a group of people who bought the necessary tickets For profit.
Therefore, as long as it has a large sum of money in advance and can find a lottery that has not been due diligence with Formula N chooses K, can become (even more) rich.
