Re: Is the Mega Millions lottery approaching +EV?
Yes that is one thing I forgot. Since you can split the big prize that knocks some off the EV.
Of course you could get around this by selected 6 very unpopular numbers.
You could pick 51,52,53,54,55,56 or something like that. Not too many people would play that combo because "that would never happen"
I had a stat's professor in college advise if you were going to play the lottery make sure all your numbers are > 31, since so many people play bdays.
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