You have 10 lottery tickets, do you have a greater chance of winning?
| Yes, of course you do. | 32 | |
| No, the same chance. | 10 | |
| I don't know. | 2 | |
| Is that a trick question? | 7 | |
| Maybe | 6 |
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myownopinions
Of course you have a greater chance of winning. You probably still wouldn't win, but now you're that much closer. Unless, your talking about scrtch tickets or something...
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SirDaedalus
Although it depends on the odds of the lottery, generally speaking, the odds of winning are extremely minute. Having 10 current tickets with different combinations does make you more likely to win, but the likelihood of winning is still extremely small.
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Dulse.
Perhaps nine of the lottery tickets have already been played! The way it's worded that is a possibility.
I wanted to come up with a tricky answer...
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[Old Memory]
If you buy 10 times as much land as you currently own...the chances of a valuable meteor landing on your property increases tenfold...and your odds of becoming rich from that are better than from buying a lottery ticket.
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The_foz
Technically yes, but realistically no. Whether you stack one ticket or ten against the odds there's still a very high probability that you will lose.
I buy one ticket every now and then because you can't win unless you play.
Playing the lotto is gambling and it can be addictive and lots of people lose everything in hopes they'll win it big.Comment Hidden ( show ) -
RinTin
The lottos a rip off. I sold lottery tickets and the regulars would ask what number the ticket was on. They seemed to like it when it wasn't a new pack, towards the end.
A greater chance of winning at least once or a greater chance at winning your money back plus some?
and are the tickets all from the same stack?
It's mostly about luck. You could have no winners or you could have a bunch, but chances are if you buy 10 in a row of the same game you will win. Might also depends on the odds of winning per game.
I don't think you are as likely to win on the next ticket after a winning ticket though it's possible.
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Alison89
People develop weird habits and notions about gambling. These people buying a bunch of consecutive tickets probably believe there's some non-random method to distributing the winning tickets, like one in every x number of tickets.
And there are those who can't live with the notion that they bought one or two tickets fewer than the winning ticket.
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RinTin
Yeah. I remember a lady who came in to play pick 3 and 4 and every time she checked her tickets she'd say that number came out yesterday! That number just came out! I believe she actually was in denial.
Another customer came in almost everyday with a stack of pick 3 and 4 numbers worth at least $100. Probably had 40 or so tickets we'd have to check and replay. He usually only won $20.
The worst customers are the ones who don't know how to play the scratch offs and argue with you about the winnings even when you explain the game to them and others would try to cheat you and say you missed a few tickets or it didn't come up to that much money or that we messed up and played the wrong number when really they just changed their mind.
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Alison89
Wow, those are some really bad examples.
I knew this couple where the wife would play something like $100 worth of scratchers and when she'd win $50, she'd tell her husband she won and would want to go shopping. He never caught on.
I don't know how far someone would get trying to tell you that you'd played the wrong numbers.
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Shackleford96
I don't support the lottery here, because it doesn't support me.
To answer your question, I think it probably doesn't matter how many tickets you buy. Your chances of winning are still probably the same. That being said, I've heard of people buying the whole roll of tickets and scratching off every one of them and coming out positive. So maybe there is something to buying in quantity. Of course, that's just what I've heard. Gambling is not my thing.
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