{"id":5780,"date":"2010-10-10T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2010-10-10T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T14:09:14","slug":"calculate-your-odds-of-winning-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/calculate-your-odds-of-winning-the-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculate your odds of winning the lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"

By way of the ever-helpful Roger Henry, here’s a site that lets you simulate your lottery habits to determine how much you’ll win and how much it’ll cost<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is really hard to win the Mega Millions lottery. So hard that it can be difficult to comprehend what long odds confront its players.<\/p>\n

Why not try for free on this Mega Millions lottery simulator? You’ll be able to try the same numbers over and over, simulating playing twice a week for a year or 10. You’ll never win. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I ran 1040 simulations. It would have cost me $1040. I would have won $243<\/strong>. Not a good return on investment. I actually “win” more by not buying a ticket at all: I avoid the loss of that $797 in ticket purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By way of the ever-helpful Roger Henry, here’s a site that lets you simulate your lottery habits to determine how much you’ll win and how much it’ll cost: Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator! It is really hard to win the Mega Millions lottery. So hard that it can be difficult to comprehend what long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[88,290],"class_list":["post-5780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-lottery","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}