charlene & Annie,
you both allude to the 'lottery' I know very little about the lottery on your side of the pond. Here in the UK we need 6 numbers from 49 to win the jackpot. The odds are in the region of 14,000,000 to 1.
At £1 per ticket.
There is a new TV quiz game over here, it goes out after the lottery has been drawn on Saturday night. The winner has a choice of either £20,000 or 100,000 lottery tickets. The first winner took the tickets.
Out of 100,000 chances he had 1760 tickets with 3 numbers @ £10 each this gave him £17,600. About 210 tickets had 4 numbers. None had 5 and none had 6 (the jackpot). His total prize money came to just over £26,000 so he made the right decision.
However, it did surprise me that an investment of £100,000 yielded only £26000. I now know why I do not do the lottery.
Anyway, good luck.
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