Why do people play Lotto Max when...

[bluetors]

Some real life comparison:

If you took someone's debit card and randomly picked 4 digits to guess their PIN:
The odds are 1 in 210 (correct guess, 1 attempt). But you get 3 tries before bank locks the card, so it's 1 in 70.

For lotto 649:
The odds are 1 in 13,983,816

Will you win? No. Thank you for your donation.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Came up with a new formula for myself. Instead of buying one lotto max and one 6/49 a week am switching to once a month. Got 6 out of 7 numbers twice on Max. got around $2200 both times. instead of $32000000 with that one more number. It's fun!

 

[rhuarc29]

Imagine playing Lotto Max and matching 6 numbers, extremely unlikely, but very lucky... and then going on to win only $4800.

Then kicking yourself in foot, and thinking if you played 649, and matched 6, you would have $5million and spent less money on the ticket too...

You have way better odds of matching 6 on Lotto Max than on Lotto 649 though...so it's not really a comparison. Your odds are somewhere around 123 times more likely to hit 6 on Lotto Max than on 649.

 

[bluetors]

You have way better odds of matching 6 on Lotto Max than on Lotto 649 though...so it's not really a comparison. Your odds are somewhere around 123 times more likely to hit 6 on Lotto Max than on 649.

You're right, I didn't realize that.

 

[superstar_88]

Apart from the lottery, are there any other ways to be Quick Rich? Say, at a modest level, like "only" a million.

A net worth of a mill has gotta be below average for anyone say middle age