Waiting For The Lottery Players. Poor Math Education Or Something Else?

The only thing between me and drinking cold beer after a hot day on my motorcycle was ten lottery players. Ten highly focused and motivated lottery players. At this point, I didn’t know they were all lottery players. I would have left. Why were they so intent on throwing their money away?

How many ways to lose your money can they come up with?

The beer felt cold at the start. I begin my wait optimistic that it will still be cold when these 10 lottery strategy masters get their tickers. What are the odds that all ten are not going to take a long time to make their decisions and lay down their money? How many are going to bring in a rare winning ticket and then use those winnings to buy more tickets? If buying with a winning ticket, the strategy changes. It’s not like you’re playing with cash out of your billfold. I wonder if the hardcore players change their strategy when they start dipping into the credit cards. Desperation changes people.

The best odds that the Ohio Lottery offers is 1 in 4 with a Keno game. The worst is one in 302,575,350. The worst is the Mega Millions Megaplier. What in shit’s name is a megaplier? They made up a word for this. I bet all ten of these strategic mathematical masterminds cannot define what a megaplier is.

Nobody could be this bad at math. If math were the deciding factor, there would be no…