[SB00]

Here's the mathematical formula on how to figure out the odds on a lottery, assuming all numbers are pulled from the same set.

[(# of total numbers)! - ((# of total numbers) - (# of selections))!]
divided by (# of selections)!

For example, for a "6-49" format (six numbers pulled out of a total of 49) your odds are:

49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44 / 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1
=10068347520/720
=13983816

13,983,816 to 1.

In other words, forgeddaboudit.

[303george]

13,983,816 to 1. In other words, forgeddaboudit.

Unless the prize is more than 13,983,816 dollars and you were able to buy every possible combination of numbers. Of course, it is physically impossible to buy 14 million lottery tickets and no one has ever been able to "beat" the game this way.

[smith288]

In other words, forgeddaboudit.

If I did "forgeddaboudit" then my chances becomes

infinite to 0

Which is infinitely worse than

13,983,816 to 1.