Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
The lottery is $640M.
You'd make $24M a year on the payout or go for $462M cash option of which the Feds keep $115M to help run the government for 9 minutes and you get $346M.
So say you take the $346M option and buy Pinnacle?
What are you going to do with the remaining $346M?
Check this out: The odds of winning are 1 in 176M. That is based solely on the number of possible combinations of numbers. So, at $1 a ticket, you come out ahead quite a bit!
Only problem is having to share with some other pesky winner(s) and of course finding a 7/11 that can handle my $176M transaction. Wouldn't be surprised to see Goldman or BoA getting in on this =P
Also: scoping out "50 seats" will result in a whole lot of 49 seat rj's. They already carry 48/49 most of the winter anyway.