How do I compute the odds of winning a lottery twice?

Reply #4

Coin Toss — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:12:56 GMT

According to last Wednesday's The Lottery Changed My Life, this question was asked in one of the info blurbs and their answer was the odds against winning the lottery twice are 419,000,000 to one.

They weren't specific about which lottery or anything, they just said the lottery.

Reply #3

markp1950 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:37:32 GMT

I just want to win it once!

Well.. More than my $10K and $1,590.....

MarkP

Reply #2

Rakster — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:39:11 GMT

I beg to differ about Of course the simple answer is that it ain't ever going to happen to any specific person. as a doctor in British Columbia hit the 6/49 jackpot twice within 2 or 3 years. Once was for 2.5 million the second times 5 or 7 million. And being a doctor, he would have needed that money too...hahaha NOT

Reply #1

KY Floyd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:23:33 GMT

How much effort do you want to put into it? Multiply the odds together, like any other fraction. 1/4 times 1/4 is 1/16. 1/41,000,000 * 1/14,000,000 is 1 in 574,000,000,000,000.

How long will you continue to play? Each chance increases your odds of winning, whether it's all for the same drawing or spread over many drawings. If the overall odds are 1 in 41 million, your odds with 5 chances are 5 in 41 million, or 1 in 8.2 million. For the other, it's 5 in 14 million or 1 in 2.8 million. That ma... [ More ]

How do I compute the odds of winning a lottery twice?

JWBlue — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:27:58 GMT

Jackpot odds of 1 in 41,000,000 for one jackpot and odds of 1 in 14,000,000 for the other.

Play both 5 times each drawing.