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by cschmidt 1040 days ago
This paper is focused on the little prizes. The odds of winning the jackpot will be the same for any play.

In fact the only thing you can do in the lottery is to avoid "popular" sequences like birthdays etc, so that if you do win you don't have to split it with a bunch of people.

A lottery in the Philippines famously had 433 winners, who all played 9, 18, 27, 36, 45 and 54. (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/asia/philippines-grand-lotto-...)

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The most disappointing thing here is that the number of winners wasn’t 432 or 423.