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by goatforce5 4280 days ago
Many lotteries make it hard to buy that many tickets. They may say tickets filled out by machines are invalid. Some limit how many tickets a retailer can sell in a day (for example if you know your busiest kiosk sells 2,000 tickets a day, flags are raised if someone starts selling 20,000 tickets per day).

I guess it's not fun for the regular players (who are the bread and butter of the lotteries) if a syndicate swoops in and takes the massive jackpots when the odds are in their favour.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/03/30/can-you-eve...

mentions Virginia put limits in place after a syndicate won a jackpot after buying almost all the tickets.