Tell me about it. While I have bought very few lottery tickets in my life for a while, just for fun, I had used the idea of bias — which is actually real — and a few other similar tricks (most machines do not stir adequately in pair bring drawn is one example) to construct and maintain a wheel of 45 tickets that had I been actually buying tickets, at a price of $45 a play, would have over time only lost me something like $5 for every $6 spent.
I considered that a remarkable performance ... and yet I might as well have been burning money were I actually buying tickets.
As you may have heard it said: lotteries are taxes on those who don’t understand math ... but they’d be a tax on anyone who does as well.
“Adequately, so pairs being” ... darn editing