MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Payoff was $639 million, Odds of winning are 1:259 million

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> People have already tried this and people are doing it now. I read an article on it
> and they said dealing with millions of tickets is a logistical nightmare. One of the
> big problems was that you don't have enough time between drawings to actually print
> out all the tickets unless you can find multiple locations that will print out
> tickets round the clock and exclusively for you only. Then once the drawing is over,
> you have to sort though your tickets looking for winners since you can win lots of
> smaller prizes with less numbers. I think in the article I read, they said that they
> manually sorted through all the tickets looking for winners at least three times with
> different people because people zone out after a while and start missing winning
> tickets.
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> I wish I could find the article because it was insane.

Guess it would be worth digging thru all the other tickets. With mega millions it would be worth an extra 14 million. Plus the others. With powerball it would be an extra 34 million.

Plus if you could talk some business into it they would get ~18 million dollars. Plus the 'winner' kickback.

You basically have (3days) 39 hours to print the whole set. Also many states only let you buy tickets between 8am and 9pm. For mega millions you would have to print 1843.95 tickets per second. Figure each machine can do 5 tickets per second. That means ~368 stores printing non stop. Never mind the regular customers you would piss off doing this. (for 4days, 52 hours, 1382.96 per sec, 276.4 stores)