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Simulate your lottery balls for the next 10 years, then realize you should quit while you're ahead
Using the Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator, you can feed your favorite balls into a program that runs them through 10 years of simulated lottery draws. You are then shown an utterly mollifying breakdown of all 1040 draws.
At the bottom, you can see how much money the next 10 years will cost you, and how much you stand to gain. For $1040 spent, the average winnings are only $90. After 10 page reloads, my maximum winnings were a massive $114.
With a truly minuscule return rate of 10%, you'd really be better off gambling on almost anything else. You'd certainly be better off playing roulette or poker at a casino, that's for sure. But, having said that, you have to be in it to win it!
[source: Popular Science, via bvlad]
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Subscribe to commentsDavid LevineSep 29th 2010 7:58AM
The first time I ran it, I would have gotten $110 out of 1040 draws. I refreshed the page 10 times and it bounced around between $46 and $52.
NightHawkSep 29th 2010 8:03AM
After 10 refreshes I managed 213$!
Sebastian AnthonySep 29th 2010 8:05AM
Damn! You is rich!
AlasdairGFSep 29th 2010 8:19AM
For a UK National Lottery sim, check out http://www.whatsthecost.com/lottery.aspx... methinks there are better ways to give to charity!
Sebastian AnthonySep 29th 2010 8:39AM
Neat link, thanks for sharing :)
DaveSep 29th 2010 8:28AM
5 refreshes...JACKPOT!
Looks like I know what the next $1040 is being spent on...
Sebastian AnthonySep 29th 2010 8:38AM
Screenshot or it didn't happen!
TrueEddieSep 29th 2010 9:07AM
I was able to get up to $422, took about 30 refreshes though.
TomSep 29th 2010 9:30AM
I must be quite lucky then, I got this on my first try
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/5244/24708893.png
asadSep 29th 2010 9:50PM
actually, i think you would need to win $1144 over ten years to hit anything near a return rate of 10%. and ignoring interest and compounding, that would be ten percent over 10 years, so it would annualized to ~1%. so you're better off sticking that money in a checking account. (~~!!!)