It’s a bad idea to spend $584 million on every Powerball combo, despite billion-dollar jackpot | WTVR.com

It’s a bad idea to spend $584 million on every Powerball combo, despite $1.2 billion payoff

A couple of reasons

1. If other people also hit the winner, you have to share with them. You could end up losing money. "By buying every combination, you’d guarantee yourself a victory, but you’d have just a 22 percent chance of buying the only winning ticket and keeping that jackpot all to yourself."

2. It's not physically possible to do it, because they can't be purchased with a high-speed online connection. You have to buy those tickets personally at a physical location. "If you were able to buy one ticket every second, it would still take you more than nine years to buy every combination."

Although if anyone does try this, I'll probably be behind them in the line at 7-Eleven, standing there with the exact change to buy my daily paper.