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trombone8 on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lott...

Indeed, it is in fact the lottery organizers that are scamming people out of their money by giving false impressions about the expected returns.

Karunamon on June 8, 2015 | [–]

What false impressions would those be? They haven't been exactly shy about publishing the odds (one in hundreds of millions) of winning the jackpot. Odds for smaller prizes are much better, and they get even better on things like scratch cards.

pc86 on June 9, 2015 | [–]

Have you ever seen a lottery ticket?

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