Every once in a while - quite rarely, actually - I do the national lottery and had done so on Saturday.
Mindful of our need for a new car (after the current one got totaled yesterday - no one hurt, thankfully), I remembered today to check and, of course, as usual, I had no winning numbers.
I did two lines - I seldom if ever do more - and have an uncanny ability to include within my total selection of 12 numbers none that are drawn, even if, as this weekend, I have no repeats.
Now, it stands to reason, if I keep on doing extra lines there will come a point when the only numbers I haven't chosen are the six winning numbers.
Trouble is, there are 49 numbers to choose from and six doesn't go evenly into 49, so could the statisticians among us please work out my best strategy?
I reckon that all I need to do is seven full lines (total 42) plus a discarded line with a single entry on it (total 43) and, bingo, the next line of six gets me the winners!
So that's an outlay of eight squids and I'm a millionaire.
Seems a reasonable sort of return to me.
Thoughts?