Could you buy every lottery ticket and guarantee a win?

Podcast: Could It Though? · Garry "Gazza"

Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

One man won the lottery 14 times. Legally. Stefan Mandel, an economist from Romania, never picked lucky numbers. He bought all of them. So could you do it with the Powerball? We do the maths: 292 million combinations at $2 each is $584 million just to be sure you win, and nine years filling in slips day and night. Then the people who actually pulled it off, from a mathematician and his 27 friends in Ireland to a syndicate in Texas that bought 99% of the tickets. Would it make you money? Taxes, cash payouts and split jackpots say maybe not...