Binary Lotto

Binary Lotto
You Have a 50/50 Chance
Of Winning Millions

The Boys in the Lotto Lab are a studious bunch.  They spend most days calculating, cogitating and contemplating everything Lotto.  It’s how they achieve the pinnacle of perfection they now enjoy.   

Anyway, The Boys were examining the back of a Lotto Ticket to see if there were some pertinent instructions they might have overlooked.  As they considered their treasure, they started looking at the odds of winning.   They quickly realized something was wrong…. Something was terribly wrong.

The Boys have always known that they had a 50/50 chance of winning Lotto Texas with any given ticket.  After all, you buy the ticket; they draw the numbers on Wednesday and Saturday.   You either hit the Texas Lotto Jackpot, or you don’t.   You win, or you lose.  Everyone has a 50/50 chance of winning millions of dollars twice a week.  They’ve done the math thousands of times.

It’s actually even simpler than that.  There are only six numbers drawn each Wednesday and Saturday.  As the Lotto Lab team is comprised of three lotto professionals, that means that each of them only have to get two of the numbers correct.

According to The Boys, their chances of winning any given multi-million dollar Texas Lotto Jackpot is actually closer to 70/30.  Three professionals, two drawings weekly, six numbers, do the math yourself.

I started to ask them about their 25-year losing streak…. but that just ticks them off.   If you want to listen to a 90-minute rant about the “Global Lotto Cabal,”  “Evil Big Lotto,”  “Broadwind Energy,” the dangers of “Climate Disruption,” and how none of them has had a date for months… be my guest.

The last issue is why they’re seeking a Female CEO.  In addition to annointing her as the highest paid member of the Lotto Central Team, they’re also hoping she has a couple of friends.

Anyway, back to today’s important topic…… it seems the Texas Lotto Commission is having difficulty with the simplest of math.  Upon examining the back of their Lotto Texas Ticket, The Boys learned that the Lotto Team in Austin thinks that the chances of winning Lotto Texas are 1 in 25,827,165.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?

1 in 25,827,165!?!?!?

That’s Insane!!

That’s Preposterous!!

That’s Absurd!!

That’s Ludicrous!!

That’s Crazy!!

There’s only one thing to do.  The Boys intend to suppress this information until it can be independently verified by professionals The Boys know and trust.  Until this information is properly vetted, it MUST NOT be made public.  These “so-called” odds were published on the back of their Texas Lotto Tickets.  Henceforth, the first thing The Boys are going to do when they purchase replacement tickets is black out the back of their tickets thus obscuring this vile and obnoxious information.

They recommend that you do the same.

Out of sight, out of mind.  What you don’t know, can’t hurt you.  Working together, we’ll assure that everyone holding a Texas Lotto Ticket has at least a 50/50 chance of winning millions.

Just ask last week’s winner.  They could have won or lost. They WON!!  Just like The Boys intend to.

Remember….