Here’s a sobering statistic

Of course if the chance of winning either game is ridiculous, the chance of winning both is ridiculous on steroids — 1 in 88 quadrillion, or 1 in 88,412,922,115,183,000 to be precise. Or if you’re one of those people who do better with percentages: You have a 0.0000000000000011% chance of winning both games.

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And Americans do love buying lottery tickets. They spent more than $80 billion on them in 2016. That’s more than they spent on movies, video games, music, sports tickets and books — combined.

That being said, I’m off to buy a lottery ticket :)