How much would one have to spend to win the lottery for a guaranteed win?

If you could buy every single ticket, you could win! The # of outcomes in the lotto is found from combinatorics: nCr(49,6) means how many ways are there to choose 6 numbers from 49 (where the ORDER of the numbers does not matter). The amount is 13,983,816. So if a ticket costs $1... The equation 49*48*47*46*45*44 is incorrect because it implies that the ORDER of the numbers DOES matter. The multiplication of the numbers as such is known as a permutation. The equation for the combination is: nCr(n,k) = n! / [k!(n-k)!] nCr(49,6) = 49! / [6!(43)!] Where "!" means factorial, ie 5! = 5*4*3*2*1

I do not know much about 49/6 but I do know you could ask lottery director.com they have the pick 3 and the pick 4 already in place if you want to win smaller pots till you get the money to play the big ones. The pick 3 requires you to play 220 numbers which would require $110.00 on $.50 bet exact order you would win $250.00 here in Texas, exact/any (here is the catch) the pay is $40.00 for 3 different numbers and $80.00 for 2 like numbers. Of course with the numbers being boxed 220#'s you are guaranteed a win but since I started tracking Jan.2007 I have found any play always wins but exact rarely wins, the numbers are wheeled but like someone said it would take alot of money to win a lot of money and it may not be worth the expense because everything I have read says the lottery is designed to keep half of everything bet, states that use the balls are better win states but when the computer is used to generate the numbers the odds are stacked in the lotteries favor. Exact/any requires $1.00 get a bunch of other folks and everybody play every day and share the pots. Some one is going to win everyday Guaranteed. If you come across a winning system share it here we'll all play. Good luck

There was a group of people that went around doing this in different states - a team of 10 people I think. It cost many millions of dollars and they had to wait for the jackpot to be passed up 3 or 4 times before it was worth playing. Once they won, each of them wouldn't even get a million dollars because the cost of playing was so high. It's also illigal to buy that many tickets in some states. It also took the entire week of buying tickets spead across the 10 people to have them all printed. Millions of tickets isn't exactly a one-day job.