Winning the Lottery by Buying Every Ticket Combination: An Impossible Dream

The odds of winning the lottery jackpots are astronomically high at 1 in 302 million for Mega Millions and 1 in 292 million for Powerball.

You could theoretically guarantee a jackpot win if you bought every possible ticket combination, but it would cost over $500 million to do so.

A group of investors once tried to buy 5 million of 7 million possible ticket combinations to rig the Virginia lottery, but ran out of time.

Even if you bought every combination, multiple people could randomly pick the same numbers and you'd have to split the prize.

It's fun to imagine winning this way, but not realistic to coordinate or afford buying hundreds of millions of ticket combinations.