Buy All the Lottery Tickets? Someone Really Did: Weekend Edition

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There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage — Matt Levine

I assume it is rarely a positive-expected-value play to buy every possible lottery ticket, but not never. For instance, here’s how Lotto Texas works:

1. You pay $1 to pick six numbers between 1 and 54, and then the lottery draws six random numbers. There are thus about ...