Ok so there are 292 million different combos.
The 1.5 billion will be about a billion lump sum of cash.
After taxes you have 620 million.
This of course if nobody wins but you. That is the gamble.
If you buy every combo you spend almost 300 million but for fuck sakes the numbers have never been 1,2,3,4,5 or 13,14,15,16,17 and so on so you don't buy anything like that and you cut out about 40 million tickets.
Also if you buy every combo you would win the million dollar prize 24 times as well
So you spend 250 million.
You win 620 million and another 24 million in 2nd place winning.
Probably another 2 or 3 million getting 4 of 5 right a shit load of times.
So 650 million at least.
Even if one other person wins and you only get 310 + the 40 million in other winnings you still profit 100 million.
The only problem is I think it would take months to print that many tickets off so you would have to have an organized group all over the place buying thousands and thousands of tickets non-stop. Maybe even 1000 people.
Ok who is in this with me? My idea your 250 million to invest? I will do the grunt work and we split the profit.
Ok one small problem, I just realized the tickets are 2 dollars each so it would cost around 500 million doing it my way. Or just take a chance and only get half the tickets. So it is like flipping a coin to make 400 million or having to kill yourself after you lose