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Re: Odd Escape
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Originally Posted by Jones571
yea and after playing seventy millinon diffrent combos in one week you will need to win the lotto after spending 70 million dollars on tickets.
Yea really! You gotta win big.

Which brings up another interesting point:

Option B guarantees the win in this scenario, but you only win on one set of #s.

Option A does not gaurantee the win, however you do have the possibility of winning multiple times.

So, in the end: if you are concerned with just the probability of winning once and only once, then Option B is better. If you are concerned total payoff probability, both options WOULD work out to be the same. An interesting twist to an already interesting riddle.
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