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A comment on Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second. Parent comment
The point of lottery games is to offer the lowest possible probability of winning that has a perception of being winnable.
So guessing few random small numbers feels easier than picking one random large number.
The whole point of the website is to show those games in a context where people without a math degree will get how low the winning chances are.
So the games with the same winning likelihood Are Not the same game.
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The point of lottery games is to offer the lowest possible probability of winning that has a perception of being winnable.
So guessing few random small numbers feels easier than picking one random large number.
The whole point of the website is to show those games in a context where people without a math degree will get how low the winning chances are.
So the games with the same winning likelihood Are Not the same game.