{"id":450,"date":"2022-10-02T23:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T23:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yesrenee.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:06:13","slug":"why-the-lottery-tricks-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Why The Lottery Tricks You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">You might have thought that the lottery is pretty cool, right? You only spend a speck of your money and can get more! And you have a big chance of winning the money because you get to choose more than 1 number, right? Well, that might be what most people think, but the lottery has a very special way of earning money. True, a very, very lucky person might win that pile of cash, but by that time, the lottery has got more than millions of dollars from people who don&#8217;t recognize what the lottery wants to do and what the lottery wants as an result. You might not be understanding this yet, but that is okay, just move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first I thought that the lottery was a pretty good thing too. But today I wrote a Python program and I realized something:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># my Python program\n\nimport random\n\nMyChoice=&#91;12, 33, 4, 6, 46, 29, 50] \n\nbalance = 1000  \nmoneyIWon = 0 \ntimesPlayed = 0 \nwhile balance >= 5:\n    timesPlayed += 1\n    balance -= 5\n    result = &#91;]\n    while len(result) &lt; 7:\n        thisResult = random.randint(1, 50)\n        if thisResult not in result:\n            result.append(thisResult) \n    # print(result)\n    myGuess = 0 # the guess you make\n    for i in MyChoice: \n        if i in result:\n            myGuess += 1\n\n    if myGuess == 3: \n        balance += 5 \n        moneyIWon += 5\n        print(\"I won 5 dollars!\")\n    elif myGuess == 4: \n        balance += 20\n        moneyIWon += 20\n        print(\"I won 20 dollars!\")\n\n    elif myGuess == 5:\n        balance += 106\n        moneyIWon += 106\n        print(\"I won 106 dollars!\")\n\n    elif myGuess == 6:\n        balance += 5351\n        moneyIWon += 5351\n        print(\"I won 5351 dollars!\")\n\n    elif myGuess == 7:\n        balance += 70000000 # total money you can win!\n        moneyIWon += 70000000\n        print(\"I won 70000000 dollars! Oh, my!\")\n        break # take a break :)\n\n\nprint('I tried',timesPlayed,'times, spent',timesPlayed*5,'dollars and the money I have left is', balance, 'dollars.')\nprint('I got', moneyIWon, 'dollars by buying lottery tickets, but my profit was spent.')\n\n# *if you don't understand check my next blog*<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I agree with you that my program is so many rows long and you must be like: &#8220;Um&#8230; What in the whole universe is happening, and all this program says is <em>blahblahblah<\/em>!&#8221; Now I need to talk about my topic, but check my next blog to have an explanation. Alright. Sound okay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, assuming that you understand this 50-<em>ish<\/em> lines of code, test this code. You should get something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>I won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI tried 207 times, spent 1035 dollars and the money I have left is 0 dollars.\nI got 35 dollars by buying lottery tickets, but my profit was spent.\n\nProcess finished with exit code 0\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Or something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>I won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 20 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 5 dollars!\nI won 20 dollars!\nI tried 217 times, spent 1085 dollars and the money I have left is 0 dollars.\nI got 85 dollars by buying lottery tickets, but my profit was spent.\n\nProcess finished with exit code 0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You noticed that you are always left with 0 dollars. How sad. To have a bit more money to survive a day, you can get yourself a bit more money:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>balance = 1000 <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I copied a line of code. This code tells the money I have. I can change this variable, <em>balance<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>balance = 30000 # Thirty thousand. 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dollars and the money I have left is 3 dollars.\nI got 2248 dollars by buying lottery tickets. But this profit was spent. Oh, no!\n\nProcess finished with exit code 0\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t mind the hundred rows of <em>I won 5 dollars!<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, you might survive with a couple dollars. Maybe. You can perhaps buy a really cheap and old flute, make people pay money to listen to music, get $50, sell the flute for $10, buy a loaf of bread, and buy a block of wood and pick wild berries and use a stick and the berry juice to write <em>please help me, please donate<\/em> and then build a new mansion. However, when will you get 30 000 dollars? With another lottery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you understand why I think you should not trust the lottery? They only make it sound good, but in reality&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, what a waste of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, my lottery code will have a special name: Python Lottery. My next blog will be called that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have thought that the lottery is pretty cool, right? You only spend a speck of your money and can get more! And you have a big chance of winning the money because you get to choose more than 1 number, right? 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