Take a math class wrote:
1) At $2 per ticket that's not a bad payday for the lottery. Stasticly each ticket has a 1 in 292 million shot. Your odds are not cut in half if you buy two tickets. That's why.
2) At this point it would be worth just giving 292 million $ for every possible number and collecting the 1.3 billion.
1) You'll always have a seat at my poker table. Yes your odds are cut in half by buying two tickets. The odds go from infinitesimally negligible to infinitesimally negligible
2) It's physically impossible for you to cover every number combination in 4 days, even with 10,000 people working for you. First of all you'd have to have 10,000 buyers waiting in the wings. Secondly they would have to find a retailer willing to tie up their machine. Thirdly they would have to place 29,200 two dollar bets from a printed list during the allotted hours. Your total cost to cover all combinations is $585 million dollars!!!!
But for fun, lets say the lottery retailer are open 24 hours for 4 days. That's 5760 minites (4 days). You would have to purchase a ticket every 11.8 seconds.
To sum it up.
You need $584 million to cover 292 million combinations.
You would need 10,000 worker bees purchasing individul combinations every 11.8 sec from a list 24 hours a day for 4 days.
Those worker bees aren't going to work for just honey.
Anyone with $584 million has a lot better things to do than to give it all away on ridiculous schemes.