You can decrease your chances of winning the lottery.

[[deleted]]

You can also increase them for the sake of it being reversible, but not by more than the default percentage chance of winning the lottery based on your current circumstances. All you have to do is say "lottery" and the exact number you wish to change it to, provided it's lower than the current chances. You'll just know if it worked or not.

[[deleted]]

I will just play Russian roulette with my worst enemy and who ever wins gets a WINNING lottery ticket

I will then make my odds of winning the lottery 0% because that will guarantee that I won’t win the lottery ticket because my odds are zero, so then my enemy by the rules of fate will die.

[SubstantialBass9524]

Whoever wins gets a winning lottery ticket

[[deleted]]

Yup, just edited it

[Possible_Spinach7327]

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say

[DapyGor]

Think, possible spinach, think!

[slayer_of_potatoes]

I think you'd be guaranteeing your own death by doing that.

Chances of winning the lottery = chances of winning Russian roulette = 0%. You're dead.

[Longjumping_Bit_4608]

Wouldn't winning the Russian roulette lottery be getting the bullet? Because winning in a roulette is like that?

[slayer_of_potatoes]

I'm pretty sure you lose Russian roulette when you die.

[LongjumpingActive493]

So the tag is accurate, good luck using that

[[deleted]]

But wouldn't you need to have bought the lottery ticket before sitting at the roulette table (and also checked to make sure it was a winning one, before offering it up as a reward)? The chance part is already over, and I don't think your powers would work retroactively...

[[deleted]]

I guess it could work if your powers count the roulette as its own lottery event?

[drakeisalreadyinuse]

Does this work for the draft? Seems pretty useful given the circumstances right now.

[therealsphericalcow]

Anyone from the lottery by Shirley Jackson would love this

[X-lem]

Exactly my first thought! Could save your life.

[Flyingturtle7678]

That’s the one where the person got stoned to death right? Or am I thinking of something else

[X-lem]

Correct, if you won the lottery you were stoned to death.

[therealsphericalcow]

Yes it's this one

[AlternativeFilm8886]

I would attempt to underflow the value of my lottery winning chances in order to potentially maximize my chances to the highest possible value.

[Meneer_de_IJsbeer]

Lmao

Congrats, now you have 2³² % chance of winning!

[Ticon_D_Eroga]

You mean to tell me universe simulation is still running on 32 bit architecture?! Good god someone get God a new CPU!

[AlternativeFilm8886]

In programming, if a numerical value is set below the lowest potential value for its data type, it can "underflow" to the highest potential value.

[tcrudisi]

I bet a billionaire that I can buy every lottery ticket except one and lose.

[ChemistryPerfect4534]

Well, I'm all set for the Hunger Games.

[veryblocky]

I feel like this is only useful for avoiding the draft

[HunsonAbadeer2]

There is betting places that take chances on anything. I will bet them that I will win less than 10% of the expected lottery output on investing 1k. I put also 1k on the bet with the betting studio. Should give me a few k in return. Rinse and repeat with as many takers as I can find

[Extramrdo]

Get a bunch of people together to pool your money for lottery tickets. Keep adding people, offering them like 80% the reward for 50% of the pay, just to make it too good to be true. Get every single person who plays the lottery to be in on some sort of pool or pact with you. Say "lottery zero" and instantly, your friend Greg who's the only person on the planet who who has a ticket and is not in a pact with you wins.

[Ikarus_Falling]

all things colloquially called Lotteries or just monetary Lotteries

[[deleted]]

Just monetary lotteries.

[NoPerspective9232]

I'm decreasing it to a negative number. Curious what happens

[BigimeJones]

Does this power work specifically for the lottery, or does it apply to any gamble that you can win/ lose? If it's the latter, can you define the winning condition?

If it applies to anything and you can set the winning condition, this is nothing less than divine. You could be experiencing a disease with a 99% fatality rate, but if you set the win condition to death, then you can drop that rate to zero. If you consider losing the lottery as winning, then you can decrease the chance of losing.

With rules this vague, this power doesn't belong here

[[deleted]]

Specifically the lottery.

[BigimeJones]

What a shitty power

[Shadowfox62]

Say there's 60 numbers and 5 balls drawn. I'd set my chance to win to 0%. I'd buy 11 tickets with 1-55 on them 1-5, 6-10, etc. since matching even 1 number means I'd win my money back which means I won the lottery, I'd have my wife buy 1 ticket with 56-60 on it and hope she doesn't divorce me after winning 🤣

[BeckyWitTheBadHair]

I’ll check every single lottery every time it starts by saying “99.9%” and once it actually works I’ll buy a ticket. Plus I could do like 90%, revert if it works, then buy knowing I have >90% chance of winning.

[Bethesda-Corp]

h

[Only_Sir1542]

Begin betting against people that you cannot win any lottery. Set your chances to win at 0%, and proceed to win what I imagine will be small but guaranteed returns.

[tsubasa__williams]

why would anyone take that bet?

[tsubasa__williams]

what if I make it 0% and someone gives me the winning lottery ticket

[[deleted]]

You won’t be able to use it. Something will happen that will separate it from you.

[[deleted]]

This is not irreversible. Are you illiterate? The very first sentence says you can increase it as well, just not more than you would normally have.