# Lottery ticket odds question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-ticket-odds-question/765011>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-ticket-odds-question/765011 "2016-09-04T13:31:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lottery-ticket-odds-question/765011/21 "2016-09-05T20:44:23Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> You mean “26 instead of 365/366 possibilities”, at least how it’s usually presented. The question is basically, how many people do you need in a room before it’s more likely than not that two share the same birthday? It’s 23, and you’re choosing from a pool of 365 or 366 days.

Quite right. I flubbed the dub there. I was (obviously) thinking days of the month.

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