With lottery payouts close to what “Star Wars: Force Awakens” has raked in at U.S. box offices — Americans are buying tickets like mad, upping the stakes. How do lotteries work? What are the chances of winning? Virginia Tech statistics professor J.P. Morgan of the College of Sciences has taken a long look at the system and can discuss the American obsession with winning big.

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