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Here's your money briefing for Wednesday, October 23rd. I'm Ariana Spoodoo for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for J.R. Wayland.

Lottery players are now paying attention to more than just their lucky numbers.

As the price of a ticket to play mega millions and bag a billion dollar jackpot is about to more than double.

Why? Not enough people are buying tickets that would make them just a millionaire.

A million dollars is worth a lot less than it used to be because of inflation and the cost of living,

but it's also a factor of the time and Billionaire is becoming a bigger part of our jargon as a society. Part of that is people can fantasize

about being a billionaire because it's more common to hear about billionaires.

Our personal finance reporter Catherine Hamilton joins me to talk about the new math and psychology of playing the lottery.

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W.S.J. Personal Finance reporter, Catherine,

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