Indiana lottery players still hunting year-old jackpot

Comment #13

tnlotto1 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:36:56 GMT

you are correct many people refuse to even buy gasoline at a station that sells lottery tickets so these problems are the perfect time for many to say look we told you so it was a bad idea but i dont think it would go away completely just some of the people running the lottery.

Comment #12

KyMystikal — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:13:50 GMT

You know Mike you brought back something I had forgot about. Just maybe TN is trying to get rid of lottery? It took a long time for them to get it and there are a lot of people who don't want it here(ex. church groups) . Maybe there is a conspiracy theory to get rid of it.

Comment #11

time*treat — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:55:12 GMT

I could have sworn I had a chart

to go along with this comment.

Comment #10

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:45:30 GMT

the sad thing is most states with RNG can not be trusted and aren't run properly and also have mistakes as proof.look at tennessee,look at indy,look at kansas with the same pick 3 number three or four days in a row,look at california with the derby game that was malfunctioning which was caught be a player in the state,the man ran the minnesota lottery commits suicide when problems were surfacing there.the lottery is being ruined by this computerized crap which is like the new coke in a way.its a... [ More ]

Comment #9

Todd — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:30:05 GMT

I don't think that's a fair statement. It is easy to jump on the bandwagon and start labeling people. There is such a thing as a conspiracy theorist, but this is not the case. There is something wrong in the state, as has been shown clearly by many incidents that have occurred there. If you're not aware of those cases, you should do a little researching, because many of them have been documented on Lottery Post previously.

Comment #8

Uncle Jim — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:02:48 GMT

Anyone who does not question what is going on here in Indiana fails to view the Hoosier Lottery situationin it's totality. The fact is the Hoosier Lottery has been cheating players out of their money for years. They do so with impunity and with the full protection of the politicians in this state.

Recent cases in point:

1. Hoosier Lottery Executive Esther Q. Schneider was forced to resign due to a veritable plethora of ethics violations. These charges included (among other things) using... [ More ]

Comment #7

time*treat — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:26:21 GMT

With 10% of the numbers in play, the odds of no-jackpot win are 90%. The odds of that happening twice in a row are 81%. Here are the odds of this happening up to 25 drawings straight, using 10% and 20% of all combos in play. Maybe there is a great deal of overlap in the combos being played

Comment #6

KY Floyd — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:43:31 GMT

The real world is what happens when things work exactly the way theory says they should work. The mere fact that such a long run without a winner is very unlikely is meaningless by itself. Far less likely things happen all the time. As a rough approximation, the fraction of a percent probability suggested by the probabilities lecturer is the same as the chances of winning pick 4 with one ticket. Anyone who thinks that such a long run without a winner is a good indication of a problem would b... [ More ]

Comment #5

Todd — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:33:15 GMT

Sometimes you just gotta step out of the realm of theory and into the real world.

Comment #4

Guru101 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:08:35 GMT

I'm just going by what I know. There was a time I flipped a quarter and got heads 10 times in a roll. That's 10 times in a roll with each side having a 50% chance of coming up. Now for Hoosier Lotto, if you have all combinations in play representing 22% of all possible combinations, it is VERY possible for the game to go as long as it has without a winner. There might have been more winners in previous years, but being a game of chance, there is no SPECIFIC amount of time a game can go before th... [ More ]

Comment #3

Todd — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:49:01 GMT

Your remarks are somewhat puzzling -- maybe it's just me.

If you were to refer back to the news story posted on the 17th (Hoosier Lotto in a dry spell), you would notice the following quote:

The probability of no jackpot winner for such a long time is incredibly small, said Steve McKinley, a probability lecturer at Indiana University.

He estimated the odds of no winner for 51 straight weeks to be a fraction of a percent.

Now, that's a probabilities lecturer from Indiana University sa... [ More ]

Comment #2

Guru101 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:15:41 GMT

With about only 22% of all COMBINATIONS at play during the most recent drawings, I'm not yet convinced that any wrong doing is occuring because mathematically, it is possible for this game to roll as many times as it has, whether it be a ball drawing or computerized drawing. The biggest Hoosier Lotto jackpot claimed was $42M, and this was BEFORE they switched to computerized drawings. That would mean the game went 84 draws without a winner.

Comment #1

Guest — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:39:18 GMT

I just am stunned, said Mike Krueger, a regular Hoosier Lotto player from Whiting. And a lot of other Lottery players and the people at the stores where I play are like, 'Why hasn't it been hit?' Is something wrong?'

Hell yes somethings wrong!Its called computerized drawings!Indiana isn't going to let anyone hit the jackpot until they're damn good and ready.As long as the jackpot keeps growing there is a lot of interest and people are spending twice as much hoping to win it.If a priva... [ More ]

Indiana lottery players still hunting year-old jackpot

Lottery Post — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:34:01 GMT

Lottery Post noted for raising awareness

More than a year has fallen off the calendar since someone last claimed a Hoosier Lotto jackpot, an unprecedented drought that's raising eyebrows in addition to fueling ticket sales and pushing tonight's grand prize to a record $53.5 million.

I just am stunned, said Mike Krueger, a regular Hoosier Lotto player from Whiting. And a lot of other Lottery players and the people at the stores where I play are like, 'Why hasn't it been hit?' Is somet... [ More ]