New Jersey couple wins $3 million lottery prize six months after winning $1 million

Comment #13

ZeroCool — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:52:32 GMT

NJlottery scratch offs are a scam, they go to the same areas most the time.

Comment #12

KY Floyd — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:21:32 GMT

A husband-and-wife team defied insurmountable odds 0

Apparently the odds were completely surmountable.

That's not how probabilities are calculated at all.

That's exactly how odds are calculated.

For instance, the odds of someone winning both PB MM jackpot would be 1 in 292M*290M.

That's the odds of winning both games if you buy only a single ticket for each game. If you buy 10 tickets for each game the probability of winning either is increased tenfold to 1 in 29.2 and 1 i... [ More ]

Comment #11

johnnyBlaze — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:09:00 GMT

Once again, you haven't bothered to actually read what I said so there's no point in trying to explain it further.

Good day

Comment #10

johnnyBlaze — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:06:58 GMT

I'm not concerned about your validation.

People disagree with us all the time but that doesn't mean we should care.

Comment #9

Tucker Black — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:34:08 GMT

That makes no sense. If you buy 1000 PB tickets, your chances of winning go up to 1 in 3 million (assuming you pick different numbers on them).

Picking out the two big winners from a huge stack and then declaring the odds of that being the same as just two tickets is illogical.

Comment #8

noise-gate — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:13:58 GMT

* Looks like your opinion is not liked JB, or is it because of that chain you wear around your torso that sets matters straight.

Comment #7

Brock Lee — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:11:58 GMT

i would bet that when they won a million dollars six months ago they decided to reinvest a good chunk of that in scratch off purchases. there's actually a way to optimize buying scratchers. you look for games where all the top tier and most of the second tier prizes are unclaimed but a larger than expected number of the bottom prizes have been claimed. it doesn't happen often, but due to normal variance you will sometimes find scratch off games that have these optimal conditions. some people kee... [ More ]

Comment #6

johnnyBlaze — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:08:19 GMT

I'm talking about the 1 in 1.2T odds mentioned in the article specifically which is independent of how much you play.

You can play a 100 or 1000 games, the odds above are not going to change since odds of winning those big prizes are calculated based solely on odds of each of those two games. On the other hand, the more you play the more chances you have of winning something which is common sense and you can't combine both.

I don't know how else to explain it further.

Comment #5

Tucker Black — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:16:53 GMT

No, the probability of scratching off two big winners, over the course of your play, is higher if you buy hundreds of tickets compared to buying just two.

Comment #4

johnnyBlaze — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:02:22 GMT

That's not how probabilities are calculated at all.

Just like MM PB, each game has winning tickets with specific probabilities to that game. For scratch-offs it's # of printed tickets containing that prize amount divided by total number of tickets. And since these two games are not dependent, the combined odds is just multiplying the odds of winning each of those prizes individually.

For instance, the odds of someone winning both PB MM jackpot would be 1 in 292M*290M.

Probabilit... [ More ]

Comment #3

sabreth — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:28:05 GMT

eh, even at how many tickets they probably purchased the probabiities are still significantly staggering

Comment #2

sully16 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:10:02 GMT

That's really cool, congrats and go for the Hat Trick

Comment #1

Tucker Black — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:25:34 GMT

The 1 in 1.2 trillion odds means the probability of buying just two tickets, each of which is a massive winner. That is not what these people did. They bought lots of lottery tickets between the two big winners.

They are very lucky, but not quite 1 in 1.2 trillion lucky.

New Jersey couple wins $3 million lottery prize six months after winning $1 million

Lottery Post — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:52:10 GMT

Couple beats 1-in-2-trillion odds with back-to-back lottery wins

By Kate Northrop

A New Jersey couple experienced a bout of deja vu when they made a familiar trip to the New Jersey Lottery to claim a $3 million prize just six months after winning $1 million.

A husband-and-wife team defied insurmountable odds by scooping a $3 million prize and finding themselves standing before Lottery officials for the second time in six months.

Winning the lottery once is tough enough it might o... [ More ]