do you think that QPs repeat?

Reply #13

bomatt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:54:57 GMT

My fear is that when I choose numbers and a QP on a ticket, the QP is the same numbers as the one that I picked.

What do I do then?

If I win, split the money with myself.

Reply #12

Stack47 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:55 GMT

Ever notice how the PB or MM jackpots never reach $400 million? That's most likely due to the fact that as the jackpot grows, the number of total combinations released for purchase is greater than when the jackpot was 1/20 that amount.

Ever also noticed the number of people buying tickets increases greatly when the jackpot gets over $200 million?

On July 10, the drawing after a $133 million jackpot was hit and the beginning of the latest jackpot run, 17.7 million tickets were sold. The nu... [ More ]

Reply #11

Greg — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:22:08 GMT

According to William Atwood in his incisive book, The Lottery Solution, what we know to be quick picks are actually a percentage of the total number of combinations the computer is programmed to release to the buying public.

Thus, the qp I might buy today in my state might in fact be the one you buy three days later in your state.

Ever notice how the PB or MM jackpots never reach $400 million? That's most likely due to the fact that as the jackpot grows, the number of total combinations re... [ More ]

Reply #10

RJOh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:56:29 GMT

You are probably confusing a random lottery ticket with a not so random raffle ticket. Each raffle ticket has an unique number because each number is picked from a list of numbers once and the players have no choice about the numbers he gets. When there's a drawing to decide the winner, there is alway a winner because the drawing picks a number from the same list and there's no roll over of the top prize for another drawing.

Reply #9

Stack47 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:48:35 GMT

The QPs wouldn't be random if they only gave the combinations that hadn't been sold. When I've bought 10 QPs, there were many times when I had duplicate Mega ball numbers so I always thought the terminals randomly generated combinations between 1 and 56 and randomly added a number between 1 and 46. By looking at it that way, there should be about 10 tickets matching the five numbers for every 39 million QPs sold.

While the overall odds are almost 176 million to 1, it can be broken down into o... [ More ]

Reply #8

KY Floyd — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:19:53 GMT

Suppose 1/4 of all possible combinations had already been sold, and then 4 million people each buy one QP that is randomly generated. Do you think there's a chance that 1/4 of those 4 million tickets might repeat a combination that was in the 1/4 of possible combinations that was already sold

Reply #7

JONNIE — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:50:38 GMT

Oh- nevermind. $420,000- wasnt paying attention..

Reply #6

JONNIE — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:49:41 GMT

Illinois Little Lotto jackpots get up to $420M??!!! That's higher than any MM jackpot Ive ever heard of.... But again, I think there are repeats. There have been jackpots won smaller than $100M by more than one winner.

Reply #5

Coin Toss — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:10:28 GMT

Not MM, but on Aug 18 the Illinois Little Lotto jackpot was $175,000 and was split by two winners, both QP.

On Aug 28, the jackpot was $420,000 and split by three winners, all were QPs.

Like I said, it wasn't MM, but the same terminals are used for all games, right?

So yeah, they repeat.

Reply #4

markp1950 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:43:48 GMT

QP's are artificially created. I use them almost exclusively but they are not like bouncing balls...

Reply #3

joshuakim — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:40:04 GMT

how is it not random? if enough QP tickets are bought, obviously there will be more than one of the same QP number. if Megamillions does $200 million sales in one week, QP alone should cover all combination (odds of winning MM, 1:165,000,000 approx - too lazy to check for the actual number).

so why are you surprised? isnt it obvious

Reply #2

JONNIE — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:36:22 GMT

Im just wondering if they repeat, that's all. It just seems like it shouldn't, because with MM there are almost 176M diff possible combinations, so it would seem that they wouldnt repeat. Unless of course like on Fridays drawing there were enough sales to cover almost every combination possible, then I could see them sellin repeats.

Reply #1

RJOh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:30:38 GMT

Are you saying that once a terminal picks a combination, if it or any other terminal picks the same combination again then the process is not random

do you think that QPs repeat?

JONNIE — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:17:15 GMT

Or is each one totally independent of the next? If 2 or 3 people win the jackpot, and all use qps, then its not truly randomn?(The qps I mean