An interesting hypothetical question

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Sedertree — Sun, 05 May 2002 00:15:53 GMT

I wouldn't hold it against the person since the odds of hitting the lower tier prizes are better than winning the big money. We all know that lower-tier prizes are not pari-mutual. Each ticket matching the first five numbers gets a $150,000 payout. It doesn't matter how many tickets you are holding.I personally wouldn't play the same numbers more than twice. If I routinely spent $10 per draw on the Big Game (which I don't). Using this strategy I would cover five different number sets.I would not... [ More ]

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Guest — Sat, 04 May 2002 17:48:40 GMT

It is simple..Since there are 104 winning tickets the jackpot would be divided 104 times...each ticket receives 1/104th share of the jackpotor in this case 2.8846 mil each. So if your DUMB enough to play the same numbers 10 times then you would get 10 times the 2.8846 mil.

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RJOh — Sat, 04 May 2002 15:41:46 GMT

Since the chances of one combination being picked in the Biggame is 1:76M, why would a person or a group of people play a combination more than once? To increase your odds of winnings, you must play more combinations not one combination more.RJOh

An interesting hypothetical question

Hat Trick — Sat, 04 May 2002 15:18:06 GMT

What if there were 4 people that win on let's say a jackpot of 300 million and there are let's say 104 winning tickets that matched the BigGame jackpot, obviously one person is holding on to more than one winning ticket. How would the jackpot be disbursed among the 4 people? Would the jackpot still be divided into 4 equal shares or the person who had risked more gets to keep a bigger share of the jackpot than the others