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Does Lottery Software work?Reply
I aim for the truly impossible goals. I play one ticket for any game. I also use Python to explore ideas, and to back test. The challenges when restricting yourself to one combo mean you surely do not win as much, but I am at the lowest budget possible. I am fully aware that playing more tickets is the only way to slightly bend the odds in my favor, but I am cheap. I have more fun coding in Python than actually playing. It can be frustrating when trying to determine the next combo, even
Oct 6, 2025, 7:22 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
None of the other games charge $5 to pretend to be something they are not! Would it make you happy if pick 3 was $5 and had a $1,000,000,000,000 annuity jackpot that had 50 quintillion to 1 odds of hitting and paid the annuity out at a dime a year for ten trillion years? and a second prize of $10,000,000 with 672 trillion to 1 odds of hitting? I'm sure the state lottery commissions would love to have you as a customer on that ticket too! It looks to me like you are not c
Oct 1, 2025, 3:28 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does Lottery Software work?Reply
No paid software can give you better odds than just playing a QP (and I am not a fan of QPs). No free software either. They can display statistics in a chosen range just fine, but if you think about it, if these programs worked, they would stop offering the games. From the perspective of an avid hobbyist who likes to code, none of my many attempts worked either (outside of a rare coincidental hit here and there)... I have been at this (on and off) for over 20 years. No matter how fancy the
Sep 20, 2025, 2:01 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

mathematics of re-playing small winsReply
I did my analysis on scratch-off tickets because most of the prize money goes towards lower prizes. With jackpot accumulation draw games such as Powerball, not much goes to lower prizes. To summarize my first post, for the $5 Colorado scratch-off $100,000 Super Bonus, the average number of tickets played is 2.5x or 3x your original bankroll, depending on whether your stop point is $500 or $1,000. Not surprisingly, the improved odds of winning a large prize exactly correlate with the average
Aug 29, 2025, 8:25 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here's the expansion on playing 1 to 5 lines: The Left column xN has the possible outcomes for each Play amount. The xN multipliers can be in any order. As an example, for 3 Play Lines, xN for 2 2 3 could be 2 2 3, 2 3 2, or 3 2 2. 1 Play Line xN Odds 2 1 in 2.13 3 1 in 3.20 4 1 in 8.00 5 1 in 16.00 10 1 in 32.00 2 Play Lines xN Odds 2 2 1 in 4.55 2 3 1 in 3.41 2 4 1 in 8.53 2 5 1 in 17.07 2 10 1 in 3
Jan 5, 2026, 6:28 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I'm good with that. Lower odds for those players that have a ticket(s). Might buy another next week and right at the end of the sales cycle on June 30th. G5
May 29, 2026, 7:10 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

A single mother who needs a winning numberReply
To be brutally honest with you, if you are in dire financial trouble playing the lottery is the last thing you should be doing. The odds are against you, even with games like Pick 3. But, good luck. Hope you find help.
May 19, 2026, 10:58 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It is measly given the odds of winning and the fact that it's a 30 year annuity. It's worth 1.5 cents. A prize worth 1.5 cents would be fine if the tickets were 5 cents per line. They are not 5 cents. They're five dollars . What a joke.
Apr 25, 2026, 1:36 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

DC 5 Lottery needs to be audited immediately. The same thing that happened to Tennessee in 2007Reply
if dc lottery goes the entire month of april drawing only singles for pick 5 twice a day, and i believe they will, the probability of that happening randomly due to chance is 0.3024^60. that works out to odds of 1 in 14,624,896,128,737,864,992,086,076,360,054. that is a 32-digit number. for comparison, the number of atoms in the human body is about 7 x 10^27, which is a 28-digit number.
Apr 22, 2026, 11:34 am - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
1 in 146 million means 1 divided by 146 million . They're the same. If you flip a fair coin, you don't say the odds of heads are two . It's one in two , or 50% or half .
Apr 14, 2026, 6:13 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum