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Answer Me This...Reply
A mystery?? Nah. Not to me anyway. Not after reading Tokecap's incredibly good post above. (BTW - I think it's the single best post I've ever seen written on The LP, but that's just one man's opinion) Tokecap's post made it very clear to me that we as members of the lottery playing public have zero visibility as to how state lotteries run their businesses behind the scenes. All players can see is the results of the decisions they made. You're located in New York, so I know you're aware
Dec 16, 2025, 8:42 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
They didn't come up short. They just didn't get to skim the full 50% they normally would have. Total sales for the run were a hair over $117 million. Of the $58.5 million that goes to prizes just over 44.7% is for lower tier prizes, so they'd need about $26.2 million for the smaller prizes. Add in the cash value of $41.9 million and the total prize payout is about $68.1 million. That leaves them $48.9 million instead of the $58.5 million target. Of course the lottery is playing the long game
Dec 3, 2025, 3:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Where are they putting the additional unexpected $2M in sales? They're putting it in the same places as every other $5 in sales. They skim half off the top and the rest goes into the prize pools. The ads are only for estimated jackpots, and higher sales increase it. They're not going to change the advertised amount unless sales are substantially higher than expected, and if you got those numbers from the site that shall not be named (which you must have, because the Texas worksheet doesn't
Sep 20, 2025, 12:35 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

classic questions on lottery forumsReply
Playing lotteries is about maximizing your probabilities not getting guarantees. Studying past draws is a waste of time. Each drawing is an independent random event. The only way to increase the probability of winning is to buy more tickets. That being said, if you buy an enormous number of tickets, you can increase the probability of winning a lower prize by ensuring your picks are spread out over the matrix. The downside is that if you do win a lower prize, it's less likely you'll win
Sep 11, 2025, 2:07 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball Data (Last 6 Months)Reply
Results for 9/6/25 Drawing = 11 23 44 61 62 PB = 17 Top numbers with the most occurrences (20) to least (33): 20 (84) 25 (83) 4 (24) 5 (23) 7 (23) 3 (21) 8 (21) 6 (18) 2 (8) 9 (8) 1 (7) 12 (7) 16 (7) 23 (7) 11 (5) 13 (5) 14 (5) 15 (5) 26 (5) 28 (5) 30 (5) 17 (4) 19 (4) 21 (4) 31 (4) 10 (3) 18 (3) 24 (3) 22 (1) 27 (1) 29 (1) 33 (1) Top PB numbers from most occurrences (25) to least (17): 25, 2, 20, 1, 5, 24, 19, 21, 22, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 3, 8, 15, 18, 23
Sep 7, 2025, 1:06 pm - richyrichpick3 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Private SelectionReply
Which is it? Do you have a gigantic list or should we consider only the numbers you posted? The number of combinations in my list varies from drawing to drawing. It could range anywhere from 1 to 400 combinations. That depends on which filters I use to create my list. If we only consider the numbers you posted, then I maintain you lost. 534 and 543 are the same three digits in any order. Again, you're thinking negative...looking at the cup as half empty instead of half full
Jul 19, 2025, 4:25 pm - Lotterologist - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
It is a very good thing from a players perspective. Where can players find lower odds to win a million dollars? Remains to be seen if there will be a last minute rush to buy raffle tickets. (Hope not!) June 30 is when ticket sales end. Final drawing for 10 one million dollar top prize winners is July 2nd. I have to believe the winning numbers will be generated by a computer. (RNG software). G5
Jun 2, 2026, 4:45 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Pennsylvania holds this in their rules in the event of secondary prizes exceeding the reserve... COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA (2) Except as otherwise provided in section 871.8(c)(4), if the sources set forth in paragraph (1) are depleted and there still are not sufficient funds to pay the set prizes, including Power play prizes, for a particular Powerball drawing, the highest set prize shall become a parimutuel prize . If the amount of the highest set prize, when paid as a parimutu
Apr 30, 2026, 11:06 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
I know what happened. Many years ago, I had a dream that vampires existed and a couple of the powers that they had were the ability to be invisible, the ability to walk and reach through solid objects, and limited powers of telekinesis. Like, they couldn't move an army tank from 100 yards away, but they could certainly move a lottery ball from a couple of feet away or simply reach through a ball machine and grab a ball to make it come out next. So, clearly, this is what happened. A few v
Apr 30, 2026, 1:19 am - biluminous - Lottery Discussion Forum

The $29.95 Non-BelieverzReply
Well, here'z my Free Ticket QPz .... The numberz I've circled haz the most promize outta the numberz the Terminal spit out ... For Ga Fantasy5'z 4/20/26 drawing..according to the Statz .. Game drawz at 11:33 p Soo, Let'z see ... -Stat$talker
Apr 20, 2026, 11:32 pm - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum