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Balancing Odds and Cost 😁Reply
Are those really the odds? They calculate those claiming you might win another prize. If they are going to calculate them that way then why don't they add not making it to the store to buy a ticket into the mix? Or how about the odds of skipping 3 miles to the store while pharting Yankee Doodle in the key of C before you buy the winning ticket? 58C5 = 4,582,116 then they go through the gymnastics of saying you could win another prize to come up with the posted odds.
Apr 26, 2026, 12:44 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Balancing Odds and Cost 😁Reply
I usually play Tx Lotto, but it was won recently, so I switched to PB. My biggest complaint on Lotto is the odds are incredibly high, 1 in 25,827,165. But, a ticket is only $1. The odds for 2nd prize on PB are a little less than half that of Tx Lotto. At my age, 72 next month, $1 million (approx $630,000 after fed tax) will do me just fine.
Apr 25, 2026, 5:58 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Washington DC Pick 5 1 in 200 million oddsReply
KY it's simple math just multiplying fractions example 5 over 10 times 5 over ten is 25 over 100 which equals 25%. That's just after 7 draws the odds .0002 is 1 in 5000 so keep multiplying and that's how u get the true odds. Flipping a coin is 50/50 way higher than 30% and your still not getting 36 heads in a row. They are literally Playing in our faces right now
Apr 18, 2026, 2:48 am - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It is measly when the odds of winning that jackpot are 1 in 290 million and a ticket cost five bucks.
Apr 4, 2026, 12:22 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Bought a ticket today around noon in the 117,000 range. Looking at Winterbird's sales data chart (thanks WB!) it seems reasonable to estimate 4,000 more sales today, to put the total sales for interim draw 1 at around 121,000. So if this estimate is close to actual sales, then it looks like odds of winning one of the 2,498 prizes in interim draw #1 would be 1:48. Odds on both the $100,000 and $10,000 prize tiers would be 1:40,333. $5,000 is 1:24,200 $1,000 is 1: 10,083 $500 is 1:537 $100 is
Mar 31, 2026, 3:54 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
And every ticket you hold is up against 292.2 million odds. That' why so few jackpots are won.
Mar 31, 2026, 2:47 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Nope. There is only one set numbers drawn to determine what set of numbers wins a jackpot. No matter how many tickets are played in an attempt to win the jackpot every single one of those tickets are up against the jackpot odds. Anything else is urban legend or a unicorn in a lottery sense. People desperately want to believe they can jump through all kinds of hoops to reduce the odds but that might as well be filed under 'Once upon a time'. If it were true there would be one heck of a lot more j
Mar 29, 2026, 5:10 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Some would argue if you cared so deeply about the odds you wouldn't play at all.
Mar 29, 2026, 2:44 pm - MsBee18 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Tucker Black, Nope. As for PB and MM each additional ticket reducing the odds by millions is urban legend at best. There is only one set of winning numbers drawn and each set played is an attempt to match that set. Then there's always the possibility that someone with very deep pockets could play enough tickets using your theory to win the jackpot by wait! They read your post but you never mentioned the jackpot might be split by the number of winners! Way back when I first started casino work I
Mar 29, 2026, 10:39 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
Once in a while, when I can, I play enough single draw of a state lotto to cut the odds down to under 1:7,000 for the jackpot. I have never won the jackpot. Only some free ticket plays and occasionally $10 (most of the time never any cash). So... I hope you win. But no such thing as a sure thing even with lowered odds. Good luck!
Mar 27, 2026, 10:05 pm - winterbird - Lottery Discussion Forum