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I'm done playing the lotteryReply
What made me mad is that both sides blamed the other. The lottery can tell how much I spent on scratch-offs because those tickets are eligible for a second chance drawing. In their files is a list of tickets I've scanned for second chance drawing entries. But they decided they would rather stick to their guns and blame the retailer, and while they might be right according to the official rules, I also don't have to play their games. And if I do choose to buy any tickets, it certainly won
Jan 2, 2026, 6:19 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

I am coming to your State 😁Reply
I once received a $100 check on a second chance drawing from the Louisiana Lottery and it came in a window envelope with the logo and address like the one in the picture.
Oct 9, 2025, 2:29 pm - PrisonerSix - Lottery Discussion Forum

Heads up for users of the PA lottery mobile app.Reply
The Colorado Lottery app doesn't even tell me how much a winning ticket is worth. It just says Congratulations! You may be a winner! Go visit a retailer . The reason why I use it is to enter non-winning tickets in their second-chance drawing. Obviously I have to be logged in to do that. Otherwise, they wouldn't know who won should they draw my ticket.
Mar 8, 2026, 5:31 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
Let's try this with the simple game of Pick 3. In Pick 3, there are 1,000 combinations, from 000 to 999, all of which have the same probability of being the winning combination. Let's say you purchase one ticket. You pick 567 and bet $1. If the winning combination is 567, you win $500. Your chances of winning is 1 in 1000, because you have bet on one combination out of 1,000 equally likely combinations. Now let's say you decide to purchase a second ticket for the same drawing. You pi
Feb 20, 2026, 6:03 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I'm not sure what numbers from the Texas spreadsheets you used in your previous post to determine the chance of a roll but what do you think are the chances we see another 2 billion jackpot? There's a worksheet for every drawing, and you'll find a link to it on the page that shows the current advertised jackpot. Somewhere around noon on the day of the drawing (or Friday for Saturday's PB jackpot) they add the next jackpot if it rolls. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Gam
Aug 30, 2025, 1:13 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
I too have had 'trouble' with what's being argued so passionately in this thread. When I lived in the Northeast, although I lived in New York State, I lived in close proximity to Pennsylvania. Every Fall The PA Lottery (for what I'm guessing is the last 20 years or more) holds their Millionaire Raffle. According to the raffles official rules, a maximum of 500,000 tickets can be sold. The PA Lottery has always advertised the odds for the raffle at 125,000 to 1 because there are 4 top prize w
Mar 30, 2026, 7:56 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

So if you find a winning formula, it's considered fraud?Reply
Pick one digit to repeat. If it does and the next draw is a single, guaranteed win. Except when one or both of the other two digits repeat with your one key digit and you lose $21. And the last time I looked there are 120 ways to make a straight by keying your one repeat digit with the remaining seven digits in 6-way combos. You have a 1 in 3 chance of a guaranteed win. Really? There are 21 ways to win and 99 ways to miss and a 16.6% probability of getting a straight win guarantee
Oct 21, 2025, 9:39 pm - Stack47 - 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

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Be nice to see a breakout of the 89 winners as to how many were QP's Without knowing the actual breakdown we won't know for sure, but we can see what the probabilities are. There were about 9.5 million tickets sold and it's fairly safe to assume that no more than 80%, or a maximum of 7.55 million, were QP. For that many tickets the chances of selling 1 to 5 5+0 winners are, respectively, 33.82%, 10.89%, 2.34%, 0.38%, and 0.05%. I deliberately rounded up in a few places so the actual chances
May 2, 2026, 4:47 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum