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But you would need to know what was won in that first half. -Exactly To complicate matters more... if you're playing to win one of the main JP prizes... you would need to know when one of those JP tickets finally became available for purchase in the state. I think there are often long stretches of time (months and months) where the main JP prize(s) for a particular game are sitting in a warehouse on a pallet waiting to be distributed to retailers and/or machines... and rarely do all the adver
Jul 18, 2013, 10:21 pm - Romancandle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Mega Millions lottery game's redesign aims at bigger jackpots, better overall oddsReply
Is anyone really a fan of having politicians take over running the lotteries? Have you seen their changes? Pay out less prize money so profits will go up. Not really the best marketing strategy. Lots of folks do urge lotteries to give away one hundred $1 million prizes instead of a $100 million jackpot. But then, those folks don't play for $1 million prizes. That prize level doesn't gets many folks off the couch. There are already games out there that offer prizes of that size. There are peop
Jul 18, 2013, 11:13 am - chuck32 - Lottery News

Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
We're right back to being lectured about why lotteries and casinos make profits in the long term and the same tired old point that systems players believe they can control the outcomes. He should be lecturing the state lotteries about their fixed payoffs and allowing self-pick options. They can't prevent one player from betting $61 on a pick-4 number and winning $302,600 or hundreds of pick-3 or pick-4 wagering on one combination. If 25,000 players all bet $5 on five different straight QP num
Jun 30, 2013, 1:05 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Can't Touch this... da dit dit da...Reply
I have to agree WinD, Odds never change but cycles do. I only participated because I think I can beat the odds, as slight as it may be for me to accomplish this feat that is why I participated. So, Even though I didn't actually start until after 3:00pm I just used the box's for both midday/evening, only having hit (11) times therefore not being able to beat the odds yesterday. I'll keep a running log of what happened everyday.. Saturday 6/22 - 11 hits. Sunday 6/23 - 10 hits. Mon
Jun 27, 2013, 9:23 am - MADDOG10 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Can't Touch this... da dit dit da...Reply
I have to agree WinD, Odds never change but cycles do. I only participated because I think I can beat the odds, as slight as it may be for me to accomplish this feat that is why I participated. So, Even though I didn't actually start until after 3:00pm I just used the box's for both midday/evening, only having hit (11) times therefore not being able to beat the odds yesterday. I'll keep a running log of what happened everyday.. Saturday 6/22 - 11 hits. Sunday 6/23 - 10 hits. Mon
Jun 26, 2013, 2:31 pm - MADDOG10 - Lottery Discussion Forum

ConvergenceReply
Hello RL I tried a search for a subject close to what your talking about that took place years ago on the Math forum ....with no luck. Although it was not called convergence ...it certainly was taking place all around the subject. It had to do with waiting on those Perfect Storm conditions that take place just a few times a year on the pick 5 games. ALL ODD or ALL EVEN draw numbers were a big part of the needed conditions. Perhaps Rjoh can remember the title or tag line. It was quit
Jun 26, 2013, 1:01 pm - WIN D - Mathematics Forum

649 formulaReply
Errata.... I wrote: ``The probability that a particular quad (4-tuple) will be drawn is 1 in 367,290 for a 5/56 game like MegaMillions. That probability is unchanged by history.`` Arrgghh! In an attempt to KISS, I misstated the statistic. We can indeed form 367,290 quads with 56 numbers -- C(56,4). So there is a 1-in-367,290 chance of randomly generating a particular quad. But the probability that a particular quad is drawn is 52 in 3,819,816, which is the same as 1 in 73,458, because t
Jun 8, 2013, 11:18 am - mathhead - Mathematics Forum

Lottery Code has already been brokenReply
Okay. As we know, no one individual Pick 3 number has any more ,or less, of a chance of coming out than any other one. It doesn't matter if that number is a non-repeating number, a double, or a triple. The odds are still the same at 1000:1 with a straight play. Of course, once you move away from individual numbers and play more numbers ,each time, your odds change. In effect, this means playing a group of numbers. So, we know that you must play multiple numbers each time. If we decided to
Jun 7, 2013, 10:35 pm - Pick3Ma$ter - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
Well they offically are done when the change happens. You keep it a $1, but the chances go from already impossible to worse? WOW Powerball made the game $2. BUT 1. Chances better (NOT WORSE) 2. Jackpot started DOUBLE NEVER below 40 Mill I will buy 20 powerball tickets for $40 bucks before I buy ONE mega millions for a $1. And won't buy even a single ticket until at least 100 mill, but probbaly even then. The odds now are even more INSANE. I suggest people do the same, and not buy
May 20, 2013, 4:12 pm - Party1377 - Lottery News

Do you see PB jackpots of $300 mil plus a fluke going forward with California joining in soon?Reply
Thanks for an excellent response! There certainly is a lot to the lottery biz, isnt there? As a casual player, (a buyer of tickets) I never gave much thought to the sell side of the equation. I doubt most players have an in depth understanding of what the states need to know and do to make it a profitable business. I guess other players are just like me, they just know if you buy a ticket, you might win a lot of money. Besides PB and MM, I play other games with an eye towards winning 2nd
Apr 4, 2013, 10:04 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum