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Jackpot Win at my usual store!!Reply
A store I buy my tickets at has sold a couple of big winning scratch off tickets. It's a Texaco gas station convenience store run by some Middle Eastern people who are always very polite to their customers. One of their employees told me he fished some losing scratch off tickets out of the trash and sent them in for a second chance drawing and won one of the prizes, a package of World Series of Poker Merchandise. I buy from this store on Sundays for the Wednesday drawing because it is only a
Sep 22, 2007, 1:49 pm - PrisonerSix - Lottery Discussion Forum

A dollar and a dream true for PB and MM?Reply
The discussion is not about math, it is about reasonable expectations. I am not saying the math is wrong or your perception of the what the odds are, is wrong. Your elementary school math teachers should be proud you, pie charts, fractions and all. The numbers are enormous, I believe the odds are irrelevant in the consideration of a direct hit on top tier prize. The odds only become relevant and significant when the number of tickets played by any one player approaches the number of po
Sep 8, 2007, 12:18 am - jarasan - Jackpot Games Forum

SyndicateReply
How it works: the 5 no ticket cost you $44 and you get 44 chances of winning and your odds are largely improuve. It's a way to play but you need to match 3 numbers to win more than you spent. By playing the same 5 numbers on 44 tickets, you're only reducing the odds by .95%. I wouldn't call a .03% reduction for matching 4 numbers much of an improvement either. So if you have 2 of the winning numbers you will win 4 times. For a $1 more ($45) you could play 4 numbers with each of the
Aug 19, 2007, 5:54 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Systems say don't play like this....Reply
The odds of numbers 1-2-3-4-5 hitting are pretty astronomical, but they are definitely not ZERO. The numbers 1-2-3-4-5 have the same odds of coming out as any other combo. I've had this argument with a friend who has accumulated a lot of knowledge over the years, but he lacks common sense. Not just with this issue but on a couple of other basic subjects. The reason 12345 hasn't come out yet is because it's not it's time yet. Just like last night's combo will probably not come out again
Aug 18, 2007, 12:57 pm - pacattack05 - Lottery Systems Forum

The Real DealReply
Badger, tnlotto1 You're right, but I think that maybe, maybe people can study and research and maybe figure out a way to hit a Pick 3 occassionally, but I don't think anyone here or any of us know anyone actually making a living from it. Systems sellers will tell you they are but truth is they're selling their systems for money so they can play more or keep playing. Beyond Pick 3, especially when it comes to jackpot games, to think you could figure out a system to overcome odds in the
Aug 6, 2007, 1:31 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Hoosier LotteryReply
I estimate sales from the prize with the lowest odds because that's most likely to fit the statistical model. There's a fair chance that there will be more or less winners than expected as the odds go up. The fortune cookie PB is an extreme example. Either way, I'm sure we're both close enough for playing armchair quarterback. I's also like to see prizes that are directly related to actual sales, and therefore actual cash collected, but if the average sales are in the neighborhood of $630,00
Aug 1, 2007, 1:31 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

When is something HOT?Reply
I'd have to agree that 2 or more times is hot , though 3 times is probably more like it. In my opinion, statistically expecting a number to hit once within a number of games that is equal to its odds is a statistical fallacy. Sure, it may hit about once for every 10, 100, or 1000 games over the long term (once for every increment of games equal to its odds), but expecting it to hit once within any particular span is usually based on a bad understanding of probability and/or statistics.
Jun 10, 2007, 7:38 pm - Thoth - Pick 3 Forum

staying with or changing your numbersReply
Whoever came up with those numbers doesn't have a clue. Some places are more dangerous than others, but about 300 people are injured by lightning every year in the US. That's pretty close to 1 in 1 million, but let's imagine you're 100 times more likely to be hit so that there's a 1 in 10,000 chance. The chances of being hit 30 times would be 10,000 raised to the 30th power, and that would be a 1 with 120 zeros after it. The odds for MM is roughly 1 in 176 million, but if it was 1 in a billion,
Mar 26, 2007, 4:17 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probabilty of Someone Winning a PB & MM Jackpot in the same Week!Reply
Stack47 If I buy 46 tickets and each ticket has a different mega ball number, I can express the odds of winning the jackpot as 46:175,711,536 or 1:3,819,816 and to prove it, I'll use 1-2-3-4-5 on every ticket. Actually what you have is one ticket that will win at least $2 since you have all the Mega Ball numnbers covered. What else you have is 46 tickets, each one up against the 175,711,536 to 1 odds. There is quite a mixture of people on this board, and when the newer players see th
Mar 5, 2007, 9:12 pm - Coin Toss - Jackpot Games Forum

6 Disturbing Lottery "Trends"Reply
Todd wrote: Like you mentioned, the odds are going to start creeping up, as the lottery directors start getting more greedy about profitting on the game. People should avoid buying games where the odds are too high. Can anyone recommend a sweet spot ? I agree with all of your points, Todd. For me, the sweet spot is a ticket pool of 500,000; just like Georgia did with their New Years Eve Millionaire Raffle. If GLC does a raffle again and if they increase the ticket pool above this l
Jan 22, 2007, 2:18 pm - MrBobb - Lottery Discussion Forum