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Did someone on this site specifically state that a lottery combo will not be drawn again just because it was the last number drawn or was just drawn recentently?? You are correct in stating that each throw of a die has the same odds of producing the same digit. If you toss the die once and you wager on the five, your odds are 1 in 6. If you wager on the five for the next throw your odds, again, are 1 in 6. The probability of both tosses resulting in two fives is 1/6 X 1/6 = 1 in 36. The
Mar 16, 2006, 11:59 am - Thoth - Mathematics Forum

Who Won the $267M Lottery?Reply
The bit about beating the odds always annoys me. Nobody ever beats the odds, but enough people buying enough tickets guarantees that there will eventually be a winning ticket despite the odds against each individual ticket. As far as how many tickets were sold, it's easy to come up with a decent estimate. The cash value of the previous draw was about 126 million, and the cash value for the next one was about 159 million, so it increased by 33 million. 30% of each ticket goes to the jackpot,
Mar 2, 2006, 1:52 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

should i stop playing or keep playingReply
Stop playing or play much less. Try playing a dollar a draw. Or pick out some numbers that you wouldn't play for a test. You would see that you will lose. The First thing is to know is that the odds are against you. CNN reported the odds of winning the recent Powerball when the jackpot was at $365M was the odds of you getting struck by lightning 3 times on a none stormy day. I thought it was funny. Play for entertainment. Milk it for the hopes and fun you will have thinking you might wi
Feb 27, 2006, 3:07 am - Editgap - Lottery Discussion Forum

If you are going to buy 46+ tickets.....Reply
This doesn't make sense. How if I buy 46 tickets each with a different mega ball does that not reduce my oods to 1 in 3.9 million. No matter what Mega Ball comes up...NO MATTER WHICH ONE...I have it. I am not playing against the mega ball anymore. No matter what outcome comes from the drawing it doesn't matter to me because I covered all possible outcomes. I have a 1 in 1 chance that I will match the Mega Ball. Now all I have to do is match the first 5 white numbers. Since one of my ticke
Feb 24, 2006, 1:44 pm - Bradly_60 - Jackpot Games Forum

odds are reducedReply
I don't understand your argument, hypersoniq. I'm not saying your argument is wrong -- I just don't understand it. As Bradley_60 said, you determine your chances of winning, in the form of a ratio, by dividing the odds by the number of tickets you've bought. For example, if you buy 2 tickets for a game with odds of 1:10, the odds of you winning are 1:5. Here's a good way to visualize this: Take 10 separate squares of paper and write a number on each them, 1 through 10. Now make five
Feb 23, 2006, 8:50 pm - LotteryPlayer - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Post member turns up the heat on the Hoosier LotteryReply
Consider this. I do not know the exact sales figures for the daily 4 games yet. But, one could reason that a minimum draw would be in the $40,000 range per draw; I dont think this is unreasonable. Using simple math, $40,000 x 24 way combo equals just under a million possible combinations. Since the odds of winning a straight or straight combo is 1:10000, wouldnt it stand to reason that dividing 960,000 by 10000 would give you the possibility for 4 straight winners a draw? Be more conservat
Feb 4, 2006, 5:42 am - LosingJeff - Lottery News

Old. but good, pick 3 workouts tutorials.Reply
The odds on straight pick 3 are 1000 to 1.If you eliminate or filter out digits per or by position (it does not have to be the same digit for all 3 positions), your odds are:729 or 9X9x9=729 if 1 digits by position512 = 8x8x8, if 2 digits by position343 = 7x7x7, if 3 digits by position216 = 6x6x6, if 4 digits by position125 straight combos, 5x5x5=125. If 5 digits by position.As I said, for straight playing they don't have to be the same digits that are filtered out or eliminated by position.If y
Dec 17, 2005, 11:17 am - LANTERN - Lottery Systems Forum

North Carolina Lottery is a GoNews Story
Residents of the Tar Heel state will finally get a lottery, under terms worked out by the state's House and Senate Friday.The final budget plan allows North Carolina to start a lottery, advertise it, and spend the profits on teachers, school buildings, and scholarships for the needy.The compromise between House and Senate plans for a lottery virtually ensures that North Carolina will start a state numbers game during the next year. The lottery was the last disputed issue between the House and Se
Aug 6, 2005, 10:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery to replace classic Lotto gameNews Story
A million bucks doesn't buy dreams like it used to.The first Maryland lottery game to offer $1 million prizes seems likely to become extinct, a victim of players who opt to gamble instead on mega-jackpots.Introduced in November 1983 to help bail out financially strapped localities such as Prince George's County and Baltimore, Maryland Lotto once the lottery's flagship game is showing its age, according to state officials.In the past fiscal year, Maryland Lotto sales dropped 5 percent while e
Aug 4, 2005, 7:42 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Indiana's response to my e-maik
Dear sir: I hope this email finds itself to you as I had someproblems sending it the first time. We received your email and I wantedto take a moment to provide a response. I have seen your email addresscome across before, so you obviously have an appreciation for Lotterygames. I realize you are trying to understand some of the differencesbetween the states, but I felt compelled to explain some fundamentalconcepts that you seem to be ignoring with your comments. I found it alittle odd that you
Mar 19, 2005, 10:24 pm - mark - Lottery Discussion Forum