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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Historically, albeit rarely, MM would occasionally approach pre-tax expectation values of greater than 1.0. This is sure to never happen with the $5 ticket. It's entirely possible that the current format could reach 1.0 before taxes. In fact, it's even more likely thanks to the $5 ticket price, and 4 of the top 5 MM jackpots show that it's possible. The five biggest MM jackpots all exceeded a pre-tax 1.0 expectation value (about $605 million cash), with cash values of $877.8 million, $7
Jun 17, 2026, 11:23 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
According to JADELottery, the odds of the DC 5 drawing producing a singles combination without any repeat digits for 41 consecutive drawings is 1 in 242,413. It's not impossible, but improbable. By the time the game reaches its 50th consecutive drawing without a repeat digit, those odds become 1 in 3.685 million. that math is not correct. the probability of singles occurring in any one pick 5 drawing is 0.3024. the probability of it happening n times in a row is 0.3024^n. that means the pro
Apr 22, 2026, 2:04 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
It depends on what numbers you pick. Someone gave an example of a pick 2 game (and most pick 3 games with front pair etc. bets) with 100 possible outcomes. Betting any 10 combos gets 10 to 1 odds, but are the odds the same for any 10 combos and 10 combos with 10 different digits in the first position? RCB reminded me of when I too hit 5 out of 6 playing the Ohio Lotto when it was a 6/40 game. Wrote down all 40 numbers on playing cards, mixed them up and drew six at a time and placed the
Apr 12, 2026, 12:51 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Washington DC Pick 5 1 in 200 million oddsReply
The have played all singles which is 5 different digits Ex 12345 these different digit numbers make up slightly over 30,000 of the possible 100,000 numbers. So odds of getting that unique combination is 30.24% just to be exact. So on average 3/10 draws you should see that. They've drawn all singles 16 times in a row now. Just think like this, say you make a single bet that you have a 30% chance to win and you win that bet 16x in a row. Or to make it easier it's equivalent to flipping
Apr 8, 2026, 10:46 am - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
A second ticket doesn't eliminate any combinations. You double your chances of winning (i.e. odds cut in half) because 2/292M is double that of 1/292M. The tickets themselves are all 1 in 292M. It's how many tickets YOU hold that affects YOUR odds of winning.
Mar 31, 2026, 2:31 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Hey Coin Toss... Pick 2. Easy game, with 100 possible outcomes. I have 2 tickets. What are my odds of winning? Now I have 5 tickets. What are my odds of winning?
Mar 29, 2026, 5:47 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Not so much can I afford it but rather due to the low odds? (at least in terms of 'lottery land' odds they're low) Years ago while I was buying some Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle tickets, the woman behind the counter said to me - Well! Aren't you the smart one! She then said At least people have a decent shot at actually winning this. I realized that she was a 'Focal Point'. She saw how many people bought tickets for the big games, but she didn't see many of them bring back a winning tick
Mar 29, 2026, 10:18 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this before
Instead of playing one set of numbers for Illinois Lucky Day Lotto (5/45 progressive jackpot, tonight $750,000) I played five. So according to some herer I've cut ther odds of 1,221,759 down to 38,719 so surely I can expect to win somethnig tonight, no? I was tempted to go anoither six sets which woukd have brogught the odds down to under a million, 596,562 but was playing on a lotto vending machikne and only had as $20 pon me and since thr machines don't give change passed it up. Can't
Mar 27, 2026, 7:34 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
To each his or her own. Twenty bucks a throw is steep. That's why whenever there's a raffle (which isn't all that often) I cut back on the other lottery games I regularly play. That's what keeps me from over spending my monthly lottery budget. My thinking is the 20 dollar ticket price is a premium players have to pay for the greatly reduced odds of winning a top prize, not to mention there's a guaranteed jackpot winner(s). Many is the time I've heard a player say about a raffle Players
Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Millionaire for Life multi-state lottery game to replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life in FebruaryReply
I haven't paid any attention to this game nut I just saw it on the NY lottery's home page for the first time. Obviously everybody gets to decide whether or not they want to play, but here are a couple of thoughts. The first is largely about playing this or playing PB (or MM) when the jackpot is still small. Generally, at least 8 to 10 million people (5 to 7 isn't unusual for Monday drawings) spend $2 when the annuity is $20 to $30 million (even if you die before the drawing) and the cash val
Feb 23, 2026, 3:50 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News