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Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameReply
You speak as if a 21% increase in odds against winning is no big deal. If that is the case why not just double them. How about 300mil:1? Then we could watch 2-3 winners a year win half a billion dollars or so, thats obsurd. You can already see $100-200 million jackpots with the 120m:1 odds as it happened 5 times last years, so why jack it up just because a few people hit it early this year. And as for a 3.5mil:1 chance of winning $200,000 being a great deal.. this is equally obsurd. Our lo
Apr 8, 2005, 3:19 pm - tony95 - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameNews Story
The 29 lotteries that participate in the Powerball game have voted to make changes that will boost the average jackpot size, but also will boost the odds of winning.Starting Aug. 29, the beginning jackpot will increase to $15 million from the current $10 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association announced Wednesday. The top prize will grow by no less than $5 million between each drawing. Lottery games need to be changed from time to time, to respond to both player demands and population chang
Apr 6, 2005, 4:57 pm - Todd - Lottery News

winningReply
Quote: Originally posted by golotto on April 4, 2005I love the basic fact that just because a person has played the lottery for a long time and hasn't won a jackpot, it certainly doesn't mean they won't win one in the future. Not all big jackpot recipients are lottery newbies who just got lucky. I like reading news releases about those people who played for years (like one jackpot winner's example playing for over 17 years) and then when they least expected it ...hit a jackpot, sometimes playing
Apr 5, 2005, 4:10 am - KyMystikal - Lottery Discussion Forum

gail howard wheels or.......Reply
Hi Tom,I especially like Gail's Chart #4. I rarely use wheels-- Gail's or someone else's-- because I choose to believe that number selection is important. Using the familiar parameters or particular characteristics of the game I play, I combine numbers utilizing her various charts. I'd like to hear more about how lotto players here select or pick their numbers to go in the wheel they use. I'd also like to hear if players bypass making their own selection of numbers (based on a study of the cha
Apr 3, 2005, 9:16 pm - Greg - Lottery Systems Forum

Lottery software development ideasReply
What would most likely happen, since winners of big prizes wind up with their name and town published, anyone winning too often would be scapegoated as the reason for lower payouts to other players, one or many of whom may take it upon themselves to ... um ... fix that problem, or the media harassment/attention and total loss of privacy would send you on your way soon enough.I never completed the freshman course on This Will Certainly Happen As A Result Of Thus-And-So. I'm not qualified to a
Apr 3, 2005, 4:54 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery Systems Forum

Pick Three, why you like it & dislike it
I was looking to get people's opinions on why they like and/or dislike Pick Three. First let me start by saying I do play pick three. What I don't like it about it is the fact that you feel like you can beat the game, or atleast I do. An I don't mean all the time I just mean hitting a straight is not impossible and a box win is fairly easy. As where with Pick Four and jackpot games I have little expectations even though I do research. But Pick Three really draws you in beacause you get a taste o
Apr 1, 2005, 11:44 am - fast eddie - Pick 3 Forum

California Senator questions Mega Millions lottery plansNews Story
Millions of California lottery enthusiasts, anxious to beat the 1-in-135 million odds of winning the upcoming Mega Millions jackpot, may find some of their least-favorite politicians crushing their dreams of wealth.The chairman of California's Senate Governmental Organization Committee has asked the Legislature's attorneys whether the Lottery Commission has the constitutional authority to join the multistate Mega Millions game later this year.If the commission's authority is questionable, the ma
Mar 25, 2005, 11:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

I'm BORED with Powerball & MegaMillions
Frankly, I'm BORED with Powerball Megamillions. I really am. Ticket sales down? Maybe people are bored with these two games like I am. They just do not excite me anymore. They are not fun to play. What do I mean by this?Software I own just does not analyze them into digestable chunks that translate into formidable strategies because of the size of the number fields. Studying the charts generated by the software packages I own does nothing for me for these particular two games. They are
Mar 24, 2005, 10:47 pm - Greg - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball Matrix Change?Reply
That arguement would be like saying Microsoft or Adobe products should be less then 20$ because the price of pressing cd's is only pennies.Lotteries have far more competition from online gaming and small casino's then in the past.dvdiva:I can't buy your comparison to microsoft. An overpriced product is still a product. It goes for what the traffic will bear. If it doesn't sell at the price, someone will reduce a price and sell it as New and Used on Amazon, or on Ebay, or down at the corner di
Mar 22, 2005, 8:56 pm - Rip Snorter - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball changing, will you still play?Reply
Personally, trying to predict which numbers will fall in a jackpot game with such a large matrix as Powerball already has is pretty near impossible. You can end up spending oodles on wheels and most of the time you're lucky if you get a lower tier prize or two. Therefore, I play 2-3 bucks at most, and I just randomly pick 5 numbers from the white balls, then let the RNG pick the powerball.It's only 2-3 bucks, and definitely have as good a chance as if I was trying to force certain numbers t
Mar 22, 2005, 7:46 pm - Badger - Lottery Discussion Forum