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Georgia to sell tickets onlineReply
Quote: Originally posted by twisted on March 10, 2004 If this thing goes through in Georgia, it will set a precedence for all other states. If this thing does go through, then they wont have to pay the 5% they have to pay to the retailers as hopefully more people will buy their tickets online. That means more money can either go to the state to help fund education, etc, or that 5% can go back to the players!!!!I only see the positive side of this, and I'm sure there are some negative sides a
Mar 10, 2004, 6:24 pm - plnwebguy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of a rollover in PB and MMReply
First Lottobuddy, Thanx for the link. It's a good one and I've bookmarked it.Your suggestions are well taken. I generally do not attempt a level of refinement you indicate in your calculations, but, as I've said, rely on moving averages of sales figures from long experience with the matter as described recently in this thread. I know that (since the week contains an odd number of days) that it makes a difference whether a drawing is on a Saturday or a Wednesday. Other factors that effect
Mar 8, 2004, 12:37 pm - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

Online Lottery PoolReply
Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on March 03, 2004 Quote: Originally posted by Jake649 on March 03, 2004 Let us say that 10 people decide to participate and they each agree to spend $100 per year. Each person in the group would spend $100 on behalf of the group. There are 52 weeks in a year and most major lottery have drawings twice a week, so any person wanting to play any lottery all year around have to be willing to take the time to travel to a local store twice a week and spend a dollar for
Mar 4, 2004, 12:12 pm - Jake649 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Geee,can you belive this?Reply
What is SuperEnalotto?Have you never heard about Italian SuperEnalotto? This new bet game has been introduced by Sisal in 1997 and it has become very popular between Italian players, because of a rich trend of wins succeeded at his introduction. The bet is based on the draw numbers of from some pools of Italian Lotto.SuperEnalotto numbers are drawn every Wednesday and Saturday. You have to choose 6 numbers from 1 to 90. The winning combination appears very rapidly in Televideo teletext pages and
Feb 26, 2004, 7:23 pm - goose - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of a rollover in PB and MMReply
Yes it does mean exactly that. There is a 37% probability of any lottery where the number of tickets sold exactly equals the odds against winning it are sold irrespective of the odds. This result may seem somewhat surprising, but you verify this sort of thing experimentally by arranging a set of containers like paper cups in such a way that there is no bias. Then throw an equal number of objects (in an unbiased way), pennies would work, so that they land into the container. If you have a
Feb 18, 2004, 4:03 pm - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

Expected ReturnReply
You're all welcome. I've been trying to find out the expected payoffs for Canada's Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Super 7. My hypothesis is that even though they offer tax-free cash jackpots, they have never had a positive expected return because of high sales. I am requesting if prob987 or other statistical guru can plug the numbers into their complex formula and confirm this.The last time the 6/49 jackpot exceeded the 1 in 13,983,816 odds was for a $15 million draw back in November 15, 1997. Looking
Feb 18, 2004, 1:46 pm - LottoBuddy - Jackpot Games Forum

Lottery programsReply
Quote: Originally posted by Millennium on February 18, 2004 This is an interesting thread that I hope will continue.To the WinHunter author: Have you ever thought about producing a version that can run on a PDA (PalmOS or Pocket PC)?(It's particularly ironic to see Lottoscorp reply to LaurainMass -- especially after being outed in another thread as the *same person*!)Oh, I have to add:Several years ago -- I don't know how many -- I saw *two* reports on TV news about some guy in Massachusetts w
Feb 18, 2004, 8:22 am - Andrew - Lottery Systems Forum

Expected ReturnReply
Thanks for the wonderful link lottobuddy. I've downloaded the paper. Eqn(4) is exactly the equation I use in calculating expectation values, with equ'n 3 being the form I posted on the other thread. However, my results conflict with the statement that there has never been a MB or PB drawing that gave a fair bet. I calculate that the expectation value for this drawing (217 million) is actually a fair bet with an expectation value of 1.02. I have seen at least two or three other such
Feb 18, 2004, 6:03 am - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

Clamor for $177 million Mega Millions lottery ticketsNews Story
When the lottery's Mega Millions jackpot climbs into the stratosphere, people fork out the cash for tickets at local retailers, and the improving economy only helps the sales grow.Marcee Watson, a cashier at Mike's Party Store in Yale, Michigan, said that she expects people to begin flooding area convenience stores to buy tickets for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing. The jackpot is expected to reach $177 million after a $150 million jackpot went without a winner Friday in each of the 11 st
Feb 16, 2004, 6:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Questions for Lottery OfficialReply
The following is another interesting discussion we had dealing with quick picks.Quick picks are generted by the terminal. There is no communication back to the central computer in order to generate the quick pick. Once the random quick pick is created, then the ticket contents are sent to the central system to be recorded and then the ticket is printed.There has been talk (I think on this site) that the system picks quick picks to help generate jackpot roll overs. He reported as fact that this i
Feb 15, 2004, 9:54 am - Jake649 - Lottery Discussion Forum