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$336 million Powerball ticket sold at R.I. supermarketReply
LOL, you needed it more than I can imagine for your family which means you clearly don't have fifty dollars to lose in the first place. You're the poster child for a person who has no business playing the lottery. Clearly you don't understand odds and somehow think you're special. You did have the option to just buy one single ticket or two like myself because your odds were no different buying fifty bucks worth. Instead you're frustrated, show off your level of ignorance and then insist the Pow
Feb 13, 2012, 4:00 pm - WWWBUKTN - Lottery News

For those who put too much money into the lottery...
A question that I woke up with this morning was, what are my odds of winning the Euromillion jackpot over my lifetime and not just one draw? It's certainly not as bad as for one draw... so I did a bit of math... odds of winning the jackpot: 1 in 116 000 000 number of draws per week: 2 number of tickets I buy per draw: 5 now let's assume I play for 25 years. 5 (number of tickets) * 2 (number of draws per week) * 52 (number of weeks in a year) * 25 (number of years I play) =
Feb 9, 2012, 6:01 pm - FARAHSAN - Lottery Discussion Forum

So why has the price for Powerball tickets gone up anyway?Reply
As far as I know, the odds of winning the jackpot only dropped from 1 in 195 million to 1 in 175 million. To me that's not worth adding 100% to the price of a ticket. I always spent $2 whenever I bought PB tickets, hoping to hit one on the non-jackpot prizes. $3 is another 50%, a little too much for my budget. If I'm going to spend a few dollars more a week, I think I'd rather spend it on Florida's Fantasy 5 or MegaMoney. The odds are much better, although I haven't won those games either!
Feb 8, 2012, 2:36 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

$200 MILLION: New Powerball delivers huge lottery jackpotReply
Are you seriously suggesting that having 110 5+0 winners is normal circumstances ? At that time the 5+0 odds were about 1 in 2.9 million, so 110 winners would only be normal if they had sold about 315 million tickets. Lotoreport.com says they sold 10.8 million tickets. That means they would have expected about 4 winners , but had more than 27 times as many as they expected. The probability of selling that many winners as a matter of chance makes the game odds of 1 in 120 million (at that time) l
Feb 5, 2012, 11:38 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania: 1/1 - 1/31/2012Reply
The joke is on us again Cybermoss. I had statistics in college, even a person without college courses can tell you that the odds of this happening is millions to one, and if you take the amount of repeats times the time the lottery has been in exsistance x the given odds and you come up with a whopper of set of results. I can't even get my head around that number its so huge. Advice? Would you play a game of Monty on the street?
Jan 29, 2012, 3:03 pm - JezzVim - Pick 3 Forum

Newbie with a few questions...Reply
Maybe I should have shorten it... So how about this, would you: Go for a game that has better odds and plenty of top prizes left, though top prize isn't as high as others or, Go for a game that has decent odds, a few top prizes left which are twice as much as the others listed, and offers a '2nd chance' drawing or, Go for a new game with all top prizes left figuring they may have more frequent winners in the beginning to develop interest.
Jan 25, 2012, 11:30 am - lefty left-eye - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Clerk called me a bum for buying lottery ticketsReply
Karma +1 for you. I think people like this have been inundated with the idea that it's wasting money to play the lottery, but they don't consider the odds that if they spend $1 a week/$52 a year that they improve their odds from nothing to something. The only thing I tell clerks like this is 'you can't win if you don't play'.
Jan 17, 2012, 3:39 pm - integralsum - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maddogs Powerball Challenge 1/14Reply
So the Jackpot did not go! Next draw with new rules is set at $80M Ann. Played my Powerballs 1, 11 and 22 tonight and hit a PB only x 5 for $15. Last time that it will pay that much. Will be a $12 pay with PP for the PB only from now on. Think I will not use PP anymore. With the ticket cost of 2.00 each and PP still 1, I feel like they should keep the PP 1 thru 5 and multiply the prize as usual.. Bigger jackpots do not equal better odds. The odds are overall better I know, but not that
Jan 15, 2012, 1:23 am - malie10 - Jackpot Games Forum

Are pre-draws corrupting your lottery strategy ?Reply
great point. lots of unsuspecting people play triples for long periods of times. even if it wasn't that exact 444, the odds itself of another triple, no matter what the number was is rare to begin with. thousands of poor unsuspecting people who are blind to stats are duped on a daily basis. *Reaps revenue up the bahoong hole. unfortunately, everyday contemporary drawbacks affecting everyday people because of the lack of disclosure doesn't seem enough to convince some of the the LP members. It
Jan 9, 2012, 11:14 pm - Guest - Lottery Discussion Forum

Finally after 3 years someone hit the 1 million dollars a year for life scratch off.Reply
If you are spending $7000+ each year on the lottery, I suggest you lay off the scratchers. Play Pick 3 or Pick 4 if your state has Pick 4. The odds are much, much better, and it's great entertainment. Personally, I play all the jackpot games in my state, and I play the Pick 4 game . I still lose more than I win, but I limit my play to $1 per draw except PB and MM, I play $2 per draw on those. You can play just a few bucks on your state jackpot game and be in the hunt for millions. Yeah the od
Jan 8, 2012, 9:35 pm - rcbbuckeye - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum