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Florida Lottery holding back winning scratchers?Reply
Well I took a week off and thought I would buy some tickets and see what happens. I bought 10 of the new $5 Cruise for Cash scratcher. This scratcher is advertised as the best odds of any $5 scratcher on the Florida Lottery website. Out of the 10 I bought, I won $5 back on 2 and all the rest were losers. Some good odds huh? Lost $40. I guess they are holding back the good winning tickets to pay for the second chance drawing for the cruises. Beware of this scratcher folks.
Sep 17, 2010, 9:57 am - wbrightfl - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

PICK 3 Easy MoneyReply
I`m sorry to hear that your state doesn`t work, and a $300 loss is definately not cool...however with the odds at 1/999, and the odds with this idea is 1/15 or less, it does improve your chances, I will not work everytime, and sometimes there is a number of games that are played without a winning ticket, I had experienced a great deal of loss by only one number for a long period of time, and when researching this idea, came to find I would cash in more tickets, than not. Thanks for trying this i
Sep 10, 2010, 11:27 pm - earzzzz - Pick 3 Forum

Do you ever feel like you're wasting money when playing the lottery?Reply
I agree, the odds are stacked against winning, but people DO win the lottery. There was a discussion about this subject one night on a San Francisco radio station call-in show. A lottery player on the east coast won a huge jackpot after using his last dollar to buy a single ticket. The discussion centered around the prudence of buying lottery tickets when that money could be used for other purposes. The announcer (personally, I think he just wanted to stir up controversy. 'Slow news day...) deri
Sep 10, 2010, 1:15 pm - Daveyl - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pick 3 with 1/15 or less odds
Hello, 1st time posting for me, I am from Arkansas, and Arkansas has not had this game very long, however I believe I can narrow down the odds from 1/999 to 1/15 or less. Using the ancient chinese magic box, I used a series of 2 digit numbers, that seem to be in almost all of the numbers drawn in the pick 3 game. they are as follows 49 92 68 80 58 35 61 14 36 13 81 57 83 91 69 50 03 79 47 24 46 72 25 02 70 What you do is based on the last numbers played, you will write down al
Sep 10, 2010, 5:05 am - earzzzz - Pick 3 Forum

Fooled by RandomnessReply
...in all three positions and the payoff odds are 17.5 to 1 in each drawing. How so? In PA the Payoff Odds are 500 to 1, in MO, 600 to 1. Also, you must be working with different definitions of the words cause and effect than I am, because I can make no sense of your last sentence.
Aug 28, 2010, 5:18 pm - jimmy4164 - Lottery Systems Forum

Different Form of PredictingReply
I wouldn't be surprised if tonight's MM is all odds. There was another instance where all evens were played and then the next draw all of them were odds. Can't rule anything out. How long have you been using this method and how successful were you in predicting? Do you automatically eliminate past drawn and unlikely combinatins? Actually I've used this method to try to predict the mega number. I used it on Cali's Super Lotto and was successful at predicting the mega number but it
Aug 13, 2010, 4:24 am - badboy00z - Jackpot Games Forum

POLL - On The Whole Do The Lotteries Provide Truly Random Numbers?Reply
I started thinking about what I wrote for scratch-offs. It seems to me that the lotteries are misstating the full odds of winning a scratch-off grand prize. If the lottery says the scratch-off grand prize odds are 1 out of a million, isn't that false? If they issued a million of those tickets, that is correct. But then you have sort of a different lottery to play. That grand prize is only sitting in one store. If there are 10,000 lottery stores, don't you have to add in an additional 10,00
Aug 11, 2010, 3:42 pm - truecritic - Lottery Discussion Forum

POLL - On The Whole Do The Lotteries Provide Truly Random Numbers?Reply
Imagine the winning numbers were drawn before sales started and kept secret until sales ended, and the RNG only chose from 20% of the possible combinations. If the winning numbers weren't in that 20% you'd have a valid argument that the ticket was invalid and had no chance of winning. OTOH, if the winning numbers were in that 20% you'd be 5 times as likely to win. As a practical matter we could expect the winning numbers to be in that 20% 1 out of 5 times, and being 5 times as likely to win in 2
Aug 11, 2010, 12:09 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Awesome System for Pick4: Straight not Boxed: Why not Try This...Reply
Each group has 16 two digit numbers so as an example group #1 uses 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. You choose one of the 6 front two groups and play them with one of the 6 back two groups. According to my math, 16 times 16 equals 256 four digit numbers and Pumpi suggested playing only 64 so it looks like he is using some sort of even/odd distribution guessing formula to reduce the number of combinations. What I find problematic with this and most of Pumpi's
Aug 11, 2010, 11:42 am - Stack47 - Lottery Systems Forum

Fooled by RandomnessReply
Lots of states payout up to 65% on their scratch-off tickets but quickly erase that on their terminal games. Most pick-3 games have a slightly more than 50% house edge because of their payoff structure. Knowing the odds against are 999 to 1 and the payoff odds are $499 to $1 (they keep the buck you bet so the most you can win is $499), it's easy to see the 50% house edge. The house edge is even higher in boxed bets because lotteries round off the payoffs in their favor. $500 divided by 6 equals
Aug 10, 2010, 1:23 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Systems Forum