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What is your lottery personality?Reply
I'm after the BIG one through and through. If it isn't at least several million, it isn't worth throwing my money at. If I'm going to win, I want it to make a DIFFERENCE in my life. Mostly I wait until MM gets up to a cash option of $25 to $50 million. I'd rather buy five tickets when the jackpot is higher than one each week when the jackpot is lower. However, if the MM jackpot hasn't been high long enough to encourage me to play often and my lottery funds are burning a hole in my pocket, I b
Jul 23, 2008, 9:31 pm - Uff Da! - Lottery Discussion Forum

recycle ticket talkReply
It has never occured to me to played recycled tics. It's an interesting idea. I usually play the same numbers, or maybe slight variations, and sometimes I'll play a QP with them. Sometimes instead of a QP, I'll pick one set of numbers randomly. Really, if you look at the odds of any particular game, even the Cash 5 or Fantasy 5, or whatever with odds of less than 500,000 to 1, it's still a matter of luck if you hit. I only pick my numbers because it gives me the illusion that I have a better
Jul 7, 2008, 10:23 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Lottery joins PowerballReply
I could almost understand the logic of playing the extra buck or two if it added money to the all the prizes but it doesn't and the odds of one ticket matching all 6 numbers is still 24 million to 1. People play pick-3 or pick-4 numbers multiple times to increase the winnings, but there is a huge difference when the odds are 1000 and 10,000 to 1 and much less for the box bets. When Powerball is added and people see how the multiplier works, I'll bet they stop playing the extra bucks to wi
Jul 5, 2008, 12:11 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Florida Lottery joins PowerballReply
I am surprised a big state like Florida joined Powerball and not Mega Millions since that seems to be the way it goes. Big states MM smaller states PB. Florida is a huge lottery state. I can't see them not raising the odds. Maybe they will raise the price to $2. I wish both games would do that already and just lower the odds a little. Then it would be an interesting game one that seems to be at least a little attainable to win. Brad
Jul 5, 2008, 11:10 am - Bradly_60 - Lottery News

Is there a "Lottery Ego?"Reply
There are many reasons why lotteries are like insurance companies with the most obvious being they both know the percentages are in their favor before they ever sell their first lottery ticket or policy. I'm not sure if we can compare lottery players to policy holders because the betting structures are different and I don't know how to explain a policy holder's winning or losing in lottery terms. The best games of chance for the lotteries are the ones that give the player the illusion they ca
Jun 29, 2008, 7:33 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Tough economy?  Some cut back on lottery tickets, wageringReply
The economy works just the opposite on my lottery tickets buying. I was never a fan of the scratch-off because odds of 1/1000K doesn't mean much if you aren't shopping at the retailers that have the roll of tickets with the big winners where with lotto games the odds are the same for every player regardless of where they shop. I've alway budgeted my lottery spending by what I was giving up to buy a ticket. Use to be I gave up a gallon of gas to buy one lottery ticket and now I can buy fo
Jun 15, 2008, 2:16 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Combinations & % Error ChallengeReply
My system uses a RNG to pick numbers which are compared with previous drawings before being checked using the filters parameters since I'm trying to avoid using combinations that have already won. I recently added a feature that stops the program when ever it picks a combination that has all the winning numbers of a previous drawing and the program seldom stops. This tells me that the odds of picking a winning combination to filter out is the same as picking a winning combination without filt
Jun 6, 2008, 6:39 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Why do you play the lottery?Reply
By excluding the smaller odds and payout games it becomes exactly what Coin Toss said A dollar and a dream no matter how many different reasons there is to play. I suppose the people that hardly ever play, do play for the same the same reason most people play; to have the chance of winning a multi-million dollar jackpot and the fact that people do win justifies playing. My point with winning a few thousand in the much smaller odds games like pick-3 and pick-4 is actually knowing how it feels
Jun 3, 2008, 5:05 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

How to play lotteryReply
visit one of your gas stations or store that sell lottery tickets (there is usually a sign outside that tells you) and go near the lottery machine and you will see the playslips for different games..read the slips on back side that tell you how to make bets and the rules of each game together with the odds..or of course you can visit your state's lottery website and find info there See what games you like (depending on payouts, bet amounts and especially odds)... Play for fun (usually only
May 26, 2008, 4:19 pm - benmas - Lottery Discussion Forum

24-box or super straight (combo)Reply
When I feel lucky, I buy the straight, when I feel less then lucky, I buy the box; if I want to throw my money away, I buy both. Usually I buy the box. I have less to win, but better odds at getting something back. A break even is better then a loss. Remember, the goal of the lottery is to take as much money from you as possible. Your goal is outwit all the experts and tremendous odds; only you get to spend real money proving your point and they get to keep your money when your fail. Who is r
May 23, 2008, 4:36 pm - MeFirstYouLast - Lottery Discussion Forum