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Just curious, but does anybody know...Reply
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, covering all the bonus balls in a PowerBall or MegaMillions game might make some players more comfortable when gambling enough to do so but everyone is different. Normally I don't play sixty lines for a lottery drawing but the chance to play for a $200M+ jackpot doesn't come along that often either. I usually play 10-15 lines when the jackpot is decent, but for fun I'm always trying different things on paper and on the prediction board so when a large j
Jun 18, 2007, 10:46 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

Disabled man wins $37M lottery jackpotReply
I hope that is just press conference mumbo-jumbo. If you move into an apartment and rent with that kind of money, you are an idiot and a waste of the jackpot. You life does change after winning the lottery, and it should change drastically for the BETTER. Not to continue just getting by. There is nothing wrong with modest spending, but let's not get ridiculous. When you beat those kind of odds you owe it to yourself to at least live it up some, otherwise winning and beating such high odds
Jun 14, 2007, 3:46 pm - sirbrad - Lottery News

How Long Will It Be Until We Have A Lotto Billionaire ?Reply
Never. I'm not one of the math analysts on this board, but IMHO I think the odds for such a game would have to be too high. Players would get discouraged. Even the PB and MM jackpots haven't reached 1/2 billion and they're nearly impossible to hit. Don't you think a game with odds of 140 or 175 million to one are hard enough to win? Actually, my last statement doesn't even make sense to me. 1 in 100 million, 1 in 200 million, 1 in 300 million..what difference does it make?
Jun 2, 2007, 12:24 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Ishan Khan waited for 10 years. I can't do that.Reply
We all want to win a large jackpot, Ambelamba. Some of us have been playing lottery games for over 30 years and have yet to win a jackpot. As Lottolaughs wrote, you might be setting yourself up for a big disappointment. On a lottery board this might be something you don't expect to read, but the odds of winning a PB jackpot are very, very slim. This doesn't mean you won't ever win, but if you use the same odds and apply them to almost anything else in life, you can see the logic. After
Jun 1, 2007, 10:54 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

You make the call...Reply
I agree with both you and the moderator, Coin Toss, although I always will side with the truth since I believe in giving accurate information to help people. However, this reminds me of the discussion about cutting the odds in half by purchasing a second ticket. I completely understand why others argue that it's true. We're just looking at it differently. To me it is clear that a player buying a ticket for a game with odds of 1:100M isn't really better off spending another 2 or three dollars.
May 28, 2007, 10:33 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

You make the call...
I'm on a Yahoo group that addresses problem gamblers. Recently, someone on the group posted this: If there are 40 balls and 6 are chosen, 40 possible numbers can come up first, leaving 39 that can come up second, then 38, 37, 36, and 35 on the final number. To find out how many numbers that is, multiply 40 39 38 37 36 35 = 2,763,633,600,making the odds 2,500,000,000 to 1. So I replied to that: That's not quite right. In games more than 40 balls to choose from
May 27, 2007, 8:20 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

As technology and software progress....Reply
No way. First, if someone did manage to develop a method of winning all the time as you say, they would obviously not be an ignorant person. Therefore, they would never sell the method. Because that would be like selling the Golden Goose. Won't happen. And if computers become more advanced, then the lotteries will have more advanced computers. Don't forget, they have all the money. They will certainly upgrade. They will even be able to pay for new algorithms to be developed that will be eve
May 26, 2007, 12:36 pm - Badger - Lottery Discussion Forum

$300. a day P/3 straightReply
That depends on what system or tools you'd be using,I suppose. You'd have to do a lot of backtesting and tracking to determine something like that. There's no way to put a percentage on increasing your odds because just when you think you've got something hot going on,it will go cold. It would fluctuate all the time. You will have to do a lot of homework,let's put it that way. And even after you've exhausted all possibilities,tools,systems,etc. you still may not win. That's the lottery! Or
May 24, 2007, 10:27 pm - lottolaughs - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas Lottery introduces $50 scratch ticketReply
people obviously feel those odds are very good, and they certainly are compared to PB MM and most state games. Assuming you want to compare apples to apples, the odds aren't that much better than PB or MM, and they're worse than most state games. The tickets cost as much as buying 50 tickets for PB, MM , or most state games. If you bought 50 tickets for PB or MM your chance of winning the jackpot would be 1 in 2.9 milion or 1 in 3.5 million. Sure, you'd be almost 3 times as likely to win
May 22, 2007, 6:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

NEW POLL: Have any of you met a lottery winner?Reply
RJOh, I agree with you that there aren't very many big winners, but I know of many people who won prizes of $5,000 and $10,000, even the Fant 5 for over $100,000. I put the word know in quotes since I really don't know them at all. However, I do know the clerks at Publix where the tickets were bought. Maybe a lot of members here have dozens of friends, but I don't. So if I could write that I knew several big winners and tell you how it affected them, it wouldn't make much sense, unle
May 18, 2007, 10:48 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum