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Missouri Lottery expands games to twice a dayNews Story
The Missouri Lottery's daily games will expand from one to two drawings a day later this month, officials said Friday.Gary Gonder, the lottery's spokesman, said the Pick 3, Pick 4 and Show Me 5 games will have a mid-day drawing in addition to the evening drawing, starting July 26. As a customer convenience, we're adding the mid-day draw, he said.Gonder said 21 other states already offer mid-day drawings, including neighboring Iowa and Illinois, and Missouri is catching up. Prices to play the va
Jul 10, 2004, 3:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

The first $400 million jackpot?Reply
According to my recollection of Powerbal rules, once the jackpot surpasses the current jackpot record, the jackpot level is limited to an increase of $25 million.The current jackpot record is $314.9 million. Therefore the next highest level above $314.9 will be $340 million. If it rolls again, the jackpot will be $365 and so on. The money diverted from the jackpot goes to the lower tier prizes.Good luck,JakeP.S. Edit after post. I did not see the previous reply when I posted mine. Essentially we
Jul 9, 2004, 11:11 am - Jake649 - Jackpot Games Forum

The first $400 million jackpot?Reply
tg636,Whenever the Powerball jackpot reaches a record level, the amount of the jackpot prize is limited to increases for each draw of no more than $25 million. The prize money collected in excess of the advertised jackpot amount, plus the maximum $25 million increase, will be placed into the Match 5 Bonus prize pool and will accumulate until there is a jackpot winner. When there is a jackpot winner, the Match 5 Bonus prize pool will be divided equally among all winners of the Match 5 prize. The
Jul 9, 2004, 11:03 am - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Lottery Director slightly ahead!!Reply
The law of large numbers !often people rave over systems or techniques that have short term success. The fact is that we should look a lot further than that. Let's say I invented a system where we take the numbers of the last draw and multiply the odd numbers by 2 and divide the even by 2 to obtain the numbers to be drawn next. Or a system where I paint numbers on a wall, and throw darts at the numbers blindfolded in order to know what will be drawn next. (I've seen people enthousiastic abou
Jul 9, 2004, 5:37 am - Guru - Lottery Systems Forum

1 Powerball winner from Minnesota tonightReply
Powerball has produced in this year 5 jackpots over $100,000,000. I don't think it needs any changes. Years ago, California lengthened its odds going from a 6/49 game to a 6/54 game, and actually had fewer large jackpots and actually saw sales go down. We could make the probability of winning zero (and it already is disturbing close to zero, but this might not actually increase interest in the game.It takes about 5 weeks for a jackpot to go over $100,000,000, meaning that there are only at ma
Jul 8, 2004, 11:02 pm - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

Interstate Lottery SalesReply
States probably would not sell other States lottery games unless they made as much as the selling State from them. That means if the selling States get 50% of sales as profit then another State selling their games would have to increase the price by 50% for their share of the profits and customers would not want to play the extra fees to play out of State games. Beside some States like to control their liability by control how much is bet on different combinations and that would be harder to co
Jul 4, 2004, 11:04 am - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Using MasterMind for Roulette GameReply
Win D,That is certainly an interesting obversation. It questions also some of the possible bets on a Roulette Table. Apparently that is covered nicely by the MASTER MIND ROULETTE system. 3 1 160.00 200.00 1160.00 Win Threshold reached 3 1 160.00 200.00 1360.00 Win Threshold reached 4 1 160.00 200.00 1560.00 Win Threshold reached 2 1 160.00 200.00 1760.00 Win Threshold reachedwhich the MASTER MIND ROULETTE system recognizing as well. It then uses these connection
Jul 3, 2004, 9:29 am - MikeK - Gaming Forum

One ticket wins $290 million Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
The was one winning ticket sold for Friday's record $290 million Mega Millions jackpot.The winning ticket was sold in Lowell, Massachusetts.The $290 million jackpot is an estimated amount that is expected to increase after the eleven Mega Millions states complete their count of actual ticket sales.In Massachusetts, jackpot winners have up to one year to claim their prize, and the jackpot must be claimed in person at lottery headquarters in Braintree.The winner can take the annuity jackpot in 26
Jul 3, 2004, 2:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

$290 MILLION:" Mega Millions lottery jackpot increasedReply
In the last drawing almost 60% of all the combos were bought. With they hype this huge jackpot is getting (which by the way makes the game more fun) I say 70-80% will be bought for this Friday's drawing. Slim chance that their will be a rollover. But just one more rollover means the highest lottery jackpot ever. Just one more. It took over two years to get even close to the $500 million that they once projected. Very unlikely it will happen again soon. SO JUST ONE MORE ROLLOVER...haha. E
Jul 1, 2004, 9:14 pm - Bradly_60 - Lottery News

Mega Millions sets a new recordReply
Quote: Originally posted by Tx_Mega_Player on June 30, 2004Quote: Originally posted by prob987 on June 30, 2004It's way too early, but would anyone care to speculate on the ultimate jackpot size should it rollover one more time?I made this prediction in a different forum, but I will repeat this here. I predict that this run has one roll left. I think that it will be won on 7/6, by a single ticket, and the jackpot will be 450 million.As I calculate it there is roughly a one in twelve chance of th
Jul 1, 2004, 5:25 am - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum