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A Tale of Two Lotteries
Powerball and Mega MillionsThe Lottery of the Heartland vs. The Lottery of the MetropolisThis summer we will see the changes to Mega Millions and in autumn we'll watch the new Powerball.For a few years, the two seemed as equals. Both games would climb over the $100 million mark and occasionally $200 million. Then Mega Millions started to gain a slight edge on jackpot rollover amounts. Powerball tried to one-up the cosmopolitan lottery by landing the Florida contract. 'No dice,' said Governor
Apr 29, 2005, 10:18 am - JAG331 - Jackpot Games Forum

Happy Friday...Ga. Midday..Odd pair?
OK..... should we stay with the even pair in position 1 and 2 today. It seems pretty hot to me. Now it's 12 days in a row ! Yeah .... thats hot Silly me..... I think its time to flip over today to odd pairs. Call me a Rebel .... LOL Looking for 2 digit return this year as well. For it to come today we would have to split those odd digits 7,,,1,,,,9 ....low odds for that. I'm throwing out everything that doesn't have at least one digit of 4,,,8,,,,or ,,, 0 and the odds are supreme for th
Apr 29, 2005, 8:45 am - WIN D - Pick 3 Forum

mega millions and powerball jackpot pollReply
I gotta believe that they will settle for a 5 of 56 and a 1 of 56, they are so intent on making this the biggest thing since sliced bread. And in their greed to divide the $$$ that drive this beast! The paltry $10 mil. it starts at now for the mega is a joke, it should already be a min. of $15 mil....but hey..there are alot of states to divide this big pot up with and they all want their fair share. With Calif. joining it should be a min. of $20 - 25 mil. If you took all the states that basicall
Apr 28, 2005, 5:47 am - fbird - Lottery Discussion Forum

TN's best Insant Tickets
This is based on odds, and top prizes:For $1 the best tickets are: Bank Roll, Lucky Times three, Luck of the Dice, Black Jack, Lucky 7's and Volunteer Millionaire.For $2 the best tickets are: Jumbo Bucks, Sizzling 7's, Cold Orange Cash, Queen of Hearts.For $5 the best tickets are: Win for Life, Ruby Red 7's, Sapphire Blue 7's, $100,000 Jackpot, Emerald Green 8's.For $10: Mega Slots.Red= My first Pick, Orange=my 2nd pick, Magenta=my 3rd pick. I would stay away from the following tickets:Super Bla
Apr 25, 2005, 4:39 pm - Tnplayer805 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameReply
The current odds of 120m-to-1 are depressing as it stands and odds of 146m-to-1 are rediculous at best. Even the Mega Millions is better at 130m-to-1 which has been described as infinitesimal by statisticians. We just got the lottery last year and I was buying 2-20 tickets depending on the pot, but now I will never buy more than a couple at a time and only when the jackpots are 100+ million or I may just play my wife's single number and be done with it. Other than that I plan to pay more atte
Apr 7, 2005, 6:06 pm - tony95 - Lottery News

LuvToWin616 STRAIGHT trips in PAReply
Quote: Originally posted by Badger on April 3, 2005Quote: Originally posted by CalifDude on April 2, 2005Quote: Originally posted by Badger on April 2, 2005Is there such a thing as a boxed triple? THey're all straight aren't they?Who would try and play a triple as a box?That's the way it is listed on this site. You might ask Todd about it. When I play online, if I'm doing a lot of numbers at one time, I just play box. It there is a triple in the group of numbers and I win, it pays like a str
Apr 3, 2005, 1:00 pm - CalifDude - Pick 3 Forum

Fortune cookie fuels record Powerball winsNews Story
Dozens of people recently got an extra-special dessert with their Chinese food: a winning lottery number.A record 110 players won $500,000 and $100,000 prizes in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, most of whom apparently used the numbers included in a fortune-cookie message. Ordinarily the multistate lottery expects only four tickets to win at the Match 5 prize level.Several winners in a half-dozen states revealed that they got the winning number from a fortune cookie, said Doug Orr, marketing direc
Apr 1, 2005, 7:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery starts new 'Double Up Cash' game this weekendNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery will begin selling tickets Sunday for a new computerized game, Double Up Cash, that offers players a chance to double nonjackpot prizes if they correctly pick heads or tails. Numbers for the game will be chosen nightly, Monday through Saturday. Tickets cost $1, and the prize payouts range from a free-play ticket to a minimum jackpot of $40,000.The jackpot will increase by $10,000 for every night it isn't hit, up to a maximum of $500,000, said lottery spokesman Chip Polsto
Mar 30, 2005, 7:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

How much do you spend on tickets?Reply
by this, i mean that if the jackpot is high, considering the odds. for example, mega millions is at $63 million for tonight, and i have 5 tickets. rolling cash 5 is $718,000 for tonight, but i have 20 tickets. make sense?Probably does to most of the DB users, judging from their comments elsewhere on the board. I'll confess, Doctor, it's a mystery to me. But I'm generally new here. Likely I'll come around to that way of thinking after I've had a while to catch on.A PB ticket with 5 numbers and
Mar 29, 2005, 8:14 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery Discussion Forum

Too many players winning Powerball, lottery saysReply
>One expert says changing the game might be unnecessary. ''The expectation that they'll wind up with 17 winners this year because they've got 12 so far assumes that the process is linear and it's not. It's random,'' said Bruce McCullough, an associate professor at Drexel University. ''This could be the year they'll have 20 winners -- and there's nothing they should do about it. It's entirely possible they would be changing to fix a problem that doesn't exist.''I agree with this. Powerball's S
Mar 22, 2005, 10:40 am - tg636 - Lottery News