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Do you see PB jackpots of $300 mil plus a fluke going forward with California joining in soon?Reply
Probably the best way to determine the amount of tickets sales to realistically get over a 50% chance the jackpot will be hit is to project how many tickets should match five numbers. One ticket out of every 5,153,633 should match 5 and there are 35 bonus numbers so the odds against that one combo winning the jackpot are 35 to 1. It should take at least 18 five number matches to get over a 50% chance or about 93 million tickets. Can't really guess how many duplicate tickets are sold but looki
Apr 4, 2013, 11:42 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
So you agree with me that this thread is a complete waste of everyone's time? That's a fair question, but it's still based on the fact it's possible. And you're asking that question to people who already know they only have a 1 in 39 chance of giving you the correct answer. Hey, it's not my fault Ronnie thinks he can do better than 1 in 39. My best guess, it's out of frustration because he already did something statistical improbable and people are demanding he duplicates it. You
Feb 1, 2013, 10:46 am - mediabrat - Lottery Discussion Forum

NY Lotto adds only $300k now?!Reply
Until last nite, I'd have whole-heartly agreed with you on SM. But something very unusual happened last nite. There were two winners of the JP last nite, both player picks sold on the same street in Suffern at two stores that are very close together, which has made me re-think my attitude towards SM. My guess is it's the same person that bought those two separate JP winning lines. I'd love to know if the winner purposely did it, or was it just a very lucky accident. If it wasnt a lucky acc
Jan 25, 2013, 12:28 pm - GiveFive - Jackpot Games Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
To find better odds, you have to define what makes better odds. Why is one group of numbers better than another? You have to use empirical data to answer this question. You have to find the ebb and flow within the data set to create a model. That which happens most often is more likely to happen again. Thus to find parameters that occurmore often will by default give you better odds. Stack is declaring a statement based on empirical data, but the more important question is why is thi
Jan 4, 2013, 6:59 pm - LottoBoner - Lottery Discussion Forum

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
This is my first time back on these forums since I stopped buying Florida scratchers 8 months ago. After scratching more losing tickets than ever earlier this year, I had to take a break. This morning I decided to test the waters to see if the Florida Lottery is still flooding the market with losing scratchers. I bought 4 of the new $25 Millionarie tickets. All 4 losers. So much for the best odds. Next I bought 2 of the $20 Billion Blockbusters. I won $20 back on both. Broke even. Next
Dec 20, 2012, 8:51 am - wbrightfl - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
That's just nuts..you'd really think they could do better on 10 at at time stretches on those bigger tickets. Even with a few more just stinking $25 winners in there, they would make money. I had the odds explained to me once because I asked a question about odds...it's not just buying 10 tickets and getting the posted 3.45 or whatever number they come to for games, it's the odds in the whole run of tickets...some of those games print 6 to 7 million tickets. I'm sure for
Dec 19, 2012, 5:32 am - dr65 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
I thought when I wrote not written in stone you understood I wasn't saying it must happen . Of course you can go back and find a froup of 28 numbers which won the last 7 drawings. I said groups because there are at least 29 groups of 28 numbers that matched five numbers in 7 consecutive drawings. There's no such thing as blowing away the odds because every single possible event is contained within those odds. A group of 28 numbers has 98,280 combinations which is 1/39 of the tota
Dec 17, 2012, 8:17 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
Politically I'm a moderate because every once in a while people from both parties have good ideas. I also understand odds so when I lived in predominately Republican or Democrat districts, I registered to vote with the majority party because the outcomes were settled in the primaries. Currently I'm living in a solid red district. Handicapping this past presidential election was easy just by looking at nothing but the maths. There is no point spread and the incumbent only had to win two or thr
Nov 14, 2012, 10:38 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Mega-millions settings and suggestions for Digit Master.Reply
RJ What winsum is testing is the code it's self not the selections. Winsum and disagree a little over this programs effectiveness. Picking 9 filters and setting each to a single value gives us the odds of 6*6*6*6*6*6*6*6*6 = 1 in 10,077,696. That's more possibilities then there are sets in the matrix. Many of the ranges cannot be used together but I think this shows my concerns. What is needed for this to work is a way to predict the values. I stick with the groups because for a 3
Sep 24, 2012, 10:14 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Jackpot Games Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
If winning doesn't mean much unless you win more than it cost to play then your are will be disappointed every time you win unless you beat the odds of winning by 50x or more because all the prizes are less than 3% of the odds of winning. MATCH ODDS PRIZE 5/5+B 1 : 175711536 JP 5/5+0 1 : 3904701 $250,000 4/5+B 1 : 689065 $10,000 4/5+0 1 : 15313 $150 3/5+B 1 : 13781 $150 3/5+0 1 : 306 $7 2/5+B 1 : 844 $10 1/5+B 1 : 141 $3 0/5+B 1 : 75 $2
Sep 18, 2012, 3:12 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum