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Lottery jackpots may get biggerReply
Wow, this has become a heated debate. I think what has been said about the odds has been said. Yes, because the east has a higher population density than the rest of the USA means that a possible winner could be chosen from there because of the higher ticket sales as a result of, however, it doesn't guarantee that a winner will come from there. Since RI makes up a measly 0.7% percent of PB sales, it just goes to show that the lottery systems are completely random, since there hasn't been a co
Feb 14, 2012, 4:32 pm - DisplacedLurker - Lottery News

Florida Lotto ProbabilityReply
Where did you come up with those odds calculations? possible combos of 6/53 numbers = 22957480 MATCHES ODDS 6/6 1 : 22957480 5/6 1 : 81410 4/6 1 : 1416 3/6 1 : 71 2/6 1 : 9 1/6 1 : 2 My odds calculations show you can expect to match one on every other QP or 1:2 or get a free ticket once a month or 1:9.
Jan 23, 2012, 11:48 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Are pre-draws corrupting your lottery strategy ?Reply
If you knew what the pre-draw records were, wouldn't it be hard to get over the fact that if you played 458, 457 was the winner? A while back we had a skeptic named Jimmy that believe it was impossible for anyone to make a profit playing pick-3 games and he ran a program using the PA Evening drawing over the last 33 and 1/2 years. His statistic show how many times the same 3 digit number repeated, skipped one drawing, two drawings, and results showed an average of about once in every 1000 d
Jan 6, 2012, 8:36 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpotsReply
no one cares about winning $4 but there will be lots of them anyway and it can be churned back into the game to get a couple of free tickets, with more chances to win That's as close to the truth as we've heard from you people, but it's really not true at all. More tickets actually means more, and better, chances to lose. That's exactly what you want, isn't it? Turn the meager winnings right back around and put them in your pockets instead of player's pockets. If a private companywas mak
Jan 4, 2012, 2:14 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Gold Rush TriplerReply
JAMES WHERE ARE YOU ?????? I need help with this and need to know why the odds for GRT seem to be different on the administative order site - 53ER11-50(1) From what the GRT ticket itself shows. All the odds show higher except the $500K and $3M top prize. These two match exactly with the ticket display odds but the lower tier prizes look way off ? I might be reading it wrong but here's what the admin site shows. $20 - 1/15 $30 - 1/75 $40 - 1/150 $50 - !/150 $100 - 1/200 $500 - 1
Sep 13, 2011, 6:39 pm - skeptic - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Gold Rush TriplerReply
Very true, they could be referring to a super old Gold Rush from many years ago, but I did find out the odds on the Gold Rush Doubler here are the odds for Doubler: The odds are better for the $500 on the Tripler than they were on Doubler, but there still isnt a $30 winner on the Doubler. Seems they are being very tricky $500,000.00..... 1-in-3,150,000 $10,000.00........1-in-76,829.27 $1,000.00..........1-in-8,000 $500.00.............1-in-247.42 $250.00.............1-in-3
Sep 7, 2011, 4:49 pm - B$Rizzle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Help me undertsand odds
$100,000 1 in: 4,233,600.00 $200,000 1 in: 5,292,000.00 $300,000 1 in: 4,233,600.00 If the odds of winning is listed as above. Does that mean There would be 5,292,000/4,233,600; $100,000, 1.25 tickets There would be $200,000, 1 ticket There would be 4,233,600/5,292,000; $300,000, 0.8 tickets. In other words, among 5,292,000 tickets there would be total of 3.05 tickets offering prizes worth of $600,000
Aug 27, 2011, 10:19 am - jaggudada - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
Lets say again that heads has come up 10 times in a row. Some would bet tails because it is due while others would bet heads because it is hot and the one who guessed correctly would feel they predicted the outcome even though the next flip is pure chance unless the flip is biased. A simple formula like A + B = C has no meaning unless we know the value of either A, B, or C. If A = 1 we know if B = 2, than C must = 3 and if C = 4, B must = 3. Before the next three coin flips, we know the out
Aug 22, 2011, 3:22 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
RJOh, Any one who reads the odds and payout charts on most play slips and on every state lottery website knows 95% or more of the possible combinations of any lottery game will win nothing every drawing, but they also know once in a while someone wins the jackpot by matching all the numbers drawn. For many that's more than reason enough to keep trying to pick the winning numbers. You've written this in a way that implies I don't know this. I think you know that I do, so why write it? Wha
Aug 13, 2011, 4:13 am - jimmy4164 - Mathematics Forum

Atheist converts after mock prayer to win $1M lottery is answeredReply
i looked up the phrase hard evidence in the thesaurus book of integrity, and nope, joker's pic wasn't there. i reduced the odds, and just looked up the term evidence , and it said it was defined as to provide something observable nope, no go. i had to aim lower, so i looked up the term excuse , and lo and behold it had a stream of jokers pics at each age from each of the years he has been at LP. for extra curiousity points, i also looked up the term smokescreen , and up came the phr
Jun 19, 2011, 6:03 pm - visiondude - Lottery News