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Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Excellent observation. The probability of winning the jackpot with one ticket is equal to the probability of matching all five white balls times the probability of matching the Powerball. There are 26 Powerballs, so the probability of matching the Powerball is 1/26. Let X be equal to the probability of matching all five white balls. Thus, the probability of winning the jackpot is X*1/26. The probability of winning a million dollars (5+0) is the probability of matching all five white
Apr 11, 2026, 12:54 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
That's one way to play, keep buying tickets until you have a sufficiently large chance of winning. This is what professionals do when a jackpot is really big, to the point that the expected value of a ticket is greater than its face value. But under normal circumstances, it wouldn't make any sense to buy up all the combinations when there are millions of them. You'll spend more on tickets than the jackpot. Take Pick 3 for example. It's not difficult for one person to buy 1,000 ticket
Feb 20, 2026, 9:02 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
According to JADELottery, the odds of the DC 5 drawing producing a singles combination without any repeat digits for 41 consecutive drawings is 1 in 242,413. It's not impossible, but improbable. By the time the game reaches its 50th consecutive drawing without a repeat digit, those odds become 1 in 3.685 million. that math is not correct. the probability of singles occurring in any one pick 5 drawing is 0.3024. the probability of it happening n times in a row is 0.3024^n. that means the pro
Apr 22, 2026, 2:04 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
It depends on what numbers you pick. Someone gave an example of a pick 2 game (and most pick 3 games with front pair etc. bets) with 100 possible outcomes. Betting any 10 combos gets 10 to 1 odds, but are the odds the same for any 10 combos and 10 combos with 10 different digits in the first position? RCB reminded me of when I too hit 5 out of 6 playing the Ohio Lotto when it was a 6/40 game. Wrote down all 40 numbers on playing cards, mixed them up and drew six at a time and placed the
Apr 12, 2026, 12:51 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Washington DC Pick 5 1 in 200 million oddsReply
The have played all singles which is 5 different digits Ex 12345 these different digit numbers make up slightly over 30,000 of the possible 100,000 numbers. So odds of getting that unique combination is 30.24% just to be exact. So on average 3/10 draws you should see that. They've drawn all singles 16 times in a row now. Just think like this, say you make a single bet that you have a 30% chance to win and you win that bet 16x in a row. Or to make it easier it's equivalent to flipping
Apr 8, 2026, 10:46 am - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
A second ticket doesn't eliminate any combinations. You double your chances of winning (i.e. odds cut in half) because 2/292M is double that of 1/292M. The tickets themselves are all 1 in 292M. It's how many tickets YOU hold that affects YOUR odds of winning.
Mar 31, 2026, 2:31 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Hey Coin Toss... Pick 2. Easy game, with 100 possible outcomes. I have 2 tickets. What are my odds of winning? Now I have 5 tickets. What are my odds of winning?
Mar 29, 2026, 5:47 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Not so much can I afford it but rather due to the low odds? (at least in terms of 'lottery land' odds they're low) Years ago while I was buying some Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle tickets, the woman behind the counter said to me - Well! Aren't you the smart one! She then said At least people have a decent shot at actually winning this. I realized that she was a 'Focal Point'. She saw how many people bought tickets for the big games, but she didn't see many of them bring back a winning tick
Mar 29, 2026, 10:18 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this before
Instead of playing one set of numbers for Illinois Lucky Day Lotto (5/45 progressive jackpot, tonight $750,000) I played five. So according to some herer I've cut ther odds of 1,221,759 down to 38,719 so surely I can expect to win somethnig tonight, no? I was tempted to go anoither six sets which woukd have brogught the odds down to under a million, 596,562 but was playing on a lotto vending machikne and only had as $20 pon me and since thr machines don't give change passed it up. Can't
Mar 27, 2026, 7:34 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
To each his or her own. Twenty bucks a throw is steep. That's why whenever there's a raffle (which isn't all that often) I cut back on the other lottery games I regularly play. That's what keeps me from over spending my monthly lottery budget. My thinking is the 20 dollar ticket price is a premium players have to pay for the greatly reduced odds of winning a top prize, not to mention there's a guaranteed jackpot winner(s). Many is the time I've heard a player say about a raffle Players
Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum