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Texas Lottery reports $3.5 billion in salesNews Story
Popular scratch-off games and a record lottery jackpot propelled the Texas Lottery to its second-highest sales during fiscal year 2004.Unaudited sales figures of all products totaled nearly $3.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31. Fiscal year 1997 was the largest-ever sales year, with more than $3.7 billion worth of tickets sold. For years I've heard that the lottery's in trouble, the lottery's not delivering, said Reagan Greer, executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission. Th
Sep 11, 2004, 8:46 am - Todd - Lottery News

Massachusetts woman scratches a $4 million lottery winNews Story
A Warrendale, Massachusetts woman who bought a winning scratch ticket at a Main Street convenience store this week says the $4 million prize will not completely transform her life. It's just like having a good paying job, said Deborah A. Basile, 50, who works as an administrative assistant at Andrews Pharmacy in Wellesley and runs her own transcription business. If we won this 10 years ago, it would be different. After turning in the $4 million ticket to Mass State Lottery headquarters in Brain
Aug 27, 2004, 7:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in MaineNews Story
Eric Moody used to go to New Hampshire to buy Powerball lottery tickets. Now he goes to his neighborhood store.On Friday, Moody was among the first people to buy Powerball tickets at Joe s Smoke Shop when they went on sale in Maine for the first time. Moody, 52, knows the odds of winning the jackpot are 120 million to 1, but he likes the huge payouts -- which can be 100 times higher, or even more, than the Tri-State Megabucks lottery. Set for life, right? The jackpot is $54 million this weekend,
Aug 2, 2004, 9:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery: Den of Thieves...
For Immediate Release: 7/22/2004<STYLE> July 22, 2004STATE HITS JACKPOT WITH RECORD LOTTERY SALES YEARIndianapolis Indiana citizens hit the jackpot as the Hoosier Lottery shattered sales records in fiscal year 2004 (FY04) with $734 million in total sales (up 10% from FY03) and $422 million in scratch-off ticket sales (up 9.3% from FY03). These record revenues, combined with a significant reduction in expenses, fueled a remarkable 13.5% ($24 million) increase in profits, totaling nearly
Jul 30, 2004, 1:56 pm - jim695 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Kentucky to post record salesNews Story
Kentucky sales numbers soar despite losing substantial border ticket sales to TennesseeThe Kentucky Lottery Corp. expects its sales this fiscal year, which ends June 30, to hit a record $723.8 million meaning an extra $11 million for the state.That sales total would be about 8 percent higher than the previous peak, $673.5 million, which was set last year. And this year, state government's share will be a record $192 million, up from last year's previous record $180.7 million, officials estimated
Jun 4, 2004, 7:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

Why is the Pick 3 so popular?Reply
I found this interesting. One analysis done in 1997 stated that Pick 3 players in Maryland tended to be superstitious, less educated, lower income, and more black than players overall. It also stated that Pick 3 was the Maryland Lottery's biggest earner (33% of sales) in the previous year. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/lottery/lottery0504a.htmI'm not really sure what all of that means. I guess we're all superstitious to some degree. I don't think you exactly have to be a g
May 23, 2004, 2:27 pm - ayenowitall - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is all this lottery research worth it?Reply
goldeneye26,I've gambled on most everything at one time or another in my life. I've played the greyhounds in Florida, thoroughbreds all over the midwest, national lotteries in the Caribbean, state lotteries in this country, and most casino games in Reno, Vegas, and on the riverboats. I'll grant you that some of my greatest successes have come out of dumb luck, but those kinds of hits have also been rather infrequent. I've found that my more modest but steady gains have come through study, strate
May 10, 2004, 8:43 pm - ayenowitall - Jackpot Games Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
You can argue if it is effective reducing of the odds, meaning whether or not you are much closer to winning a jackpot, but you are being intellectually dishonest if you refuse to admit that you have reduced the odds by buying additional tickets.Arguing whether using math to give oneself a sense that purchasing more tickets to win a pb jackpot or any lottery game is effective is exactly my point. I only attempted to use math (however inaccurately) to mainly save a lot of people some money. I p
May 6, 2004, 5:42 pm - wiseone2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Predictions - Are You Serious ?Reply
Dragon my two cents worth. I have had co workers question me about buying lottery tickets. Saying why do I spend so much time looking for number combinations and trying various methods to hit numbers. Many of these co workers don't play the lottery or even give it a second thought. However when I do hit say a pick 4 for $5000 big dog dollars or more they would come to me and ask how I managed to hit for that much. I tell them it only cost me a buck. There usually reply is oh! When I ask them if
May 3, 2004, 9:52 am - four4me - Lottery Discussion Forum

Quick Picks Vs. Number SelectionReply
Quote: Originally posted by BobP on April 29, 2004The only reason to buy your tickets early is the state can stop play on certain Pick-3 and Pick-4 numbers if they are over subscribed where if they won the state would have to pay out too much for the game to support.The larger games are perfectly capable of repeating Quick Picks and if the game has 14 million combinations and during rollover 14 million Quick Picks have been sold, about a quarter to a third will be repeats and no jackpot winner w
Apr 29, 2004, 10:36 pm - wiseone2 - Lottery Discussion Forum