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Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
Here's some info I got from The JPT Top Prize Winner and Retailer Info Report - There have been 446 JPT drawings since the game began 2/1/2019. Since then, there have been 52 jackpot winners. The average jackpot won is $720,121. There have been 14 jackpots won that were greater than one million dollars. The largest jackpot was $1,741,274 and the smallest was $160,711. Three players out of the 52 jackpot winners chose The Annual Payment Option, the other 49 jackpot winners took
May 11, 2023, 8:23 pm - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
Only just this morning did I realize something that I should have known since the day I found out that FF5 was going to two draws per day. Talk about DUMB! Of course, The Florida added the midday draw simply to increase falling FF5 revenue. If I had complained directly to them about it, I'm sure they'd have said There won't be any FF5 at all if we don't do it. My reaction to what they did has been to walk away from the game...temporarily at least. I still look at FF5 numbers in my software a
Apr 24, 2023, 8:14 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

CA Super Lotto Plus
I'll start off by saying I moved from Ca a while ago but used to play all the time. The jackpot starts out at $7 million. Before the 2008 recession, after a few rolls of jumping by $1 million, it would jump by $2 million until it was hit. Once the recession hit, then they only raised it by $1 million and I can see why they changed it due to people losing their jobs and having less money. But eventually the recession ended and people got jobs and the economy was thriving yet the Super Lotto
Mar 27, 2023, 12:58 pm - TreehouseGCL - Jackpot Games Forum

Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Test for LotteriesReply
IMHO, in general government-run lotteries (in the western world at least) are not going to be exploitable in terms of statistical frequency attack. A lot of time, energy and money(!) is obviously put into trying. Eventually, if you look at enough lotteries, you'll find improbable outcomes and what appears to be non-randomness . Highly likely, that doesn't mean there is a flaw. Just if you sample enough, you get unusual patterns. (It's inevitable.) The people who have successfully exploited lotte
Mar 1, 2023, 2:46 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Test for LotteriesReply
I also implemented 3rd order Bayesean optimal estimation, despite the limited data set. I also implemented a blend between 1st and 2nd order statistics. I also tried joint Bayesean optimal estimation of intra-draw pairs and inter-draw pairs, which you could view as a subset of full 3rd order statistics. I have developed a program that picks in a way to maximize 3W, 4W, and 5W hits since that's what pays. My analysis shows that there exists a tiny bit of information in past draw data
Feb 7, 2023, 2:58 pm - Wavepack - Mathematics Forum

Asked ChatGPT How To Win the LotteryReply
So for lotteries statistics are misleading Even if a PB ad said You'll need to purchase almost 3 million tickets just to get a 1% chance of winning the jackpot , people would still line up to buy tickets. IMO, the real misleading stats are the advertised jackpots. In most states the winner won't collect 60% of the cash value after taxes and even if someone wants to wait 29 years to collect that will be less than 60% where state taxes apply. So do these highly educated math people ne
Jan 30, 2023, 11:44 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

How can past draws help predict the lottery?Reply
Just like any company out to make money, when the lottery sees their net profits fall, they do something to balance the spreadsheet. Then people who play the state games often end up on the short end. Since the state isn't selling the number of tickets it was jackpots go down. Haven't looked at the KY435 lately. Been doing other work. Last night I wrote a program, started it, and watched the Bengals. This morning I realized those were out of date. Have to do the update before the run
Jan 16, 2023, 5:14 pm - garyo1954 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
Above I wrote I think either #12 or #16 has one more hit left in the three remaining draws of this year I wrote that two days ago on Dec 29th. Even though I'm tooting my own horn, and I absolutely hate to brag, the numbers themselves just don't lie. At the time I wrote the above, #16 had 60 hits and I just couldn't see it not getting to 61 hits for the year. That's because for the 20 consecutive years prior to 2022 the top hitter of any given year had at least 61 hits. That's a cold ha
Dec 31, 2022, 10:43 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

$1.5 BILLION: Powerball jackpot nears all-time recordReply
What % of ticket combinations were sold? Based on 183 million tickets a random distribution would use 46.54% of the possible combinations. The number of 5+0 and 4+1 winners is fairly unlikely (though even the most likely result of 200 4+1 winners is only 2.82%) and almost certainly a result of 3 of the 5 numbers being birthday numbers. We all know that a lot of people play calendar numbers , patterns, and other non-random selections, so the actual number of combinations would have been lowe
Nov 4, 2022, 2:35 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

What are the rights of lottery players as consumersReply
Found a good article in the Atlantic about a book by Johnathon D. Cohen... For a Dollar and a Dream:State Lotteries in Modern America. It takes us through the history of lotteries, defines the reason for lotteries ceasing in the 1833-1890 period America as brought to an end by widespread concern about mismanagement and malfeasance. All except the Louisiana lottery which continued until it run afoul of the feds. Through the death of lotteries to the rebirth where he argues lotteries b
Oct 23, 2022, 11:38 pm - garyo1954 - Lottery Discussion Forum