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$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
The probability that no one wins the jackpot thus causing a rollover is given by: Chat, AI \left(1 - \frac{1}{292{,}201{,}338}\right)^N Where N is the number of tickets sold. Using estimated ranges: If N 300 million: \left(1 - \frac{1}{292M}\right)^{300M} e^{-300M / 292M} e^{-1.03} 0.36 \; (36\%) So about a 35 40% chance of rollover under that assumption. If sales are even higher as they likely are rollover odds would reduce further.
Sep 5, 2025, 9:30 pm - Fbom - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I'm just done with Mega Millions altogether. I played it since it was available in California, so a sample size that runs around 20ish years. The most I ever won was matching 3 numbers for probably around $10. $5 a ticket just became a barrier I wasn't willing to pass through. Whatever I would have normally spent just went to other draw games like California Fantasy 5 tickets instead. The actual jackpot total plays no part in my decision to buy a ticket or not. I also just get 1 ticket per
Aug 23, 2025, 10:30 am - GoodLuckDude - Lottery Discussion Forum

because in lotteries the more you study, the more difficult it becomes to predict the next drawReply
Currently I am experimenting with a 2 step process. Step 1. Classify the last 150 draws (NOT the full history) which gives each digit a fair chance to appear 15 times in each position. Use a strict classification boundary of one standard deviation above and below the 10% expectancy, and eliminate hots and colds as outliers. Step 2. Fill in the remaining neutral numbers into lists and use them in a QP generator I wrote in Python. The end result is just one combo, free of any bias I ma
Aug 14, 2025, 8:58 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
CAPE - I knew it, I knew it - you'd have the answer !! Thanks !! The odds 5k to 20K ......... are way way off the chart !! But maybe FlLot keeps it like that just so those that are seriously addicted to buying ...... will, keep buying and buying .... like a broody hen sitting on a China egg you said ... if I were truly smart I'd be spending my time and $ on something else ... Addiction, is one of the hardest things to stop ....... I stopped drinking and smoking over 45 years ago both a
Aug 10, 2025, 6:47 pm - skeptic - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

REPOST: GOT Absent All odd and All even combos five draws?
Aug 27, 2015, 5:30 pm Absent All odd and All even combos five draws will bring back an all even or all odd combo within 10 draws right. 90% of the time _______________________________ But why is it that when: All evens returns... it begins or ends with 0 or 2 All odds returns... it begins or ends with 5 or 7
Jul 22, 2025, 10:30 am - Blackapple - Lottery Systems Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I might or might not have won anything actually playing 1 ticket for each drawing. I do not know, you do not know, nobody really knows. It is a game of chance. ! GRIN ! One of the tickets from my planned big purchase could hit the monster jackpot simply because I bought more than one ticket in that purchase. Who knows...? Certainly not me, but I am having fun right now while saving money for the moonshot. But according to my past purchase pattern I have been right so far. In fact, when I was
Jun 15, 2025, 7:18 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Knowing the Unknowable Future NumberReply
If you could reduce the odds for PB to 1 in 250 million and you spent $1000 per drawing you could still only expect to win once in about 3200 years. But, unxspectedly win waaaay B4 then..if ya uze.. Probability Math The lottery doesn't follow any patterns at all. There might be patterns in the past random results, but those patterns are an effect , not a cause . Then, whut izz the cauze....? Dear Watson..! a wwwww, Diz izz gitin Gooood.. -Stat$talker
Jun 9, 2025, 7:25 am - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum

Knowing the Unknowable Future NumberReply
The lottery doesn't follow a linear pattern The lottery doesn't follow any patterns at all. There might be patterns in the past random results, but those patterns are an effect, not a cause. The drawings might not be perfectly random, but they're extremely close. Even if you could determine the very small deviations from perfectly random that result from a particular set of balls or a particular machine you'd have to know exactly what the deviations are and also know what machine and ba
Jun 9, 2025, 3:40 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Georgia: 6/1 - 6/30/2025Reply
Triple 4 hit today but the board s still talking. Plays like 121 , 505 , and triple 5s thrive in this kind of environment. The trend isn t done it s unfolding. Cash 4 Players: Don t sleep on 1000 (5 years cold) it s one of the longest-missing plays on the sheet. And remember: June 8th and 9th, 2018 delivered back-to-back quads . Quad 4s (midday) and then the next day Quad 7s (evening) When the calendar lines up, so do the odds.
Jun 6, 2025, 9:19 pm - StudBud - Pick 3 Forum

Office Pool conceptReply
Instead of calling it a buy-in, call them entries. If it's a Powerball pool, each entry costs $2. If it's a MegaMillions pool, each entry costs $5. If it's a MM pool for a large jackpot, someone can toss in $5 and get one entry, or invest $500 and get 100 entries. The pool size is the number of entries = number of tickets purchased. You don't need 1,000 people for a 1,000 ticket pool. 50 people each buying 20 tickets would be 1,000 tickets in the pool. Or 1 person buys 1, another person
May 13, 2025, 7:50 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum