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What's the best lotto book?Reply
This is the best lotto book: Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers By Don Catlin List Price: $14.00 Price: $11.32 Product Description The Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers should be read by everyone who plays the state-run lotteries. Despite the fact that we players all know the odds are a million to one against winning those big jackpots, most of us don't know the nature of these games or the math behind them or, yes, how to most effectively play them. _______
Apr 18, 2013, 6:05 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you see PB jackpots of $300 mil plus a fluke going forward with California joining in soon?Reply
California ranks 33 in per capita lottery spending averaging $108.77 a year compared to Massachusetts that averages $860.70. The reason the Massachusetts players spend almost 8 times more each year is probably because 72% of their ticket sales are paid back in prizes and the California lottery only pays back 53% in prizes. A good example is in last nights MM drawing when five players matched 5 + 0. Four of the players will collect $250.000, but the California player will collect $201,115. The ot
Apr 3, 2013, 11:26 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Liquor store in Passaic, NJ, sold winning Powerball ticketReply
So many stories in the media are claiming that this was the 6th largest jackpot ever . I don't know who came up with that, but it seems that someone made this wrong claim, and the rest of the media continues to parrot it. For the record, it is the 8th-largest annuity jackpot, and the 7th-largest cash value. Here are the top 10 of each: Top 10 Annuity Jackpots (March 23 Powerball jackpot in bold) Mega Millions: $656 million, Mar. 30, 2012 - Illinois, Kansas, Maryland Powerball: $587.
Mar 25, 2013, 1:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Estimated jackpot vs. Actual cash valueReply
PlayToWin47, The Missouri lottert will send you e-mails with the results of the game you choose and the advertised and cash jackpots. ____________________________ Re: The OP, billionaire2bee, I doubt the lottries would change the way they do it now. It sounds better for them and you have to consider that not sll payers are as informed as people here on LP. If the lottieries dropped the advertised jackpot amounts and just mentioned the cash amount there's a lot of people out there
Mar 12, 2013, 12:49 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

More Pick 3 and Daily 4 coming to Texas
Like it or not, the Texas Lottery Commission has approved a rule change authorizing two additional drawings for Pick 3 and Daily 4. The new drawings will be added to the daily drawing schedule at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. in late September or early October. Thoughtful lottery players expected that additional games would be added when the All or Nothing game was initiated earlier this year. The $2 keno-style game is drawn at 10 a.m., Noon, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. No change in the ticket price was
Mar 5, 2013, 10:54 am - bobby623 - Pick 3 Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
You call it negativity, I call it reality. With MM, 97.5% of all the $1 tickets will win nothing and in about 80% of the drawings, 100% of the tickets will not win the jackpot. That's the reality yet millions of people that know the reality play every drawing. As the jackpots grow, millions more people unrealistically begin playing the game. If we were having a general discussion and the subject of playing lottery games came up, the consensus would probably be it's unrealistic to believe
Jan 30, 2013, 2:49 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Fallacies, and two REAL ways of improving your chancesReply
No, I don't gamble at all, except for the occasional lotto ticket. When I wrote this, I was only thinking of lottos where the jackpots are shared. If they are not, then it's kind of no different from buying in different lotteries at the same time. In this case, sure, it makes more sense. I personally wouldn't do it, but it does make more sense. Whether someone won with this method is completely offtopic. Of course someone's gotta win... It's simple statistics. But winning d
Jan 28, 2013, 8:35 pm - yoho - Lottery Discussion Forum

Multi-state Wild Card game to changeNews Story
By Todd Northrop Starting with the Wednesday night drawing, the multi-state Wild Card 2 lottery game will undergo some minor changes that will make the jackpots a little bigger, while making the game a little harder to win. Wild Card 2 is currently available to play in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. After somebody wins the jackpot, the new starting jackpot will be $200,000 doubling the old starting jackpot of $100,000. Also, players who win the second prize by matchin
Jan 15, 2013, 2:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

First to 100 millionReply
Yep. I have been looking at the past Jackpots, Lumpsum amounts, and assuming 39.6% in Fed taxes since the Jan 2 drawing, the in hand $ in a tax free state like TX. One question about the cash lumpsum portion to Purse ratios. So, with at 40MM purse, the take home this time around (Dec 29) was 26.4MM and after 35% (2012 top rate), in hand = 17.2 IF I do the same for the subsequent drawings - Jan 2 - Jackpot = 50MM, in hand, 32.7 (or 65.4% of purse) with take home of 19.8MM Jan 5
Jan 8, 2013, 11:52 am - BayState - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
This person thanked me for helping him to finally make the decision to stop depriving his family of a significant percentage of his meager income that he was throwing away at the lottery booths. So you're a crusader against the evils of gambling. I lost 12 bucks this week including the $20 worth of tickets I have for tonight trying to win $200,000. Could you please enlighten me on how I could have better spent the 12 bucks. The obvious is putting it in a savings account and in about 300 yea
Jan 5, 2013, 9:25 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum