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Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
PB has rolled. The cash value is $47.9M. The advertised annuity is $102M. The average 9th draw produces sales of $17.9M. It this is how many tickets sell, the randomized distribution of probability of various numbers of winners is as follows: 086.82% 112.27% 20.87% 30.04% The model function developed for this game shows the following jackpot evolution, for what it's worth: Average Historical AnnuityCalculated AnnuityCalculated Cash Value ProjectionsS
Sep 3, 2006, 9:51 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
The powerball jackpot has rolled. The cash value is $29.4M, the advertised annuity is $64 million dollars. The average 6th round drawing sells 16.3M tickets. If this is how many tickets sell on this drawing the distribution of winners will have the following random probability: 089.46% 19.96% 20.55% 30.02% My model of jackpot evolution gives the following probability: Average Jackpots$580,995,539.01$270,526,04826.78%0.36% $353 $455,777,230.07$212,221
Aug 24, 2006, 4:17 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

WOW, TALK ABOUT ADDICTION: Woman stole $2.3M to buy lottery ticketsNews Story
This is not the kind of jackpot one Long Island woman probably had in mind. The former bookkeeper for a doctors' office pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree grand larceny, admitting she stole more than $2.3 million that she used to buy lottery tickets. Prosecutors, who described the bookkeeper as having a gambling addiction, said the woman spent as much as $6,000 a day playing various lotto and scratch-off lottery games. She spent most of it to feed her pathological addiction, said
Aug 23, 2006, 3:35 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Probability of a MegaMillions rollover.Reply
The MM jackpot has rolled. The cash prize is estimated to be $34.7M, the advertised annuity is $60M. The average sales for a MM 7th draw in a series is $22.0M. If this is the number of tickets that sell on this drawing, the randomized probability of a rollover is as follows: 088.22% 111.06% 20.69% 30.03% The long term exponential modeling function suggests the following probability of jackpot evolution: Historical Average Advertised Annuity Jackpots$61
Aug 23, 2006, 12:42 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

6/19-last top prize in Unlucky for Life?Reply
Booby prize meaning terrible odds for lowly pay-out? I think MD's Multi-Match game which replaced Classic Lotto is of the same boobyness. They eliminated a perfectly good game which grew in size and had a decent pay-out, for a rip-off pay, to pay, to pay game. The game goes like this; each play is $2.00 you pick 6 numbers then the LOTTERY COMPUTER picks another 2 sets of 6 numbers for a total of 3 sets of 6 numbers! If you have pairs or triples on consecutive lines you win small prizes like th
Aug 22, 2006, 7:54 pm - jarasan - Jackpot Games Forum

“Money doesn’t mean a great deal to me"Reply
I can't speak for anyone else but ........ I can't for the life of me understand why people feel that money isn't important. Please explain to me why those people are hell bent on convincing others that life is just one big happy family and love is all you need. Here are the top 5 reasons why MONEY is important. 1. Having the means to donate some of your wealth to the needy. 2. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever worry where the next paycheck is going to come from.
Aug 11, 2006, 6:24 pm - pacattack05 - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Strings For All StatesReply
Results for Thur. July20th were nothing to brag about. Just the usual 3 spots here and there and our (1) 4 spot in Minn. Northstar. Every night now we've hit a 4 spot. Tonights results much better. Here goes for Fri.July 21st: Calif.--(4) 4 spots Colorado--(1) 3 spot Conn.--(3) 3 spots and (2) 4 spots Fla.--(2) 3 spots and (3) 4 spots Ill.--(2) 3 spots and (1) 4 spot Iowa--(2) 3 spots Mary.--(2) 2+bonus Mich.--(3) 3 spots and (2) 4 spots Minn.Northstar(again!)--(2)
Jul 22, 2006, 12:02 am - lottolaughs - Pick 5 Forum

Poll - PB & MM vs a National LotteryReply
Quote: Originally posted by goldrush on July 4, 2006 If should not be a matter of a State Vs Federal. Let's have both, and let the people decide. Some will decide to play their local state lottery, some will play the US Lotto, some will play both. And the vocal minority who are opposed to lotteries can choose not to play any! EVERYONE WILL BE HAPPY! As the Federal Government needs more revenue, and while a US lottery would not solve all it's financial woos, it would raise billions of dollars,
Jul 4, 2006, 8:07 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of a MegaMillions rollover.Reply
The sales figures at lottoreport are now available. Surprisingly the sales for the last jackpot are not the lowest seen since the institution of the new matrix, although they are lower than average. In fact the last first draw sold almost 700,000 fewer tickets than the first draw from yesterday. The small growth in the jackpot may be a function of the MM consideration of the possible effect of the California jackpot. Remember that even the MM's prediction of a jackpot amount is just that
Jul 1, 2006, 6:09 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball cash optionReply
Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on June 25, 2006 There was a thread here not too long ago about the PB cash option going to somewhere around 46%, guess it was pretty accurate - 12.6 / 28 = 45% exactly. This is the kind of thing I was trying to get at with a thread I started about do the lottery commissions consider the players customers or chumps: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/134519.htm If they were given free reign to get it on , no telling how much they'd lower th
Jun 26, 2006, 10:10 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery Discussion Forum