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80-year-old UK man's £2.4 million lottery win bankrolled drug empireNews Story
Elderly man arrested after using prize to finance 288 million drug operation By Kate Northrop An elderly lottery winner was jailed after using a 2.4 million (US$3.3 million) windfall to build a 288 million (US$394 million) drug empire. An 80-year-old lottery winner ran a counterfeit drug ring from the quiet, rural comfort of his home after he reinvested a 2.4 million prize in the endeavor. John Eric Spiby, 80, won 2.4 million in the National Lottery in 2010. Rather than invest in
Jan 31, 2026, 7:56 am - Todd - Lottery News

Help with 6/39 lottery combinationsReply
hello mayte= Lexicographic (or alphabetical) order is useless for predicting lottery numbers. Here's why: What is lexicographic order? It's simply a way of organizing elements in sequence, like words in a dictionary. For numbers, it would simply be ordering them from smallest to largest (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...). Why it doesn't help with lotteries 1. Independence of draws Each draw is an independent event The previous result does not influence the next The balls have no me
Oct 22, 2025, 4:54 pm - dr san - Lottery Discussion Forum

Missouri Lottery discontinues Lotto, introduces new MO Millions draw gameNews Story
New draw game coming this week for Missouri lottery players By Kate Northrop The Missouri Lottery's Lotto game was discontinued over the weekend, but there's a new game coming this week to replace it: MO Millions. Saturday marked the last and final Lotto drawing in Missouri, but lottery players in the state will soon get to try out the newest game in the lineup, MO Millions. The first MO Millions drawing will take place this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. Players who participate in th
Oct 21, 2025, 9:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois lottery winner uses numbers from old, forgotten ticket and wins $1 million in PowerballNews Story
Those numbers might come in handy someday By Kate Northrop An Illinois lottery player rediscovered an old, forgotten lottery ticket sitting in his drawer and decided to repurpose them for another Powerball drawing, winning a $1 million prize. An Illinois resident wasn't about to pass up the chance to play for a billion-dollar lottery jackpot, so he dug out an old ticket from his drawer and decided to put it to use. The winner, who calls himself Rex to Illinois Lottery staff, does
Sep 29, 2025, 1:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingReply
This Jackpot has heavy momentum, and could land well beyond the $2 Billion and change Castro won Castro, like almost all sensible people, took the $997.6 million cash. There's a tiny chance that with the help of higher interest rates the inflated annuity value could reach $2 billion, but unless people absolutely lose their minds there's zero chance that Saturday's total will be even close to Castro's haul. Even if it rolls on Saturday it may not be big enough. I need a winning strategy
Sep 5, 2025, 2:34 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

three zones of a lotteryReply
Decision Tree: Lottery Number Filtering Strategy 1. Player's Goal: Increase the chance of winning. 2. Initial Action: Apply the strategy of limiting the bet to a maximum of 3 numbers from previous draws when the lottery uses 5 or 6 numbers in the draw. 4. Psychological and Tactical Motives: Scenario A: Reducing Repeat Combinations Idea: The chance of a complete combination repeating itself is extremely low. Player's Decision: Avoid betting on all numbers that have already
Sep 4, 2025, 4:40 pm - dr san - Lottery Discussion Forum

because in lotteries the more you study, the more difficult it becomes to predict the next draw
because in lotteries the more you study, the more difficult it becomes to predict the next draw? Let's understand why this happens: The Math Behind the Lottery The lottery is a game of probability and combinations. Each draw is a completely independent event from the previous one. This means that the chance of a number being drawn is exactly the same in every draw, regardless of whether it was drawn last week or never. For example, in Mega-Sena, the chance of matching a
Aug 13, 2025, 7:22 pm - dr san - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
It appears many do not understand the jackpot has only been growing by the minimum $10 million per draw in order for sales to fully support the jackpot. For a place that's all about the lottery a lot of people here don't seem to know much about how things work. The jackpot for the Friday, August 1 draw will probably be around $140 million and will be fully supported by sales (or very close at least). It will be $140, and the supported jackpot is $139,672,438 (I love how the estimat
Jul 29, 2025, 3:14 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Conspiracy theory!Reply
The other day I overheard a few of the Crickets talking about a cousin that crawled under the carpet at the Lottery Place. Cousin Rickety said that there was just one guy sitting at a table with a keypad and a small monitor. He saw numbers rolling by on the monitor. The guy at the table had his index finger pointed at the key pad. He was frozen like a Dog pointing a bird in a bush. There was a photographer in the corner that snapped a picture, gathered his equipment and left the room. The g
May 18, 2025, 1:07 pm - AllenB - Lottery Discussion Forum

Best 3 Digit Numbers to Play - Counting Hack Trick
I'd like to share with this site's members, my Cost Benefit spreadsheet for the Bell Curve. It gives you the probability of any three digit number based on its digital sum. It's a simple concept but very powerful. As an example, the digital sum of 999 is 9 + 9 + 9 = 27. It's a terrible number to play because it can only occur in one way. It has the odds of 1 in a thousand! Here are examples of much better numbers to play, 283, or 374, or ,681, or 547. They are better because they are m
May 16, 2025, 5:15 pm - migpir - Pick 3 Forum