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Lottery winner followed careful spending planReply
I'm with Jill. I think everything this guy says needs to be taken with more than just a grain of salt. Let's start with what he really started with. The cash value was about $125 million. The top brackets for federal and Idaho income tax were 35 and 7.8%, so unless he had some serious deductions almost all of that $125 million would have been taxed at a total of 42.7%. The remaining 57.2% of $125 million would only be $71.5 million. He could have made charitable contributions that would lower
Mar 1, 2007, 9:38 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

wheelingReply
Regarding Powerball specifically: Some basics for you: 70% of all jackpot wins are Quick-Picks, coincidentally 70% of all SALES are Quick-Picks. The books you read may be somewhat dated, when the matrix (the number of numbers to choose from) were less than they are today, but they do contain things worth reading. Nobody will ever tell you 'luck of the draw' is lousy, since 70%...... Everyone here has their own special way of making numerical selections, and I'd say ALL of those theo
Feb 27, 2007, 12:34 pm - guesser - Lottery Discussion Forum

Concerning Pi - Pied Piper Plays Master Tune and Numbers Follow(ers)Reply
What you say is very true b987. Remember that the PI formula was originally dervied from a perfect circle on a flat 2-dimensional plane. As you know, there are no naturally perfect circles on our 3-dimensional earth so results derived form PI , may be varied. You may just have to tweak PI or the results to compensate for the above. Have fun exploring... The earth circles the sun, and so there is a PI relationship we have with the sun. Does that reinforce the idea that PI can be used in our L
Feb 26, 2007, 3:38 pm - Kola - Lottery Systems Forum

The Magic StringsReply
More Observation: Brenda, nice hit total, however, not profitable, on a sunday mid and evening play for each state you would needed 12-15 hits. I dont know how you built these 5 digit series strings, but it may be better to build them off the same game type..ie. mid to mid and eve to eve, given you 2 separate strings to play in a 2 state draw, rather than playing the same string for both games throughout the week. You dont increase your combination play, just have a tighter relationshi
Feb 19, 2007, 12:29 pm - WSN1 - Lottery Systems Forum

Ohio Lottery panel rejects new Gov.'s call for smaller prizesReply
59% total payout is not bad but it is certainly not a best practice level of payout - especially for a mature lottery. Only a healthy online game mix (with lower payouts than instants) can help a lottery be successful at that overall payout level. From what I've heard and read here and at other sites, it sounds like Ohio has had real problems with their online games. Maybe they need Marty Morrow to come back and lead their marketing team... The earlier comment about marketing and pr
Feb 13, 2007, 1:17 pm - Drivedabizness - Lottery News

Do you wait for the PowerBall to get to a certain amount?Reply
Of course the odds of somebody winning are higher when more people play, but what does that do for me? It certainly doesn't increase my chances of winning, and I play the lottery because I hope I will win. There are two outcomes I want to see when I buy a ticket. Option 1 is for me to win the jackpot. Option 2 is for nobody to win so I can have a chance at a bigger jackpot. The most desirable scenario for option 1 is that it comes after a dozen or so draws resulting in option 2. Somebody else
Jan 31, 2007, 9:09 pm - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

6 Disturbing Lottery "Trends"Reply
Todd wrote: Like you mentioned, the odds are going to start creeping up, as the lottery directors start getting more greedy about profitting on the game. People should avoid buying games where the odds are too high. Can anyone recommend a sweet spot ? I agree with all of your points, Todd. For me, the sweet spot is a ticket pool of 500,000; just like Georgia did with their New Years Eve Millionaire Raffle. If GLC does a raffle again and if they increase the ticket pool above this l
Jan 22, 2007, 2:18 pm - MrBobb - Lottery Discussion Forum

How much do you spend a week on the lottery?Reply
My Biggest Problem is I only have a $100.00 dollars to work with. When I get my numbers I have to budget that 100.00 for 7 Days. Until something come out. I need some insight on how to use that $100.00 more effectually to increase my WINNINGS. If you have any suggestions on how I should plan or budget to get this, PLEASE let me know. I open to any Ideals. Right now its win a little LOSE a lot. I'm not getting anywhere. Thank You God Bless Eazy4now(Elaine)
Jan 21, 2007, 11:23 am - eazy4now - Lottery Discussion Forum

Random Generation of QuickpicksReply
AFAIK, all of the states say that quick picks are generated randomly. If they're generated randomly it doesn't matter whether they're all generated on a single central computer or if a separate compute is used for every single ticket. Random is random. It may not be 100.000% random, but there isn't any data being used to generate QP's, and they're very close to 100% random. Unless the lottery is lying to you. As far as where winners come from, would anyone be surprised that so many of them
Jan 20, 2007, 2:23 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

lotto sync prediction for jan 17/07Reply
Yes Vick, I run it for the first 2 numbers as I felt personally these must be the key or best numbers, and then I restart it and keep doing that until the first 2 repeating numbers e.g. 2-5 10-25 33-40 40-4 35-5 5 and 40 were chosen here, but you could carry on until you have 6 numbers for a 6/49 etc. Also I dont want to increase combo's because it costs me 3 per night, because I play the 3 irish draws toghether, so really it is 1 win from a total of 9 draws so far.
Jan 18, 2007, 5:30 am - paul762 - Lottery Systems Forum