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Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
I'm sorry if the long posts are bothersome Skeptic, but these are an online forum where people are going to discuss and speculate. I remember when I first joined this forums and you made a passive aggressive attack about how this thread should only be used for posting pictures, and that isn't it's only intent. I embrace discussion forums as a community which is why I engage in so much conversation on threads, and private message. I treat the people I meet on here like people. It sounds like
Jan 28, 2017, 12:42 am - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
The books that showed up in new locations were likely from the last batch that left the warehouse. Typically when they are down to 60 or 70 or so they will look at what games they want to close strategically. Say they are wanting to bring out a new 10 dollar game they will target closing or finishing up a 10 dollar game. Hence by most state laws when they have no books to send out from the warehouse they have to by law close the game. So I would say that 80% plus of the tickets that showed up in
Jan 25, 2017, 12:02 pm - Zebekyia - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Also, playing strategically *can* increase one's odds. Some buy randomly, which is fine. I think buying random $5 tickets is also a great idea since that price point can have great wins out there. I forgot the name of the poster, but I remember we had someone post in 2016 on this thread who shared a $2k and $10k winner he found on a $5 ticket. His strategy was to only buy 2 at a time, and it worked for him. For new games or ones with large numbers of prizes remaining, that strategy would be fine
Jan 13, 2017, 7:49 pm - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Odds are still low, honestly even pulling a $500 winner is a stretch with the overall odds being something like 1 in 1,000 during the final drawing. Significantly better than something like the Powerball, or even the regular chances of hitting $1M on a scratchoff of course. 2,500/570,000 = 0.0043% chance when you crunch the numbers, it makes sense as to why very few of us even hit something. I think one person posted saying he won $500 during one of the weekly drawings. With that being said
Jan 4, 2017, 12:11 am - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

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I agree, we often think that we can show everyone just how we made our selections until we try to put it down on paper. There is a element of instinct, best guess etc that's so easy to ignore until we try to write it down. The lottery is random and it takes all the analysis we can muster, a few repeating patterns and finally a good ol guess. It's the guessing mechanism that's unique to our own understanding of the game. This was IMHO the reason that the joint analysis lottery pool fa
Nov 26, 2016, 1:37 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery Systems Forum

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
I remember the Nixon water-gate scandal and then the Carter presidency. When Reagan ran I remember how so many people were so scared of him. Crater was a good man but a horrible president. When I was in the Air Force the pay was less than $400.00 per month. Remember when Reagan talked about how part time workers at McDonald's made more than our military members. Remember when we tried to rescue our people from Iran and the equipment broke down. Reagan promised to increase military p
Nov 7, 2016, 2:01 am - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery News

Do you believe every combination has the same probability?Reply
I don't have any magical forces guiding my lottery activities. Then feel free to explain how the future results you're betting on are controlled by the past results. Maybe you can't wrap your head around it, but the only way that analyzing past results can increase your chances is if those past results have some kind of affect on future results. Unless perhaps you think there's some magic fairy that can control lottery results and occasionally rewards your hard work. all the theoretical
Oct 24, 2016, 12:50 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you believe every combination has the same probability?Reply
It's not just basically . Past results, official or not, have absolute no affect on future results. Future drawings use all of the numbers (though not necessarily the same ball sets or machines), so every possible outcome is in play and has the same probability. Every thing dealing with gambling is ALL about numbers, and, winning/losing. To remotely assert that the lotteries would conduct a completely 'blind' operation without an idea of how much they'd win or lose is absurd, sir. There's
Sep 16, 2016, 9:04 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you believe every combination has the same probability?Reply
Liability caps are widely utilized, though there have been notable exceptions that have resulted in some close calls. In particular, Texas All or Nothing game originally launched with no cap. I couldn't believe it, and thought, wow that's a disaster in the making. An amateur mistake one wouldn't expect from a big well known lottery. Needless to say, there was a close call not too long afterwards. From what I recall, 10 out of 12 of a widely played combination came up. If all 12 had come up, t
Sep 13, 2016, 1:14 pm - Ron5995 - Lottery Discussion Forum

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
No, KingofDerp, facts aren't borderline insanity but someone would have to be crazy to believe the ones you've spewed forth. You challenged: Then do it, show us something this (that is?) contradictory or factually incorrect. I went through your posts and picked out your greatest hits to focus upon. They didn't have a good beat, Dick, and were hard to dance to! Sorry, showing my age. I think they're in reverse order for the most part, most recent to earliest, although there are a few I comb
Aug 6, 2016, 10:11 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery News