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Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
It depends on what numbers you pick. Someone gave an example of a pick 2 game (and most pick 3 games with front pair etc. bets) with 100 possible outcomes. Betting any 10 combos gets 10 to 1 odds, but are the odds the same for any 10 combos and 10 combos with 10 different digits in the first position? RCB reminded me of when I too hit 5 out of 6 playing the Ohio Lotto when it was a 6/40 game. Wrote down all 40 numbers on playing cards, mixed them up and drew six at a time and placed the
Apr 12, 2026, 12:51 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Washington DC Pick 5 1 in 200 million oddsReply
The have played all singles which is 5 different digits Ex 12345 these different digit numbers make up slightly over 30,000 of the possible 100,000 numbers. So odds of getting that unique combination is 30.24% just to be exact. So on average 3/10 draws you should see that. They've drawn all singles 16 times in a row now. Just think like this, say you make a single bet that you have a 30% chance to win and you win that bet 16x in a row. Or to make it easier it's equivalent to flipping
Apr 8, 2026, 10:46 am - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
A second ticket doesn't eliminate any combinations. You double your chances of winning (i.e. odds cut in half) because 2/292M is double that of 1/292M. The tickets themselves are all 1 in 292M. It's how many tickets YOU hold that affects YOUR odds of winning.
Mar 31, 2026, 2:31 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Hey Coin Toss... Pick 2. Easy game, with 100 possible outcomes. I have 2 tickets. What are my odds of winning? Now I have 5 tickets. What are my odds of winning?
Mar 29, 2026, 5:47 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Not so much can I afford it but rather due to the low odds? (at least in terms of 'lottery land' odds they're low) Years ago while I was buying some Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle tickets, the woman behind the counter said to me - Well! Aren't you the smart one! She then said At least people have a decent shot at actually winning this. I realized that she was a 'Focal Point'. She saw how many people bought tickets for the big games, but she didn't see many of them bring back a winning tick
Mar 29, 2026, 10:18 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this before
Instead of playing one set of numbers for Illinois Lucky Day Lotto (5/45 progressive jackpot, tonight $750,000) I played five. So according to some herer I've cut ther odds of 1,221,759 down to 38,719 so surely I can expect to win somethnig tonight, no? I was tempted to go anoither six sets which woukd have brogught the odds down to under a million, 596,562 but was playing on a lotto vending machikne and only had as $20 pon me and since thr machines don't give change passed it up. Can't
Mar 27, 2026, 7:34 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
To each his or her own. Twenty bucks a throw is steep. That's why whenever there's a raffle (which isn't all that often) I cut back on the other lottery games I regularly play. That's what keeps me from over spending my monthly lottery budget. My thinking is the 20 dollar ticket price is a premium players have to pay for the greatly reduced odds of winning a top prize, not to mention there's a guaranteed jackpot winner(s). Many is the time I've heard a player say about a raffle Players
Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Millionaire for Life multi-state lottery game to replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life in FebruaryReply
I haven't paid any attention to this game nut I just saw it on the NY lottery's home page for the first time. Obviously everybody gets to decide whether or not they want to play, but here are a couple of thoughts. The first is largely about playing this or playing PB (or MM) when the jackpot is still small. Generally, at least 8 to 10 million people (5 to 7 isn't unusual for Monday drawings) spend $2 when the annuity is $20 to $30 million (even if you die before the drawing) and the cash val
Feb 23, 2026, 3:50 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
They both describe the same event but with a different definition of what should be in the denominator (all outcomes or only the bad outcomes). Odds 1:499 is the same thing as probability 1/500. What is your problem with the fact that the word probability has more letters and syllables than the word odds ? It's true. I think you need to put down the crack pipe. The conspiracy theories, atrocious spelling, and frequently illogical statements indicate brain rot, not dissimilar to
Feb 22, 2026, 9:45 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
People often equate odds and probability even though technically they are not exactly the same . Odds is just easier because it's one syllable. Probability has more letters and five syllables. Then whyyy have YOU erroneously equated the 2?,.. if you knew that... I guess it never occurred to you that, there'z a reason whyyy they're referred to by 2 different termz ... Aaand the has more letters and syllables Statement?... G5 wuz right, you MUST be smokin marijuana ... -Stat$ta
Feb 21, 2026, 7:52 pm - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum