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probability of euromillions rolloverReply
Euro Millions rolled to 125M. For the last drawing, the amount of jackpot determined was 108M ( 74M/$130M over $20M increase from the previous), and total European ticket sales were 164M, which was much HIGHER than those for the last year s drawing with similar jackpot size and the estimated by EM as well. Apparently, Euro Millions estimates total ticket sales for this 1/20 drawing to be similar to, or in fact slightly less than, last drawing's approximate 160M.However, considering the sig
Jan 16, 2006, 8:19 am - anonymous77 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery sales, starting this morning, going smoothlyReply
@ryanm:I'm not so sure you are correct when you say they would be out of business. Powerball has a minimum annuity jackpot of $15 million. At a cash value of less than 50% that's still $7 million. Even if you paid the maximum amount of Federal withholding (35%) and a state tax of 5% (Indiana's is 3.4%) that is a total of 40% or $2.8 million leaving a balance of $4.2 million.And they are still generating revenue for the states at that. If I remember correctly 29 cents of every sales dollar go
Jan 16, 2006, 1:46 am - Uncle Jim - Lottery News

Lottery winner pleads innocent to ID theft, fraud chargesReply
GameGrl - If you were to use my credit card you would first have to pay the bill before you could charge anything!!! LOLOnce again, I understand that a fraud was committed (allegedly), I am not sure that it is as cut and dry as some of the responses have indicated. Yes the credit card company has rules, but it's situations like this one that makes everyone go back to the drawing board and make some adjustments, because no one saw this type of infraction coming! This is what I call an unforesee
Jan 15, 2006, 2:34 pm - LadyC - Lottery News

Powerball lottery sales, starting this morning, going smoothlyReply
Increase the matrix! Bite your tongue! Perish the thought! No way! Leave the damn matrix alone! Despite the whining we heard from Powerball last year about a record number of winners...it's already hard enough to win anything significant!I'm sorry but I just don't undersand that attitude. And I don't understand the obsession with record jackpots. I'd be thrilled to win a paltry $15 million jackpot anyday. I'd take the less than 50% cash value they're now offering and say adios muchachos
Jan 13, 2006, 10:22 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery News

Probability of a MegaMillions rollover.Reply
The Megamillions jackpot has rolled over and the cash value is now $52.4M. The cash value reached on the last drawing was $45.2M. The annuity value is now $88M, just shy of the $90M annuity record for this number of drawings in a prize building pool. The lottery is apparently predicting 22.6M in sales. If this proves to be correct, the probability of various numbers of winners is given in the following table:087.93%111.31%20.73%30.03%I have updated the data fitted into my exponential modelin
Dec 28, 2005, 11:06 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Reverse engineeringReply
Hi!From a given source of numbers, I filter out or delete the ones that have certain filter patterns, this is for the pick 3 game, this leaves on the ones that appear to me to have the best chance of having the winning pick 3 number for the very next draw among them.How do I know which filter patterns to use as filters ? Well, there are ways of guessing that are much more than a guess, they are based on filter patterns of numbers from the past draws, a visual inspection more or less tells whic
Dec 22, 2005, 4:14 am - LANTERN - Lottery Discussion Forum

Woman found guilty of stealing winning lottery ticketReply
awesomo2000> Read my other posts in the thread discussing yesterday's articles...I did. Previous to the verdict. I will grant you she was/is stupid/dumb. But I stand by my previous statement. I would find her not guilty - since the crime of actually stealing the money never happened. No matter what reason is used for the disappearance of the ticket - stolen/lost - it was nothing but a piece of paper. I don't think people should end up with a criminal record over a piece of paper. The P
Dec 14, 2005, 5:13 pm - truecritic - Lottery News

Anyone up to it?Reply
I have the idea for a beginning version of a pick 3 and 4 LottoSyncronizer.It is much more advanced than what Pac wants, but much more complicated to make also.But maybe not to hard to make for a programmer (I don't know) it would use 1 or more random generators, it and or they would generate random digits from 0 to 9, it would have to be as good a random generator as possible and it would have a tracking system, that is it would keep track of and record the digits in certain particular ways, it
Dec 2, 2005, 2:35 am - LANTERN - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is it worth going to an anonymous state?Reply
trust parties can remain anonymous, it's not a matter of public record.a personal property trust (the one best suited to claiming a lottery win) is an asset protection document. The IRS knows who you are for tax purposes, they don't post that info anywhere. The trust is a cleverly worded document that needs no further action than the stamp of a notary to execute. Grantor/Trustee/Beneficiary info is not a matter of public record either.Owners of multiple rental properties utilize the personal pro
Nov 18, 2005, 9:16 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery states report brisk sales for huge jackpotNews Story
Hopeful lottery players are plunking down their money for Powerball lottery tickets at an astounding pace, in advance of tonight's estimated $300 million jackpot drawing.USA Mega will display the drawing results minutes after the drawing, which occurs at 11:00 PM Eastern Time (8:00 PM Pacific Time).Also on www.usamega.com, players will be able to see the Power Play number drawn, and within an hour or two the website will announce whether or not there was a jackpot winner. At that time, the Wedn
Oct 15, 2005, 4:55 pm - Todd - Lottery News