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Odds Don't Change When Jackpot Goes UPReply
Toth...I think you hit the nail on the head with the odds/probability comment.
Dec 6, 2006, 12:55 pm - CA LotteryGuy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Odds Don't Change When Jackpot Goes UPReply
How do you figure he implied that buying two tickets covers half of the total combinations? He didn't even say anything about the number of combinations. He's talking about the ratio of the possible combinations to the number of combinations you have tickets for. The ratio is what determines your odds. Let's use pick 3 so I can type shorter numbers. With 1 ticket your odds are 1 in 1000. Buy a second ticket and your odds are 2 in 1000. Since 2 in 1000 is a ratio it's the same as 1 in 500.
Dec 6, 2006, 3:33 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Odds Don't Change When Jackpot Goes UPReply
Wintariofan Welcome. You are certainly a breath of fresh air- therre are people here who sincerely believe purchasing two tickets instead of one cuts the odds in half. There is such a things as odds vs 'money odds'. Take a crap table where the 2 pays double and the 12 pays triple in the field. The odds of the field numbers are 20 combinations not in the field, 16 in the field. So, 20:16 of losing the field bet. But since the 12 pays triple and the 2 pays double, the 'money odds' ar
Dec 3, 2006, 2:04 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Raffle Ticket Sales BoomingReply
There are a couple of other threads on this raffle. I was about to purchase 1 or 2 tickets, but that's a lot to blow. Looking at the odds, I guess there is a much greater chance of winning the top prize than the 6/53 game, but look at all the people who buy Fantasy 5 tickets and never win the top prize. Those odds are 1:376,000. So why are the odds for the raffle so great? If you buy 20 Fantasy 5 tickets, then you've got a 20:376,000 chance of winning. The odds for the raffle are 1:125,000
Nov 23, 2006, 9:42 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

The worst kind of lottery just over the horizon!!Reply
OK since this is a lottery forum lets look at some odds. What are the odds that we'll have another 9-11? Let's say our odds result in a good hit, another 9,000 dead American civilians. What are the odds that we won't need a draft? Probably good. Be intellectually honest with yourself. What are the odds that the American people will unite like never before? My guess is, they will like never before. Maybe, sometime in the future we will realize that we are all in this together, just like whe
Nov 20, 2006, 8:24 pm - jarasan - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida's $13 Million Holiday GiveawayReply
The odds of winning one of the $1 million prizes are 1:125,000. The odds per TICKET of winning something are 1:4,167. That means, at $20 per chance, the overall odds per dollar are 1:83,333.
Nov 16, 2006, 10:09 am - CASH Only - Lottery Discussion Forum

National PowerballReply
The odds against winning a jackpot would be at least 325 million to one!!
Nov 10, 2006, 8:02 am - ryanm - Jackpot Games Forum

ga fantcy 5 $850.000
nice odds easy to win I hope
Oct 30, 2006, 11:58 pm - fxsterling - Jackpot Games Forum

Personal NumbersReply
Being a mathematician may call for more education than being a ditch digger, but that doesn't mean no stupid people manage to become mathematicians. It just means that there are some stupid mathematicians. News reports about the lottery are full of (selected and/or edited) quotes from mathematicians saying all sorts of things, but you'll find far more that disagree with your claim than support it. That's because the good mathematicians, and even most of the bad ones, know and agree that the nu
Oct 29, 2006, 1:24 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball probability questionReply
The easy formula is to look at powerball.com, and click on how to play and then the 9 ways to win link to find the odds. Not that it's a big difference, but it's pretty close to 1 in 3.56 million for each ticket. Your overall odds are determined by dividing the odds by the number of tickets you have, assuming each ticket has a different set of numbers. Buy 10 tickets and you've got a 1 in 356,000 chance of hitting 5+0. Buy 20 ticket and it's 1 in 178,000. Of course your odds of winning anyt
Oct 28, 2006, 1:10 am - KY Floyd - Mathematics Forum