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Montana Lottery aims to prohibit bulk purchases after group takes gamble on $1.6 million jackpotReply
So a well designed lottery game in your estimation is one where the odds are so high, no one ever wins the jackpot, but the state in question gets money forever. Since I'm not an imaginary Ayn Rand fever dream I understand what lotteries are designed for. Prizes are just an undesirable necessity to separate players from their money. People with a poor grasp of reality are free to whine about how long a game goes without somebody winning, but having a better grasp of reality the only winner
Oct 2, 2025, 2:28 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I bought a bunch of Powerball tickets for the last drawing when the annuity jackpot was $2 billion. I normally don't play that game because the odds of winning are approximately zero. For the same price, I can get far better odds of winning less money but still life changing money. I was willing to try it because it would be fun to spend $600 million in today's money after tax. For Megamillions, the equivalent annuity jackpot would have to be $5 billion for me to play (even then, maybe not,
Sep 26, 2025, 4:59 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Hi Brock, great looking burst for $500 on the new $30 game! At 1/1,200 for seeing a ticket with a single burst they are more rare than on might think. The $500 Diamond win all is about half the odds, at 1/600 or so. You'd think they bring the two odds closer as to make for more bursts, but either way $500 is a great win. Hope to see you score many more!!
Sep 24, 2025, 3:00 pm - Cape $cratcher - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Would a pick 6 be viable?Reply
The Ohio classic lotto is a 6/49 game and the kicker is extra. I do not think you get to pick your numbers in the kicker game. The payout vs. odds on the kicker are horrible compared to what the regular daily drawn games pay out. $10 for the front 2, $100 for the front three, etc... they pay out 10% of the odds. Now, that is only for an extra dollar, where most front or back match N sub bets (like a front 3 on a pick 4 ticket) cost extra, but you get to pick your own numbers. Plus I thin
Aug 21, 2025, 12:27 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maryland's Multi Match odds are variableReply
The PA Match 6 is a 6/49 that is the same way, you only get to pick the top line with the other 2 being QPs. The closest I ever got to that game was a 5 of 6 on the last QP line. The 6th number appeared above it AND on the line I picked... for having 7 of 18, that paid $25 while the 5 of 6 on one line paid $1,000.... matching 9 of 18 would have also paid $1,000 and 10+ of 18 would have paid $2,500. But I have never seen a ticket with even the potential to match 10+, and I played that game ev
Aug 16, 2025, 3:40 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

4-4-4-4 in Illinois Lottery Pick 4 pays out over $6.9 million to playersNews Story
Popular combination rewards thousands of lucky players By Kate Northrop Last week, the Illinois Lottery's Pick 4 game drew winning numbers 4-4-4-4, resulting in a massive $6.9 million payout to thousands of players in one drawing. Thousands of Illinois lottery players won a share of more than $6.9 million in winnings after the in-state Pick 4 game drew a popular number combination. In the evening drawing on Wednesday, Aug. 6, Pick 4 produced the winning numbers 4-4-4-4 with Fireb
Aug 14, 2025, 10:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

Banana Peel SystemReply
my uncle bought 5 ticktets lottomax online, and we won a single free ticket, the odds of that is still under 50% so we're still beating the odds hehe. 1 free ticket that means $1 to planting one tree. (GROW THAT LUCK).
Jun 18, 2025, 10:06 am - cddvd - Lottery Systems Forum

Banana Peel SystemReply
we bought 5 bc49 online Winning $10 has odds of 1 in 56. So we really beat the odds. donating to trees seem to be working for me (for small wins that is because seeds gotta start growing from small size), i will donate some more from this win...GROW THAT LUCK Can't expect a huge tree overnight? right?
Jun 8, 2025, 10:30 am - cddvd - Lottery Systems Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
The easy way to understand the difference is from the end of Tucker's last post... 4/500,000... this is where probability stops... one ticket gives you 4 favorable outcomes to the 500,000 possible outcomes. This is the reality of any game. Only here we have 4 top prizes instead of one. 1/125,000... this is where the Odds are... which is favorable outcomes to unfavorable outcomes. He is correct in performing the division here because for every favorable outcome there are 125,000 unfavorab
Mar 30, 2026, 11:00 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
While there are games that cost more than $5..... $10 scratchers, $20 scratchers, $50 scratchers, $20 raffle tickets, etc., the difference is that in those games, you have a vastly higher chance of winning a large amount of money. The problem with the new $5 MM is that they didn't change much of anything. It includes the multiplier for lower prizes (instead of giving you a choice to pay the extra $1). They included a 10X possibility but re-arranged the other multiplier odds to give you preci
Mar 14, 2026, 9:36 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum