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Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
@ MrGray: A new Gold Rush ticket called $5M Mega(?) Gold Rush ($20) is coming out this month. It should be released Sept 6th. Remember someone posted the release schedule for the rest of 2016 earlier this year? I've been refraining from playing lately because the longer I go without playing scratchoffs, the better I do financially with paying back student loans/CC debt. The tickets in my area just aren't hitting anything above the minimum payout. I'm curious to see how the release of
Aug 30, 2016, 4:15 pm - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
But what do you call lotto reps coming to stores asking to take entire rolls (including active ones)? I still consider it game manipulation, whether intentional or unintentional (especially considering they don't account for jackpots destroyed). Adam is lucky his retailer advocated for keeping the roll for him as a customer. There's been times where I tried to play $10 Holiday Gifts at stores, and had the retailer tell me The lottery guy took it . I know they have incentives for retaile
Aug 12, 2016, 6:25 pm - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
In the 50X game, there are supposedly 3 Jackpot winners remaining. This one is a little more iffy. The FL Lottery facebook page had tickets posted of winners of the 20th (591K), 17th (516K), and 16th Jackpots (491K). There are a total of 24 Jackpots in this game and the rolls appear to go up to 625K, and based on the odds in this game, the two jackpots for the 18th and 19th winners would fit comfortably in between 516K and 591K. I don't have the information for the 21st winner, but if he won on
Jul 6, 2016, 2:50 pm - Zebekyia - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do you buy tickets even when the jackpot isn't high?Reply
I understand that reasoning, but I don't think that's what stack is thinking about. Maybe it's just how we're thinking about things. A bigger jackpot and an increased chance of a winner are related, but it's the bigger jackpot that makes playing more sensible not the increased chance of a winner. Ideally you'd bet it all on the biggest jackpot before it resets, but it's not that simple. Waiting and playing for a really huge jackpot may sound like an ideal strategy, but there are two big problems
May 8, 2016, 12:28 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Well, it certainly isn't paying off here. I think they will keep Florida Cash on the shelf as long as they still have 5+ jackpots available for the $1 million prize. They are still making plenty of profit off that game. The payoffs have been seeming worse on all games in my area lately. Disgustingly poor payouts that make players not want to play anymore. Even gestures like being selected an alternative winner for the Flamingo drawing, calling the day before (at closing) and hearing there are (4
Mar 11, 2016, 6:55 pm - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Why you might go bankrupt if your next-door neighbor wins the lotteryReply
This article is full of crap! This type of garbage is designed to get people not to play the lottery. Look at what they wrote: They analyzed lottery prizes and bankruptcy filings over 10 years, sorted down to six-digit postal codes that on average contained only 13 households, revealing financial ripple effects on a lottery winner's closest neighbors. They limited their analysis to neighborhoods with a single lottery win and excluded cases when lottery winners themselves filed for bankrupt
Feb 17, 2016, 9:44 am - golfer1960 - Lottery News

Luckiest StatesReply
States don't win jackpots, people do. So it doesn't matter in the slightest to people in Vermont whether or not there has been a winner in Vermont before. They still have the same probability of winning as anyone who buys a ticket in California or Florida or West Virginia, 1 in 292 million. You might be saying there is a perception problem and I don't disagree, as long as people incorrectly think you have a better chance of winning if you buy a ticket in California they might be
Jan 15, 2016, 2:05 pm - dddwww - Lottery Discussion Forum

Winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $310 million sold in MichiganReply
...and that's the issue involved in the wonderful way you put it, circling the drain. You think the lotteries would have learned their lesson with Megamillions, where it recently took 20 draws, two and a half months to get to $260M, a large jackpot, but not one likely to generate Lotto Fever these days. In 2013, under the old lottery, in the jackpot that went to $636M in 22 draws, they were at $257M in 18 draws, at $344M in 20 draws. The number of draws has a big effect on the probabil
Oct 4, 2015, 10:13 am - Prob988 - Lottery News

powerball sales continue to dropReply
I like to do a little test to really see which game I play is more likely to return more of my money if I don't win a second prize of the jackpot. I calculate if I spent $500 in the last ten draws buying the 50 previous winning numbers or 25 of PB in my state(Ohio) the amount of the $500 I would win back. Rolling Cash5(5/39)=$89/$500 or 18% Ohio Classic Lotto(6/49)=$16/$500 or 3% MegaMillions(5/75+1/15)=$35/$500 or 7% PowerBall(5/59+1/35)=$54/$500 or 11% I can see why PB is changi
Sep 10, 2015, 1:52 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball Matrix Change - April 15, 2015Reply
It actually makes sense I'm sure it makes sense to the kind of thinkers who came up with MMC and the previous powerball failure with odds in the 1:250 million range. Of course that's not surprising when their overlords insist that income always has to increase. The reality is that they can't offer significant lower tier prizes with decent odds of winning and still generate huge jackpots in a reasonable amount of time. I'm sure that every player is happy when they win their money back or
May 30, 2015, 11:30 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum