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Will Mega Millions be the ticket for Texas?News Story
Multistate game debuts this week with long odds, mixed predictionsTexas' plunge into the multistate lottery market this week with its promise of mega-jackpots and new revenues for the state is a bit of a gamble, supporters and critics agree.Tickets for the Mega Millions game go on sale Wednesday (December 3, 2003), followed by one of the twice-weekly drawings two days later (Friday, December 5, 2003). Texas is the 11th state to join the game.Yet-to-be answered questions: Will players be turned
Nov 29, 2003, 9:29 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Help with Odds Math - Excel maybe?
Hi Everyone; I am trying to figure a way to produce the odds for wheeled combinations and not sure how to do it (I am not a math genius) and was wondering if anyone has done this before etc... my efforts searching the forums have not so far been productive. I have found the Odds Calculator here on the site and this works well but I am looking for more etc.. About 30 years ago I bought a little kit for lotto play and inside it, there was a simple chart... What I want to do is make a
Jan 2, 2021, 9:16 am - Druski - Mathematics Forum

Definitively proving better odds on straight picksReply
THANK YOU! I wasn't sure what to expect after my first 'real' post, but I didn't expect only two, and one that was definitely not positive. I'm not offended though, after all I'm a noob. I've only been studying my state's lottery numbers for a year. You've both apparently have been over ten! jackpotismine: Oh boy. Here comes someone trying to sell you something. I *wish* I had something *good* to sell! But I assure you, I have nothing, yet anyway. :/ I'm just a programmer who has been sna
Sep 12, 2019, 1:08 pm - CrazyDewd - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Mexico Lottery was advertising the wrong Pick 4 payouts and odds
A heads-up for all New Mexico Lottery players: I have been contacted by the New Mexico Lottery, telling us that the payout amount and odds we have been showing on our Pick 4 payouts pages is wrong for that game. They provided a link to their Pick 4 information page, and indeed it shows only $1 for a payout (instead of $28 that we have been publishing) and odds of 1 in 51 instead of 1 in 50 that we have been publishing. I was suspicious about this, because we don't make up payouts and odds
Mar 26, 2019, 1:22 pm - Todd - Pick 4 Forum

Why are American lotteries rigged?Reply
Current Australia Powerball lottery jackpot: $3,000,000 AUD (appx: $2.2 million USD). Odds 1:76,767,600. Recent jackpot wins: June 23 TY; $3 million - 1 winner June 16 TY; $6 million - 2 winners June 02 TY; $6 million - 1 winner Winners and jackpots patterned accordingly, with occasional abnormalities. I do not see 14 people recently sharing a single jackpot in the Australian Powerball lotto. If indeed this were to happen each would receive approximately $428,000 AUD based on a $
Jun 28, 2016, 10:42 am - realtorjim - Lottery Discussion Forum

The "Holy Grail"
Hi everyone! I ve been a student of using mathematics-based Strategies to play the lottery for close to 10 years now. I ve tried a few and simulated many, but I ve never found what I consider to be the Holy Grail . At this point I m thinking that either I haven t stumbled onto it yet, or my expectations relative to the Holy Grail are not achievable. The Holy Grail I refer to is this: identify a Strategy that hits at a rate significantly greater than that you would expect based on the numbe
Jan 14, 2016, 2:49 pm - mitachoo - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
I say yes............... Let's look at the ILLINOIS LOTTO 6-52 game. Odds of winning 6 out of 52 (without the Extra Ball) 1 in 20,358,520 Odds of winning 5 out of 52 (without the Extra Ball) 1 in 2,598,960 Odds of winning 4 out of 52 (without the Extra Ball) 1 in 270,725 These odds are based on everything being truly Random. (Odds of Winning are the same as Chances of Winning in Quick Picks only - you cannot change the odds of a game, but you sure in hell can change improve your Chan
Dec 1, 2015, 1:23 pm - butch2030 - Mathematics Forum

Input Playing the Various 6-49 GamesReply
I decided to bring this back to get a few questions answered ... I can only figure that there might not be much interest in a 6/49 game ... people would rather put their money on the MM and PB for the larger jackpots. As I have lost interest in the larger harder to hit jackpot games, over the last year I have paid more attention to the 6/49 game in PA ... slowly moving more money over to play that game. I said earlier that I had spent some time on the computer checking out other various st
Dec 9, 2014, 7:36 am - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

The new odds for Mega Millions have been a failure!
The new odds for Mega Millions have been a failure. They promised higher jackpots more often. We can't even get to our first billion! The Mega Millions commission didn't go high enough on the odds. It takes well over 20 draws to get the jackpot in the 1 - 2 billion range. Considering 104 draws a year you need a winner every 26 draws(3 months). With 4 winners a year take home would be 4 - 8 billion a year. 4 different winning tickets could be worth up to 600 million EACH after all taxes are pa
Jun 17, 2014, 8:52 pm - veganlife125 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Iowa and Minnesota lotteries kick off new multi-state gameReply
I was curious why someone would play this new game with horrible odds if they lived in Iowa and could play Iowa's $100,000 Cash Game which was a daily game and top prize odds were about 6 times better. So I went to Iowa lottery website and saw to my disbelief that they stopped offering Cash 5 in Jan 25, 2014. Below were the odds of the discontinued Iowa's $100,000 Cash Game. I hope Iowa people reject the new game or else other states follow suit and discontinue their Cash 5 type games in favor o
Jan 28, 2014, 7:41 pm - maringoman - Lottery News