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This thread started out asking about 6/49 games, how did it get to answering questions about MegaMillions that weren't asked? Posters are getting like politicians with their answers, when someone ask a question it gets answered by what ever the poster want to talk about. There are plenty of 6/49 games around the country with decent jackpots that if LP members had any special knowledge or skills to win a jackpot, one of them should have won one by now. I came close back in 2002 and earlier
Jun 9, 2013, 12:07 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
This isn't the 1980s and yes if Mega Millions or Powerball was around in the 1980s (actually the first multi-state lotto started in either '87 or '88, it was the predecessor to PB made up of six states and Washington D.C.) in the format they are today with the number of states involved there would have been 300M jackpots back then as well. Games were a dollar back then too, just because 300 million was worth more back then doesn't mean it couldn't have happened, people see those big numbers they
May 25, 2013, 5:04 am - DC81 - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
you're sadly mistaken. Can you even imagine a 300 million dollar jackpot in the 1980s? It wouldn't have happened because 300 million then is like 2-3 billion now. At least. The value of a dollar will go down, eventually it'll be low enough that 300 million jackpots don't seem like so much. Which is when the lottery commission has to raise the prizes to make bigger, more lucrative jackpots.
May 23, 2013, 5:25 pm - yoho - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
It's supply and demand. The players want larger jackpots, but won't play until it's almost $200 million. PB solved that problem by increasing ticket prices and it looks like MM is just going to add more combos and make it harder to win. Personally I'd rather see 20 players win $30 million than one player winning $590 million but that ain't going to happen. The secondary prizes, the prizes we'll most likely win barely cover the cost of play; beat odds 360 to 1 with a $2 ticket and win $5. If t
May 21, 2013, 8:06 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Should a winning system be posted on the LP?Reply
There are many different definitions of a winning system and considering the number of PB and MM jackpots won each year, we can rule out works every drawing . If someone did create a complex system maybe taking four or five years to win a jackpot, would they take the time to describe it in detail or would they be doing all the things they dreamed about doing? It's possible there are players using pick-3 or pick-4 systems making a small steady income, but most lottery players are going after t
May 15, 2013, 4:18 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Systems Forum

$170 MILLION: Mega Millions back into the realm of monster jackpotsNews Story
By Todd Northrop As Powerball has been grabbing headlines for its frequent big jackpots, the United States's other huge multi-state game, Mega Millions, has been quietly and steadily increasing its jackpot. Tuesday night we'll find out if the Mega Millions lottery game enters into the realm of $200+ million jackpots, or if an incredibly lucky ticket-holder wins a $170 million jackpot. The lump-sum cash value stands at a staggering $126.7 million. It's been some time since the Mega Mi
May 11, 2013, 9:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

New the board.Reply
I am sorry but I just do not buy conspiracy theories non sense unless there are empirical evidences to back them up. Testable and verifiable by other experts in the field. I am not saying all patterns are just an illusion. There are certain circumstances where patterns are beneficial to us like weather forecast but those are backed by science. Lottery prediction is not backed by science. Otherwise, people who sell lottery pattern guide books like Gail Howard would have won multiple MM and
May 10, 2013, 11:05 pm - redhot7 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pari-Mutuel PowerballReply
PB seems to have committed a bit more to the long term results than the other games, and it seems to be working. If they had doubled the price without raising the starting jackpot they would probably have lost even more players than they did. That would have resulted in small increases, and lower average jackpot offerings. By risking some minor losses if there's a winner in one of the first few rolls they've increased their gross income compared to what it was before the price increase. The occa
Apr 10, 2013, 1:57 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you see PB jackpots of $300 mil plus a fluke going forward with California joining in soon?Reply
How many states offer the game is mostly irrelevant. What really matters is the odds of the game. At 175 million to 1, there will be an average of one winning ticket for every 175 million tickets sold. Selling 175 million tickets results in a cash jackpot of about $112 million, or about $180 million advertised. Adding more players to the game will result in selling more tickets for each drawing, so the odds of a winner for the 7th, 8th, and 9th drawing of each run will be higher than in the p
Apr 1, 2013, 12:52 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Some jackpot games filters ideasReply
I have taken a look at some lottery software and you can't win jackpots with them, not only they don't have enough filters on them, but a lot of what they do have is wrong, many of the filters are in the wrong format. People who build lottery softwares they themselves don't seem to know much about the lottery, random, prediction, statistics and lottery filters. I have taken a look at the following programs and they are not good, their filters are wrong you can't win jackpots using the filt
Mar 27, 2013, 8:30 am - MonEl - Lottery Systems Forum