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How Many Do You Buy at a Time & Other ??Reply
I enjoy buying a few scatch-offs every evening. It depends on the odds as you said as to how many I buy at a time. I usually buy 3-6 of the $2.00 tickets if the odds are below 1 in 3.60. I may buy 4 of the $5.00 tickets if the odds are good. But, lately I have been purchasing the $10.00 (10 x the money) tickets, here in Maryland because the odds are the best at 1 in 2.68. I will usually buy 2-4 of these if my money is right. The amount of tickets vary each week and the amount I spend also
Jan 6, 2007, 4:40 pm - Litebets27 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Changes in Mega Millions
Currently Mega is a 1/56 + 1/46 game. It has been on a record low jackpot sting lately and it's sales have also followed suite. It's now not a matter of if but when Mega will be changed. This is just a poll to see which option is the most palitable. For lowering the odds I was thinking they could drop both a white ball and a mega ball bringing the odds to 1:156 million. For raising the odds they would have to add a white ball (57 + 46) bringing the odds to 1:192 million instead of
Jul 19, 2006, 1:21 am - dvdiva - Jackpot Games Forum

Odds 101Reply
KY Floyd Let's start from a point where we agree. In pick 4 there are 10,000 possible outcomes, and if you have one ticket the odds are 9999:1 against winning Just a question. Michigan has a small pamphlet to inform everyone about how to play The Daily 4 Game. In it, it says, Bet Type Straight Odds 10,000-1 So are you saying if I do buy a ticket it would be improper to say the odds are 10000:1? In a normal conversation, I never heard anyone state their exact odds based on how man
Jul 5, 2006, 7:43 pm - truecritic - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Odds Are The RealityReply
The odds against hitting the pick 4 are 9999:1 (9999 to 1) If you play ten different combinations, your odds are now 9989:1. In your example above each dollar played reduced the odds by 1,000, that's just not the way it works. If it did, according to that methos, another ten dollars played would recude those odds to 100:1. And another $10 dollars played would reduce that to even odds, 1:1. Another $10 and you'd have 10:1 the best of it. If it was only that easy.
Jun 29, 2006, 1:32 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pick 3 Paradox? Question of probabilityReply
It's not that I was trying to make the info misleading.....It was about observation.In the hypothetical situation, the balls were drawn under a cover and then two repeated digits were always revealed first (regardless of position) - leaving the last unknown digit to be guessed at and what were the odds that it would be the same.The whole point was, that when it is observed in this way, that it is impossible to give the last digit revealed a true 10% chance of being a duplicate of the first two
Dec 5, 2005, 11:14 pm - Thoth - Mathematics Forum

Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameReply
Quote: Originally posted by ayenowitall on April 9, 2005Quote: Originally posted by ayenowitall on March 19, 2005https://www.lotterypost.com/news/109635.htmMaybe MUSL should create a game with astronomical odds that increase exponentially from draw to draw. That would virtually guarantee an ever increasing super-sized jackpot that would be highly unlikely to be hit. Certainly that would placate all the giant jackpot fans.JAG,It was just a mildly sarcastic joke when I made the above comments in a
Apr 11, 2005, 1:31 pm - JAG331 - Lottery News

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Quote: Originally posted by ayenowitall on May 13, 2004Colin,I did go back and read the entire SUMS thread. It was interesting reading. Perhaps the most enlightening aspect of the thread was your statement that your enjoyment of the lottery comes from just being able to improve on the odds ever so slightly. I suppose that's why I failed to recognize the validity of your argument. You see, I thought we were all trying to actually win money.Well, I'm thinking that my computer, my pocket calculator
May 13, 2004, 2:08 am - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

How is it possible?Reply
Quote: Originally posted by Fwup on February 12, 2004 Suppose a thousand people all flipped a coin at the same time. The law of probability says that half will flip heads, and half will flip tails. Suppose the 500 that flipped heads flipped again. Half of those would flip heads, and half would flip tails. Then the 250 that flipped heads flipped again. And so on. Eventually you would have one person who flipped 10 heads in a row, and a handful who flipped 8 or 9 in a row. A hundred thousand peopl
Feb 13, 2004, 1:31 pm - Andrew - Lottery Discussion Forum

prayer / lotto scams
do not be so desperate in your lives people. you cannot say a magic formula type prayer and expect to win the lottery. god decides who will win and who won't. prayer work's but people have the wrong idea about what prayer is. prayer IS NOT getting god to come to the table as far as our agenda goes, we do not make up the rules of our life and expect god to fall in line. prayer is designed to be a vehicle to allow us to see the plan that god has for us and then we align ourselves to it. that pl
May 20, 2002, 4:51 pm - visiondude - Lottery Discussion Forum

Gaming the lottery was this couple's retirement planNews Story
Gerald Selbee broke the code of the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day, because it was a fun mental challenge, because most things at his job were not fun and because he could because he happened to be the kind of person who saw puzzles all around him, puzzles that other people don't realize are puzzles: the little ciphers and patterns that float through the world and stick to the surfaces of everyday things. This was back in 1966, when Jerry, as he is kno
Mar 1, 2018, 6:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News