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Understanding Lottery Strategies
When I started looking at playing lottery games it did not take me long to realize that there is no strategy in the world that can predict what the winning numbers are going to be for a specific drawing. Anyone who says differently is selling snake oil. To understand if a strategy will be successful one must first define what the goal of the strategy is. For some people the goal is winning more than they spend, for others it is winning a multi-million-dollar jackpot. Attempting to define and
Feb 26, 2017, 3:44 pm - Novan60 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
New Scratch games come out today and.......... there might be a Gem in this group... Game 1314. $1,000,000 Cashword Overall Odds are 1:3.39 Which puts it at the best odds of any $10 game Also, the odds of winning $1,000,000 are a staggering 1 in 1.26 million Those are incredible odds when you think of the odds of winning a million bucks in any other $10 game... $200ms = 1 in 1.5 million Flamingo - 2 million prize is 1 in 2.76 million Holiday Gifts - 2 m
May 17, 2016, 1:27 am - EMTAdam - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

New pick 7 daily game in TexasReply
I saw this one. While their other $2 game is similiar to Keno, this one is pretty much Keno (7/55/10). Apparently they want to offer a game that has more chances per play, which is interesting and should bait non-players of the other game. I hated this at first but after running the numbers, the jackpot odds per dollar is better than the other game, the variance is multiples less, and the return is only a few percent worse. Definitely a game to keep an eye on Here's a table of odds and prizes
Jan 4, 2014, 10:59 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

is anyone making an income from lotteryReply
You're making it sound like betting $799 to win $1 is a really good bet. Will all your probabilities help you pay off a $5000 bet at 799 to 1 odds? This sentence makes it clear that you don't intend to use logic, you're just here to argue with everything I say. I obviously would never take a 5000 dollar bet. The lottery can, because there pockets are deep enough to take losses if a huge bet has to be paid off. And some lotteries still restrict sales on individual numbers to prevent the
Apr 30, 2013, 11:58 pm - Boney526 - Lottery Discussion Forum

is anyone making an income from lotteryReply
If I knew you, and if it was legal, I'd give you 749 to 1 against you for any Pick 3 straight number anyday. Hell, I'd even give you 799 to 1. There's always a chance, you know? You're making it sound like betting $799 to win $1 is a really good bet. Will all your probabilities help you pay off a $5000 bet at 799 to 1 odds? Every state lotteries knows there are numbers that are heavily played and are betting those numbers will be drawn less often than the lightly played numbers. The odds
Apr 30, 2013, 2:32 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does Mathematical Innumeracy foster superstitions and support the belief in them?Reply
RL, You have somehow been able to use the words chance and luck together as a set in one sentence. This is a survey on Innumeracy, not illiteracy. Innumeracy and illiteracy are sometimes a human trait but so also is numeracy and literacy. So being human is neither good nor bad; it is how you process information between your ear wax plugs that counts. Your point is indeterminate. In certain public games of chance, the player who uses a form of numeracy to their advantage is considered a che
May 22, 2011, 6:20 am - Delta Draw - Mathematics Forum

Feedup? Contact your state lottery
As a rule I am not an activist and generally keep my opinions to myself but, according to the article I just read, it appears that the Texas Lottery is having money woes and there are still plans for privatizing it. Digging a bit deeper, this appears to be a trend in that other states have already done it and others are considering it. The reason given in each case is falling revenues from their prospective lotteries. I am in Texas and at one time ours was, not bragging, one of the rich
Jun 20, 2007, 3:31 pm - tNewman - Lottery Discussion Forum

Washington DC Pick 5 1 in 200 million odds
Working on border of DC-MD I can play both but DC is full of it right now. Where are the quads and Triple Pairs cause what you guys have done is crazzzzyyyyyyy. One in 200 million odds on the pick 5. Please give us customers a chance and play like 66661 or 77771 or 22228, 22229 or a quint please. Cause this is highway robbery 16 draws in a row with a 30% chance of that number landing in a single draw. pick 3 folks that's equal to having a double number Example 224,115,911 coming out 1
Apr 7, 2026, 11:57 pm - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
1) In what alternative universe do you live where 1,221,759 divided by 5 is 38,719? It's the alternate universe where your odds are inversely proportional to (the number of tickets you bought) ^2. When you say each time you double the number of tickets you buy you cut the odds in half he somehow hears each time you buy another ticket you cut the odds in half. I've cut ther odds of 1,221,759 down to 38,719 so surely I can expect to win somethnig tonight, no? I guess that in that un
Mar 31, 2026, 1:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
I would be shocked if a casino sold books about gambling with any truth in them. They need people to make bad bets. I didn't say each additional ticket cuts the odds in half. I said the odds of you winning is (odds of one ticket winning) divided by (number of tickets). Use my pick 2 example. What are the odds of me winning if I buy 2 tickets? How about 5 tickets?
Mar 29, 2026, 1:42 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum