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Is this legal?Reply
I'm not sure of the legality of the proposed scratch ticket pool, but in your hypothetical wouldn't the odds be a wash? Let's say the odds for winning the top prize is 1 in 5,000,000. If you buy 100 tickets (a book/pack), the odds for winning the top prize is 1 in 50,000. But, in this hypothetical, you first need to win the pack by selecting the correct square which is 1 in 100, which puts the odds of winning the top prize back at 1 in 5,000,000. Buying books doesn't pay off most of the ti
May 25, 2014, 4:59 pm - mrcraft - Lottery Discussion Forum

Why is the Ohio Classic Lotto so difficult to win?Reply
The odds are very slim that anyone will win a jackpot prize, however, I'd rather win a mm or pb second tier amount. The $1 million second tier in MM has worse odds than this jackpot, and dollar-for-dollar the odds for second tier in PB is only slightly better. Why would you rather win 35 times less cash for worse/similar odds??
May 14, 2014, 2:34 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

Ohio Classic Lotto goes more than 2 years without winnerReply
Yep! it rolled again. When comparing the OCL to MM or PB based strictly on odds then it's absurd to play anything else. OCL has odds of 14 million to one thereby making the cash payout ($33.5 million) worth almost 2.5 times the odds value. MM would need a jackpot of over $1.2 billion with a cash option of over $650 million to be comparable in terms of odds. Can't speak for anyone else but $33.5 million cash before taxes is more than enough to satisfy any lottery dream I may have.
Apr 15, 2014, 3:24 pm - Drenick1 - Lottery News

Hitting the very next double System// by using ODDSReply
In a years time yes your odds are right But the lottery is daily and that's where the odds will bite you, unless you wait until the end of the year and then go with the odds and even then it's not a given.. I think everyone has a different way of looking at how to play..but I have to say this is based on math and not what I would call a system I was going to say it's a gender thing but since I don't know yours I can't say that ...but the ODDS are you are a man
Mar 25, 2014, 2:17 pm - kreative1 - Lottery Systems Forum

$353 MILLION: Red hot Mega Millions jackpot set for FridayReply
Do you pick the jackpot that's harder to win or the one that costs more? If you look at both games odds of winning per dollars spent, MM is not only cheaper but has better odds too. MM's odds per two $1 tickets = 1 : 129445425 PB's odds per one $2 ticket = 1 : 175223510
Mar 12, 2014, 7:58 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

overall odds question
i had a question on odds on any game if its one in like 12 million and you buy lets say 400 tickets 40o devided by 12 million would be 30000 would be like 1 in 30 thosand. what im trying to get at, is buying multi tickets lower your odds by much?
Feb 21, 2014, 8:36 pm - starky - Lottery Discussion Forum

You Will Never Win A Lottery Jackpot In Your Lifetime.Reply
If someone has an issue with the way I explain something, they can always ask for clarification. I am not going to dumb down my posts for your sake. Every one of your responses to me is either a nitpicking of the information I provide or lame accusation of ulterior motives. Odds and chances are exactly the same thing, just different ways of expressing it. I can say that I have 2 chances to win out of 10 or odds of 1 in 5. I can say I have a 20% chance of winning or odds of 2 in 10 or odds of 1 i
Jan 29, 2014, 8:34 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pennsylvania Scratch Off Update (ODDS)
I just sat down and recalculated the odds for quite a few of the games as the P.a lottery updated the remaining prizes this morning. To keep this short I'll post the best 3 out of the bunch I did this morning. These numbers are certainly not 100% accurate for obvious reasons but updated odds are sure to be close. If anything looks off please let me know. My formula for this was lowest prize remaining winners x odds for that prize divided by top remaining prizes. $20 Ticket Merry Milliona
Jan 16, 2014, 10:18 am - PaScratchAddict - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

$291 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot enters top 25 listReply
Actually I hadn't seen any figures on sales, but just did a basic odds of winning a prize times the amount of winners. I used the Mega ball winners for $1 sales + the $2 sales Mega ball winners which was: 2,252,869 + 196,145 = 2,449,014 x 1/15 odds of getting Mega ball. This equals: 36,735,210. I just rounded up a couple of million. However, if you mulitply by their listed overall odds of winning anything....1/21, you would get 51,429,294. Based on sales and odds getting 5-0 though, there sho
Dec 4, 2013, 8:51 pm - lottobrain - Lottery News

Do you see further " modifications" to the MM game should the betting public stay away?Reply
The new MM odds are about 1 in 259 million, not 285 million. That there are about 84 million more combinations for MM isn't the useful comparison. What matters is that there are about 50% more combinations, so that your odds of winning the MM jackpot with a single ticket are about 2/3 of your chances of winning the PB jackpot with one ticket. Of course you get the MM odds for only half the cost of a PB ticket, so you can either have more than half as much chance of winning for half the cost, or
Nov 14, 2013, 12:53 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum