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Do you see further " modifications" to the MM game should the betting public stay away?Reply
weshar, The difference betwen the PB jackpot odds (175M)and Mega Millions jackpot odds is (285M) is approx. 110,000,000. Many state Pick 6 games have jackpot odds of around 20,000,000. The difference between PB and MM is almost six times greater than the state Pick 6 odds.
Nov 13, 2013, 6:39 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

$20 Scratch Off TicketsReply
I think the better odds come from there being fewer tickets in a pack. Generally the higher the cost, the fewer the tickets. For instance, say there are only 20 tickets in a roll. If 10 of them are winners, the lottery could advertise odds of 1 in 2. But if 10 of them only add up to $200 in winnings, and the cost is $20 per ticket, then the payout would only be 50%. Likewise, a roll could have 40 tickets, cost $10 each, feature 10 winners (odds of 1 in 4), and guaranteed $225 in winnings. In tha
Sep 30, 2013, 1:32 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

Illinois Lottery adds new feature to numbers gamesReply
I don't understand how you can get a 51% return on the Fireball matching 2 digits because it's only 1 chance out of 20. Did you include the odds against matching 2 digits with the odds against the Fireball being your missing digit? According to the odds chart on the Illinois site, the best they can get is 15:1000 by playing Front pair or Back pair. If a player wins on a straight double, they when the Fireball twice if it matches their double digit. Winning on a triple using Fireball gives the
Sep 3, 2013, 1:41 am - Stack47 - Lottery News

Buying multi lines vs a single line for a JP gameReply
Yes but the odds are so astronomical that buying more tickets generally does not significantly increase your odds of winning To put it into perspective - the odds of winning MM jackpot from buying just one ticket is 0.00000057%. You would need to buy 1.75 million tickets just to increase your odds from 0.00000057% to 1%. That is one in a hundred with no guarantee to win.
Jun 23, 2013, 1:53 am - redhot7 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
The only issue i have with that is decreasing the ticket price to 50 cents would decrease the value of the JP. But yes, if the JPs get to a certain amount I'd rather spend $2 on 4 tickets (even if the odds of winning are worse) than $2 on 1 ticket. Someone would have to do the math for me, but at some point the odds of winning the MM would equal the PB once you buy x number of MM tickets with different numbers. If the odds of winning the MM with 4 tickets becomes greater than winning the PB
Jun 20, 2013, 1:32 pm - Teddi - Lottery News

649 formulaReply
I guess they assumed when you said you would have better odds of winning the jackpot by using the number 31 that you were trying to trick a reader into believing the overall odds were better. They must believe we under some type of oblication to show a mathematical breakdown because one or two readers don't understand the overall odds are factored into a conditional bet. The odds against matching 3 numbers in Ohio Classic Lotto are 57 to 1. If you played a 36 line 2 if 5 of 48 numbers wheel k
Jun 18, 2013, 4:22 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

649 formulaReply
PS: I wrote: ``the 1:1032 odds do not include the limitation of combinations with 31.`` Well, I believe the odds of randomly matching any 4 (and not more) of a combination that includes 31 is 9660/13,983,816, about 1:1448. But on second thought, I don't think that's the better odds that RJOh is looking for. He is still talking about matching all 6, I think. The odds will always be 1:13,983,816. We just need to count the compound conditions (includes 31 and excludes any previously-drawn qua
Jun 13, 2013, 3:13 pm - mathhead - Mathematics Forum

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
I don't understand how people can say it does not matter. When the odds are getting worse by close to 100 million. IT DOES MATTER. Why would ANYONE play early on when you just sit out the JP will at some point end up high enough when someone will win. WHAT ARE THEY GIVING US for taking our odds away? We get nothing back. Powerball was a lot different for $2. Went from starting at 20 mill to 40. And the odds got BETTER not worse. Even if JP started WAY higher the odds are worse. They was not s
May 20, 2013, 8:52 pm - Party1377 - Lottery News

POLL: Non-players who ask if you know the odds
Invariably there are always people who when asked by the clerk if they want a lotto ticket, or if they see you playing one, that just have to ask, Do you know the odds against winning that? Do they themselves even have a clue? I usually tell them, The odds are much better for those that have a ticket than those who don't have a ticket . How do you react to them, or do you?
May 17, 2013, 11:20 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

My Pick 4 WinsReply
The odds on Scratchers prizes don't really change much even as the game progresses, if anything only slightly. Take the $1MFortune game for instance. The odds on $500 is 1 in 1,263. You calculated some 1 in 4,061 odds, and I can assume that you were only calculating that line, which is not the correct way to do it. You would actually have to go and add up all the prizes remaining, and then divided by $500 prizes remaining would give you 1,305. But that is not exact because it includes all the
May 15, 2013, 9:10 am - Jon D - Lottery Discussion Forum