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Does anyone re-play their QP numbers?Reply
Check out the odds of hitting $10,000 on MM or PB. I know we don't play the big games for 10G's, but that just illustrates the difficulty of winning. Most players never look at the odds and that includes many LP members who should know better. The odds in MM are 689,065 to 1 and the $2 PB is 648,976 to 1. Both those odds are higher than the odds against matching 5 numbers in a 5/39 Pick-5 games that pays $100,000. Matching 4 numbers on MM with odds of 15,313 to 1 pays $150 but the same matc
Jun 19, 2012, 10:23 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

What are the chances of ever winning the 2nd place prize for PB or MM?Reply
Actually, the odds on the charts are CORRECT, because the odds of matching the bonus ball ONLY are 55 to 1, after factoring in the chances of matching the bonus ball with one or more white balls. The odds of matching the five white balls ONLY are 5,153,633 to 1, because you have to multiply the total number of white ball combinations by 35/34, as the odds of NOT hitting the bonus ball are 34/35.
Jun 14, 2012, 9:21 pm - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
We all read posts and think we know what the writers are trying to say. Some post one thing and try to say something different. When THRIFTY says BUYING MORE TICKETS DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR ODDS , he is right in spite of what he may think. Buying more tickets REDUCE your odds. If the odds of winning are 1:175M with one ticket then buying five tickets reduce those odds to 1:35M.
Mar 13, 2012, 6:10 am - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
Yes you can increase your chances of winning by buying more tickets Do you understand that that's exactly what most people have been saying all through the thread? And that a while back you said, If you buy 2 tickets your chances of winning are not 2 in 175 millions. You have 1 in 175 millions twice. The only way to increase or decrease the Odds of any lottery game is by changing the game matrix. That's true, but you don't understand it completely. The odds of the game are determ
Mar 3, 2012, 7:57 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
Thrifty you got it wrong. If you roll a dice the odds of rolling a three are 1 in 6. But the odds of rolling a 1,2,3,4,5 is 5 in 6. The odds of rolling the three don't change... it's still one in 6, but by covering other combinations you increase your odds of rolling a winner.
Mar 2, 2012, 1:03 pm - ACPutz - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
Chance of winning +/- odds. Of course the odds/chances against each individual ticket remain the same, however each ticket you buy knocks off a potential combination thereby effectively increasing your CUMULATIVE or OVERALL odds of winning. If it's 1 combination out of a possible 175 million that wins, You still can increase your CUMULATIVE/OVERALL odds by playing more tickets/combinations. Granted, the difference is neglegible but it IS a difference.
Mar 1, 2012, 10:51 pm - Bigheadnick - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Ga $20 ticketReply
The odds of $7 Million Jackpot are WAY WORSE than any of those games. ONE person has won $7,000,000, and there is ONLY ONE $7,000,000 ticket left with odds of 1 in 3,600,000. Go to http://www.galottery.com/games/instant-games/top-prizes-claimed to check and see how many top prizes of a game are left! Go to http://www.galottery.com/games/instant-games/instant-games and select $20 tickets. Click on each ticket, and THEN click on the link for odds if you want, but I have included them. The OVERALL
Feb 27, 2012, 2:34 pm - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

The odds say 1:397...so you
So you buy #4 tickets and get a winner right? Not! The odds appear as pecentages....so a $100.00 winner can cause 5--7 losers in a row! Hit a winner walk away. trouble is the last guy may have done the same thing----so typically buy two tickets and you'll up yer odds. Anyone else feel this way????
May 17, 2011, 11:55 am - ohhhnoomrbill - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

figuring the odds (?)
so as i understand it when a ticket says the odds are 1:4.72, that means your odds of winning anything is one in four, but winning one of the big prizes is 1 in 72?
Feb 22, 2011, 9:50 am - goalgrl - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Small Jackpots vs Big JackpotsReply
It depends on the odds of the game and its jackpot size. Now that MegaMillions with odds of 1:175M has a $12M jackpot and PowerBall with odds of 1:195M and a $35.0M jackpot, Ohio Classic Lotto with odds of 1:14M and a jackpot of $20.7M is looking good to me.
Feb 2, 2011, 1:49 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum