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Ohio Rolling Cash5 at $622,000 tonightReply
That's almost defied the odds. Playing RC5 tomorrow will be like playing the Classic Lotto for a jackpot of $1.4M, but with odds of 1:13,983.816 of winning it. Or playing MegaMillions hoping to match 5+0 three times to win $250,000 x 3 and knowing the odds of during it even once are 1:3,819,816. The best I could do with 20 lines was five match2's for $5, I'll definitely play again tomorrow with those kinds of odds of winning $698K.
Jul 15, 2007, 9:10 pm - RJOh - Pick 5 Forum

How long until someone here wins $1,000,000+?Reply
With lotteries typically paying out 50%, we could expect a single $1 million winner for every $2 million spent by members, as long as that $2 million was spent on games that pay only $1 million dollar prizes. As RJ notes, it seems like most of the money is bet on pick 3 and 4. Additionally, games just don't pay $1 million at odds of 1 in 2 million. Some of the games with relatively low odds occasionally build up to $1 milion or more, but there simply haven't been all that many of those pri
Jul 9, 2007, 3:10 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Finally, one's growing!Reply
Maybe it's that people have good memories, and remember your previous posts and know that you spend a lot of time pondering the odds of things repeating in one fashion or another. What are the chances of 3 numbers from last drawing repeating? What are the odds of a winner from the same state? On and on. The answer is always the same. The odds are exactly the same as they were before the previous event happened, because the odds aren't determined by what happened last week, last month, or last
Jul 9, 2007, 1:48 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Finally, one's growing!Reply
There is a term in poker called pot odds that is a justification for making a call when you don't have the best hand but have a good draw opportunity. The odds of drawing that card are exactly the same and with pot odds you are comparing how much it cost you to call to the size of the pot. In MM terms I suppose that buying $10 worth of tickets when the jackpot is $100 million is better pot odds than when it's $15 million, but unless you win, it's irrelevant. When people say they only p
Jul 7, 2007, 2:40 pm - Stack47 - Jackpot Games Forum

Did you know in PB/MM ...Reply
I find that hard to believe. If you could eliminate 90% of the 146M combinations of PowerBall then you would reduce the odds of winning a $100M-$200M PB (1:146M) jackpot to the odds of winning a 6/49 (1:14M) game jackpots of $2M-$10M. Normally the overall odds of winning something playing PB is 1:37, but eliminating 90% of the combinations would reduce those overall odds of winning something to 1:4 which would mean for every four tickets bought you would get back at least the minimum prize of
Jul 1, 2007, 7:52 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Michigan lottery.........Reply
I don't play Michigan lotteries but in Ohio I usually beat the overall odds of winning a prize. The overall odds of a hit for Rolling Cash5 are 1:9 and I usually win two $1 prize for every $10 spent. The overall odds of a hit for MegaMillions are 1:40 and I usually score two 0+1 or 1+1 for $4-$5 for every $40 spent. The overall odds of a hit for Classic Lotto are 1:54 and so far I've had a match3 for $2 once or twice for every $50 spent. Before MegaMillions came to Ohio I would drive to Mic
Jun 12, 2007, 6:38 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Would you travel to an "anonymous" state JUST to buy lottery tickets?
Anonymous state would include any state that allows lottery winners to remain anonymous (ND, KS, DE, LA, NH, SC, OH, MD). If you don't live in a state that allows anonymity for lottery winners, is it worth traveling to a different state? After all, no matter how dedicated a lottery player you may be (even if the anonymous state was only 1 hour drive away), you could only drive to an out of town location so many times to play a game with these kinds of odds. The odds of powerball ar
Apr 23, 2007, 11:58 am - rundown99 - Lottery Discussion Forum

If I reduce the MM or PB number pool by half and play 3o2e/3e2o...(?)
Lets say I reduce the number pool in either the MM or PB games by half and play either 3 odd and 2 even or vice versa from that number pool, how much am I reducing the odds of getting 5 + 5 +0 and 5 +5 +1? I see that the MM odds are 1:175,711,536 for 5 + 5 + 1. The odds for 5 + 5 + 0 are 1:3,904,701. So how much do you think doing that will reduce those odds?
Mar 19, 2007, 10:16 am - MegaWinner - Lottery Systems Forum

Are QuickPicks a waste?Reply
I voted no because I am of the opinion that every set of numbers has the same chance as any other set of numbers. I live by the theory that each number drawn is not influenced by previous numbers drawn. This means (for PB) that you have a 5 in 55 chance of matching the first number. Then for the second number, you have a 5 in 54 chance of matching that number; unless you hit the first number then your chances are 4 in 54. The machine that is used to select the balls cannot read English w
Mar 4, 2007, 1:05 am - FatLane - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lotteries long for 'jackpot fever'Reply
I don't think it is as simple as jackpot fatigue - everyone I know thinks $2 million is a huge amount of money, let alone $50 or $100 million. They have to consider the downturn began after they raised the odds and lengthened the annuity length so they could advertise higher jackpots without actually having more money in the pot. People catch on to things like that, people know the advertised amount is pretty much a con and the cash option is far lower and even lower after taxes. Yes, you ca
Feb 15, 2007, 11:23 pm - tg636 - Lottery News