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Statistics around the balance of even/odd and small/big numbersReply
truecritic Wow, The post above shows the entire digit system and the reasons for playing. Sorry if you don't understand. I don't know any other way to say it and thought this explaination would clear up things for everyone. If you really want to see some to the copies just send me a PM with a email address and I will send a few that I photo copied. I think I photo copied around $400.00 worth over a 10 day time frame. I have a email setup just for LP members and only use it fo
Feb 3, 2011, 11:52 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Mathematics Forum

Longevity (Mystical)
I know this is not lotto news but I find it to be a Blessing and just wanted to share it. 126-year-old Cuban Stakes Claim on Longevity Record Held by American Besse Game on. Who is the world's oldest living person? A Cuban woman, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, is claiming to have celebrated her 126th birthday, which would make her older than the current record holder 114-year-old American Besse Cooper. The birthday girl spent the day talking and showing off her identific
Feb 3, 2011, 3:49 pm - Empress-N - Mystical Forum

How many different stores do you buy Scratch tickets from?Reply
Just an FYI, on the 200K for life, the 1 in $3 Mill for the 50K is $50 K per year for 20 years ($1 Million) But still kinda sh*tty odds for $1 Million dollar prize...For some reason I keep wanting to play this game. Ive won $500 about 3-4 times and $200 several times... There hasnt been a winner since August and it is due a winner soon. Good luck
Feb 2, 2011, 10:20 pm - B$Rizzle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

What's with NY Sweet Million??Reply
I dunno Thrifty. New Jersey's 5/40 game is Jersey Cash5 and it has 658,008 to one odds. You dont see New Jersey offering a million dollar jackpot for Cash5. It starts at $50,000 and rolls over if no winner. The JP can get to a million bucks, but that hasn't happened very often. IMHO, New York would be crazy to offer a $1 million dollar fixed prize for a 5/40 game. Sure, there'd be a lot of ticket sales, and a lot of JP winners too, but would the game be as profitable as the state wants any
Feb 2, 2011, 8:07 pm - GiveFive - Jackpot Games Forum

I bought an entire book of $20 GA tickets - $3,000,000 Taxes PaidReply
I never bought an entire book, probably never will. Although a few stores have such low turnover, I practically bought most of one particular book. And I guess peoples experiences of buying entire books is typically not that great anyway. I was looking at some of the stats for Scratch winners in my area, and it was disappointing to see that throughout the course of a year, most stores only had a couple of winners in the $600-$1000 range, and anything more or higher was very rare. So the odds
Feb 2, 2011, 10:49 am - Jon D - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

I bought an entire book of $20 GA tickets - $3,000,000 Taxes PaidReply
That really sucks. I hope you have better luck. I needed roughly a $500 winner last year to bring myself back to even, but I cleared the books (at least in my own mind) for the new year. Due to computer problems, I have not kept as good records, but alas I have started keeping hardcopy records, until I fix mine up. I am pretty sure that I am ahead for the year, if not pretty close to even with this $300 winner. I will most likely take it easy pretty soon, after these new $20 tickets get old. I l
Feb 2, 2011, 4:47 am - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
Dang, you truly deserve a break. I am glad they are getting your money back to you. I sure hope you get a nice hit soon. I figure since you are playing the high dollar scratchers with the best odds, it is just a matter of time. It is so easy to forget about those ATMs being hacked too. I always figured it would be easy to spot if they have the device over them -- until I saw pictures of how they do it. These crooks really know what they are doing and they can fit the plastic piece over the
Feb 1, 2011, 6:17 pm - TheOtherOne - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

What Does It Take To Win (Mathematically Speaking?)Reply
However the study presumed that the quick pick tickets have actually the same probability as the same number of tickets chosen by the player and that is not entirely true. Because the quick pick, chooses the number randomly (or as near to random as a computer can be), there is a small but finite probability that multiple quickpicks would be the same numbers or share some of the same numbers, two tickets with exactly the same numbers have half the chance of two tickets with different numbers, two
Jan 30, 2011, 11:58 pm - jwhou - Mathematics Forum

What Does It Take To Win (Mathematically Speaking?)
Before proceeding with a breakdown of the odds in one of the popular Lotto games, here is something to think about: When presented with a purely stochastic situation,people tend to overestimate the probability of a favorable outcome over which they feel they have control. The classic example is the demonstration by Langer (1975) that subjects valued a lottery ticket they selected themselves more highly than one given to them by the experimenter, even though they knew the expected value (real
Jan 30, 2011, 4:25 pm - jimmy4164 - Mathematics Forum

Ga. Instant Games, Ripp Off!!Reply
ahh man very interesting you brought this up. I remember when this happened and the actual release date was delayed. I was telling my wife that it was interesting that they still sold these tickets. Im very curious to know how many tickets were actually destroyed in the fire. I keep track of all big winners, prizes remaining, dates claimed, names, locations etc on a spreadsheet I created and noticed that the Monopoly took over 4 months for a top prize winner to come forward. This is very
Jan 29, 2011, 4:29 pm - B$Rizzle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum