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Streak of jackpot winners is bad luck for Powerball lottery salesReply
Easy solution for these cry babies. Have a pick 3,4 game. It's the most popular game in the country and you automatically get 50% on all sales daily. The payoff to odds ratio is the best any state lottery has to offer so the player goes for it. IL has had a daily pick 3 game since 1972 and hasn't had to change the payoff to odds ratio or matrix once (except for their bonus draws), so they must still be making money. 33 years of success. The jackpot games are changing their matrices like
Mar 16, 2005, 4:41 pm - Rick G - Lottery News

Mega Billions
Here's a format that Powerball or Mega Millions could adopt.5/50 + 2/25.Match 5+2: Odds 1:635,628,000. Rolling jackpot, minimum $50,000,000.Match 5+1: Odds 1:13,818,000. $2,000,000 payout!Match 5+0: Odds around 1:2,500,000. $300,000 payout!Additional payouts for 4+2, 4+1, 4+0, so on and so forth, down to 1+1.$2,000,000 for second prize! And who wouldn't want to play for a jackpot that rolls to one or two billion!It's a deceptively simple matrix, and the lottery could afford to pay out 50-55%
Mar 6, 2005, 11:03 pm - JAG331 - Jackpot Games Forum

Would you know a good bet if U-C-1Reply
I guess no one else knows what a good bet is either Badger. I already said what i believe is a good bet. It's one that wins most of the time. That could be 51% or 60% or 90% of the time. Find any situation of 50/50...... and find it having hit that way 10 times in a row...oh boy! Then..... bet it to go the other way. You will be right over 90% of the time. You may only see it once a yr. in your State's game.... but that would be a great big opportunity to me. Put that with other current i
Feb 13, 2005, 12:19 pm - WIN D - Lottery Systems Forum

Which change in Megamillions or PowerballReply
dvdiva,Most players are pretty much oblivious or indifferent to the odds of the big jackpot games like Powerball and Mega Millions. If the odds made much of a difference to any of us, we probably wouldn't be playing these games at all because we'd be concerned about the huge disparity between odds of the games and the payoff odds, particularly for the secondary prizes. Most people recoginze that dumb luck is a huge factor and they just hope that luck will smile on them.I wouldn't think it would
Jan 27, 2005, 10:21 pm - ayenowitall - Jackpot Games Forum

The Lottery BookReply
He offers casino style advice such as not to play until the pot is larger then the odds, means nothing to lottery.Because the odds in lottery never change overall, the only way to improve your odds besides buying more tickets is to make an exchange with another draw. By allowing yourself to lose in one draw by your strategy of play you can improve your odds in another when the strategy proves correct. As we lose in most draws no matter what we do, in a sense we're doing this already without re
Dec 10, 2004, 1:08 pm - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Wheel Design - Help WantedReply
Quote: Originally posted by DreamLotto on December 1, 2004Dear Bob and Nick,Thank you so much for fixing my problem! Lovely wheel, indeed! And a bonus thanks for Nick, who is so rare on this forum but descends like an angel when we need help!!I have a question related to above wheel: If it has a 100% guarantee of hitting a 4 if 5 or 6 drawn numbers are in 14, then WHAT are the chances of the 6th number being there, using the SAME wheel?!I wanted to know because I intend using the above wheel as
Dec 1, 2004, 1:25 pm - BobP - Lottery Systems Forum

playlotReply
Quote: Originally posted by BobP on November 19, 2004Quote: Originally posted by LOTTOMIKE on November 19, 2004which is better to play powerball or mega millions?Playlot Choices . . .Powerball 5/53 + 1/42MegaMillions 5/52 + 1/52Florida 6/53U.K. Lotto 6/49The better game would be the one you can best pick the winning numbers for. Odds wise the U.K. game, prize wise - which ever one is bigger at the moment. BobPBobP,Playlot also offers Euro Millions, NY Lotto, and El Gordo. Right now Euro Millio
Nov 19, 2004, 9:17 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Tools You Could Use?Reply
... On the back of the play slip, it is stated that the odds of 6 of 6 from 49 is 13,983,816. These are not the odds. This is only the number of possible combinations. You need to multiply this figure times the number of ballsets (6) and machines (3). ... Quote: Originally posted by BobP on May 07, 2004Let's see now, 6/49 lotto with odds of 1 in 13,983,816Buying X Unique Tickets1 = 13,983,8162 = 6,991,9084 = 3,495,9548 = 1,747,97716 = 873,988.532 = 436,994.2564 =
May 21, 2004, 7:14 am - Colin F - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Quote: Originally posted by BobP on May 13, 2004The idea is to reduce the cost to play with lower tier prizes while waiting to win the jackpot which should pay back all reasonable playing expenses and then some.Of course at this point we're just talking about putting that kind of money into play. Certainly smarter to have a pretty good idea what's going to happen if we do, then to have no idea what-so-ever. BobPBobP,I understand the objective to reduce costs. I also acknowledge that hitting th
May 15, 2004, 6:16 am - ayenowitall - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Quote: Originally posted by Jake649 on May 03, 2004This topic came up in another thread but the thread went off in a tangent so I decided to start a new thread devoted to the following questions.Q: Can lottery odds be reduced by buying more tickets?A: YesQ: How are the new, reduced odds calculated?A: Say that a lottery has X number of unique outcomes. Then the odds of hitting the jackpot is 1 in X. If one buys N number of tickets where no two tickets have exactly the same set of numbers, then th
May 4, 2004, 11:13 pm - prob987 - Lottery Discussion Forum