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Powerball Probability QuestionReply
For what it's worth, I play MM and PB because I also play Texas Lotto. The odds hitting the jackpot on Texas Lotto are 1 in 25,827,165. The odds of hitting the $1,000,000 2nd place prize on MM or PB are approximately half of Texas Lotto's odds. Granted the Lotto's jackpot is much higher, but in my case (age), $1 million will do me fine until I croak. To each his own.
May 12, 2022, 8:25 pm - rcbbuckeye - Mathematics Forum

$50 scratch-off lottery trend takes off in multiple statesReply
The FL Lotto filed the rule for their new $50 scratch off today in the state's Register, and here's a breakdown of the game (followed by images below). 3/4ths of the game's Payout is concentrated at the $100 and $500 win levels, which opens up prize space for the best-ever FL scratch off odds of winning $1M (though it just barely beats the odds of the existing Fastest Road to a Million game, which at $30 a ticket costs a good bit less). $25M top prize Highest Ever is solidly pure player buy bait
Feb 25, 2022, 10:12 pm - Cape $cratcher - Lottery News

$50 scratch-off lottery trend takes off in multiple statesReply
The odds of winning P3 ST is 1000:1, the odds of winning P4 ST is 10,000:1. The odds of winning $50 scratcher is 50:50 (In most cases). Buy 2 tix and ur almost a guaranteed winner.
Feb 17, 2022, 8:26 am - Nimrod9 - Lottery News

Reducing oddsReply
All numbers have the same probability but they don't have the same odds Probability and odds are slightly different ways of expressing the same thing. You should not choose 2-4-6-8-10-12 because the 0-odd-6-even pattern has fewer ways to win It doesn't matter how many combinations use a particular mixture of odd and even numbers. If you play 2-4-6-8-10-12 you're played one specific combination, and because that combination has exactly the same odds as any other combination it has th
Jan 20, 2022, 12:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Can you enumerate in a list the things that work most of the time in lotteries?Reply
The house edge is usually the difference between the actual odds and the payoff odds and it really applies more to the lotteries than to individual players. Over time if they pay $500 for a win that has 1000 to 1 odds, their house edge is slightly over 50% because they keep the dollar bet and the player wins $499. It's not impossible, but very very difficult to pick one pick-3 digit out of three in 80% of the drawings. And a bet on that digit will still have to overcome the 50% house edge.
Dec 13, 2021, 5:44 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Record number of winning tickets sold in single Washington Lottery Match 4 drawingReply
A regular Pick 4 game typically costs $1 for a straight bet. Odds are 1 in 10,000 for $5000 for a $1 straight bet. $2 straight bet on the same number pays $10,000. The odds are slightly better than Washington's Match 4 odds of 1 in 10,600.
Nov 23, 2021, 4:32 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
If that is accurate, it sucks for the 1 in 500. $20 GR has always, or for a long time, had great 1 in ( 200) odds at $500. Necessity it seems, to have the $5M odds at ~20% of what they were on the prior one and the $1M odds at ~33% of the prior one. Maybe they saw how much people liked the Fastest Road and are aiming that way more, which I would welcome.
Sep 19, 2021, 2:03 am - oldghost - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Top 10 Features a Lottery system (strategy) should haveReply
There is something that I've been exploring that's at least remotely related to what you're doing. At the heart of your Pick4-Predicts-Pick4 premise is the idea that patterns in numbers repeat. I think of it like a giant Moebius strip of numbers. The pattern on that strip that hits today will eventually repeat at some point down the line if only we had the means to detect what happens before that next occurrence. What I've been looking at are when numbers drawn or sequences of numbers drawn are
Apr 22, 2021, 8:50 am - OhSoClose - Lottery Discussion Forum

Wyoming Lottery to launch 2by2 game SundayReply
The top prize odds are pretty good for $22,000. Our Cash 5 game in Tx top prize is $25,000, and top prize odds are 1 in 324,632. Just getting 3 of 5 odds are 1 in 75.
Mar 14, 2021, 2:31 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery News

24 Bonus Match 5 lottery tickets sold at one Maryland store win top prizeReply
You have to be right. Multiple tickets with the same numbers means the person was perhaps hoping to hit four numbers for the $400 prize multiplied by 24 to collect nearly $10,000. The odds of hitting the top $50,000 jackpot are 1 in 575,757, according to the Maryland Lottery. The odds of matching four numbers is only 1 in 3,489 so that was a very good bet. But certainly matching all 5 numbers to grab the maximum $600,000 show that sometimes you can beat the odds in spectacular fashion. By the wa
Jun 22, 2020, 10:55 pm - jplayer33 - Lottery News