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Realities of winning the lotteryReply
FatLane: It's a big number and it's a hard number to put into perspective. If you play $1 each draw, it is expected that you will have to put up your $1 for 170 million drawings before it is statistically likely for your numbers to hit. Interesting post, but according to probability, even if you play your $1 for the full course of 175,711,536 games (the exact odds # of combos), you only stand a 63.21% chance of winning the jackpot. Playing the $1 for twice that amount of games (351
Mar 9, 2007, 10:52 am - Thoth - Lottery Discussion Forum

At least 2 lottery winners will split record $370 million jackpotReply
Among MM states, Massachusetts is tied for 2nd lowest population, with Washington. Maryland is the smallest, but catching up quickly. Is it a surprise that Mass. didn't have a 5+0 winner? No. Does that mean your odds would've been better in California or New York? No. Don't give up! But make sure that you're playing for fun.
Mar 8, 2007, 11:33 am - JAG331 - Lottery News

More Pick5/6 winners: Do you think?Reply
I don't spend a lot of time on the Prediction boards, but here are my two cents: Credit should be given to those predictors who beat the odds. If someone posts only a handful of picks and matches 5/6, major kudos! But I see some predictors using the shotgun pellet approach....posting dozens and dozens of combos for every game...of course you're going to hit 5/6 once in a while. That being said, I don't think a combined effort will help win a Pick 5 or Pick 6 game.
Mar 7, 2007, 12:49 pm - JAG331 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Why can teenagers play the lotto?Reply
Someone recently said on Cnn forum about the recent dive the U.S stock market along with the world stock markets took last week...... I think when the nation's economies are affected by the whims of a small group of investors, I think there is something seriously wrong with the economic model... The stock market behaves like a stochastic process (and a fractal), been influenced by subtle and something out of your reach fluctuations...While the easy lottery is not affected by nothing, is inde
Mar 7, 2007, 12:58 am - pumpi76 - Lottery Discussion Forum

$370 MILLION: Mega Millions sets all-time lottery jackpot recordReply
Bradly_60...my figures show if the jackpot stays at $370 million in ticket sales will be at $173.4 million for this drawing. Either way that is a lot of tickets. Anywhere on the net where you can find sales for the May 2000 draw? Odds are now if favor (i.e. greater then 50%) that someome will win on this draw.
Mar 6, 2007, 1:16 pm - CA LotteryGuy - Lottery News

Question about Quick PickReply
Don't leave it all to quick picks! I am not crazy enough to believe that I can beat odds of 175m:1 with any old number combo. Do your filtering, tweak the system, put yourself in the right position, with the numbers that are most likely to come up, and pray! That way you only have to be very lucky, instead of beyond lucky.
Mar 6, 2007, 9:31 am - JAG331 - Jackpot Games Forum

I am Back from Vacation and this is what I see...
Glad to be back! Vacation was relaxing...of course, sitting on a cruise ship sipping tails all day while not in port can be :) Anyway, I saw a letter from Steve Player saying that he can hit the North Carolina Pick-5 jackpot with odds of 1,297:1 using only 13 numbers and these combos will hit the jackpot 54% of the time. So....has anyone received this solicitation, and if so, can someone explain HOW this might work? Of course I am skeptical. I used 17 numbers on a 5if5 wheel a while back and on
Mar 5, 2007, 8:38 am - cps10 - Pick 5 Forum

Probabilty of Someone Winning a PB & MM Jackpot in the same Week!Reply
Amusing story, Coin Toss. Too bad it only happens like that in the land of make-believe. Let me guess, he walked right out of the story and into a college math department where the professors explained to him that odds equals total combos divided by distinct tickets purchased, no more, no less. Where is this thread headed anyway? Yeesh.
Mar 4, 2007, 11:06 pm - JAG331 - Jackpot Games Forum

Probabilty of Someone Winning a PB & MM Jackpot in the same Week!Reply
If someone buys $87,855,768 (half of the combinations) worth of Mega Millions tickets, while making sure they all have different combinations, their odds of winning are brought down to 1 in 2 (87,855,768 in 175,711,536) or they have a 50% (87,855,768 divided by 175,711,536) chance of winning. If they still dont have the winning combination, they would loose A LOT of money. Ofcourse this is only a hypothetical situation. No one person will ever buy $87,855,768 of tickets. They probably co
Mar 4, 2007, 3:26 pm - twisted - Jackpot Games Forum

Probabilty of Someone Winning a PB & MM Jackpot in the same Week!Reply
This thread looks like it's going nowhere. But I'm going to have to weigh in with KY Floyd and johnph77. We are phrasing the question in terms of odds. The other side phrases it in terms of probabilities. Two different concepts that require different calculations.
Mar 4, 2007, 1:36 pm - JAG331 - Jackpot Games Forum