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Florida In The 60's (As In 60%)
As we all know, Jeb Bush, apparently redeeming himself from rejecting Powerball, passed a LAW requiring the Florida Lottery to pay 60% on all games. Now for Instant Tickets that may not be a huge deal (as most games pay around 60% anyway), but it's huge for on-line games. It's hard to find a single game that pays more than 50%, now we get an entire state that pay at least 60%! But the big question remains, how will the new payouts affect the games? Will we see no distribution changes at all? Wil
Jul 12, 2005, 4:03 am - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maddogs Mega Million Challenge 7/5Reply
RJOH ----- this is absolutely incredible!I just finished my initial worksheet and counted 38 numbers for my initial pool, and again I have 16 numbers for final selection. Maybe the time has come for us????? to take the jackpot. I will take cash, and will struggle (for all of 1 second) to get along on a mere 18M.Seriously, I regard you as the resident statistician of LotteryPost, and, as such, I have considerable confidence in the posts and observations you share with fellow members of LP. My a
Jul 8, 2005, 2:41 pm - urug2000 - Jackpot Games Forum

Key Numbers Test...Reply
WIN D WROTE >>> Hello Bryan...... Key number stuff always gets my interest. Here's another little thing . The Ga. Midday for today. No digit ........7,,,,,, 1,,,,,,,or 0 in 6 days. As you know ....you can hide one or even 2 digits for a very long time.... but... you can't hide 3 digits for more than about 4 or 5 days. If your numbers today dont have at least one of these 3 digits your fighting big big odds. One of the digits has to hit. All three simply can't stay out that l
Jul 7, 2005, 8:13 pm - Badger - Pick 3 Forum

how do you pick your lotto numberReply
Picking numbers for the lottery can take many forms. If you've been reading the systems forum currently we're doing some fun work with the Union Jack method for Pick3 Lotto. We've even developed some pretty good Excel files that do much if not all of the work based on this method for you. What I'm doing is more toward developing trends and patterns RATHER than whims and hunches. I'd like to do some statistical analysis of the formulas and see where they take me. Using the Union Jack Mon-
Jul 4, 2005, 8:30 pm - empassioned1 - Lottery Systems Forum

Virginia lottery winner claims first Set for Life checkNews Story
Last week, Gordon McKinney suddenly fell back in a chair at the Scott County Tobacco Co.Those at the store thought he was having a heart attack.But Gordon, of Chuckey, Tenn., realized that he won the top prize in the Virginia Lottery s new scratch-off game, Set for Life. He will receive $2,000 a week, or $104,000 a year before taxes, for the rest of his life. It really hasn t sunk in yet, said Gordon, who was holding his first $2,000 check.Phil Hankey, the Virginia Lottery southwest regional ma
Jun 30, 2005, 11:00 am - Todd - Lottery News

Should we feel stupid playing the lotto?
I know someone who is a self made millionaire who rags on people who play the lotto for being fools and idiots because the odds are so stacked against them, and even among the few schmucks who win most of them end up going into debt because they never learned how to manage money. He will say, most people playing the lotto are poor and with money problems already, and you can't and won't build wealth by having a tremendous amount of money dumped in your lap all at once with not the slightest plan
Jun 30, 2005, 10:42 am - lottoloser* - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas Lottery chief admits jackpots were inflatedReply
The big picture of what this is all focused on is that the Lotto Texas game, which has been around since the beginning of the lottery, is in trouble, Greer said.A lottery in trouble is an intriguing state of affairs. A giant, Going out of business sale! , HUNDREDS OF ITEMS HALF PRICE on the billboards a couple of times a year might help. Works for hardware stores, drugstores, jewelry stores.Maybe a weekly special on numbers that come from fortune cookies.... in fact, maybe a fortune cookie
Jun 28, 2005, 8:57 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

mega millions and powerball jackpot pollReply
I can understand you not sharing the enthusiasm for larger jackpots. I don't have any enthusiasm for them, either. On the other hand, I don't believe either of us knows whether it actually makes it more difficult to win. Nor does anyone else on the DB. There's statistical cause to believe it increases the odds, which is about all that's out there in the mainstream thoughtlines on such things, but we've become actuarialists in our thinking, mostly.I'd say one view is about as good as another
Jun 24, 2005, 8:36 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery Discussion Forum

LL's 8 states post- 6/19 thru 6/26Reply
No need to apologize for questionsQ. Do we always use those pairs?A. If you are asking about the pairs listed in columns V-then the answer is yes!Every pair is being tracked in that columnI use the least hitting pairs as the list gets smaller, my chances to hit the remaining pairs increaseThe pairs are sorted after every draw the most hitting pair can then be used if you are into the what hits hits philosophy. If you are more of a gambler then you choose a pair that needs to hit in the nea
Jun 23, 2005, 3:31 pm - lottaloot - Pick 3 Forum

Dipping your toe into the 'other' sideReply
Hi Jack, I just wanted to let you know that I tried something from one of your posts. I went back in the Florida Fantasy Five history (that I have, only 3 yrs) and looked at the 6/21 dates (summer solstice) and for the last 2 out of 3 years the numbers 5,14,22 have all been drawn. I was very excited (perhaps naively) that with those odds all I had to do was sit and wait. I picked a couple of other numbers from some charts and purchased my 6 tickets. Unfortunately, Fantasy Five had other
Jun 23, 2005, 9:15 am - Gailfan - Mystical Forum