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Odds on MisinformationReply
My point is that each and every play is equally a probable winner, and placing numbers into arbitrary subsets has no impact on the odds. You're making it sound like people are just playing to beat the odds when their eye is on the prize. Gary mentioned 10,000 players picked 1-2-3-4-5+6 so it's reasonable to expect 200 tickets will have that combo in the next $200 million MM drawing. Nobody is saying any other one combo has better odds of winning, but everyone of them will get a better payof
Mar 14, 2012, 2:39 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Systems Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
You don't get it do you? We're not saying that 140,000,000 combo's were eliminated, We are only saying that your odds can be expressed as a fraction and they improve upon each combination played. Just the same as 20-1 can be expressed as 10-1, Do you beleive that we're saying that 10 of the 20 just disapeared? No, We are simplifying a fraction. I don't understand at all how you and thrifty can make this argument. It's that we're dealing with such mind boggling numbers that they are twisting your
Mar 6, 2012, 12:52 am - Bigheadnick - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
Todd, So then, back to your example of buying 123,000 tickets. Your odds are not 1 in 174,877,000. The odds are 123,000 in 175,000,000, or (in reduced form) approximately 1 in 1,422.8. Todd, The point isn't 123,000 tickets would make the odds 1 in 174,877,000. They don't. 123,000 tickets leave 174,877,000 combinations not played. Earlier on someone said that with 175,000,000 to one odds another tickets reduces them to 87.5 million. This is the 'halving' theory. But in your examp
Mar 3, 2012, 1:19 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is 50 Million Dollars Not Enough??Reply
Not really. I'd rather take a bet 1 dollar bet that has 1:100 odds of winning 120 dollars than a 1 dollar bet with 1:1000 odds of winning 900 dollars. Of course 900 dollars is more, but the odds tell me that the first bet is way better. The EV for the first one is 120%, while the EV on the second is 90%.
Feb 19, 2012, 4:24 pm - Boney526 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Would you buy a $100 scratch ticket?Reply
This question was raised several years ago and my opinion hasn't changed. A $100 scratcher would have to be a special ticket in the sense that it couldn't take on characteristics of the normal $5,$10, or $20 denomination. Some states have tried tickets in the past where the overall odds are 1:1. WHAT? 1:1!!! Yes, 1:1; however, you aren't going to like what I say next. The prizes would start at (likely) $20 or $30 and go up from there. So, in other words, you wouldn't drop $100 and leave empty ha
Feb 4, 2012, 4:56 pm - Tnplayer805 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpotsReply
Mega Millions, although still a $1 game, will more than likely see worse odds in the near future. The reason being that because Powerball is now a $2 game, a non-Mega Millions state will join Mega Millions. At that time, the odds of Mega Millions will increase. They'll use the same excuse for the last time they raised the odds of winning Powerball to 1 in 195 million - As a result of adding state(s) to the Mega Millions game, a matrix change is necessary because the jackpot would be won too ofte
Jan 4, 2012, 5:38 pm - Guru101 - Lottery News

quick question on power ball change
Im sure this has been discussed and i have over looked the post....sorry I dont understand how increasing the pb to 2.00 is going to increase my odds?? can some one please give me the explanation on how they conclude my odds go up if I pay them twice the money?? It really seems like the only thing the increase accomplished was to decrease my odds since now I get 1 number instead of two
Dec 31, 2011, 11:21 pm - cinobyte - Jackpot Games Forum

New York: 12/1 - 12/31/2011Reply
aguilataina96- as with any 3 number game, there are 1,000 unique combinations of which 720 are non-repeat numbers, 270 are once-doubled numbers, and 10 are triples- triple play gives you the worst odds as you are theoretically expected to win only 1% of the time. It is an exotic bet but one in which the house- NYL- should be beating the bettors like a rented mule, and they do. Obviously as time passes and the triples don't show your odds seemingly improve but the player continues to face long od
Dec 19, 2011, 5:40 pm - Long Odds - Pick 3 Forum

more luck in state lottery or mm or pb winning 5 + 0Reply
Kentucky Cash Ball 4+1 = 1:1,268,520 to win the same $200,000 as matching 5+0 in PB. Some states have pick-5 games that pay even more with much better odds of 575,757 to 1 if jackpots under $1/2 million are your cup of tea. I believe the odds charts on state websites are not viewed or are ignored because for most players it's a dollar for a dream regardless of the odds.
Dec 11, 2011, 7:55 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
Dude, I know that you know your games but that amount of $150 seemed so odd that I had to look at the Lucky for Life game online just now, hahaha....I've never won that amount either! Hahahhaha. Way to go, man! I need to start trying some $10 games, I guess those wins are out there----it just seems crazy that the odds are more than one in two thousand to hit that prize level. But it's not like the $20 games are friendly to me lately, at least not up here in Ohio. They are brutal. The overall odd
Nov 2, 2011, 11:02 pm - OldSchoolHits - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum