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New Jersey: 3/1 - 3/31/2012Reply
986 - That's one of those meat and potatoes numbers that I never have, but come out often enough. I had decided this month to go in on the eve most of the time to try to get in on that potential second draw. i did panic today and tried to run to a terminal but missed the midady deadline - glad i did because I would have played this unless it came out in a QP. The odds are clear but dang - I've sometimes played 25 separate numbers and couldn't cop a box hit on any of them! Money is too tight
Mar 14, 2012, 1:45 pm - NJJim - Pick 3 Forum

Odds on MisinformationReply
Cautious, Yeah, I'm very aware of what casino owners would do. (17 years in Vegas and five on river boats). If you think they're that 'sporting' consider Caribbean Stud. What are the odds of being dealt a five card royal, and what's the average progressive jackpot? As for the sequential nnumbers, posted by garyo1954: Camelot, the corporation who operates the UK National Lottery released the most common combinations played. No surprise. 1,2,3,4,5,6 was, quoting from an online source (whi
Mar 13, 2012, 9:49 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Systems Forum

NY Pick 10Reply
You can expect for every USD: $-0,504141880033366. Your chance to win net 3 USD, by getting 0/10 is 0,0457907007890278. Your chance to win by guessing more than five right in ten is 0,0132321898915216! No payout: 94%! The lotteries just don't like you to know the odds in decimals.
Mar 12, 2012, 8:28 am - SergeM - Jackpot Games Forum

Take 5 New YorkReply
The single Take5 JP winner is the exception. Most days multiple winners are seen, and hardly ever is there not a winner from NYC or Long Island. True, true. Wasn't that long ago that you'd either have no winner or a single winner with multiples being rare. You're right, though, these days there's usually two or three winners a day. And the NYC/LI thing makes sense as combined they make up about 57% of the entire state's population (NYC 42.5%, LI 14.5%). Sweet Million isnt pari-mutuel
Mar 10, 2012, 4:02 pm - mediabrat - Pick 5 Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
I think that with a budget of 123 870 USD or EUR, we could play decently. My plan would be to check out all the odds and payouts for all the games there first. After that, having a look at the history of the game. There are enough programmers here. It is up to Todd I believe, to make a fair deal of it. Play to win and share, just deducing the costs. S.
Mar 8, 2012, 6:25 pm - SergeM - Lottery Discussion Forum

Sweet Millions buy 5 get 3 free for January!!Reply
I was exchanging emails with a NY lottery employee and asked her about how many sweet millions tickets are actually sold. This is some of the info she gave me. Currently, we have sales of about $500,000 per draw for the Sweet Million game, which is only 1/8th of the odds to win the jackpot. A large number of these plays are duplicative as many people play similar numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, which mean we are only experiencing coverage of less than 8% of the total possible number combina
Mar 8, 2012, 11:18 am - Tuwie- - Jackpot Games Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
I say the only way to clear up this continued debate is to dig up Einstein himself. Let's revive him, let him clear his thoughts, get rid of the cobwebs that have been collecting in his grey matter over the decades. Let us then introduce him as a guest LP member, and present him with the thread history of this mathematical question, and let him decide the final verdict of increasing/decreasing Powerball odds, game matrix, etc. Einstein's answer will be final. We can then
Mar 5, 2012, 9:37 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
We stop at some reasonable point because the lottery only gives back half of the money players spend. We wouldn't buy 175,000 lines because doing so costs $175,000. A 1 in 1000 chance is good compared to a 1 in 175 million chance, but not when it costs $175,000 and there's still a 99.9% chance you'll lose most of that money. None of that changes the fact that buying more tickets increases your odds of winning, and it does so in direct proportion to the number of tickets you buy. Not get
Mar 5, 2012, 3:31 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

RandomReply
RL, I definitely agree with most of what you've said here, but the one part I disagree on is the assessment of luck. Regarding these Pick games, when a person goes out and buys several QP's or marks off a few numbers on a ticket and wins, this is pure unadulterated luck. Why? Because that person cannot go back the next day, or, even the very next draw and duplicate that same win with the same approach. I consider these types of wins random wins or luck -based wins which is all fine and dandy. Ho
Mar 4, 2012, 9:44 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
If buying more lines doesn't improve your odds, then WHY would anyone do it? Come on, simplifying a fraction is learned in grade school. 5/20 = 1/4. Same thing applies when buying 5 lines in the lottery: 5/175,000,000 = 1/35,000,000. It amazes me the number of people on here that don't know how to simplify a fraction.
Mar 4, 2012, 8:03 pm - Guru101 - Lottery Discussion Forum