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pick 3 probabilityReply
Quote: Originally posted by Bertil on May 20, 2004 By what formula does one calculate the odds of winning a pick3 type game if one buys 100 random tickets? Would it be 10%?Suppose the lottery sells only 5000 random tickets, what % of all numbers are likely to remain not sold?If every one of the 100 tickets is unique, then the odds of winning are exactly 10%. If you buy quick picks, you may have one or more duplicates, so the odds of winning are 9.5%.The formula is (1-p)^N where p = the probabili
May 20, 2004, 1:00 pm - Jake649 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Canada to change Lotto 6/49Reply
That free play idea is a great way for lotteries to offer more prizes and lower the overall odds without giving up any extra money. When I was younger, I bought car tires from a department store that sold tires the same way. They would take a 30,000 miles tire and sell it for $20 more and guarantee it for 50,000 miles and when it wore out at 30,000 miles, they would sell you a new one for a $20 discount. I thought I was getting a bargain for years. Ohio did the same thing with Super
May 20, 2004, 12:56 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Tips on Picking Numbers
White ball and Powerball numbers have a different frequency of rolling over. Statistics are posted on the Multi State Lottery Association websites. Pick the numbers which have the highest frequency. Similar to a slot machine, the higher frequency rollover number will have higher odds of matching. How long can you afford to stay in the game is the question? The key to staying in the game is like playing bingo. Bingo player prefer playing with multiple cards to increase their odds. Well, it can b
May 12, 2004, 2:36 pm - solemntruth - Lottery Systems Forum

NY Lotto inching closer to all-time highNews Story
The New York Lotto is two rollovers away from its all-time high of $55 million.The current Lotto jackpot of $47 million is the result of 19 consecutive rollovers. The jackpot started at $3 million on Wednesday, March 03, 2004, and since then no ticket has matched all 6 numbers drawn.The next drawing of New York Lotto will take place Wednesday, May 12 at 11:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time.The record New York lottery jackpot was set on Wednesday, April 23, 2003, when two lucky players matched all six
May 11, 2004, 9:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

$300.00 worth of QP'sReply
Quote: Originally posted by JohnC on May 08, 2004Hi BobP,In Australia, Powerball tickets cost 50 cents a game. A Powerplay 6 is a ticket with six numbers from which the first five came (any-five-from-six) plus one specific number for the Powerball.e.g 10, 14, 17, 23, 31, 40 (from which the first five numbers must come), plus say 37 (which must be the Powerball).The odds of winning Powerball over here are just under 55 million to 1 and as this guy bought six games, the odds against him win
May 8, 2004, 8:34 pm - twisted - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
This is the last I'm going to post on this topic: My point is that the odds stated for a lottery game compare two quantities of the same kind; 1:120,000,000 is a comparison of one ticket combination out of 120,000,000 ticket combinations. The odds are expressed in a ratio. The mathematical rule for a ratio is that it is expressed in its lowest terms. So we are mistaken when we express the purchase of 2 tickets as changing the odds to 2:120,000,000. To do so violates the mathematical rule, t
May 5, 2004, 4:06 pm - wiseone2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
I sent in this question to Powerball.com and they provided the following answer:Q: CAn a person effectively reduce the odds of winning a powerball jackpot by usingthis formula?; 1:120,526,770/N, where N is the number of tickets purchased. Inother words, can 2:120,526,770 be reduced to 1:60,263,385, where 2 is the numberof tickets purchased?A: You cannot purchase enough tickets to effectively reduce your odds in thisgame. Instead of thinking about it as odds, think about it as numbers.There a
May 5, 2004, 1:19 pm - wiseone2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Best way to predict numbersReply
Quote: Originally posted by prob987 on April 08, 2004Yeah, I do. But I think our problem lies in that we are talking about two different situations. I am buying two quickpicks, as described in my original post, to demonstrate that one can in fact routinely experience beating the odds of 1 in 1.8 X 10^16. I am not doing it to see if I can produce two equivalent tickets. The odds of producing a quick pick of arbitrary sequence is indeed exactly equal to winning the lottery. The odds of prod
Apr 9, 2004, 8:13 am - Jake649 - Jackpot Games Forum

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Apr 8, 2004, 12:12 am - gilla - Pick 3 Forum

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Welcome, Platinum298! I'm a PowerBall player for going on two years now. They don't have MegaMillions where I live so I don't have interest in knowing about its odds, I guess. I'm assuming the MegaMillions odds might be higher because more people play it? Don't know if it would have anything to do with their mathmatical differences (any corrections welcomed). I just enjoy picking PowerBall numbers, which to me, gives me better jackpot odds than getting a Quick Pick. At least, I feel like I h
Mar 19, 2004, 2:18 am - OpenMinded - Lottery Discussion Forum