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question for guru!!Reply
In a 6/49 lottery, there are 13,983,316 possible combinations, thus odds of 1:1393316. I have run tests using a RNG that pick combinations at random and it has matched all six number many times in less than 25,000 picks, but that didn't mean the odd were reduce to 1:25K using a RNG and I've read that many times when someone wins the 649 lotteries, 70% or less of all combinations were covered, but that doesn't mean the odds were actually 1:9788321. If the odds could be reduce to even 1:200000 u
Dec 8, 2003, 8:13 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

powerball at 76 milReply
I'd rather just see a truce, because the odds of winning are the same for each person playing. It doesn't prove much. lottoking's numbers are just as good as anyone else's if he can get a hold of the range problems. I have no problem with him when he isn't baiting people and letting them down. The odds are the same for all of us. It would be great to see one of us, lottoking included, to beat the odds and give life a good swift kick in the teeth for a change.I'm glad the board grew, hopefully w
Dec 7, 2003, 10:48 pm - Bug - Jackpot Games Forum

December: The Good, Bad & UglyReply
Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on December 02, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by lottocheatah on December 02, 2003 It should be obvious. You've reduced the game from a, say, 5/39 to a 4/38. That's getting MUCH closer to that elusive jackpot.Going for the second number: Do you recall that I once told you that one or more of the numbers that hit last draw will hit again next draw 50% of the time? ........Lottocheatah,It should be obvious to you, if you do the math, that every number in a group of
Dec 2, 2003, 8:32 pm - lottocheatah - Pick 5 Forum

Open Discussion: Define/Refine PredictionReply
with the exception of the test a few posts ago, I never play the pick 3... mostly because anything I have tried on paper either does not work or generates too many picks...I have basically restricted my actual betting to 1 QP per drawing of the powerball until I come up with something better than what I was doing. there are a few reasons for this, first and foremost being the odds equation is NOT reduceable...using the pick 3 as an example, play 1 combo straight, odds are 1:1000, play 2... odds
Nov 28, 2003, 7:26 pm - hypersoniq - Pick 3 Forum

NY Lotto: 25 years of ripping off winnersReply
Those odds don't sound that bad. In OhioSuperLotto,a 6/49+1 game, the overall odds of winning something(a free QP for annuity payments) is 1:54, but the odds of winning the smallest cash amount ($5) is 1:812 for a $1 play, that's about 81 to 1 for a buck per every 50 spent.A few years ago they had a limit on what a single ticket would pay regardless of the jackpot size. That was doing the good old days when jackpots were as high $60M and rollovers were a least $4M. After people stopped playing
Nov 17, 2003, 3:04 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Real QuestionReply
I was pointing more towards the odds of winning aspect, as in those that hope more, play more, win less. It's as if I could increase my odds of winning by playing less or putting less thought into the amount of purchase and frequency. Could that increase my odds in some miraculous formula, are you following me? An example would be that I have never heard, read, found anyone that has won using any system, formula or the like but I have heard many stories of 1 time players winning. Now that makes
Oct 10, 2003, 4:20 am - acronym007 - Lottery Discussion Forum

does wheeling really improve your odds??Reply
1000 would be alot to play on a wheel more than i've ever spent on any one drawing. but i do agree that excluding numbers can definately result in a decrease in your odds of a jackpot win. same with covering all the powerball/mega numbers with the same set of white balls vs playing a larger number of white combinations on only 1-3 powerball/mega numbers. if your powerball choice comes up then having a large number of white ball combo's really increase your odds of winning but if it doesnt then y
Oct 5, 2003, 7:29 pm - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

Question for you math pros...Reply
It is really a problem of perspective. When they half the odds as in the Md. 6/49 from 1 in 13,983,816 per game board to 2 game boards per dollar dropping the odds to 1 in 6,991,908. It is really looking at the least amount of dollars to cover all the possible numbers, so 6,991,908 dollars covers all 13,983,816 positions. I don't know if the information that everyone is looking at is different, but where do these jackpot games give out odds just because an extra dollar is played? I don't see it
Oct 4, 2003, 1:29 pm - Bug - Lottery Discussion Forum

Question for you math pros...Reply
Loops, I know where you're coming from and I'm a big fan of Ion Saliu.. But using logic as our guide, I think that if you have only 10 possible single outcomes of an dvent and you pick one of them there are still nine possible outcomes available...your odds would be 9-1 on your first pick, 8-1 on your second pick because you have two picks, but only one can come in so one pick is eliminated from the drawing pool. The probability theory says that our odds should be 5 -1 with our second pick.
Oct 4, 2003, 10:58 am - Rick G - Lottery Discussion Forum

New breakthrough prediction systemReply
Actually, If i understand Entropy correctly, the number of states in an entropic system is equal to the number of possible outcomes... therefore the powerball white balls have 2,939,677 states , or possible outcomes. This is why playing 2 tickets does NOT turn 1/2,939,677 into 1/1469838.5 because buying 2 tickets does not magically eliminate 1469838.5 other states . the ONLY way to reduce odds is in a game like the powerball that has 2 separate systems goin on (5/53 + 1/42) odds of predictin
Sep 21, 2003, 9:19 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Systems Forum