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Why Do Mathematicians Consider The Lottery RandomReply
Htime. owever, you are MORE LIKELY to lose, because playing that many numbers will result in the house edge slowly wearing down your bankroll over Joker said he's playing 65% of the numbers not drawn in one pool and probably in a state that just started a pick-4 game. It's obvious that in a year or two that well will run dry and he'll do something different. You're talking about the house edge as if it's something nobody heard of it. I'd think your friend would be better off not playin
Aug 26, 2011, 12:36 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

What's with NY Sweet Million??Reply
Have you ever thought about wheeling some numbers to win a SM JP? Why not try wheeling SM numbers? I mean The State of New York says SM offers the best odds of winning a million dollars in any online jackpot game. And that's true. Go ahead and check the other states websites, you wont find an online JP game with odds as good as SM's. So maybe wheeling numbers with SM is a good idea, right? I've thought about using a wheel, but I cant afford it. Here's why; If I wheeled 9 numbers, it'd cost
May 24, 2011, 7:53 am - GiveFive - Jackpot Games Forum

How do you know if your Lottery System is getting better ?Reply
How can you POSSIBLY even THINK the lottery is a scam? They display the odds very clearly, and every one of us here knows the odds, it is not a scam whatsoever. What do you want it to be? one in three odds of winning 100 Million dollars? Are you out of your mind? Listen, we ALL know the odds, I don't think any one of us truly EXPECTS to win, but playing the lottery is NO DIFFERENT than betting on a trifecta at a horse race (albeit with much higher odds), we play this GAME as a SPORT,
May 23, 2011, 12:58 pm - guesser - Lottery Systems Forum

Is it true...?Reply
To cover every line wouldnt you have to pay the amount the odds are (in which case you'd be spending almost $200 million)? Yes, you'd need to buy every combination, which is the same as the odds. The incident mentioned happend many years ago in VA (IIRC), and was for a state game that had odds that are much lower than today's big jackpot games. It wasn't tremendously unusual for those games to build up to the point that the cash payout substantially exceeded the odds. I forget the details,
Feb 17, 2011, 3:07 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$330 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot nears record highReply
No, no, no. The odds for 1 ticket is 1 in 175,711,536. The 1 is the 1 ticket and the 175,711,536 are the number of possibilities. The odds for 5 tickets is 5 in 175,711,536. Note the 5 is the 5 tickets, but the number of chances does not change, only the number of tickets purchased. Now then, odds are essentially fractions. The 1 in 175,711,536 can be written as 1 over 175,711,536, or 1 divided by 175,711,536. So the 5-ticket purchase is 5 over (or divided by ) 175,711,536. To get th
Jan 3, 2011, 10:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Define A System That Works...Reply
This needs clarification... Take a Box bet for P3. Odds are 1:166 for a str8 set. If you win more than once in 166 plays (bets) you beat the odds. The odds for a Straight win are 1:1000. The odds for a Box win are 1:166. ( 1000/6 ) However, in PA a winning $1 Box ticket only pays $80.00, so you must do some SERIOUS selecting, or be extremely LUCKY to make money in this game over time. 80-166 equals an $86 LOSS over 166 $1 plays. In PA, you must win more than 2 Box bets in 166 plays to
Jul 31, 2010, 1:46 am - jimmy4164 - Lottery Systems Forum

Pick4: Which One you Prefer: $2,000 (1 in 200 odds), or $2,500 (1 in 10,000 odds)..
I THOUGHT SO...I dont specialize in Pick4...But i am thinking the following...Many go for the Pick4: STRAIGHT OPTION which i am very fuzzy about but i think it pays: $5,000 and after taxes is what is it?? $2,5000 but the problem is that the odds are: 1 in 10,000..... However a Box wheel has: 200 combinations or 210 combinations, dont remember and if you get the numbers boxed you get: $200....But $10 x $200 = $2,000 without tax....Is the SAME THING AS PLAYING A: Pick4 STRAIGHT COMBINATION FOR
Apr 20, 2010, 3:02 pm - pumpi76 - Pick 4 Forum

A question about lotto system oddsReply
When playing just a few lines, I simply run through them to make certain that there's no smaller number combinations shared by any two of the numbers so that I know that I'm getting a wide a field as possible with those few tickets. If the minimum prize is for a three number match then I make certain that there are no three number sequences shared by all the lines. With a pick 6 game out of a field of 49, each line is one of 49C6 combinations and unless you bought the exact same numbers, there's
Jan 11, 2010, 7:48 pm - jwhou - Lottery Discussion Forum

Listings of Jackpot > odds?Reply
But why include taxes? everyone pays taxes, no? I took taxes into account because they determine how much you actually get. You're balancing risk and reward, and the point at which they're equal is when buying every combination would result in breaking even by recovering what was spent. In other words, buying all 175,711,536 combinations by spending $175,711,536 would win back the $175,711,536 that was spent. Of course much of the money is returned to players in the form of smaller prizes,
Nov 28, 2009, 1:59 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Ohio New Years Raffle Starts November 20th!Reply
The Ohio Lottery website now has the prize levels posted as follows: 4 - 1 Million Prizes (Odds: 1 in 125,000) 10 - $10,000 Prizes (Odds: 1 in 50,000) 120 - $1,500 Prizes (Odds: 1 in 4,167) 1000 - $500 Prizes (Odds: 1 in 500) 2200 - $100 Prizes (Odds: 1 in 227) They will be selling 500,000 tickets and there will be no $100 instant wins this year. The drawing will be January 2, 2010 and the winning numbers will be posted on the website at 9:00pm. Good luck to anyone
Nov 14, 2009, 11:22 pm - LotteryGuy - Jackpot Games Forum