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would you rather win 1, 10, 50, 100, or 500 million $Reply
The jackpot cash value, adjusted for the probability of there being another winner, was worth about $2.25. Add 32 cents worth of lower prizes, for a total of about $2.57 for a ticket that costs $2. $6M for a $2 wager when the odds of winning is 1 in almost 300 million is a joke. That's worth 2 cents! Add the 32 cents worth of lower prizes for a total of 34 cents. No thanks.
Jan 9, 2026, 3:45 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying MM or PB lottery ticketsReply
Assuming the three tickets are different, your odds of winning is 3 in 22.5 million. 3/22500000 = 1/7500000. Imagine you buy 22.4 million tickets (all with different numbers, not QP as you'll have lots of duplicates). Clearly your chances of winning are extremely high, 224/225.
Jan 8, 2026, 1:40 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying MM or PB lottery ticketsReply
Becuase that 2nbd place prize is woerth $2 million if you win it. You would save 16 cernts to rosk hittoing $2Million How bad do the odds need to be before everyone realizes how stupid it is to say it makes sense to buy a ticket because 2nd place is worth $2 million ?
Dec 27, 2025, 10:02 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The estimated sales for tonight's Powerball draw have been revised down. Now the estimated odds of the jackpot being won is 26.9% from the previous 29.8%. The jackpot is estimated to reach $1.57 billion as opposed to the original estimate of $1.6 bilion.
Dec 22, 2025, 12:54 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida's Fantasy 5Reply
Yeah you are correct------------5/42 game with 850,668 to 1 odds! Good Luck, Chris
Dec 18, 2025, 5:48 pm - chris632 - Pick 5 Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Random numbers are not supposed to be coordinated (whatever that means, we're talking about randomly drawn numbers here). They may appear to be coordinated in whatever so-called system you are using, but that is a coincidence. Anyone who blames their failure to win a very long odds jackpot draw game on California liberalism has totally lost it.
Dec 18, 2025, 4:54 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Most Essential Skillset To Beat The LotteryReply
All of this is the effect of the odds, I suppose. Aaaand, sometimez resourceful RiGgIn..!!... Along with requiring 15 min - 1 hr B4 draw time..
Dec 17, 2025, 7:55 am - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Odds improve linearly with each ticket purchase, not exponentially. Okay, I'll play. Is there a reason you said that?
Dec 14, 2025, 1:30 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

my idea for a multi-state lotteryReply
4) 10 cents of each ticket gets added to the jackpot. Thoughts? I think you've made a mistake, presumably in point 4. You know the chance of matching 6 of 68 is 1 in 109.45 million, so you should expect 1 jackpot winner for every 109.45 million tickets. With 10 cents from each ticket going to the jackpot you'll have just under $11 million each time you pay a winner $25 million. You could do that with an annuity, but if you hand out cash you have a problem. To fully fund a cash prize of $
Dec 12, 2025, 2:40 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The problem is that the $70 million has a 1 in 300 million chance of winning. Clearly a lot of people don't care about the odds of winning, or this game would be selling zero tickets. A 1 in 300 million chance of winning $35 million (the real prize, not the fake $70M) is worth about 15 cents. But these tickets don't cost 15 cents. They cost $5. That is outrageous.
Dec 11, 2025, 10:10 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum