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Grading a Lotto SystemReply
jason-eagle, What you would get back is called the Expected Value of the wager. Expected Value is the Probability of Winning multiplied by the Payoff IF you Win. We need more information to answer your question in this case. Specifically, what the publisher means by 1:8.1. In most Pick-3 games, for example, the published odds are 1:1000 for a straight bet, and most states pay $500 for a winning $1 straight ticket. So, in these games, the Expected Value (EV) of a $1 straight ticket purch
Jan 26, 2011, 1:16 am - jimmy4164 - Lottery Systems Forum

Statistics around the balance of even/odd and small/big numbersReply
Jimmy Every lottery that I know of uses RNG's and without them there would be no quick-picks. The purpose for this workout was to show that random QP's are not evenly distributed and large clumps of similar number sets are produced. This can be tested but is not really necessary. I view QP's like this. If a lottery like my 5-39 sells 70,000 tickets on any given day and 70% of those are QP's or 49,000 then what are the odds that the final set will duplicate one of the previous g
Jan 20, 2011, 9:35 am - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Mathematics Forum

Statistics around the balance of even/odd and small/big numbersReply
RL-RANDOMLOGIC, Your observation of the difference in the frequency of sets with more or less odd or even numbers is analogous to observing that the sum of the 5 numbers in a majority of sets falls into a minority of the total range of possible sums. The same is true for observing the number of unique digits in a set, or the average spread between the numbers. None of these patterns have anything to do with the probability of any particular set emerging. They just ARE! I thought my poi
Jan 16, 2011, 12:20 pm - jimmy4164 - Mathematics Forum

Numbers for the week 9th-16th
Numbers for the Week all States Odds......... .259 087 260 810 027 978 089 017 092 270 057 058 059 736 836 601 490 093 159 187 136 126 127 189 149 157 158 My favourite numbers 021*****033***034****036***900***023***045 910*101****100***300****013***014***500***145 123** 113*** 133*** 122 220 112 990 919 111 ******222 333****444 555 666 777 888 999****000*** Wish you all the best and Good Luck
Jan 9, 2011, 8:42 am - Erica luck - Pick 3 Forum

Have you ever wondered why many lottery retailers are owned by members of certain racial minorities?Reply
It started back in the 1960s by our dearly deceased Teddy Kennedy and all of his Democratic pals. That is when things started really going downhill fast. You see up until that point, almost all legal immigration to the US was from Europe. Now almost all immigration to the US is from third world countries. These worthless Democrats decided that America needed to be a part of one of the most disastrous social experiments on earth: to become a melting pot, but that the pot needed new ingredients
Jan 8, 2011, 11:53 pm - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Lucky and unlucky Scratch-off ticket numbersReply
If you are going to spend $100, you might try my power buying strategy, but I would only buy $5 tickets, and read the rolls. If you get a $20 winner, then 3 or 4 losers, then a $10 or $15 winner, then I would say you are not near a big prize. If you are going to buy more than one of each ticket, it may be worthwhile to buy them until you hit the overall odds, but then you are stuck with whether to give up, or keep trying. I think you are more likely to find a bigger prize in the bigger tickets,
Dec 14, 2010, 6:02 pm - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

$750,000 Winner - Jingle Jumbo Bucks - 2010Reply
CarHauler said: Is it just me, or are consecutive ticket wins, in exact order almost nonexistent? I keep hearing that 2 tickets in a row do happen, but I am not sure that it has ever happened to me. I think it is just as random as several losing tickets in a row. One time I cashed in a $5 winning 'ticket' winner and the cashier was one of those that said 'you HAVE to buy $5 worth of tickets' as opposed to giving me cash. So I got $5 worth of junior jumbos. All 5 were winnners for a grand tot
Dec 6, 2010, 7:28 am - TheOtherOne - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Let's create a "So what" testReply
In football, it's all about percentages. You put your team in a position with the most favorable matchups and call the play with the best chance of success. Sometime it works. Sometimes it doesn't. But you come away from that particular experience knowing you did the best you could. Behind the scenes you go back, you look it over, and see what you have to do to correct the problem, if there was one, or continue with the same idea. Lottery is the a lot like that. Now maybe I missed the point o
Nov 28, 2010, 1:12 am - garyo1954 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Scratch off methods.Reply
Jumbo Jumbo Bucks has been around for quite a while. There are only 28 out of 120 top prizes left. I do not think you have this game in TN, or at least I did not see it listed on the TN website. A lot of the games seem the same, but I was surprised to see that Jingle Jumbo Bucks was only $250,000 in TN whereas the top prize in GA is $750,000. It might be that TN has more top prizes, but they are smaller. I have nearly given up on Jingle Jumbo Bucks. I have never won more than $20, and it sure
Nov 27, 2010, 6:12 am - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Oregon Lottery creates 2 Thanksgiving millionairesNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Oregon Lottery today held the state's fifth raffle drawing the second it has held near Thanksgiving. The appropriately-named Thanksgiving Raffle resulted in two new millionaires and over two thousand other prize winners. A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Oregon Lottery Results page. This year's Thanksgiving Raffle has twice as many winners as last year's because the lottery doubled the number of available tickets. E
Nov 23, 2010, 9:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News