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Prediction ChallengeReply
The trouble with running a test for a game like MegaMillions, even if you beat the odds or random expectations you would not show a profit unless you matched one of the high end prizes. The odds of having a winning ticket is 1:39.8 and most of those tickets pay $2-$7.
Mar 12, 2006, 3:26 am - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

vtracs....useless or not??Reply
Picking 25 to 45 combos and checking them against all the pick3 games is a way to guarantee a few hits and is an old trick. The overall odds of a box hit is 1:220 in pick3 games. Comparing 25 to 45 combos with 30 different games is the same as comparing 750-1350 combos to one game which make the odds of a hit is 3-7:1 when considering box hits. That is no way to prove a pick3 system is a winner, you don't even have to know math to know that.
Mar 3, 2006, 4:16 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

STOP that noise !!Reply
Yes, exactly Califdude. This is about the odds against any one person when they buy one combination or two combinations, etc. It has nothing to do with whether other people may have the same combination. Other people are irrelevant in this scenario. All the math tricks in the world don't change that, because you are only facing the odds against you when you buy a ticket(s).
Feb 24, 2006, 7:15 pm - Badger - Lottery Discussion Forum

odds are reducedReply
Yes, exactly. I don't know why, but seems a lot of people think they better their odds considerably by buying a few different combinations over if they would have only purchased one combination. It's a real drop in the bucket and does almost nothing to improve your odds.
Feb 22, 2006, 6:05 am - Badger - Lottery Discussion Forum

alittle odd...Reply
Odd is how the game with the longest odds hasn't even come close to the record. By all accounts Megamillions should have had a large pot by now but it hasn't. It still is number two, the record being held by Euromillions which has only 1:76 million odds.
Feb 20, 2006, 4:09 pm - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

Sums...Reply
The sums 13 and 14 appear 75 times in the 1,000 possibilities. In three drawings after a combination with this sum appears the chances of a combination with the same sum appearing in the next three drawings is 225::1,000, or 1::4.44. Other sums have longer odds.The sums 0 and 27 (000 and 999, respectively) have odds of appearing in any three given draws of 3::1,000, or 1::333.33. I would think this would be reliant on how you define the term significant .
Feb 19, 2006, 9:13 am - johnph77 - Pick 3 Forum

pb rollReply
Odds are it will be won, I made an estimate on roughly 1 in 24 odds of a roll. In percentage terms it's about a 4% chance of there being no winners. Judging by the jackpot rolls there should be about 140,000,000 tickets sold.
Feb 18, 2006, 11:16 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery can not be beaten!!Reply
How many times do we have to show that we can beat the odds to stop people from posting this kind of posts? Many people beat the odds very often, many of them every single day, that you yourself can't, that does not mean that many other people can't also.
Feb 16, 2006, 3:21 am - LANTERN - Lottery Discussion Forum

random means it cannot be definedReply
ummm...not that I mastered in math but the odds do not change on a coin toss no matter how many times you flip them. each individual toss carries the same odds. Now if you want to talk about how gravity plays a part in the toss THEN maybe an open debate could ensue.
Feb 13, 2006, 7:59 pm - TheGameGrl - Lottery Systems Forum

At what point (matrix) would you not playReply
Powerball odds of 1:146.1 million Megamillions odds of 1:175.5 million I like the idea of having an automatic $1 million winner if 5/5 white balls are hit. Forget the Powerplay option, and try to make a lot of millionaires. That is an amount that is worth shooting for, plus the odds of hitting 5/5 white balls is about 1: 3 million. Not too bad. They could even raise the number of white balls to increase the odds of hitting 5/5 white balls (on Powerball). Plus, this way the money is
Feb 7, 2006, 3:21 pm - WorldWide777 - Lottery Discussion Forum