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What do you consider a successful system?Reply
Lottery game odds and payouts are often structured in such a way that even if you do an great job of beating the odds, you still don't win big, or even possibly break even. Luck is still the largest determining factor of big wins, even with a good system.
Aug 5, 2005, 2:13 am - WannaWinSoon - Lottery Systems Forum

Lotto South $8 millionReply
Nothing. All of the secondary prizes are woefully small in comparison to the odds. If you're going to a large jackpot though, the odds are certainly much better with Lotto South than with PowerBall or Megamillions.
Aug 4, 2005, 9:43 am - lchoro - Jackpot Games Forum

Side Stepping...
After the double triple 0's were drawn in MO the other night. I sent this e-mail. The woman totally side-stepped the second question all together. I'm not done yet though. I'm sending a reply to the answer she sent getting a little more specific. Last year we had ball drawn games. I am going to ask her how much ticket sales have dropped off on the Pick 3 game since July of last year. I will have to have them exclude the midday drawing since it didn't exist last year but I sure they would try to
Jul 31, 2005, 12:59 pm - Bryan - Lottery Discussion Forum

July's new scratchers for TNReply
I've played all of them. No luck from them though. I've played 5 or 6 Big money and only won a ticket. The odds are killer. I liked the fact that we have a number matching game instead of fruits but the odds have to be better on the next one.
Jul 28, 2005, 10:37 am - Tnplayer805 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

**New PB Game** - SSSReply
PB decided to have odds of winning the jackpot at 146 million to 1 because many people win small PB jackpots and sales are dropping. If the red PB had only 42, how many WB would it take in order to have odds of winning the jackpot is 176+ million to 1?
Jul 27, 2005, 8:29 pm - Just6ntlc - Mathematics Forum

First MM JP Rollover too small?Reply
I go to the California Web Site for Mega Millions to check on the odds of winning the MEGA Ball and odds of winning. CA had a lackluster sales drive in MM this time with $2 for 1/5+MB and $1 for 0/5+MB.
Jul 27, 2005, 12:31 pm - Just6ntlc - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsReply
I'm new to this, but the bigger jackpots got my attention. I prefer no jackpot winners and the impossible odds so I can sleep at night knowing it more than likely rolled over if I didn't win the big one.Now all we need is a merger with MM taking over PB for a super duper mega power billion $ jackpot at odds at least equal to the national population. Now that would be a lottery.BArry, still playing California'd SL and now MM!
Jul 26, 2005, 11:56 pm - Drywall1 - Lottery News

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsReply
Impossible odds to impossible payouts? The lottery would have to have a payout around 80% for that kind of prize, and the jackpot would be the only prize. I take it you have no idea how lottery payouts work, or at least need to find yourself a odds calculator. Otherwise the king of the world might find himself bankrupt from being too generous with prizes.
Jul 26, 2005, 9:47 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery News

Mega Millions matrix - Own picks or QP?Reply
They should make the second prize a million bucks. Several state lotteries have odds roughly equal to that of MM's second prize and they pay out over a million dollars. I believe Md's pays over a million for the same odds.
Jul 26, 2005, 12:29 pm - lchoro - Jackpot Games Forum

S.C. Lottery officials continue to investigate drawing errorReply
PS- I just found something that is somewhat horrifyingly truthful on the SCEL website.... If you look under the Add-A-Play feature of the site, scroll to the very bottom... you will see this:OVERALL ODDS: 1:4.54 Average odds of not winning are 1 in 1.2825 <------------------Why would they even think about putting something like this on there?!?!?!?
Jul 23, 2005, 9:32 pm - NoCompLotto! - Lottery News