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Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!That's me screaming, because I can't believe you're going to take us down this same road again!No one said that buying a second ticket makes 60,000,000 combinations disappear.It reduces your odds to 1 in 60,000,000.Also, buying 11 lines can contain all 53 numbers... play them mixed up 4 times... 44 lines total does not increase your odds of winning the jackpot (over 44 Quick Picks). It would only ensure that you win at least a lower-tier prize.
May 6, 2004, 9:58 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia Lottery has largest payout ever in Pick 4Reply
prizes depend on odds....the odds are the same for any exact order combination....however, for box (or any order) combinations, having multiple digits be the same, decreases the number of combinations, which makes it harder to win...thus higher prizes....
May 6, 2004, 9:24 pm - vincejr - Lottery News

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I agree its a game for the small states. Pennsylvania will never join.As for the odds. The second place prize odds stink. Your better off putting a buck on your local states pick 5 game.Chas
May 6, 2004, 8:44 pm - keystonechas - Jackpot Games Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
You can argue if it is effective reducing of the odds, meaning whether or not you are much closer to winning a jackpot, but you are being intellectually dishonest if you refuse to admit that you have reduced the odds by buying additional tickets.Arguing whether using math to give oneself a sense that purchasing more tickets to win a pb jackpot or any lottery game is effective is exactly my point. I only attempted to use math (however inaccurately) to mainly save a lot of people some money. I p
May 6, 2004, 5:42 pm - wiseone2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
On a jackpot game, you can enhance your chances of winning (albeit ever so slightly) by buying more sets of numbers, but the odds of the game remain the same. The odds of any one set of numbers being drawn are unaffected.
May 6, 2004, 2:13 am - ayenowitall - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
How people come up with some of their odds is beyond me.In a 6/49 game the odds to win a 6 number prize is one in 13,983,816To win a 5 number prize one in 54,201To win a 4 number prize one in 1,032To win a 3 number prize one in 57Chas
May 5, 2004, 5:07 pm - keystonechas - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Quote: Originally posted by Jake649 on May 03, 2004hypersonig,To use your example of the pick 3 game. Say you played 500 tickets. My formula says your new odds are 1 in 2 (50% chance). Your formula says you have only odds of 1 in 500 becuase there are 500 numbers not covered.I am willing to bet my paycheck that I am right.Jakeno, I would say it would be 500:1000the 1000 is constant...
May 4, 2004, 4:19 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Unless your talking pick 3 or pick 4 games where payouts are set, any calculations at buying more tickets to reduce the odds is useless. As wiseone2 stated your dealing with a parimutuel game. Number of winning tickets sold divided by the jackpot.So why bother with ticket reduction odds?Chas
May 4, 2004, 4:10 am - keystonechas - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
dragon,To add Jake's argument to the mix, he is saying that if you buy the 123 and the 124, the odds of winning are essentially cut in half, going from 1 in 1000 to 1 in 500. Basic mathematics would say that you can reduce a fraction from 2/1000 to 1/500, but the question here is does that same reduction principle apply to the odds?
May 3, 2004, 11:47 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
hypersonig,To use your example of the pick 3 game. Say you played 500 tickets. My formula says your new odds are 1 in 2 (50% chance). Your formula says you have only odds of 1 in 500 becuase there are 500 numbers not covered.I am willing to bet my paycheck that I am right.Jake
May 3, 2004, 9:39 pm - Jake649 - Lottery Discussion Forum