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I would have to go with pick 3 in DE unless they had a 6 digit lotto like WV (6 out of 25). I like this game and wish I lived closer to the WV line where I could play often. The odds of winning are only about 1 in 175,000. They pay up to 10 winners $25,000 each if there were that many. I don't think they have ever had that problem. They pay $250 for 5 numbers, $10 for 4 numbers and $1 for 3 numbers. I play this game every year when I go to Illinois to visit my mother and I have won several times
Jun 11, 2005, 1:13 pm - lottobrain - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions in CAReply
Its called a lottery. Even pick 3 straight has terrible odds. Imagine your doctor gave you the same odds or worse a pick 4 straight game. The difference between 20-40 million isn't much considering it's a game for the entire USA. If it were for the enire state of Wyoming ok - its too long. Wyoming could just have a pick 4 straight game for their state lottery when or if they form one. But for 300+ million people living in the US it had better be some pretty long odds to generate prizes worth pl
Jun 1, 2005, 10:58 pm - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameReply
You speak as if a 21% increase in odds against winning is no big deal. If that is the case why not just double them. How about 300mil:1? Then we could watch 2-3 winners a year win half a billion dollars or so, thats obsurd. You can already see $100-200 million jackpots with the 120m:1 odds as it happened 5 times last years, so why jack it up just because a few people hit it early this year. And as for a 3.5mil:1 chance of winning $200,000 being a great deal.. this is equally obsurd. Our lo
Apr 8, 2005, 3:19 pm - tony95 - Lottery News

Texas Lottery Approves Mega Millions ChangesReply
I agree. I would like to see no changes until 1 year after CA joins. Before they increase the odds again, they should address why the anticipated and advertised $300-500 million jackpots didn't happen even before TX CA joined. Personally, I'm glad the $300-500 million jackpot never happened, since I don't think anyone really needs more than $30 million and having more winners makes it more fun. No winner week after week is not only dreary, it reminds you how bad the odds are. But the lottery
Mar 16, 2005, 9:49 am - tg636 - Lottery News

Buying more tickets = reduced oddsReply
Quote: Originally posted by wiseone2 on May 06, 2004I only attempted to use math (however inaccurately) to mainly save a lot of people some money. I personally don't think math and the lottery go together. It that were the case, the greatest mathematicians in the world would be winning the jackpots all the time.The greatest mathematicians in the world would know their odds of winning or losing a lottery. They would tell you if you told a person buying a ticket for a pick3 game that he would n
May 6, 2004, 9:03 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Best way to predict numbersReply
Quote: Originally posted by prob987 on April 08, 2004My system works reasonably well. I win at about the expected rate for the number of tickets I buy.Quick picks can actually fall somewhat below the expected rate under certain circumstances. There is, however small, some probability, equal to the odds of winning, that if you buy two quickpicks, you will actually get exactly the same numbers, for instance, the computer might give you 7-10-13-16-19 with a megaball of 22 twice. In this case y
Apr 9, 2004, 6:46 am - winningdraw - Jackpot Games Forum

How is it possible?Reply
Quote: Originally posted by Andrew on February 13, 2004No one will flip the coin 10 times in a row(and get the same result all ten times), you should try it sometime... Statistics and pure chance play against you there. Here is why:the odds of one single dvent occuring (coin flip) is 1:2 the odds of one dvent (H-H dvent) out of two flips is 1:4 (H-H, H-T, T-H, T-T)the odds of one dvent (H-H-H) out of three flips is 1:8 (H-H-H, H-H-T, H-T-H, H-T-T, T-H-H, T-H-T, T-T-H,T-T-T)And it goes on (expo
Feb 13, 2004, 3:18 pm - Fwup - Lottery Discussion Forum

Scratch off Odds?Reply
Generally Scratch Odds are posted, and yes, they are better than even the best on-line games overall, usually in general. Worst is 1 in 5, but best is 1 in 1; like apparently in Ohio, our $20 Christmas ticket guarantees at least $5 on every ticket. What isn't always known is the Payout, I sat down and figured it out and could be as well as 60%.Actually better than the average slot machine. Here in Pa. we have our cash 5 which is 1 in 8 of getting your dollar back. And the new Match 6 will be
Dec 23, 2003, 1:29 pm - Lotto Czar - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

What's the Purpose of the Printed Time of Purchase on Tickets, If Drawing is 15 min to 1 hr Later?Reply
Not to beat a dead horse, but from your other posts...... Mega Millions Draw 9/13/19 6-16-37-59-62 (5) Ok.. Here's what Probability Math said for this MM drawing... Ball 6... was at a 4.50 Frq (in a 12.5 class) it drew at 13 games past..odds were 1.:1 Ball 16... was at 3.43 Frq (12.5 Class), RF math said it should draw at 16.5/38 games.. it fell at 16/ 38 games..odds were 1:1.33 Ball 37...was at 3.84 Frq (12.5 class) RF math said it should draw at 6.08 games..It drew a
Oct 13, 2019, 7:27 pm - garyo1954 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
So we can see where the confusion comes from... original post is about odds, but title says probability... Probability of buying N tickets for X possible combinations is ALWAYS N in X or N out of X. in probability X is the possible combos and cannot be reduced, your probability with 2 tickets of a pick 2 is ALWAYS 2 in 100, buy 5 tickets, it is 5 out of 100. The Odds are different, you can express those as (N-X) to (N), such as pick 2 with one ticket being 99 to 1 odds, with 5 tickets yo
Mar 29, 2026, 10:39 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum