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Odds 101Reply
Whether you walk out of the store with 10 or even 1000 different pick-4 straight combinations, there are still 9999 outcomes that lose because only ONE straight combination is drawn. If I had tickets for 10% of the possible outcomes how could 99.99% of those outcomes result in losing? If I walk out of the store with 1000 tickets that all have different numbers on them there are 1000 combinations that result in one of my tickets winning. That means there are 9000 combinations where I lose
Jul 6, 2006, 3:45 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Odds 101Reply
Floyd said: There are also 10 numbers that , if drawn, will result in the player winning, because the number drawn will match one of the 10 tickets. That means that on the side of the odds equation that expresses the possible outcomes that result in the player wining we have 10. That makes the odds of losing 9990:10. (9990 outccomes that lose) : (10 outcomes that win), adding up to 10,000 possible outcomes. Whether you walk out of the store with 10 or even 1000 different pick-4 straight co
Jul 5, 2006, 5:30 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Where Is The Money?!Reply
Ah, Pick 3, then Pick 4, then scratchers. The odds against a pick 3 are 999:1 Against a Pick 4, 9999:1 Against most scrsatchers, chances are 1 in 4 to 6 of winning something - which includes a freee ticket, actually a push), naturally the odds are much higher for big prized Little Lotto , Pick 5, etc...for example Illinois Little Lotto, which is a 5 / 39 game, the odds of hitting the jackpot are 575,757:1 When you get into the pick 6 games those odds jump into the millions
May 12, 2006, 1:48 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

what are the oddsReply
Hmm....suppose both the phone numbers are in the same area code and the first three digits after the area code are irrelevant. Once you received the first phone number, what are the odds of coincidentally receiving a second similar number form someone else... There are 10,000 unique four digit ending sequences just like in the Pick 4 game (0000-9999). The odds of getting two phone numbers with the same ending digits in the same exact order is 1 in 10,000. If all four digits are the same,
Apr 15, 2006, 10:31 am - Thoth - Lottery Discussion Forum

My Scratch off Adventure
My scratch off lottery ticket experiment.After a good month where I made a killing working from home I decided to buy a couple books of lottery tickets and put aside about a grand to blow. I live in Illinois which offers fair games in my eyes compared to other states. I decided to play the Miles of Millions game as they still had three top prizes available and about 40% of the game had been sold. (Yes I realize that people could be holding on to winners) Finding books to buy for the $10 game
Sep 14, 2005, 2:04 pm - qutgnt - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Mega Millions lottery goes on sale in CaliforniaNews Story
Today, 35 million Californians get their first chance to buy a ticket on what may become the biggest lottery jackpot ever offered -- but the odds of winning a fortune are the longest ever seen.California becomes the 12th state to join the Mega Millions lottery game, where a ticket that costs only a dollar could, in time, win $500 million. The odds for this happening, however, are an astronomical one in 175 million, apparently a world record for a lottery.Until today, the longest odds of winning
Jun 22, 2005, 6:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Steve Player systems - Anyone use them?Reply
I ordered his Pick-4 MoneyMap System last year ($495.00). After losing almost $10k playing the Hoosier Lottery's Daily4 game, I found out that they no longer use ping-pong balls, but switched to an electronic random number generator sometime in 2000, and they won't say when they changed it over. They didn't bother to publicize the switch, so people think they're still using the PPB method because the program is animated to look like ping-pong balls. They use this machine for all of their online
Dec 9, 2003, 4:34 am - jim695 - Lottery Systems Forum

Do lottery systems really work?Reply
everett,i should clarify two things.(1) i have been playing the lottery for 7 years. i currently live in georgia where i play mega-millions.i will have lived in ga for 6 years in june. prior to moving to georgia i lived in california where i played super lotto plus.(2) i used to play $2 on every draw. i played one quick pick and one ticket on birthday numbers. i dropped playing the birthday numbers when i came to lottery post. the reason that i did is that i believe that a lottery win has everyt
Apr 24, 2003, 9:36 pm - visiondude - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Post's guide to 2024 holiday raffles across the USANews Story
Annual holiday raffles making a comeback this year Update: Montana Lottery Montana Millionaire raffle tickets sell out in just three hours By Kate Northrop With the holidays ahead, this marks the time of year when state lotteries across the U.S. start amping up excitement for their own annual raffles, many of which offer the best odds at winning a million dollars compared to any other game offered in-state. For that reason alone, it's no wonder many raffles sell out so quickly.
Nov 1, 2024, 7:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

Winner of $95 million Lotto Texas lottery jackpot gamed the odds to winNews Story
New Jersey based group turned the odds to win in their favor By Kate Northrop Around this time one year ago, the Texas Lottery's Lotto Texas jackpot was bursting at the seams, boasting the game's third-largest prize ever at a mouthwatering $95 million. One New Jersey-based group gamed the odds to win the jackpot. Following a seven-month period without a winner, the Lotto Texas jackpot had ballooned to $95 million for the drawing on April 22, 2023, the game's largest in over 12 years.
Apr 28, 2024, 12:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News