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Best pick options per position to actual win ratio?Reply
They are the real odds, yes. But they are odds that include quick pick sales. Most tickets are quick picks. You also have the ones that play 1,2,3,4,5 and the likes. Can you guess how many tickets are played with those numbers? Maybe do a little research and see. It's many. Just a little bit of thinking though and a whole lot of work, and those odds will drop. I guarantee it. Seen it. Random is what random is. Maybe life it's self isn't so random? How do you think that many things out ther
Jan 8, 2020, 5:11 am - Greenfox - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Website for CALottery...Reply
I got the same canned response too. They essentially told me the changes were to better serve mobile users and the visually impaired who use screen reading tech. How does removing most of the prize information about scratchers help blind people, or anyone for that matter? I see they now included the overall odds of winning a prize for each ticket, but some prizes are just a free ticket. The old website listed both the overall odds and the cash prize odds which are more relevant to a typical p
Oct 30, 2019, 7:10 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Definitively proving better odds on straight picksReply
Aye,.. You don't have to prove what you're saying to ME... I believe you, ... and that it can be done , if you study the Stats of your Game... I do it all the time,..and as soon as l learn to post pics of my Lottery tickets results on this site, I'll prove it can be done..and consistently...!! Lottery Officials don't want players to think that you can actually improve your odds waaay better than what they tell us... As I keep saying, the REAL odds are printed on the back of the play slip...!!
Sep 27, 2019, 2:02 am - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Hi Brock, yep I got 5 of the new $20 tickets, and won on 3 of them - two $20s and a $40 for $80 total. Tried a few each of the lower denom new ones and mostly struck out. I m for sure no expert but like Killer mentioned earlier the new $20 seems to have decent odds at $100K (as well as other top end odds), but comes somewhat at the expense of some mid-range odds (and lack of $20K prize), and as was also mentioned a fairly low issue of books (an initial run of 736,000 books if I m calculating
Sep 17, 2019, 10:21 pm - Cape $cratcher - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

What are Odds & Probability ?Reply
You got the dictionary definition; IE the chances of it happening in the next drawing, but most lottery players are in for the long haul and their odds and probability are for multiple drawings. The payoff odds can change depending on the number of chances whether it's the same play over time or multiple plays on one drawing. Either way if you bet $250 to collect $500, you're getting even money. We all know the probability of our two or three tickets winning a MM or PB jackpot are terrible, b
Sep 3, 2019, 12:30 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

RNG computer programReply
In general I don't like the use of computers to conduct lottery drawings, but setting that aside, I am having a difficult time understanding your meaning. When a lottery sets the odds for a game, it doesn't mean that a winner is guaranteed to win every so often, it just means that the odds of winning the random drawing are 1 in ___. Since you say the two are different, maybe you could explain the differences between a RNG random number generated game of chance and a game with odds . You may
Apr 5, 2019, 8:40 am - Todd - Mathematics Forum

Post Your Winning Tickets HereReply
Missed the p3 number last night because I didn't play....but yesterday afternoon I bought this bad odds card and won $100 on it. Guess I should start calling them good odds cards!....but the odds are bad ...most ot the time I have to buy more than one for sure! Yay kitty cat we can dance for $100!
Mar 15, 2019, 8:12 am - Vergie6 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia: 3/1 - 3/31/2019Reply
(Continued) So I'm going to try to make a parlay play starting with two of Nodda's number 006 and 248 fifty cents straight on each. If they hit, then parlay the winnings into 000 in the night draw. Q.E.D P.S. The overall odds of winning a double-straight parlay play like this one are one in one million, so very steep odds, similar to the original million dollar lottery that Virginia had way back in the day. I think the odds in that game were one in four million something.
Mar 7, 2019, 12:14 pm - parlayman - Pick 3 Forum

An Interesting Raffle QuestionReply
Sometimes it's a matter of semantics, and we can express odds in different ways. and expressing odds as a ratio of ways to win to ways to lose is how casino crap games make free odds payoffs. For instance there are six ways to make a seven and 5 ways to make 6 and 8 so those payoffs are $6 to $5. IMO, the best way to express chances of winning anything is by using percentages. If there are 10 possible outcomes and you have 2, you have a 20% chance of winning. Most lotteries express over
Feb 21, 2019, 4:35 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

What is up with the Lottery?Reply
The exact theoretical probability of winning any MM prize under the current 70-25 matrix is 300239/7204175. The inverse of this number is 7204175/300239, which is about 23.99480080868907770143119. They have kindly rounded it to 24 for you. The math doesn't lie and the MM lottery people have correctly calculated the probabilities and odds posted on their site for the current format. The odds they give you are not a guarantee that 1 out of every 24 tickets you buy will win something. It is enti
Jan 4, 2019, 2:42 pm - oate - Lottery Discussion Forum