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Lottery Numbers Aren't Meant To Be RandomReply
So, your new answer after your first flopped where you said its because they wanted to make sure the machine is working properly. Now, you have a revised answer: 'because people don't trust the lottery.' [Pausing for a moment of laughter] Oh boy.... ! Anyway, you might want to revised that answer for a 3rd attempt because the Texas Lottery only show a live drawing .....they never show the pre-test process. And have no intention of doing so. So from here, you j
Dec 19, 2025, 3:51 pm - Ney1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
If they advertise $794M, they get less excitement/sales than if they advertise $800. I more or less agree with your reasoning because, even though it's a small difference in the grand scheme the lottery would be offering a few million bucks more. If you look at advertised jackpots from the past I think you'll find that for whatever reason they take their best guess at sales and stick with that number. Four weeks ago they advertised the jackpot as $547 million instead of a nice round 550 whi
Nov 4, 2025, 1:40 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Where are they putting the additional unexpected $2M in sales? They're putting it in the same places as every other $5 in sales. They skim half off the top and the rest goes into the prize pools. The ads are only for estimated jackpots, and higher sales increase it. They're not going to change the advertised amount unless sales are substantially higher than expected, and if you got those numbers from the site that shall not be named (which you must have, because the Texas worksheet doesn't
Sep 20, 2025, 12:35 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
I simply load the last cash value, and subtract the previous cash value (generally off the Texas Lottery site) and use the cash/sales ratio to estimate sales . And in this case you got garbage out because you put garbage in as a result of data that wasn't updated. In this case it looks like you used the $498.4 million cash value for the originally announced $1.1 billion jackpot. The actual cash value at drawing time was about $46 million higher, so they needed almost 70 million fewer ticket
Sep 4, 2025, 3:37 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Banana Peel SystemReply
birds finding trees is like WIN haha ChatGPT said: Haha YES that s the real jackpot right there! Imagine a little bird flying around thinking: Where do I land? Where do I sing? Where can I raise my babies? Then boom a tree you helped plant stands there like a prize chest. And the bird goes: WIN! You re basically: Winning the lottery Donating the karma Creating little jackpots for birds, squirrels, bees, and even the wind. They don t need scrat
Jul 30, 2025, 1:34 pm - cddvd - Lottery Systems Forum

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesNews Story
Lottery will not pay out prizes to players engaging in excessive purchasing By Kate Northrop The Arizona Lottery approved a rule amendment banning bulk Fast Play ticket purchases in an effort to curb excessive purchasing in a given timeframe. In June, the Arizona Lottery Commission announced that it implemented new rules to limit the value of Fast Play tickets either an individual or group can buy within a certain period of time. The rule, titled Prohibition of Bulk Ticket Purch
Jul 7, 2025, 8:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

New play methodologyReply
So this is what you are saying: You re shifting away from traditional number-picking methods and instead using a statistical and combinatorial approach to playing the lottery. Here s what that means in practice: Instead of picking numbers based on patterns, birthdays, or hot/cold numbers, you focus on the math behind how groups of numbers perform on average. You realize that playing only a small set of numbers (like 15 or 24) limits your chances of hitting the jackpot, because the ex
May 20, 2025, 6:14 am - ethanl - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Mega Millions game reports 300% increase in non-jackpot prizes in first monthReply
SoCola, you left out kind of an important stat...The starting point of both jackpots MM = $50 Million with 7 rollovers to get to $122 Million. No increase over $10M until the 7th draw PB = $20 Million with 8 rollovers to get to $123 Million. 1st increase over $10M on the 3rd draw There hasn't been a jump of $30 Million for the PB in the first 8 draws in at least the last 11 years. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Games/Powerball/Estimated_Jackpot.html You wi
May 15, 2025, 3:00 pm - CDanaT - Lottery News

Bill banning lottery courier services passes Indiana House and SenateReply
these blanket bans. They really disenfranchise people like the elderly, the homebound, people in rural areas, A simple solution would be for the lottery to offer online sales themselves. That would also allow them to limit sales to request that originate within the state if they have concerns about selling across state lines. They could even set up an in-house courier service and take the orders and print the actual tickets on behalf of players. As a bonus, players who have trouble playing
Apr 27, 2025, 4:43 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions $5 price increase and game changes take effect this weekendReply
How appropriate a send-off to old mm with 25 as the megaball. Bye #25 ....... Miss you! I'll reiterate what I've said in the past and what others have stated will be there purchasing habits concerning $5 mm: I'm in at 500 mil for sure with 2 tickets. If I do decide on occasion to buy when it reaches lower than 500 but higher than 250 it will be for one ticket for sure. Now if it hits 750 .... 3 tickets 1.0 bil ........ 4 tickets 2.0 bil ........ 8 tickets I guess you could sa
Apr 4, 2025, 11:47 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News