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still playing since the matrix change?Reply
I remember when the MUSL announced its matrix change it anticipated players complaining about the game being harder to win and it responded by suggesting they play Hot Lotto if they don't like ridiculous odds. There is no game that can get enough sales to support high payouts if the game does not have astronomical odds like Powerball and Mega Millions do. I remember last year Powerball got a lucky string of wins and sales tanked - that is reality. Players will either complain the game is too
Mar 20, 2006, 5:22 pm - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

Almost cashed in a whopper of a win todayReply
Quote: Originally posted by LOTTOMIKE on March 14, 2006 i like that cashman......you just gave me an idea i think i might play one pick 4 number 20 times for evening draw.that would be 100,000 dollars if won! Whoa! If you look at it that way, the odds of hitting a pick 4 straight is 10,000:1. The odds of hitting a Cash 5 with 39 numbers is over 575,757:1. So hitting a pick 4 played 20 times is better odds for ~ the same money. Of course that doesn't take into account the jackpot going up
Mar 15, 2006, 5:02 pm - calabs - Lottery Discussion Forum

If a nationwide game comes along....Reply
People wanting just one game would get a game with at least 1:225 million odds, possibly much higher. Plus there would only be one jackpot, so once it's hit there is no other game to play if the other games jackpot is high. Another big let down would be if the one game were stuck in a rut like Mega Millions. Considering it's odds it should have had the top three spots on the jackpot levels but instead has never rolled past the 300 level. Why? Because people keep winning it. Just for sales re
Mar 6, 2006, 12:26 pm - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

If you are going to buy 46+ tickets.....Reply
You only see a decrease in odds if the white numbers are all the same. There was someone else who was confused between the words odds and combinations. Your odds increase to 1:3.8 million if and only if all white numbers are the same for all 46 numbers. This method insures that you will get the right megaball. This is not a cheap way of playing though. You can also cover the same megaball for all different white ball combinations. If and only if you guessed the right megaball you now have ho
Mar 2, 2006, 11:24 pm - dvdiva - Jackpot Games Forum

Who Won the $267M Lottery?Reply
>The winner who beat odds of 176 million to 1 Those are the odds that any one person with one ticket would win, but if they sold a million tickets there would be a 1 in 176 chance that someone would win, if 2 million tickets sold than a 1 in 88 chance, etc. Does anyone know how many tickets were sold for this drawing, and the chances someone would win? On the biggest sales week Mega Millions ever had how many of the possible numbers are covered? I find these little facts as interesting
Mar 2, 2006, 9:15 am - tg636 - Lottery News

odds are reducedReply
Odds of winning Megamillions. 1:175 million.This is really two drawings. Five white balls 1-56 or for the odds COMB(56,5) which is 1:3.82 million. a second drawing occurs for a megaball COMB(46,1). Since it's only one number anyways it's 1:46 If you take one combination and cover all the possible mega numbers you now have one combination in a 3.82 million to one game. Same as if you had one ticket in a 5/56 game. Odds are you will lose anyways since some other combination of white balls wi
Feb 24, 2006, 11:21 pm - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

NJ Cash 5 - How much closer can you get?Reply
You and me both LOTTOMIKE! Can we get some kind of petition going to gather the troups who want to see some of these Cash 5 games online. Perhaps Todd can help in that regard. Anyway, I believe NJ is one of the highest odds Cash 5 games going with 40 balls. Most others have between 36-39. It's remarkable how much the odds jump from 39 to 40 balls (~80,000:1 increase!). With a game having 36 balls, it's only (ONLY!) ~377,000:1. NJ Cash 5 is closer to 658,000:1. Plus the odds of going fr
Feb 21, 2006, 9:19 am - calabs - Pick 5 Forum

State due for PB winReply
Either that or two skillful ones. Imagine those odds, not only beating the powerball odds, but two people from lottery post, who live in the same area, who both said they would win. That should be world wide news, something I wish to avoid. That has to be some astronomical odds for that to happen. Although I wish someone from here would win for a change, as I am sick and tired of contributing to lucky play on a whim gamblers who only play once in a great awhile, and most likely know no
Feb 15, 2006, 4:42 pm - sirbrad - Lottery Discussion Forum

2 out of 3...Reply
PLEASE TAKE THE EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY. IT MAY INCREASE YOUR FUTURE WINNINGS ! Quote from BobP The advantage is you already have two of the winning digits so the odds drop to only 1in8 on days all different digits are drawn. Obviously, that would be the case if the wheel was a 100% 2if2, which it is NOT ! Analysis of the wheel posted by lotto-logix owner BobP First, the wheel is a split wheel 2310478569 XXX XX X XX X XXX XXX
Feb 12, 2006, 8:53 am - stefan - Lottery Systems Forum

mega millions or powerballReply
Quote: Originally posted by DirtyWrat on February 4, 2006 The powerball website list the odds of hitting the correct powerball number as 1:68.96 How can the odds be that high with only 42 numbers to pick from? I'm not a math wizz, but you would think that the odds would be something like..............1:42??
Feb 4, 2006, 11:07 am - calabs - Lottery Discussion Forum