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Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
The conditions are the rules of the game; five numbers from 1 to 56 and a bonus number from 1 to 46. Put the two together and they create over 175 million combinations. But that doesn't change the fact only five of those numbers and only one of the bonus number will be drawn. If you think the odds are to high, then don't play. If somebody else doesn't care about the odds or says because 51 of those number will not be drawn, they will try to eliminate as many as possible and still retain the five
Feb 9, 2013, 8:11 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Fallacies, and two REAL ways of improving your chancesReply
When one plays all the game's numbers among their lines they are 100% guaranted to have all the winning numbers among their lines. When one plays all the game's numbers on a minimum number of lines they are 100% guaranteed to have all the winning numbers among six lines or less. However, they still have to play ALL the lines necessary to put all the numbers into play and because we don't know the outcome in advance we go into the draw holding for 6/48, 8 lines in 12 million (though we k
Feb 6, 2013, 9:02 am - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
Except you won't know until after the drawing whether or not you had any success , so you can't say whether your chances or odds or whatever you want to call it are better. The results are the measurement of success or failure and the odds are the ratio of chances to fail compared to chances to succeed. Without the results, you'll never know if 28 of the 51 numbers that can't possibly be drawn were successfully be illuminated. After successfully illuminating 28 numbers there are 98,280 poss
Feb 3, 2013, 12:35 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
You call it negativity, I call it reality. Here's the thing: That piece of information gets us no closer to determining what those groups of 28 numbers are. If the answer to the question do some number combinations have better odds? is yes , isn't the logical follow-up question which number combinations have better odds? Ronnie seems to get real mad whenever anyone asks that question, though. Why is that? Is it because he's afraid to admit that he has no flippin' idea? And if we're not suppos
Jan 30, 2013, 5:44 am - mediabrat - Lottery Discussion Forum

1 in 27 odds pick 3 great?Reply
Unless someone organize non profit lottery, such low odds and high pay out will not work. Say, I will start lottery with such odds, nonprofit. If I want someone to win $500, but there should be 27 investors so to say, then the price of the ticket should be 500: 27=$18.52. The lucky one out of every 27 people will get his $500. The unlucky one might never get his win. It seems to make more sense to just create sort of a nonprofit bank among family, friends, coworkers, where each in his turn h
Jan 9, 2013, 6:59 am - Uluska - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
That's only true if you admit that on any day that you don't have your 5 right, your odds of winning are 0%. And it all balances out so that you have the same odds as anyone else, because if you MISS a number then you can't win 5/5. You don't play with better odds, you pick and choose draws from the past which work in your favor. That's why people BACKTEST their lotto systems here. Testing them on future draws would not result in any better results than the average player.
Jan 8, 2013, 10:38 am - Boney526 - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Year 2013 Scratch ResultsReply
I hear ya HIFI One of the games I've been consistently playing states approximate overall odds of winning (including break-even prizes) 1 in 2.71 . I've been keeping track and the best I've done so far is 1 in 3.5. Now, how they define approximate is a mystery to me, but if they can nail the odds down to the hundredth of a decimal point within their definition of approximate, then I think I should be doing a little better. I haven't hit a break even prize in quite sometime or anything
Jan 6, 2013, 9:49 pm - Romancandle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
When I planned on spending $20 a drawing for three weeks it was because I had $300 to risk, but I would have quit if I didn't get a four number match in 15 drawings. The betting strategy was based on a playing strategy that should get a four number match every 15 drawings and consistently matched 2 or 3 numbers. I lost $8 on the first drawing and $17 on the second, but won $292 on the third. Had I started with a $40 bankroll, I wouldn't have enough to play the third drawing. There was no guarant
Jul 27, 2012, 12:59 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
Yep. Still luck. The past has no influence or bearing on the future when it comes to random events. In order to prove that it's not luck you'd have to do a statistical test to prove the drawings aren't normally distributed. Thing is - that's an impossible task. I can pretty much be sure that if you did this every draw, or every draw where your condidtions were satisfied, after about 20,000 trials, you'd have won about 5 out of 5 1/39 times. The only reason I can't be 100%
Jun 17, 2012, 5:42 pm - Boney526 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Buying More Tickets Does Not Increase Your Odds.Reply
Guru101, If buying more tickets does improve your odds why, oh why, would you stop at 5 lines? Using your exampleabove, if 5/175,000,000 reduced the odds to 1/35,000,000 WHY STOP THERE? If it worked people with serious money would be pounding it. How about playing 175,000 lines and taking the odds down to 1/1000? That's the odds on one number in Pick 3 and pretty popular. Or why don't 10 people with the means to do so wait until the jackpot is pumped up, play 1,750,000 lines each and
Mar 5, 2012, 12:26 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum