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Baby steps in Scratch OffsReply
Overall odds of 1 in 3.20 means (on average) 1 out of every 3.20 is a winner. Odds of 1 in 480,000 means for every 480,000 tikets, 1 of those is a Top Prize of 50,000 That does necessarily mean that if you buy 4 tickets in a row that one will be a winner...You could have 10 losers in a row, then in another roll of tickets have 3 winners in a row. Its the Over-all odds for the entire pool of tickets printed. ** BTW - each prize level is for the total tickets in that gam
Feb 19, 2012, 9:46 am - B$Rizzle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Are pre-draws corrupting your lottery strategy ?Reply
The odds are not 1/1000 for a single straight played combination because there are mathematical rules called degrees of certainty that has to be applied where the odds can go into the 1000's of draws Odds are generally expressed by a ratio of ways to lose compared to ways to win. The Pick 3 game has 1000 possible straight number outcomes so if you play one straight number, there are 999 ways to lose compared to 1 way to win; 999 to 1 odds. The degree of certainty applies when you play more
Jan 10, 2012, 1:40 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Number of tickets in any scratchers game in CA?Reply
The ticket numbers come from the published odds for the game. The top prize odds are the easiest and most accurate to use. You have to calculate many numbers on your own since CA lotto doesn't put out very complete scratch ticket data, like TX lotto does for instance. Initially $5 Set for Life came out with 25 of the $2M top prizes. Multiply by prize odds of 1-in-1,200,000: 25 x 1,200,000 = 30,000,000 tickets total. Then later they updated the SFL published odds with 33 top prizes showing,
Dec 13, 2011, 10:28 am - Jon D - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Connecticut Powerball mystery deepensReply
Sorry to hear that but you know the odds on the lottery say you're going to lose almost all of the time. You have to bet accordingly. On the big jackpot games, it's basically just a shot in the dark. Spending all your money on the lottery is like taking a leak in the ocean - it really doesn't have much effect on anything. The odds are like 195 million to one on Powerball. Whether you put one dollar or one hundred dollars on it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. The odds against you
Dec 2, 2011, 3:51 pm - rdgrnr - Lottery News

New Holiday scratchers for FLORIDA
Just released today. 4 new games for the Holidays: $10 - Million Dollar Holiday Ticket Price: $10.00 Overall Odds: 1-in-3.26 Odds of Winning $700,000.00 1-in-1,320,000 $10,000.00 1-in-120,000 $5,000.00 1-in-60,000 $1,000.00 1-in-4,800 $500.00 1-in-2,400 $200.00 1-in-759.49 $100.00 1-in-96.77 $50.00 1-in-190.48 $40.00 1-in-100 $30.00 1-in-80 $20.00 1-in-10 $15.00 1-in-15 $10.00 1-in-10 $5 - Winter Bucks
Oct 4, 2011, 3:45 pm - B$Rizzle - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

What's with NY Sweet Million??Reply
Right Jacal, I didnt think about Mega.... probably because I dont pay any attention to it, and I dont play it at all. It's bad enough that I play PB. But in reality, I dont play PB all that much. For instance, I **think** the PB jackpot stands at about 70 million, but I doubt I'll play it Wednesday night. I've no idea what the MM JP is at. I guess I've been playing the wrong multi-state game. MM has lower odds for the JP, and 2nd place is $250,000 and a million bucks if you buy the megaplier
Jul 18, 2011, 10:21 am - GiveFive - Jackpot Games Forum

Lottery Rants PostReply
Simple: overall odds. With scratchers, you have many more intermediate and smaller amounts to win besides the top prize. Overall odds are typically 1:4, and your percent return over time is around 60% or more. With Daily 3, you only win straight or box, with the best odds 1:167, and your percent return over time is only around 50%. So with scratchers, on your way to maybe hitting a top prize of $100,000 or $2,000,000, you are bleeding less cash. With Daily 3, you maybe get a $400-$600 p
Jul 16, 2011, 4:45 pm - Jon D - Lottery Discussion Forum

What Does It Take To Win (Mathematically Speaking?)Reply
Before proceeding with a breakdown of the odds in one of the popular Lotto games, here is something to think about: Is this topic about the math used in determining the odds against winning a particular prize in lotto game because every state lottery website show the odds against matching 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 numbers? Is there a difference between knowing why the PB odds are 195 million to 1 than just taking their word for it? The classic example is the demonstration by Langer (1975)
Jan 31, 2011, 11:36 am - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Mega Millions lottery winner recounts epic winReply
The above is how the abc news radio calculated the odds... But Since for that to happen a player would need at least 2 tickets, I would figure the odds this way The odds of winning the jackpot (5/5+1/49) = 2 : 175,711,536 The odds of matching (4/5+0/49) for $150 = 2 : 15,313 The odd of getting both at the same time equals 2 : 15,313 X 2 : 175,711,536 = 4 : 2,690,670,750,768 or 1 : 672,667,687,692 * * Which would be even less if the player had more than 2 chances.
Jan 7, 2011, 7:45 am - RJOh - Lottery News

Math Odds Question
Wheeling 16 numbers in a Pick 5 game gives me 4,368 combinations. Now if I split those 4,368 combos into 10 line sets that would give me about 437 sets of 10 lines. Say that one of the combos was a sure fire jackpot win. If 437 people were playing their 10 lines of numbers one of them would have hit the big one. My question is...what would their odds have been? 1/437 because of the way it was split up? Or 1/4,368 because of the odds in the first place? Appreciate your mathematica
Dec 15, 2010, 4:38 pm - lottolaughs - Mathematics Forum