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New Penn. Lottery raffle game on sale next weekReply
Price of Ticket : $20 Odds of winning your money back : 1 in 822 What does that equal : A bad game But, Jimmy, the odds of winning $1,000,000 are so good . Doesn't matter. You can buy the new $20 christmas scratch-off, where the odds of winning $1,000,000 are only 3.36 times slimmer than the raffle, but the odds of getting your money back (or better) are 251 times better than the raffle. Plus, the raffle pays out 50%, the $20 scratch-off pays 75%. If you're going to spend $20
Nov 15, 2006, 10:39 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery News

Alphanumeric substitution strategyReply
Bobby623, Isn't trying to predict the next draw, the objective? We analyze the prior drawings, try to observe trends, patterns, commonalities, associations, recurrences through some form of data analyisis to predict the next draw, or at least get a edge on getting a winning set of numbers on the next draw. Everybody here is essentially trying to improve the odds in their favor, we cannot with any certainty predict jack, but we try anyway, it is a gamble every time. Predicting the future i
Nov 11, 2006, 7:20 pm - jarasan - Pick 5 Forum

The odds of both neither, just one.Reply
No the odds do not approach zero as the number of tickets sold approaches the odds. Think of it this way: Suppose you had 100 balls floating randomly (as in a lottery machine by air flow) suspended above 100 cups. You turn the air flow off and the balls drop. Some of the balls will fall into cups in which other balls have already fallen. Some cups will have 2 balls, some will have more than two balls, and some will be empty. This is very much the same case as the lottery, except on
Sep 5, 2006, 5:31 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Odds 101Reply
You've said yourself that you started this thread because of another thread in which some people were confused about odds. Maybe you didn't notice, but the odds they were confused about were the kind governed by probability, not what the house wants to pay, and the subject was brought up in regards to lottery games that specifically deal with simple probability. You may have intended to go elsewhere, but you started with probability and then dove in head first when you erroneoudsly said that d
Jul 7, 2006, 1:49 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Odds Are The RealityReply
I think you are confusing odds with combinations. Let's take pick 4. Odds are 1:10,000. I buy ten tickets straight with ten different numbers for the same drawing. 1. My odds are now 1:1,000. 2. The probability of me winning is 1:1,000. 3. There are 9,998 combinations not covered by my numbers. All of those three sentences are correct. Saying your odds are 1:9,998 would not be correct.
Jun 29, 2006, 12:18 am - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are these numbers considered bad??Reply
In a 6/47 game . . . The odds of no consecutive numbers is 49% The odds of two consecutive numbers is 46% The odds of three consecutive numbers is 5% The odds of everything else about zero. Your tickets are the difference between slim and none. BobP
May 7, 2006, 12:03 am - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability maths Help Pse !Reply
Hi... i was looking at Monday's website in their FAQ section. Came across this: What are the odds of winning the jackpot? You ve got a 27 times better chance of winning a jackpot with monday than of winning the National Lottery jackpot. The odds of winning the National Lottery jackpot are 1 in 13,983,816 million. The odds of winning a jackpot with monday are 1 in 501,000. So... anybody.... pse.. how they get that odds ?
May 6, 2006, 1:30 pm - luckyluke - Mathematics Forum

STOP that noise !!Reply
So, if Mega Millions was played where they had ALL the tickets in a big drug and you had to go into a big store and pick the ticket out..... I go in (I'm the first one!!) and I ask the guy what are the odds of me winning? He say, There are 175,711,536 tickets in the drum so your odds are 175,711,536:1. So, I pay the $1 and pick out my ticket (1-2-3-4-5-6). I go over and look at some of the pictures on the wall. Another gentleman comes in and goes up to the keeper of the drum and asks wh
Feb 24, 2006, 6:20 pm - CalifDude - Lottery Discussion Forum

If you are going to buy 46+ tickets.....Reply
The chance of the one correct MB ticket out of the 46 tickets winning 5 plus MB is 1 in 3.9 million...but which ticket out of the 46 will that be? That is the key - you do not know which of the 46 tickets that will be. Since you don't know in advance which of the 46 tickets will have the correct MB, the odds of winning are still 1 in 175,000,000 on each ticket (or 46 out of 175,000,000 if you buy 46 tickets). I think part of the confusion comes from the perspective that since you have boug
Feb 24, 2006, 1:03 pm - duckman - Jackpot Games Forum

odds are reducedReply
in PURE numbers (such as 5th grade math) fractions are reduceable have you taken 5th grade science? the odds are not pure numbers, they now represent a quantity of something... I'll keep it in the pick 3 realm for this... odds as posted 1:1000 ____ there are 1,000 possible combos... from 000 to 999, they will pick only 1 you buy 000(1:1000), they can pick 000-999, but you leave 001,999 uncovered... you buy 000 and 999(2:1000), they can STILL pick 000-999, but you are left uncovered f
Feb 23, 2006, 8:09 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum