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Florida's Fantasy 5Reply
Chris, First, good luck to you. Sticking for years with a set of personal or lucky numbers has paid off handsomely for some players, although I've read that players that have won a jackpot playing that way have said It took forever for those numbers to come home! You're 20+ years in so hopefully it won't be long and they'll pop. Personally I've been playing the lottery for over 20 years myself. I've never played a specific set of numbers regularly, but to each his own. I'm a transplant
Dec 15, 2025, 11:19 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead DirectorReply
The states are constantly leaning on those who run the lotteries to generate more revenue. I'm sure that's what led to them bumping up the cost and odds on the MM. States love it when jackpots are high and millions are pouring in each drawing because people who don't normally play are chasing the billion dollar payouts. I imagine a meeting after the last big jackpot got hit when the weekly revenues dropped back to normal levels. The question is asked how do we change things to get those big
Dec 7, 2025, 9:36 am - OhSoClose - Lottery News

PowerballReply
I'd be plenty PO'd at myself too. For just one lousy dollar bill more, I could have had two million. I don't wanna be that guy. Then there's this too - When I play PB, I play three identical lines of five numbers. Each line on my ticket will have a different PB (Red Ball) number. The pay out would be six million minus the taxes if I hit only all five white ball numbers. If I happened to have matched the PB too, I'd win the jackpot with the other two lines kicking in an additional 4 million.
Dec 2, 2025, 10:50 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does Lottery Software work?Reply
I aim for the truly impossible goals. I play one ticket for any game. I also use Python to explore ideas, and to back test. The challenges when restricting yourself to one combo mean you surely do not win as much, but I am at the lowest budget possible. I am fully aware that playing more tickets is the only way to slightly bend the odds in my favor, but I am cheap. I have more fun coding in Python than actually playing. It can be frustrating when trying to determine the next combo, even
Oct 6, 2025, 7:22 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
None of the other games charge $5 to pretend to be something they are not! Would it make you happy if pick 3 was $5 and had a $1,000,000,000,000 annuity jackpot that had 50 quintillion to 1 odds of hitting and paid the annuity out at a dime a year for ten trillion years? and a second prize of $10,000,000 with 672 trillion to 1 odds of hitting? I'm sure the state lottery commissions would love to have you as a customer on that ticket too! It looks to me like you are not c
Oct 1, 2025, 3:28 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does Lottery Software work?Reply
No paid software can give you better odds than just playing a QP (and I am not a fan of QPs). No free software either. They can display statistics in a chosen range just fine, but if you think about it, if these programs worked, they would stop offering the games. From the perspective of an avid hobbyist who likes to code, none of my many attempts worked either (outside of a rare coincidental hit here and there)... I have been at this (on and off) for over 20 years. No matter how fancy the
Sep 20, 2025, 2:01 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Tri-State (ME, NH & VT): 9/1 - 9/30/2025Reply
Midday was 3 1 9 , the 13 pair repeats, all odds (000) for two in a row, I got completely skunked on my post, LOL! LLH, OOO, no consecs new keys 8, 6, 4 pairs 83 81 89 63 61 69 43 41 49 16 80 84 86 alt pairs 23 24 26 20 34 36 30 46 40 60 alt pairs 78 79 71 75 89 81 85 91 95 15 we need 7, 0, 2, 8. 6. 4 we had all evens (246 EEE) then two in a row odds (153, 319 OOO), we haven't had a mirror number in 4 games also (864 is mirror for 319), so 864, 869, 849, 649, 847, 647, 8
Sep 2, 2025, 3:32 pm - ALX - Pick 3 Forum

mathematics of re-playing small winsReply
I did my analysis on scratch-off tickets because most of the prize money goes towards lower prizes. With jackpot accumulation draw games such as Powerball, not much goes to lower prizes. To summarize my first post, for the $5 Colorado scratch-off $100,000 Super Bonus, the average number of tickets played is 2.5x or 3x your original bankroll, depending on whether your stop point is $500 or $1,000. Not surprisingly, the improved odds of winning a large prize exactly correlate with the average
Aug 29, 2025, 8:25 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Office Pool concept
I'm looking to create an office pool, and there's a lot of avid lottery players. But I'm torn on how we should create this pool. Is it better to have a higher buy-in amount but provide a better payout odds if one of the tickets win? Or, is it better to have a low buy-in amount, but the prizes will be split by 10,000 participants? (not sure if I would go that extreme, but definitely a possibility.) I would allow people to buy-in multiple times, but maybe there are some people who would only
May 13, 2025, 3:14 pm - ww3y - Lottery Discussion Forum

$825 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for FridayReply
You really think they'd skim a few millions and risk govt audits instead of keeping the cash cow going? I don't know about the Mega but PB preparation always had individual balls weighed and X-ray'd and less than a handful of ppl know which one of the three machines is going to be used. There's dozens of states involved and you can't get them to keep their mouths shut if there's a huge scam underneath. States like WY that had never had a jackpot would've rioted. The odds of 1,
Dec 18, 2024, 3:29 pm - johnnyBlaze - Lottery News