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If you won would you move from your town?Reply
I once posted a similar poll to this one. At that time, I thought I'd stay in my same town or at least same state, but now I'm not so sure. The population of my city has swelled considerably because of hurricane evacuees from New Orleans. It's going to get more crowded here, more traffic, congestion, etc., than before and our infrastructure, which had trouble handling what we already had, will be stretched even further.I'd probaby move to another state now. I've considered Nevada, partially
Sep 18, 2005, 11:07 am - PrisonerSix - Jackpot Games Forum

A More MegaReply
Or, how does a 6/31 + 3/15 matrix look? I have no idea how you would award the prizes. But look at the pool. All birthday and anniversary numbers. People would have a field day! They'd think they were THIS close to winning, every time! A near perfect tromp l'oeil. The only thing that's messy are the three bonus balls.With odds of 335,007,855:1 you could build a billion dollar jackpot. I'm sure you could fit in the same regional jackpot changes.
Sep 16, 2005, 4:02 pm - JAG331 - Lottery Discussion Forum

next mm hitReply
I came into the week, thinking Friday would be a roll over. Very little newspaper/TV action above the normal. People having many other things on their mind, and having other places to spend their money.Then I went out to get a couple of insurance tickets, and several people were in front of me buying fifty and hundred dollars worth - all QP by the way. Went to another store, in another small NJ town, and the same thing was happening. These all appeared to be individual buys, not pool money.Now
Sep 15, 2005, 9:04 am - Chewie - Lottery Discussion Forum

Sun - Moon Excel ChartReply
The moon-phase/high numbers test for last night were posted yesterday afternoon. Out of a pool of 33 unique numbers the result was 3-1 for the draw. That result wasn't so compelling as the 4-1 from the MM draw the previous night, but it's still not too bad. Especially considering the number of 0-0s on the MM challenge, (15 numbers for WB, 5 RB), and the best efforts giving 2-1 (one challenger), and several 2-0s. The workup for this is relatively simple and assumes a mechanical behavior from th
Sep 15, 2005, 8:39 am - Rip Snorter - Mystical Forum

Is it possible....Reply
I thought I read in some of your earlier posts that you had researched the last 20 years of lotteries, you shouldn't have to believe any one if you've done that kind of work. That group was featured on a TV show at the time named How They Do That . They supposedly hired several bonded players, made out the tickets in advance and commandeered several Seven-Eleven store terminals and was able to cover 80% of the combinations and won. Virgina as did other states after that came up with rules tha
Sep 13, 2005, 2:33 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

An Interesting ChallengeReply
How about you tell us what you would do with an extra 10% in the prize pool, how about everyone does that. As for just6's request, I think I can do that now. The California Lottery, with bigger payouts.CA Super Lotto +Change the Avg. Mega Only Match prize to $3, and the 1+Mega prize to $4. And allocate 4% of sales to the Match 5+0 prize (up from 1.5%) to an avg. prize of $63,000.Fantasy 5Change Minimum Jackpot to $100,000 (with avg. roll of $70,000), and add $1 avg. cash prize for matching 2 num
Sep 13, 2005, 1:22 am - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

An Interesting ChallengeReply
O.K. Now I'll do New York with 60% payouts!Pick 10Change the top prize from $500,000 to $1,500,000.Take FiveChange the 2/5 prize to $1 cash (on avg.) and put the rest of the extra money in the top prize. Avg. Top Prize - $85,000 (up from $50K) Avg. 4/5 Rolldown Prize - $955LottoA 60% payout would be a radical change here. The jackpot still gets 30% of sales, but the lower tier would be distributed thusly. Match 5 + Bonus - 17.5% of prize pool - Avg. Prize $394,000 Match 5
Sep 4, 2005, 3:39 am - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

LottoSync needs cloning + development.Reply
xavier,I haven't used or bought the software but if as you say, it's not any great feat of coding or a great prediction engine in any sense of the word, why have there been so many reports of it taking a day or longer to come up with its picks? Unless it goes into some kind of time delay loop, it must be crunching numbers or doing something because just using the last three drawings would limit its pool to 15-18 numbers and it's unlikely its picks from those numbers for a 6/49 game is going to
Sep 2, 2005, 6:10 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

Lottery excitement builds as Mega Millions reaches $111 millionReply
California allocates a percentage of the prize fund to each prize tier. If there are no winners in a particular tier (almost always the top prize) its OK/legal if the money in that prize pool is (how/who do you pay if you don't have any winners?) rolled over to the next draw. Almost no states are allowed to grab unclaimed prize money - it almost always must go over to the State. On any lotto game designed at the 50% prize level, the game will actually run at 47 - 48% payout due to unpaid prize
Aug 29, 2005, 2:12 pm - Drivedabizness - Lottery News

Powerball lottery changes go into effect SundayReply
About the $300 million (presumably) limit... what gives?! Play for over a billion, I say! My mini-pool at work doesn't start playing until it reaches $50 million (it's mini because layoffs/illness has shrunk our ranks and we keep to ourselves and don't try to join adjoining offices pools, if they even have them) and we play until they payoff the jackpot. In over 10 years of playing, including CT Lotto, I have no clear memory of hitting any single prize over $10, although we might have accumul
Aug 28, 2005, 2:21 pm - NearNewBrit - Lottery News