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I was part of a pool and we played the same way see below The other pool that I was part of only occured when there was a large jackpot. A co-worker would travel the building asking folks if they wanted to be part of the pool. She would get the money and purchase the tickets (qp's) and give us copies before the drawing. She let us all know up front that unless we won enough for all of us to get at least $5, any money won would be rolled over to the next large jackpot to purchase tickets. I st
Sep 18, 2009, 8:48 pm - pepper1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Predicting number patterns?Reply
Any pool of numbers short of all the possible numbers is unlikely to have all the winning numbers 100% of the time. Its size and the odds of it having all the winning numbers would be important to a lottery player decision to try it. As I said earlier I would like a way or formula that defines a pool of ~20 numbers that covered all the winning numbers 50% (1:2) of the time, a 12 numbers pool that covered all the winning numbers 10% of the time would be even better. In MegaMillions, we know th
Apr 5, 2009, 1:34 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Developing a winning MegaMillions SystemReply
I use a fixed draw history amount, but I built into my application functionality that uses the specific algorithm I want to test and automatically back tests it for every possible amount of draw history (loops through with a 10 draw history, 11, 12,13....). It tells me data on each pool size (draw history size) as far as total hits, calculations, etc. When I run this draw history checker on my 'Due' algorithm (with 22 pics) I can see that the pool size 266 ran 11 back tests, hit 4 balls twice, h
Sep 4, 2008, 3:34 pm - Stew12 - Lottery Systems Forum

Lp Members Will Automatically Share w/each other!Reply
I see where you are coming from. Sometimes on payday, a member of the pool may be absent from work. Since the pool has a history and regular members, and I know them well, I will cover them and they will pay me back when I get back to work. There are only 9 of us in it and it's only $4/person, so it's not too much of a hardship on me to cover them. Sometimes when the Powerball gets high, another coworker will run a pool and I'll participate. She gives everyone a copy of all the tickets too
Jul 12, 2008, 11:31 am - PrisonerSix - Lottery Discussion Forum

Man quits lottery pool, then wins with Quick PickReply
I'm in an office pool, and I play on my own, If anything good were to happen to me, I for one, wouldn't be smarting off to everyone in the pool. I hope I'm wrong about this but, he almost makes out like, he never won because he was in the pool. And getting out was the catalyst for him winning. Congrats to the winner though. I wouldn't be in the pool if I didn't want something good to happen.
May 29, 2008, 11:33 am - x1kosmic - Lottery News

Tax office workers win Powerball lottery jackpotReply
I was in a pool where we used the lotto numbers to play a made up game and a small percentage was used to buy QPs. Everybody would pick 6 lotto numbers and the first player to have his six numbers drawn won the pool. The pool was limited to 30 players at $5 a drawing. When the lotto was up to a fixed amount, half of that drawing's prize fund would be used to buy QPs. We all had to pick 6 numbers and pay $10 to be in the next game, everybody got copy of all the players, their numbers, and the
Mar 17, 2008, 6:17 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Is it worth buying a large number of tickets once a year?Reply
I think it is best to buy tickets for multiple draws weekly. I have 7 pools started. I will get another line today for another pool. At any given time we will have a string of number still good... and a few playing out. I am cashing in on pool #1A today to play a pool #1B for the five of us in this pool.
Nov 18, 2007, 6:47 am - tntea - Lottery Discussion Forum

Restaurant workers split $4 million lottery jackpotReply
It's not about sharing, it's about odds. If only one of the people in the pool bought that ticket he/she would have been the only winner. You seem to be completely missing the point of pools. If only one person won, what about all the other people in the pool? If there are 10 people in a pool they're 10 times as likely to win, but they're only playing for 1/10th as much. From a mathematical perspective it's an even trade, and there's no real difference between playing on your own or p
Oct 19, 2007, 3:25 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

can the powerplay numbers be predicted?Reply
Well first, the PowerPlay number is 1 number from its own separate pool of numbers. Second, I have said to people that a person could potentially cut their odds of a Pick 5 game down to less than Pick 4 game odds. Reason? Well because all the numbers drawn for a Pick 5 game all come from the same pool(for example, 1-36). In a Pick 4 game, all 4 numbers are chosen from a separate 0-9 pool. You can give yourself an advantage using a system by looking at something I call set characteristics for P
Sep 28, 2007, 12:06 pm - Guru101 - Jackpot Games Forum

question about the jackpots...Reply
If I understand your question correctly: each line is a completely separate game so each line can win a prize based on the numbers you match. If you played 5 lines and matched 4 of the regular number and got the PB or MM on one line you'd win 4 4+0 prizes and 1 4+1 prize. On a related note, if PB reaches a new record and money goes into the 5+0 bonus pool I think it makes more sense to play two lines with different PB's than to choose powerplay. If you were to match 5+0 on both you'd collec
Aug 21, 2007, 12:26 pm - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum