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Georgia What are the odds?
432 midday 487,437,432,482,
Jul 9, 2009, 11:21 am - Amazing Grace - Pick 3 Forum

Virutally none of us will win a jackpot but...Reply
The odds printed on the back of play slips say almost the same thing. You're lucky to win anything.
Jul 7, 2009, 6:16 pm - RJOh - Mystical Forum

which one gives a better chanceReply
The TN 5/39 game odds of winning is 1 in 575,757 The PB 5/59 game odds of winning is 1 in 5,006,386 Clearly your chances of winning are ten times better playing the 5/39 game. If you were to buy two tickets with 10 unique numbers the odds of having all five winning numbers among the ten for a three number win or better would be . . . TN 5/39 1 in 2,284 PB 5/59 1 in 19,866 You can determine this for yourself and try other quanities of numbers with the Odds Calcula
Jul 5, 2009, 2:43 am - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pennsylvania Lottery's raffle makes 4 millionairesNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, July 4th, and made four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found at Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/pa). Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds for a single ticket to win $1 milli
Jul 5, 2009, 1:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ga. Winfall winnerReply
Thank you Toney - aww shucks - you were so close. I'll play again - Todd was right, odds pretty good.
Jul 4, 2009, 9:34 pm - emilyg - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arkansas Lottery Commission votes to join PowerballReply
Just friggin' great. Now the odds will be worse.
Jul 2, 2009, 4:46 pm - SmoothJuice - Lottery News

Something stinks with PowerballReply
Complaining about this is silly. Powerball is paid over 30 years, MegaMillions over 25 years so of course MM has to put in more money into the front end to get to those advertised jackpots. Both annuities are from Treasury Bonds I believe and I'm not even going into how the annuity and especially the cash option is affected by T-Bill rates. Powerball has less overall potential players (but A LOT MORE states and other places that would want their cut) than MM but now with even worse odds an
Jul 2, 2009, 4:36 am - DC81 - Jackpot Games Forum

N.C. lottery players looking for luck after $88M winReply
I wonder what the odds are that a Powerball jackpot winner will be killed by a falling coconut?
Jun 30, 2009, 12:46 pm - MaddMike51 - Lottery News

I love it when PB jackpots get hit frequentlyReply
I guess you can't figure out that doubling the price of a ticket is exactly the same thing as doubling the odds, and then only selling tickets in pairs.
Jun 30, 2009, 2:01 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Been wanting to know the answer to this for years...Reply
I would take those two or three numbers go to the store and quick pick the remainning 3 or 2 numbers. The way I see it, if you cover your odds, luck has a better chance of covering the rest of the odds for you.
Jun 28, 2009, 7:37 am - Editgap - Lottery Systems Forum