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Powerball & Megamillions GrowingReply
The cap started after the 315 prize so the 315 prize was set by sales only using the old Powerball game (better odds, more cash). Powerball made some changes including the new cap, longer odds and very little cash. After the prize reached 340 it was capped and any additional sales was added to the 5 + 0 pool. Same thing happened later when it hit 365. The new cap level is 390. That's not a coincidence it's part of the Powerball rules. I doubt it will hit 390 but that's a different story. If you
Aug 22, 2007, 1:32 am - dvdiva - Jackpot Games Forum

"Lottery Ruminations"Reply
I forgot to point out that this is very similar to how the gravity in our universe works. There is no gravity unless there is mass present. Let me say this again.....There is no gravity, unless there is mass present But if you were observing (anything) then there would be mass present ; namely the observer. Therefore there would be gravity. (Heisenberg, Schodinger) If you are observing from a distance (e.g. Hubble) and looking at empty space, it would more be Schrodinger.... You don't know
Aug 20, 2007, 6:00 am - Badger - Lottery Discussion Forum

SyndicateReply
LB, It's the European term for lottery pool . However, on the Internet, it has become synonymous with the e-lottery and VWD pyramid schemes. It someone mentions a syndicate to you, the red flags should immediately go up.
Aug 17, 2007, 7:54 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Have you ever met a lottery winner (at least $1 million)?Reply
I know 4 lottery winners who won more than a million. 2 guys were brothers who played the lottery together they owned a popular bar in Canton MD. When they won they both bought identical club vans since both were already well of they didn't change much. My buddy's father won the lottery in a pool with 11 other people he also was well of before he won not much changed in his life he banked and invested the money. Another buddys father won a mil and a half he was a heavy gambler before h
Jul 27, 2007, 1:42 pm - four4me - Lottery Discussion Forum

Picking your own numbers.Reply
You have mentioned only two ways of picking numbers, neither of which I use. Using key numbers or wheeling a group of them are just two of the many ways of picking combinations that have been discussed on this forum. I prefer to pick my combinations randomly from a full pool of numbers using certain parameters to keep or discard them such as combination has never come up before and their sums, gap and range are within the parameters of previous winning combinations and etc. I haven't won
Jul 20, 2007, 3:17 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Lottery mathematics
i found this the other day. it's way over my head. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article discusses the way to calculate various probabilities in a lottery game in which one selects 6 numbers from 49, and hopes that as many of those 6 as possible match the 6 that are randomly selected from the same pool of 49 numbers in the draw . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics
Jul 18, 2007, 8:58 pm - four4me - Mathematics Forum

How to Beat Powerball: And drastically reduce the odds (theory)...Reply
I thought the high and low ending digits was an interesting filter because it's not a 50/50 split but if he doesn't know how many combinations are HOHOH , I can't see how he can say that would beat Powerball even in theory. If you knew for a fact the next Powerball drawing will have 2 even numbers, 3 odd numbers, 2 low numbers and 3 high numbers you could drastically reduce the combinations by 89%. But you would still have 376,194 combinations and 5 out of 5 only pays $200,000 and don't f
Jun 18, 2007, 4:49 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Systems Forum

Just curious, but does anybody know...Reply
Art: Sounds like there are 10 people in your pool... If I were in it I would tend to agree with Coin Toss. - $10 and +$3 = loss of $7, unless of course there are some other matches somewhere within the 50 tickets. How long have you been pooling and what is your biggest win so far ?
Jun 18, 2007, 1:31 pm - DoubleDown - Lottery Systems Forum

How much PB history? (Read B4 Vote)Reply
What: I'd use the entire history. Why: If you developed something of use now, you'd likely find that it would still have some value when/if the matrix enlarged in the future. Likewise the same applies for past data. Sometimes a pattern is much easier to spot in a smaller data-set/matrix-size; then it's just a matter of scaling up. The alternative is to scrap all your work every time another ball is added to the pool and wait a year or two for a history to build up. You can see the flaw in
Jun 12, 2007, 9:20 am - time*treat - Lottery Systems Forum

Deadline looming for unclaimed $15M lottery jackpotReply
We hear stories like this all the time, but this is a huge amount. I believe a $19M ticket wasn't claimed in NJ recently and I've read articles about a $20+ million prize in FL going unclaimed. As discussed on other threads, when millions of people buy tickets, events happen as they would in any place with a high population. If you think of the lottery pool as a city or country with millions of people, you can just look in any newspaper and read about the accidents, deaths and all the othe
May 30, 2007, 10:17 am - justxploring - Lottery News