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Discovery - New PA Raffle Game ChangeReply
Well ... I for one would hate to see the raffle end ... if they sell at least 300,000 tickets, then all the prizes are covered and they make a small profit of over $800,000. There is no other game with odds of 125,000 to one for winning $1 million dollars. Spending $20 on a raffle ticket seems like a better deal than spending $20 on a scratch off ticket. Also ... a person with 5 or 10 tickets could win a million dollars more than once ... even win $100,000 with a million dollars. That woul
Sep 14, 2015, 10:42 pm - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Here comes BBQ-scented N.C. Lottery scratch ticketsReply
The odds of winning at BBQ Bucks, including break-even prizes, are 1 in 4.55, and odds of claiming one of the $25,000 top prizes are 1 in 888,000 -- The odds in NC keep getting WORSE for the players and MUCH better for the lottery. The state sold nearly $2 billion in lottery tickets in the fiscal year that ended June 30, providing more than $500 million for a variety of education programs. Many legislators want to goose those sales by increasing advertising for the lottery and making a v
Sep 1, 2015, 10:39 am - itpmguru - Lottery News

What if the PA Raffle Prize Structure Was Changed ?Reply
I too am amazed at how many people I know who play who can't tell you anything about the games they play beyond the current jackpot. No knowledge of the odds, second prize, etc People have actually said to me You're a Lottery Guru because I'm aware of the odds and lower tier prizes and they aren't. I appreciate the fact that it's a hobby for me and not for them. (That's why I think I'm aware of odds and lower tier prizes - it's my hobby.) It just seems to me that if you're going to play
Aug 22, 2015, 8:34 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Who plays more, who loses more?Reply
Let's just say 75% of ticket sales and prize winners are QPs and make it easier to explain. It means for every $25 spent on self picks, $75 is spent on QPs whether or not 75 players buy one ticket or one player buys 75. Your relative to buy-in is comparing apples to oranges unless you're comparing one QP player purchasing 75 tickets to one SP player purchasing 25. For 'relative to the buy in', let's say there were two winners who won $500 each. One of them had played $1 and the other had pla
Aug 2, 2015, 11:39 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which Game to Play or Throw More Money At ?Reply
Yes, it is a good game and more players seem to be playing it these days, never said it wasn't a good game ... my point is dealing with the odds of playing for a $600,000 jackpot ... less than a million versus over 13 million. Just to fine tune my earlier post ... hate when the 20 minute time limit runs out ... just because I am not winning even smaller amounts of money these days playing the Match 6 ... I'm sure other players are winning those smaller amounts. That's not why I am losing some
Jul 15, 2015, 8:19 am - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millons or Powerball or UberballReply
But isn't that a fallacy? If my odds are 1:18mil with one ticket and 1:9mil with two tickets, wouldn't my odds then be 1:560 000 if I buy 32 tickets I never buy 32 tickets so I dont know. But take the last draws winning numebers. If I played 2 9 11 24 25. I could then wheel my combos with 2 9 11 22 23. The extra dollar could have a potential strategic effect, whatever the stated odds may be. Nice choice of word with fallacy. There is so much LP history and nostalgia there.
Jun 5, 2015, 2:21 am - SilverLion - Lottery Discussion Forum

Group Size Limit...Reply
I know you and your group would like to be playing all that money toward a large jackpot ... so everybody has enough for retirement or whatever. Maybe a state raffle would be something to think about ... with that kind of money for two months buying raffle tickets and with the odds much better to win a million dollars or more ... give that some thought. The PA raffle sells only 500,000 tickets at $20 a ticket ... there are four $1 million dollar prizes and four $100,000 prizes and many low
Apr 20, 2015, 7:33 am - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Wisconsin MegaBucks $$Reply
In PA the starting jackpot is $500,000 so it can take a whole month or five weeks just to get to $1 million dollars. It starts to move a little better after that. Yes, you are correct, the difference in population probably has a lot to do with PA having smaller jackpots plus I have another theory, unproven of course ... maybe more people have given up or cut back on MM and PB going after better odds to win something. Thinking about it ... the smaller population actually works or is a plus
Feb 23, 2015, 9:52 am - Crazy Wombat - Jackpot Games Forum

Are Scratchers infinitely harder to win?Reply
I never saw a $1 or $2 scratch-off with that large a payoff. If you want to win something with a chance of it being $5000 or under, scratch-offs give a much better chance. Neither have I. And the odds are those are just horrible. There was once a Reddit AMA where a guy that worked for a state's lottery was answering questions and he even referred to those as impulse buys. In fact, it was from him (her?) that I instituted my $10 minimum limit rule - that really turned things around for me
Jan 17, 2015, 8:21 pm - SafeCracker - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is mega millions worth playing anymore?Reply
It's funny, because noise-gate just said states don't win , and you countered by saying, States that haven't won a jackpot... I agree with noise-gate, people are so fixated by what state the ticket was purchased in. I look at it like interesting information , and I understand that the winning tickets will most likely be sold in the states with the highest populations. But to suddenly make the jump that you have worse odds because you live in a different state means you have completely rem
Jan 17, 2015, 2:22 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum