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Winning ticket for $522 million Mega Millions jackpot sold in CaliforniaNews Story
UPDATE: Final jackpot amount announced $543 million By Todd Northrop A winning ticket to the 11th-largest U.S. lottery prize ever was sold at a liquor store in San Jose, California. The ticket matched all six numbers drawn 1, 2, 4, 19, and 29, with Mega Ball number 20. The Megaplier was 3. The winning ticket was sold at Ernie's Liquors , located at 2808 S White Rd. in San Jose. The winner will receive an estimated $543 million, which is the 3rd-largest jackpot in the history of Me
Jul 25, 2018, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

What are the bases of an algorithm for discovering patterns of a lotteryReply
Lucky Loser! First of all, I had decided to step back and just mind my own lottery business. I'm a 'system player' using what I believe is a 'winning strategy' that has paid off many times. No jackpots yet, but, you never know what might happen in future. Secondly, when I read your comments suggesting that lottery officials can manage the output of the 'daily game' lottery machines, I couldn't resist. Many lottery gamblers believe the dumb as dirt lottery balls are alive and can c
Jul 14, 2018, 4:46 pm - bobby623 - Lottery Discussion Forum

One Massachusetts lottery ticket wins $758.7 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot ever awarded to a single winner By Todd Northrop A single winning Powerball lottery ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Massachusetts and will claim a $758.7 million jackpot the largest ever awarded to a single winning ticket. If the winner chooses the lump-sum cash value, they will receive a one-time cash payment of $480.5 million. That's nearly a half-billion dollars in cash, minus taxes of course. The Jackpot Analysis page at USA Mega shows the init
Aug 24, 2017, 1:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Multi-state lottery jackpots grow to combined $738 millionNews Story
UPDATE: Mega Millions raised to $393 million, new combined total is $749 million First time Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots simultaneously more than $300 million Both are top 25 US lottery jackpots by Todd Northrop Multi-state lottery tickets are pumping out of state lottery ticket machines throughout the United States this week, as both Powerball and Mega Millions have simultaneously reached astronomic heights. After nobody won Mega Millions on Tuesday and Powerball on Wedne
Aug 10, 2017, 12:26 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Flashback: Winners are drawn in New York state's first lottery in 1967News Story
The New York State Lottery is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On Election Day in 1966, New Yorkers voted in favor to approve a constitutional amendment authorizing a government-run lottery, with its proceeds to be applied exclusively to, or in aid or support of education. It was the second state lottery in the nation, following New Hampshire's in 1964. Plans for the first lottery drawing were finalized in April 1967. One dollar tickets would go on sale on June 1 at hotels, m
Jul 19, 2017, 12:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$10 500,000 Fortune NH Scratch game... What the...Reply
We can only do the analysis of the games posted on the NH lottery website. Finding the games is a whole other challenge. Here's our reasons why we post all games in our reports: Can t Find the Top Game? We consistently get the same set of questions from new subsribers .they go something like this: Hey you have XYZ game listed as #1 but that game is no longer for sale ..my retailer says that game has ended! What s going on .your report is wrong! Then, the person writing gets upset
Jun 19, 2017, 7:16 pm - ScratchSmarter - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

At what level of information does chaos appear?Reply
We point out in the first post that on a very basic level that chaos appears at 5 bits of information. At that level, chaos over takes the order. Knowing this, if we look at 4 bits of information, we can see order and chaos are balanced at 8 a piece. Looking at one of the original streams of {0, 1}'s, 01101000110101010111001011100111, we can examine each at the 4 bit level. The stream is continuous and starts left and ends right, . We examine each 4 bit segment at each 4 bits of i
Apr 7, 2017, 9:18 am - JADELottery - Mathematics Forum

$403 MILLION: Powerball jackpot to guarantee a happy holidays for lucky winnerNews Story
By Todd Northrop While you're out Black Friday shopping, don't forget to pick up some Powerball tickets. For the fourth time this year, the multi-state Powerball lottery game's jackpot has crossed over the $400 million mark, and entered into the realm of wealth so vast that it's hard to imagine. After nobody won Wednesday's $374.1 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a whopping $403 million for Saturday's drawing the 13th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time. But
Nov 25, 2016, 9:07 am - Todd - Lottery News

Do you believe every combination has the same probability?Reply
The result will the same as the day before for at least 2 days in a row. No it won't. All you're doing is showing an example of one particular series of results that happened in the past. We already know that the same result will sometimes repeat, and probability tells us how often it will happen. What we don't know is when it will happen. With only two choices (H/T, odd/even) yesterday's result can be expected to repeat the next day half of the time, and to repeat for the next two days 25%
Sep 22, 2016, 3:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$311 MILLION: Here comes PowerballNews Story
By Todd Northrop July continues to be an exciting month for lottery fans dreaming of mega jackpot dollars. No sooner was Friday's $540 million Mega Millions jackpot won than Powerball became perfectly positioned to take the spotlight with a big rollover Saturday night. After nobody won Powerball's $288 million jackpot Saturday, the new jackpot for Wednesday, July 13 was estimated at $311 million. More exciting is the lump-sum cash value of $221.4 million, which is the 16th-largest in
Jul 10, 2016, 9:37 am - Todd - Lottery News