Poll: Would you play this?

Most states had the "one off" option for years; it's called front pair, back pair, and outside pair and each bet pays $50 for $1. One number off like playing 123 and getting paid on 124, 122, 113, 133, 023, and 223 would have the same payoff as a 6-way box bet ($83 for $1) because it would be the same as playing 6 straight combinations for a buck. That bet could be made playing any lottery that offers 50 cent wagers and would cost $3 for a $250 payoff.

The average bet is probably $1 straight and $1 box and is why more creative betting options are not offered. A box bet is actually 3 or 6 straight bets for a dollar and the payoff is by dividing $500 by 3 or 6. A 6-way box should pay $83.33 and a 3-way should pay $166.66 but the lotteries keep the change and pay in even dollar amounts. Some states pay $80 and $160 and those states keep more than the change.

The bookies paid off at $600 to $1 so their payoffs always came out exact; $100 for a 6-way box and $200 for a 3-way.

BUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong!  Go back up and look at the Even and Odd patterns for 2^3 and you will see that there are 8 of them.  Now if you substitute U for one number up and D for one number down you will see that you would be playing eight sets of numbers for a dollar and any or all numbers could be one up or one down from the numbers drawn and still win! it would be

$500/8 = 62.50 for a one dollar bet or

$5000/16 = 312.50 for a pick 4 one dollar bet.

Or if you paid 8 or 16 dollars you would win the full amount on a one off.

Of couse if you hit the original set of numbers on the original dollar bet you would win the full prize anyway but for a buck extra you could hedge.

Divide $500 by how many straight number combinations there are in each of the 8 even/odd patterns; OOO has 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, etc. or 125 straight combinations. Doesn't $500/125 = $4?

Do you really think any lottery will pay you $62.50 for just betting a buck on all 8 possible patterns?

Aaaah I see you are suffering from cursor hypnosis!

Would you please carefully read the previous posts before answering?  Thanks!

Now, if you play a pick 3 number for a dollar and hedge with one off for an extra buck then it works out to $62.50!!!

"Go back up and look at the Even and Odd patterns for 2^3 and you will see that there are 8 of them."

I understand there are 8 even/odd patterns and 8 high/low too. But each pattern has 125 different straight combinations but that is not betting 8 numbers for a buck.

"Now if you substitute U for one number up and D for one number down you will see that you would be playing eight sets of numbers for a dollar and any or all numbers could be one up or one down from the numbers drawn and still win!"

You didn't say which one of the 5 odd or 5 even digits you substitute "U" and "D" with. It would have made more sense if you had just said "substitute U and D for all three digits in a combo like 123". Going one up and one down changes OEO to EOE, why even bring it up?

I think you want a bet on the play slip where you can put in a 3 digit number and check "one up and one down" and the machine will give you those 8 straight combinations.

You can create 8 combinations by adding and subtracting the digits from the previous drawing. V-tracs will give you 8 combinations and there are thousands of different ways to bet 8 different straight combinations. I can play 6 combos on one play slip so I suppose they could make the print smaller, add 2 more, and have 8 combos on one play slip. And maybe have two boxes; one where I can play them all straight for 12 1/2 cents each and one where you can box them all for a reduced payoff.

They could have a play slip where you could play all 125 OEO or all 125 HLH straight numbers so players could play each combo for $0.008 cents too. Hey those $3 wins add up and besides, stores always need change; we can pay for the ticket using nickels, dimes, and pennies.

Ok, maybe I should have spelled "Note that 2^N would also apply to Up and Down so maybe on the Pick 3 and Pick 4 you could get your state to offer a "One Off" Option on Pick 3 and Pick 4." out.

eg for 123 one off would mean that 1 could be 0 or 2 , 2 could be 1 or 3 and 3 could be 2 or 4

 234

>123

 012

any or all numbers could be one off and you would still get a prize.

Of course if you hit on 123 you would  get the 500 bux for the original bet.

It would loop at 0 and 9.

0 could be 1 or 9

9 could be 0 or 8

Sigh! Nobody caught the error that I put in there for someone to catch