"One In 1000" Results: March 16/17, 2012

Comment #3

skio — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:44:12 GMT

I'd like to ask you if you use a reduced(banking pool) set of numbers for your 175 000 virtual lines or all the lottery numbers are used?<br />In case of reduced set which your main criteria of selection is

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mediabrat — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:55:34 GMT

For each drawing I play 175,000 lines on paper. As the odds of winning a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot is approximately 1 in 175 million, this effectively means that my odds of winning are about 1 in 1000.

Comment #1

LottoBoner — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:00:51 GMT

how many total games were played here?

Original Blog Entry: "One In 1000" Results: March 16/17, 2012

mediabrat — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:53:38 GMT

The winning Mega Millions numbers for March 16 were 28-29-43-51-53, Megaball 7. No one won the $200 million dollar jackpot, both in real life and in our simulation. In the real world, there were seven Match 5+0 winners.

Here's how our 175,000 lines fared:

MATCH WINNERS TOTAL PRIZES

5+1 0 $0

5+0 0 $0

4+1 0 $0

4+0 13 $1,950

3+1 9 $1,350

3+0 602 $4,214

2+1 196 $1,960

1+1 1332 $3,996

0+1 2411 $4,822

TOTALS 4563 $18,292

The winning Powerball numbers on St. Patrick's Day were 11-14-49-55-58 and Powerball 30. The luck of the Irish was not with anyone as there were no winners of the $60 million jackpot. However, there was one Match 5+0 winner.

Our numbers came out like this:

MATCH WINNERS TOTAL PRIZES

5+1 0 $0

5+0 0 $0

4+1 0 $0

4+0 5 $500

3+1 10 $1,000

3+0 538 $3,766

2+1 254 $1,778

1+1 1661 $6,644

0+1 3276 $13,104

TOTALS 5744 $26,792

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