It makes you wonder!

Reply #9

savagegoose — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:51:55 GMT

no they meant draw more balls, like if its a 6/49. draw 7 and any 6 of the 7 hit the jackpot.

it seriously messes with the odds tho

Reply #8

KRB03 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:16:18 GMT

I also do not care much for QP's (even though I get a couple when the jackpot is high) - However both winners for FL lotto on Wed were QP's..........

Reply #7

KRB03 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:18:26 GMT

add more balls? What would happen if the same #'s came up twice. Wouldnt they have to add more #'s to choose from? I dont see how that could be pulled off.......

Reply #6

spy153 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:27:44 GMT

I personally hate the quickpicks. They just take all the fun out of it for me.

Reply #5

justxploring — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:46:13 GMT

Like the fortune cookie incident there could be an event that cause a lot of people to play the same winning numbers, but there would be a lot of unhappy winners. RJOh

I don't think I'm a selfish person, but I have to agree with RJOh here. If I finally won a jackpot after years and years of playing, I'd be very upset to learn I had to share it with 50 other players since the odds of winning it a second time are very, very slim. However, if a jackpot is over $100M, I think it would be nice if... [ More ]

Reply #4

pacattack05 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:12:18 GMT

It's like a jungle sometimes... It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

Reply #3

RJOh — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:52:44 GMT

According to the report at the lottoreport website, sales varies from 20M when the jackpot is $12M to 95M when the jackpot is $250M+ which leaves at least 75M+ combinations not sold when sales are at their highest. That's 75M additional chances for someone to buy a combination nobody else has. It's not hard to understand when the the odds of winning the jackpot is 1:175,711,536 why only one ticket wins when 100,000,000 tickets are sold.

Like the fortune cookie incident there could be an... [ More ]

Reply #2

dvdiva — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:44:46 GMT

They don't toss in a few more balls. While the idea of a rollover ball hasn't occured to any lottery yet it might in the future. Currently MUSL/MegaMillions changes the matrix then balls are added but that takes months.

A rollover ball would have to be a ball not on the playslips and couldn't be covered by players. I suppose they could add a ball to the power/mega balls that just said rollover then you know the lottery is going to rollover. It would more than likely aggravate players t... [ More ]

Reply #1

LckyLary — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:47:00 GMT

It depends on the number of tickets SOLD FOR THAT DRAWING minus takeout and minus Powerplays, not the number of players or the current jackpot. Notice how much the jackpot rolls over, normally maybe 20 million initially, which means (ignoring PowerPlay) 40 million tickets sold each drawing. A 200 Mill jackpot doesn't mean 200 million tickets in play! Odds are flirting with 200 million to 1, so that means each drawing about a 5-1 to 10-1 chance of a winner. Also bear in mind most get Quick Picks... [ More ]

It makes you wonder!

run190 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:48:57 GMT

It makes you wonder some times that whenever Powerball or Megaball have high jackpots, that there is always just one ticket that is a winner. I know there are millions of combinations, but there are millions of people that play. You would think there has to be a lot of tickets with the same numbers.It would be nice to have two tickets or ten tickets with the lucky numbers. Let me hear you think.