Should one pay for lottery history

Reply #14

Stack47 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:36:29 GMT

The data collected from tracking a roulette wheel history might be more useful than tracking Mega Millions or Powerball because it only takes 38 spins to complete one cycle. MM and PB would need 175 and 195 million drawings just to complete one cycle so under 500 drawings isn't much history. It would take 1.75 million drawings just to have 1% of the history.

If someone was selling stats on roulette, and based it on the a European game (one 0 on the wheel) and tied to sel it to Americans, wou... [ More ]

Reply #13

Stack47 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:54:59 GMT

The Ohio Lottery website has the results of every online game going back to 1979 when the Pick-3 first started but it's a little tricky finding it. On the home page above the daily results click on number search and at the bottom of that screen click on archives . When you select which year or years, it shows all the drawing results by date. And as you said because they are not separated in to games, it would take a very long time.

I was looking at the Ohio Lotto results from 1983 to 1987 and... [ More ]

Reply #12

RJOh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:34:40 GMT

Sorry, I meant USA Mega. A link is on the left side of this page.

Reply #11

Todd — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:01:40 GMT

I think you mean USA Mega, right?

Texas MadMan said all the history is available for Mega Millions on the Texas Web site, but technically that's not true. It is only available since the time the game name was changed to Mega Millions.

All of the official state lotteries with the Mega Millions results start the results at the point the name changed to the current name. However, both USA Mega and Lottery Post have every drawing back from the true beginning of the game (Sept. 6, 1996). It w... [ More ]

Reply #10

Tenaj — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:00:18 GMT

Yes they should. If u don't want to pay for it go gather it up yourself.

Reply #9

RJOh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:27:25 GMT

If one doesn't mind doing a bit of copy and past then there's a complete history of PowerBall and MegaMillions drawings at MEGAUSA.

Reply #8

Coin Toss — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:37:57 GMT

pick4hawk

...Selling the information--I'm not sure is a good Idea. Perhaps gettingit free with membership would be okay ---If you get the information ineither way in a text or word files.

I would think that anyone who is going to research that extensively would know how to find this information. Also, how valuable is information like this prior to any matrix change?

If someone was selling stats on roulette, and based it on a European game (one 0 on the wheel) and tried to sel it to Amer... [ More ]

Reply #7

RJOh — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:01:25 GMT

Ohio is a MegaMillions state and it keeps data by game for only 180 days, the time that a ticket can be cashed in. Some where on the site you can get a PDF file by year with information about all their games dumped together by day and if you want to separate the data by game for use in a lottery program or spread sheet, you are going to spend a lot of time during it.

Reply #6

CARBOB — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:44:57 GMT

Is your state in the Megamillions Lottery? If so, see if they list past draws. If not, call them and inquire about copies of past draws. You shouldn't have to pay anything, if your state is in the lottery, that's public information.

Reply #5

RJOh — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:42:55 GMT

Yes but their data only goes back to 12/03/2003 when they joined and not to 05/17/2002 when

MegaMillions was created from BigGame which started 09/06/1996.

Reply #4

RJOh — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:33:01 GMT

Having someone else accumulate data that you want saves you time and time is money especially if it belongs to someone else. Why not pay if you aren't willing to spend the time during it yourself? There are companies that accumulate such data and sell it and most website owners and software producers who follow all state lotteries buy their services because they don't have time to do it themselves.

Reply #3

inittowin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:21:32 GMT

People pay for information every day!

Whether it is lottery data or anything else. If it saves someone time of looking it up themselves

and they feel that it is worth it to them to purchase that information, then they will.

Such as Mathew Lesko... all of his books contain free information from the U.S. government, he just packages it into one book.

Thankfully, Al Gore invented the information super highway for all of us

Reply #2

Texas MadMan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:08:21 GMT

The Texas Lottery official website has all the megamillion results downloadable for free.

http://www.txlottery.org/export/sites/default/Games/Mega_Millions/Winning_Numbers/index.html_554942523.html

Reply #1

pick4hawk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:56:49 GMT

I have a Microsoft word file of most of all the mega millions games data. All the balls are in the order as they came out of the machine--not in the ascending order that they are on the tickets.

I use ascending file order only occasionally to determine one thing.

I prefer the order of the balls as they come out of the mega millions machine.

I do not believe the genuine mega millions site should charge any fee to get the information. Perhaps if LP included the word files either way---si... [ More ]

Should one pay for lottery history

pick4hawk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:10:55 GMT

I was wondering how people feel about paying for lottery history in text or word files.

I mainly use the megamillions history only in the drawn order. Ascending only occasionally.

Selling the information--I'm not sure is a good Idea. Perhaps getting it free with membership would be okay ---If you get the information in either way in a text or word files.

Hawk