Hey, What About The Losers?

Reply #5

rdgrnr — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:49:08 GMT

I know they can't give an exact number of losing tickets still available but it seems like they should at least be able to give some kind of ballpark figure based on what they've allocated against ticket sales.

I guess the thing that bothers me is that they wouldn't even if they could. And if asked they would just tell me to refer to the odds printed on the ticket.

Reply #4

jwhou — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:24:28 GMT

I simply take the total number of all prizes claimed, divided by the total number of prizes printed for the game, multiply that with the number of tickets printed and that's a reasonable estimate for the number of tickets sold. The number of tickets remaining will of course be the number of tickets printed minus the number of tickets sold. Estimating by a sample like this is pretty accurate and if you wanted to, you could estimate how accurate the poll will be using a normal distribution curve,... [ More ]

Reply #3

jwhou — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:18:29 GMT

On the claim form, there was a separate section for your consent to be photographed and it was optional to sign it. When I made my claim, I didn't sign the consent section initially and they offered me a baseball cap and a T-shirt to sign it. I've been watching the website and my picture hasn't been posted yet so I think that your chances of remaining anonymous are fair so long as it's just the $1,000 prize. The claim form also requires you to write a story about how you felt when winning the pr... [ More ]

Reply #2

Rowen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:34:02 GMT

They make you take a picture for winning even a $1000. Sheesh how about privavcy please. They better give me some cool feebies to have my name and face splatter on their website as free advertising.

Reply #1

MADKAT — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:08:35 GMT

I believe you can estimate the amount of losers left by taking the amount of breakeven tickets left and multiplying that by the odds of winning the top prize.

Hey, What About The Losers?

rdgrnr — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:07:16 GMT

I don't buy scratchers very often but I'm going near VA tonight for a political gathering and I thought I would stop and buy a couple extra MM tickets and maybe a couple scratchers too. I looked up the remaining prizes for scratchers on VA's site (listed below) and saw a couple that still have a decent number of million dollar prizes left and all the other remaining prizes are listed. I'm thinking of getting a $120 MILLION CASH BLOWOUT and a MAXIMUM MILLIONS.

It dawned on me though, that they... [ More ]