understanding odds of winning?

Reply #8

four4me — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:50:48 GMT

Sorry i cant find the vide but this should explain it

http://www.answers.com/topic/instant-lottery-ticket

Reply #7

CarHauler — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:26:47 GMT

So it sounds like you are saying that each roll of tickets (300 for $1 tickets, 150 for $2 tickets, 100 for $3 tickets, 60 for $5 tickets, 30 for $10 tickets, and 15 for $20 tickets) is first printed in those quantities, and then cut into books. Am I understanding this correctly? Then each book is run through again, to print the backs of the tickets and the play areas. Then the latex is applied? Is that the order?

Or is a continuous process, where it is consecutive rolls that are printed and

Reply #6

four4me — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:15:08 GMT

As a machinist i am familiar with the printing process as i have made parts for the machines and seen the operations of them first hand.

lottery scratch off books all have a number usually in the lower right hand corner of the ticket depending on the size of the book say a 1.00 dollar book has 50 tickets then the tickets will be numbered 1 through 50 And every book is the same.

Inside the play area under the latex is another number this number is the code they enter or scan that clarifies... [ More ]

Reply #5

CarHauler — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:55:58 GMT

I inquired to the Georgia Lottery as to this matter, and this is the response that I recieved:

Thank you for contacting the Georgia Lottery Corporation (GLC).

The Georgia Lottery goes to great lengths to ensure the security and integrity

of every game. Game symbols and prize amounts are distributed randomly during

the printing process of instant tickets. All instant games are audited by an

independent CPA firm prior to the release of a game to confirm that the

appropriate nu... [ More ]

Reply #4

CarHauler — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:52:50 GMT

The printers definitely know which tickets are winners, or at least have the ability to do so. I used to be in the printing industry, and part of the job is inspecting your product for proper color density, hue, vibrance, the color alignment, the alignment of the page itself, and so on. I worked printing the newspaper. You have to see to it that everything is set right. You do this at the beginning, and all through the printing process. It has to be dark enough to look nice, yet not too dark so

Reply #3

four4me — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:33:13 GMT

For scratch off tickets the overall amount of printed tickets have whatever the amount of winners there are in the odds.

The problem is the winning tickets are dispersed randomly among all the printed tickets.

There are several reasons for this mostly to prevent people from guessing what # tickets are winners.

If every 3rd 5 th and 9th ticket and so on throughout a book were winners then people could stand by the counter and buy those tickets when some unsuspecting person just bought ti... [ More ]

Reply #2

NightLinks — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:55:21 GMT

Thank YOU!

How about the Overall Odds: 1 in 2.93

Reply #1

four4me — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:48:33 GMT

In theory it means that if you buy 10 tickets one should be a winner but it doesn't really work like that there could be three winners in a row and then 25 tickets after that could be losers. Or you could buy three tickets and two of them are winners and the next 15 would be losers.

understanding odds of winning?

NightLinks — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:31:10 GMT

Hello,

I would like to understand the odds of winning on scratch off games. When a ticket says 1 in 10 does that mean that every 10 tickets only 1 wins? Also can someone explain a bit about Overall Odds