Quick pick questions

Reply #17

bigbear29 — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:23:14 GMT

thought this was strange tonight, I bought 1 powerball ticket and 1 powerball with powerplay, and both had number 33 as the powerball number. So, I went back in the store to get another powerball ticket to get one with another powerball number. The third ticket had 33 as the powerball number. I will be in shock if the powerball number is 33 tonight.

Reply #16

psykomo — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:35:38 GMT

GOOD Question:

How does the QP machine git it's Quick Picks?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Inorder to answer any question or questions about Quick Picks that we buy at our favorite numbers hole, it

would be nice to know the inter=workins of actually how each number has been generated???????????????

BACK in 2001:

Psyko was into QP's along with 50 million other players. In one state I lived they did not offer QP's and every

player in that state finally g... [ More ]

Reply #15

lottolaughs — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:05:12 GMT

Naturally there are duplicates. It's supposed to be random so a machine in Missouri can kick out numbers 3.5.18.28.33 and so can a machine in California for the same game. There could also be duplicates in the same state as well.

I see what you're saying,though. You think there should be only 1 set of numbers generated and when it is they shouldn't be duplicated. But that's not the way the cookie crumbles in the lottery world. At least not to my understanding.

Reply #14

bigbear29 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:27:40 GMT

By issuing same tickets to players the lottery is effectively reducing the chances of winning when playing QP.

I agree, it does reduce your chances of winning, because all of the combinations are not coming out, so that increases the odds of no winners.

Reply #13

LottoMetro — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:02:28 GMT

By issuing same tickets to players the lottery is effectively reducing the chances of winning when playing QP.

Well, it does not reduce your chance of winning....that stays the same regardless of whether you choose QP or your own numbers. The reason is that draws are independent. You have an equal chance of having duplicates using self-picks as QPs, possibly higher if you play popular/birthday numbers. What it does reduce is the probability of there being any winner and increases the probabil... [ More ]

Reply #12

thaencyder — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:55:53 GMT

That doesn't account for games without winners. Theoretically, all combinations should be issued at any given moment which should lead to a winner in every drawing (assuming the number of tickets sold is very high).

Reply #11

thaencyder — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:51:29 GMT

Perscisely. By issuing same tickets to players the lottery is effectively reducing the chances of winning when playing QP. Sure you can have winners at some point but chances are very slim and are offset by the earnings from other players. It's an idiotic system obviously designed to have as few winners as possible.

Reply #10

LottoMetro — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:48:15 GMT

Depending on sales, there can be many duplicates. I know of 2 ways to approximate the number of duplicates sold, the simplest being:

( 0.5 * (tickets sold ^ 2) ) / combinations

And you take the square root of this to get the standard error.

So for 15,000,000 tickets sold in Powerball, we would estimate that on average, 642,037 801 duplicates were produced. This assumes independent draws of course. It does not account for conscious selection (i.e. people choosing birthday numbers) or a g... [ More ]

Reply #9

bluerain — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:39:30 GMT

power ball and mega are not computer drawn numbers they are mechanical ball drawings, i would never play a computerized game, no where no how, your a born loser if u do.

Reply #8

bigbear29 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:36:33 GMT

Or may-be alot of quick picks that are the same

Reply #7

bluerain — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:32:57 GMT

IT IS A MECHANICAL BALL MACHINE, YES THERE CAN BE A NUMBER OF QUIK PICKS THAT ARE THE SAME.

Reply #6

bigbear29 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:08:26 GMT

That is why I do not like quick picks, but you have to play them anyway along with your own numbers. Also, the winning numbers seem to come up in the same locations.

Mega millions numbers: March 11 9 14 56 57 69 - 10

March 7 11 13 51 57 69 - 1

Did the computer see that the last two number sets did not have alot of winners

Reply #5

thaencyder — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:11:52 GMT

Yeah, that's an awful system from player's perspective. Once a certain combination of numbers are drawn the system should automatically put those combinations out of circulation unless they're manually picked. That way players have a much greater chance of winning (statistically) but then again the lottery's main goal is to have as few winners as possible while yielding as much earning.

Reply #4

RJOh — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:22:46 GMT

Buying lottery tickets is not like buying raffle tickets from the same terminal. The numbers on the raffle tickets do come from a central computer because all the numbers are unique and there are no duplicates.

Reply #3

thaencyder — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:09:18 GMT

Interesting. I've always assumed although the numbers are randomly drawn the system would self check and not quick pick two tickets of the exact same number combinations. If that's is the case, the system itself is effectively reducing the number of possible winners by drawing multiple tickets with same numbers while still maximizing Overall earnings.

Reply #2

Ilovecash3 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:20:46 GMT

No 1 knows..

Reply #1

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:03:17 GMT

It is very possible for lottery terminals to print duplicate numbers from QP's. They are random number generators and if they controled the numbers produced so there weren't duplicates, then they wouldn't be random.

Quick pick questions

thaencyder — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:47:33 GMT

I'm wondering, does the quick pick machine pick more than one winning ticket nationwide? My impression is that it doesn't. However, the past couple of PBs I've noticed that there are a bunch of second place winners. I don't know if they were all QP but its kind of strange for that many people to winners to get the second prize but miss the jackpot. Anyhow, can someone shed a light on how the lottery machines work, hiw the network is setup and etc.

Thanks