Second Chance Drawings from the Lottery- Beating the Odds

Reply #13

Redd55 — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:35:50 GMT

Fantasy Five

End of Game

SuperLotto

....have the best odds based on the low number of entries.

Anyway, I found a new store to buy my tickets that also has a small stash of throw away scratchers that I can take and enter for a second change draw.

Reply #12

zephbe — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:21:14 GMT

Reply #11

casino crawler — Thu, 28 May 2015 15:37:26 GMT

Well I still say buy the Fantasy Five (or your states equivalent) since the mega or superball tends to skew the odds off into the universe.

Personally, to win $50,000 and up (based on the rollover) with better odds than Mega Millions or Super Lotto seems a much better plan.

I would rather have a shot at something, than a snowball's chance.... (besides 50 k is much better than a poke in the eye

Reply #10

casino crawler — Thu, 28 May 2015 15:33:50 GMT

OMG....I never sat down and did the math. Thanks Murgatroyd. So they drew 10 winners I believe to fill up the TV show but those are still pretty long odds. So to do it once that was pretty amazing, but the second time...wow. She is one of those people who seems to hit no matter what.

Reply #9

Redd55 — Thu, 21 May 2015 15:21:02 GMT

Correction: SuperLotto second chance entries for Calif average about 1 million.

Reply #8

Redd55 — Sat, 16 May 2015 13:26:27 GMT

The number of entries received are posted on the winners page.

Superlotto averages betw 9-11 mil.

Scratchers around 10-12 million

Fantasy 5 around 150,000-170,1000

The scratcher end of game draws which are the big jackpots are of course being phased out, have much smaller number of entries..

The last end of game jackpot I thought I had a fair shot at it but alas, as it often happens, it went to the registered sex offender.

I've stopped buying scratchers. Of course, I still... [ More ]

Reply #7

Murgatroyd — Sat, 16 May 2015 01:06:33 GMT

I may be off by one or two postage rate changes, but I think it was about 29 . That would put the number of entries at a bit under a million.

Reply #6

TinkerMazell — Fri, 15 May 2015 01:46:47 GMT

Thank you! Good luck to you

Reply #5

zephbe — Thu, 14 May 2015 23:44:38 GMT

Congrats on your win. I'm going to get some more tickets for the May 2nd Chance drawing.

Reply #4

TinkerMazell — Thu, 14 May 2015 23:09:41 GMT

When I won $20,000 taxes paid, there were only about 9,000 entries for that particular drawing week, which made the odds very, very good. I had 6 tickets entered.

Reply #3

zephbe — Tue, 12 May 2015 20:40:28 GMT

SC has several second chance promotions but only for scratch offs. $1 and $2 losers can only be entered online.

Reply #2

casino crawler — Tue, 12 May 2015 20:34:57 GMT

Interesting. I asked my friend after I saw your response. She was told the same thing by California lottery officials when she went up. They did not tell her the number of entries, but they said there was over $250,000 worth of postage on the letters they drew from. She asked in 1987 and I don't recall what the price of a stamp was then but that is a heck of a lot of second chance entries.

Thanks for the response.

Reply #1

zephbe — Tue, 12 May 2015 20:17:49 GMT

SC says the odds depend on the number of entries received.

Second Chance Drawings from the Lottery- Beating the Odds

casino crawler — Tue, 12 May 2015 07:35:06 GMT

I have a close friend who joined the drawings for a second chance in the California lottery. The first time was a promotion where you sent in three losing scratchers and they drew people to go on the Big Spin tv show. She went up to Sacramento (where it was filmed in those days) and she spun the wheel and won $10,000. She then started entering online for the Fantasy Five second chance drawing. Nearly ten years to the day she was drawn again (both in the month of August) and this time she played