Florida Lotto Head Scratcher

Reply #7

db101 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:21:53 GMT

Cool. I managed to work it out after I posted and then I figured out some other weird odds on tickets with no duplicated numbers.

Reply #6

db101 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:18:30 GMT

I am old. Too late now

Reply #5

Speler — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:15:35 GMT

Careful with the scratching! You still need that hair when you get older. You don't want to end as cueball

Reply #4

cottoneyedjoe — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:05:33 GMT

Maybe you already figured it out or got the explanation, in any case, an easy way to see why the odds are 1 in 6800 is to first make a ticket with three lines of all different numbers. Pretend you went out and bought

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12

13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18

Okay, so now you want to know the odds that the winning combination has exactly two numbers from each of your lines. In the first line, there are 6 choose 2 = 15 ways of selecting two numbers. Sam... [ More ]

Reply #3

Raven62 — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:01:10 GMT

3 Chances to Win out of 1,378 combinations.

Reply #2

db101 — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:41:42 GMT

Thats the probability of winning the jackpot. I can figure that one out. I'm talking about the odds of winning the booby prize of 2/6 on each line .

Reply #1

Raven62 — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:33:46 GMT

3 Chances to Win out of 22,957,480 combinations.

Florida Lotto Head Scratcher

db101 — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:17:48 GMT

I asked this question to someone who knows a lot of lottery stats, and the answer was about 1 in 6800, but they didnt have time to explain it. Hoping someone can shed light on it.

Fla Lotto is a 6/53 game. If a person buys three lines (six numbers per line) and they don't repeat any numbers (18 diff mumbers total) then what are the odds that on each line they have exactly two of the winning numbers