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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Not a bad idea. You prolly have a better chance winning decent money on the scratchers. Overall odds are generally 1 in 4 ish.
Jul 10, 2025, 7:59 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Seems odd to me. Odds where dropped a smige. Ticket price has almost tripled. Less people are playing. And lower jackpots are being won. ......
Jun 30, 2025, 9:59 pm - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

DC 5 Lottery needs to be audited immediately. The same thing that happened to Tennessee in 2007Reply
Yeah, something is askew. Tonight's DC5 draw makes 40 repeats of the A B C D E - Singles. Below is a % Probability and Odds table for an event that has an average rate of reoccurrence of (100,000 / 30,240) 3.31 draws. As the repeats keep happening, the probability diminish and the odds grow exponentially. Tomorrow's midday draw would make a singles repeat the 41 st consecutive and the odds of the happening are 1 in 242,413.45. We're not saying it's impossible, just very impro
Apr 19, 2026, 10:13 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Once in a blue moon powerball X10Reply
Given the drawn sets from 2025-10-07 when the x10 multiplier was introduced, the sampled odds are: Multiplier Frequency Odds 2 729 1.78 3 417 3.11 4 78 16.62 5 54 24.00 10 18 72.00 Total 1296 Powerball Odds Powerball 1 0 White Balls 5 1 in 292,201,338.0000 1 in 11,688,053.5200 4 1 in 913,129.1813 1 in 36,525.1673 3 1 in 14,494.1140 1 in 579.7646 2 1 in 701.3281 1 in 28.0531 1 1 in 91.9775 1 in 3.6791 0 1 in
Jan 2, 2026, 1:08 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Tell that to the Millions that lost $5 as opposed to the 6 jackpots that have been won since the 150% price increase beginning on 4-08-2025. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Games/Mega_Millions/Estimated_Jackpot.html As Rcbbuckeye has in his signature, JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW If the new price tag is such a great deal why is it taking 40 draws to reach $980 Million ? If the new price tag is such a
Apr 4, 2026, 12:43 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Help Me Understand This 😭
From 2/22 when the new MFL game launched, Both the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots have been won twice - each. We have also had numerous 2nd prize winners for both of the above games. We are yet to have a jackpot or even a 2nd prize winner with MFL. On 4/22 it will be two months since the game launched. Does it mean we have fewer people playing MFL in the 31 states where it's available? The odds of winning are way lower than for both PB and MM, but yet they keep on producing
Apr 17, 2026, 10:52 am - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Hmm, the Jackpot has been won 6 times since the $5.00 change. Yet, the x10 on 5 + 0 has only been won 1 time. Let's see, the Jackpot odds are 1 in 290,472,336.0 And, the x10 on 5 + 0 odds are 1 in 404,135,424.0 Yep, seems our calculations are holding up in the real world examples. Good Luck
Mar 20, 2026, 11:10 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

PowerballReply
I'd be plenty PO'd at myself too. For just one lousy dollar bill more, I could have had two million. I don't wanna be that guy. Then there's this too - When I play PB, I play three identical lines of five numbers. Each line on my ticket will have a different PB (Red Ball) number. The pay out would be six million minus the taxes if I hit only all five white ball numbers. If I happened to have matched the PB too, I'd win the jackpot with the other two lines kicking in an additional 4 million.
Dec 2, 2025, 10:50 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does Lottery Software work?Reply
I aim for the truly impossible goals. I play one ticket for any game. I also use Python to explore ideas, and to back test. The challenges when restricting yourself to one combo mean you surely do not win as much, but I am at the lowest budget possible. I am fully aware that playing more tickets is the only way to slightly bend the odds in my favor, but I am cheap. I have more fun coding in Python than actually playing. It can be frustrating when trying to determine the next combo, even
Oct 6, 2025, 7:22 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
None of the other games charge $5 to pretend to be something they are not! Would it make you happy if pick 3 was $5 and had a $1,000,000,000,000 annuity jackpot that had 50 quintillion to 1 odds of hitting and paid the annuity out at a dime a year for ten trillion years? and a second prize of $10,000,000 with 672 trillion to 1 odds of hitting? I'm sure the state lottery commissions would love to have you as a customer on that ticket too! It looks to me like you are not c
Oct 1, 2025, 3:28 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum