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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
At the odds and the payouts, you are lucky if you win $$, a free ticket that is won never seems to pay off, EVER!! And my intuition tells me, under deeper scrutiny, we might find these funds being laundered into our political party system. Sorry, I'm still not over the Powerball security debacle, with a delayed drawing that was pushed to 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The next morning, the winning store's security tape had the news van in the parking lot next door at 4:30 a.m., waiting for the owner to
Jul 11, 2026, 10:10 am - TMan007 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball is coming to the U.K.Reply
I'd rather that the powerball sells in the uk but the price and odds remain the same, than that they raise the price to $5 the way megamillions did. I guess that they're all trying to get more money in. They're just using a different approach. And I'll keep dreaming for $2 rather than for $5.
Jul 8, 2026, 6:51 pm - winterbird - Lottery Discussion Forum

2026's Leading PowerBall Red Ball NumberReply
That lack of a bell curve is why the house always wins. The house always wins because the odds guarantee that they don't pay out as much as they collect. The house may lose on individual bets, but the house wins more often than they lose.
Jul 1, 2026, 1:53 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I believe you are correct. Winterbird said he was going to calculate his personal odds, which I understand as dividing the number of tickets sold by the number of tickets you bought.
Jun 19, 2026, 12:24 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Buddy, if the final number of tickets sold is about 367.000 and there will be ten top prize winners, the the odds of winning one of the top prizes would be 36,700 to 1. Agree? G5
Jun 19, 2026, 8:48 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I'm good with that. Lower odds for those players that have a ticket(s). Might buy another next week and right at the end of the sales cycle on June 30th. G5
May 29, 2026, 7:10 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

A single mother who needs a winning numberReply
To be brutally honest with you, if you are in dire financial trouble playing the lottery is the last thing you should be doing. The odds are against you, even with games like Pick 3. But, good luck. Hope you find help.
May 19, 2026, 10:58 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It is measly given the odds of winning and the fact that it's a 30 year annuity. It's worth 1.5 cents. A prize worth 1.5 cents would be fine if the tickets were 5 cents per line. They are not 5 cents. They're five dollars . What a joke.
Apr 25, 2026, 1:36 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

DC 5 Lottery needs to be audited immediately. The same thing that happened to Tennessee in 2007Reply
if dc lottery goes the entire month of april drawing only singles for pick 5 twice a day, and i believe they will, the probability of that happening randomly due to chance is 0.3024^60. that works out to odds of 1 in 14,624,896,128,737,864,992,086,076,360,054. that is a 32-digit number. for comparison, the number of atoms in the human body is about 7 x 10^27, which is a 28-digit number.
Apr 22, 2026, 11:34 am - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
1 in 146 million means 1 divided by 146 million . They're the same. If you flip a fair coin, you don't say the odds of heads are two . It's one in two , or 50% or half .
Apr 14, 2026, 6:13 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum