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Washington Lottery to Discontinue Televised DrawingsReply
Wow! Deja Vu!The same announcement was made here in Indiana just before they retired the balls and went to an RNG to draw the numbers for all of their online games.Good Luck, Washington... (and hold onto your wallets)
Jun 11, 2004, 5:49 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

Texas may move to join Mega Millions todayReply
I'm surprised Texas would be able to join and potentially start selling tickets almost right away. Granted they made the first announcement in August, but lots of states have taken a longer. And with Texas being large, you'd think it would take them longer because of that. Interesting.
Oct 16, 2003, 6:21 pm - smd173 - Lottery News

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
The Case for the Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment of Stack47 (also known as Twister , Stack of Lies , Stack of Poo , Stanker , Stack 47 and Wilomena .) Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. If you have ever taken a negotiation class, you learn to let your opponent ramble and fill empty silences and not to respond too quickly. When you do not respond quickly, your efforts can be minimized since, to use the old adage, they have often hung themselves by then. Unfortunately, we have here
Oct 14, 2016, 4:45 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

$1.5 BILLION: Powerball jackpot nears all-time recordReply
What % of ticket combinations were sold? Based on 183 million tickets a random distribution would use 46.54% of the possible combinations. The number of 5+0 and 4+1 winners is fairly unlikely (though even the most likely result of 200 4+1 winners is only 2.82%) and almost certainly a result of 3 of the 5 numbers being birthday numbers. We all know that a lot of people play calendar numbers , patterns, and other non-random selections, so the actual number of combinations would have been lowe
Nov 4, 2022, 2:35 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Multi-state lottery shockwave sweeping AmericaReply
Actually, that is only the same Oct. 13th announcement that every single state talked about on the same date. It is completely different than saying Yes, we are definitely adding Powerball. It is only an announcement that the two big games formed an agreement in principle. That's all. People and some news media sources incorrectly turned it into We're getting Powerball/Mega Millions! That's not what it was. Many lotteries are required to get some kind of approval before they can alter the
Nov 5, 2009, 5:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Missouri Pick 3 players get bonus drawingNews Story
A special promotion is giving Missouri Lottery Pick 3 players a shot at doubling their chances of winning cash in the Midday drawing. From Oct. 19 through Nov. 15, the Lottery will draw the winning Pick 3 numbers along with a second drawing from among three white balls and one orange ball. If the orange ball is drawn, the Lottery will draw a bonus set of Pick 3 numbers, giving players a second chance to win cash to win from the same ticket purchase. Even though there are no balls utilized
Oct 15, 2008, 7:00 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey Couple Wins $258 Million in Mega JackpotNews Story
What to do with a piece of paper worth $258 million?That was the immediate question that confronted Helen and Harold Lerner last Saturday morning after they checked the lottery numbers in the local newspaper and found that they had bought the winning ticket in the Sept. 16 drawing of the Mega Millions jackpot.First they hugged and kissed. Then they checked the ticket about 500 times, Mr. Lerner said, and all of a sudden we were in a dreamland. They wrapped the ticket in cellophane, put it in
Sep 24, 2005, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

$835 MILLION: Powerball jackpot set to deliver ultra-wealthReply
Public Service Announcement #2 Of a $23,400 lifetime cost of powerplay powerball tickets, you have ~ 99% chance being down $19,600 when you die. This assumes you have no pick advantage over uniform random selection. You can reduce that near certain lifetime loss by $6540 by playing with regular powerball tickets. You can reduce that near certain loss even further by not playing low-odds numbers-racket State-run lottos.
Sep 27, 2023, 1:33 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

$835 MILLION: Powerball jackpot set to deliver ultra-wealthReply
Public Service Announcement: If you want to maximize your total PB lotto lifetime losses, then spent $3/ticket on the powerplay option. Why? Because the extra 50% cost on your losing tickets totals to more than the extra money gained when you do hit, on average.
Sep 26, 2023, 6:40 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

California winner of $2.04 billion Powerball lottery jackpot revealedReply
Just a note to let everyone know that we have added the full press conference video to the story so you can see everything that was mentioned during the announcement. Also, if you're a Rumble user, you can now follow Lottery Post's official Rumble video channel . The channel was just started yesterday and only includes this first video for now, but be sure to click the Follow button on our channel to be notified of when new content on Rumble drops.
Feb 15, 2023, 4:17 pm - Todd - Lottery News