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Nature of Randomness in Mechanical SystemsReply
Pennsylvania, April 24th, 1980. Nick Perry, then the host of the lottery drawings at WTAE in Pittsburgh, and lottery official Edward Plevel recruited WTAE art director Joseph Bock to inject a small amount of latex paint into the lottery balls that were not 4's or 6's. Reducing the 1:1,000 odds down to 1:8. They then played 7,000 tickets of each of the 8 combinations for a payday of $3,500,000 when 6-6-6 was drawn. There were other co conspirators who bought the tickets. They were eventually caug
Feb 6, 2024, 8:09 am - hypersoniq - Mathematics Forum

Win the Lottery - Your Retirement Strategy (or maybe not)!
Suppose you just turned age 25. You look around at the state of the world and realize it's a dumpster fire : Soaring inflation, completely dysfunctional government, war in Europe, climate going haywire, financial markets tanking, flying anywhere is a nightmare, COVID might be making a comeback, you just had a bad relationship break-up, AND, last, but not least, the U.S. President is doing air handshakes (caught at least twice on camera)!. Is he seeing a ghost? . You've decided on a retirement
Jul 20, 2022, 5:22 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Test for LotteriesReply
Texas helps to keep the Powerball and Mega Millions honest by publishing the lotto draw results going back to 2015 or so. That eases independent analysis by the public. They preserve pick order, which is important for analysis. The Arizona Lotto also stinks when it comes to publishing draw results. Only six months back, position information not recorded, and it's not available for file download (cvs or text would be sufficient). State-run lottos screw over the public big time by keeping win
Feb 3, 2023, 12:35 pm - Wavepack - Mathematics Forum

Mega Millions Just The JackpotReply
I really doubt that can be proved as far as the PRNGs lotteries use. You would have to have a database of numbers picked for all tickets sold and know which ones were Quick Picks, and then run the significance testing. You're not going to get that information. Also, the lottery administrators have no real motivation to make their algorithm open source, so I doubt you'll see that either.
Jul 19, 2023, 8:39 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

figuring out how many Scratchers there are in a given game?
Ok, the Idaho lottery publishes on its website the number of winning prizes still available on each scratch-off lottery ticket, and as the particular ticket sells, they also publish the percentage of tickets sold. Lastly, they publish the odds. So my question is? Can simple multiplication tell you how many tickets in a given run are still left? For instance, the currently high sold ticket is a $1.00 game called Double Doubler It is 96.74% sold out the overall odds are 4.37, and there are 164
Jan 11, 2023, 11:48 pm - Lostson - Mathematics Forum

figuring out how many Scratchers there are in a given game?Reply
Your math checks out, I got the same answer. To me that does not seem too high to have that many tickets left if they started with about 900K. Scratch offs are the best-selling lottery product in every state. The lottery can forecast how many are going to be bought based on past trends. As to your other question, I doubt the ID lottery website refreshes the odds as various prizes are claimed (too much work for them, they won't even post number of claims of lower level prizes), but the best p
Jan 12, 2023, 3:36 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Mathematics Forum

My fascination -The first digit
Any lottery is a business and many players most of us myself included would love to understand the concept of how the first number(the lowest on the left will be) In my books a good predictor is measured by how he can correctly read the first digit. If your first digit is out your chances on the jackpot is GONE....no surprise there. Is there a formula ? No you have no code than calculate the next draws first digit theres is though patterns that can assist with it its extremely complica
Aug 18, 2023, 5:59 am - Ricklou - Mathematics Forum

Expected Value of Lottery Jackpot, Given You Are A Winner
When you play a lottery and win a pari-mutuel Jackpot, there's always the possibility that one or more other players will also have won, and you'll be sharing (splitting) the prize money. Can you calculate what the Expected Value is of the Jackpot prize, given you are a winner? Certainly! We need to assume something first: every ticket bought is a Quickpick - so any given set of numbers (a single ticket) can be randomly replicated on any other ticket. Suppose there are N such tickets sold (1
Jul 18, 2022, 5:07 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Mega Millions Just The JackpotReply
Answered by Google. Bard The expected value of a lottery ticket is the average of the possible prizes, weighted by their probability. For a regular Mega Millions ticket, the expected value is about $0.63. This means that, on average, for every $2 you spend on a ticket, you will expect to win about $0.63. The expected value of a JTJ ticket is about $1.26. This means that, on average, for every $3 you spend on a ticket, you will expect to win about $1.26. So, the JTJ ticket offers a
Aug 3, 2023, 6:59 am - mrtckw - Mathematics Forum

Chances of 1,2 or three winners in PowerballReply
It's relatively simple. The probabilities follow the Binomial Distribution if you assume the numbers for every ticket are chosen independently and randomly. (That is the case for a Quick Pick .) The probability of an individual random ticket winning Mega Millions is 1 in 302575350, for example. Powerball is slightly higher probability. Let's call that probability (1 in 302575350) p . P (capital letter) is the probability of x winners, where x = 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., N, where N is the number of ti
Jul 18, 2023, 7:38 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum