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Persistent Kentucky man wins $150,000 Powerball lottery prize: "It's just a dollar."Reply
Count me in as someone that always adds the PowerPlay option because I don't care what the jackpot amount is. I play for a second place win. To each his own, but IMHO it's worth it because the odds of winning a second place prize of two million dollars by matching all five white balls are 1 in 11,688,053. Winning two million bucks with those low odds makes sense to me. I know of lottery's that have worse odds than 11 million to 1 and pay out less than 2 million to any winner(s). And th
Aug 23, 2025, 11:19 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Banana Peel SystemReply
Odds of the last 3 draws happening is already way beating odds of hitting the jackpot since the odds of hitting 649 jp is just about 1 in 14 million. I really think the trees are growing small wins for us. There's no way that these happening without tree's growing cause (even though they're growing somewhere else around the world but they're supporting life in small ways for now)
Jun 15, 2025, 6:49 pm - cddvd - Lottery Systems Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
I too have had 'trouble' with what's being argued so passionately in this thread. When I lived in the Northeast, although I lived in New York State, I lived in close proximity to Pennsylvania. Every Fall The PA Lottery (for what I'm guessing is the last 20 years or more) holds their Millionaire Raffle. According to the raffles official rules, a maximum of 500,000 tickets can be sold. The PA Lottery has always advertised the odds for the raffle at 125,000 to 1 because there are 4 top prize w
Mar 30, 2026, 7:56 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Millionaire For Life ...ripoffReply
The current odds of hitting the top prize in Cash 4 Life are 1 in 21,846,048. Where I live we have Lucky for Life instead and the current odds of hitting Lucky for Life top prize are 1 in 30,821,472 The new Millionaire For Life odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 22.9 million . Depending on where you live, the odds could either improve or get a little harder for you. There is also the difference in the amount won. I play Lucky for Life a lot, I will be playing the new
Jan 31, 2026, 10:10 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Ok, now that we have the historical data posted, many of you can run your own analysis. During the 2017-10-31 to 2025-04-04 run of MM, there were on average about 1.81 5 + 0 winners per draw. Now, there are only on average about 0.53 5 + 0 winners per draw... hmm, interesting, since the odds are slightly better now than before. There's on average a little more than 3.5 times more 5 + 0 winners in the previous run of MM. Additionally, our calculation of the odds of getting 5 + 0 a
Jan 24, 2026, 7:47 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

markov pick3Reply
The 3 positions are as independent of each other as the next draw is to previous draws... so 0 through 9 has a 10% chance of being drawn in any position. This extends from a pick 2 through a pick 5 (quinto) game. You can look at all 1,000 possible combinations of pick 3 draws and you will find 720 combinations where each digit is unique, 270 pairs and 10 triples. Even though there are more favorable outcomes if all 3 digits were different, there is no profit in playing 720 tickets... and the
Nov 21, 2025, 2:15 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

classic questions on lottery forumsReply
Tucker is right... the odds of any 3 digit number combination appearing in 1 draw are always 1,000:1 You can change the odds by buying another ticket, to 1,000:2 no division allowed though, as it represents the ratio of possible outcomes to favorable outcomes. You can even change your perspective from a 3 digit combo to three consecutive games of 1 in 10, but the odds are still 1,000:1 in getting 3 in a row correct. The probability math states that in a discrete uniform distribution
Aug 22, 2025, 3:44 pm - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pennsylvania Cash Pop Starting November 18 2025Reply
Looking at their prizes, there are are 9 multipliers... X5 - 1:31.05 X7 - 1:75 X10 - 1:105 X15 - 1:180, The level needed to break even on playing all 15 X20 - 1:270 X25 - 1:630 X50 - 1:2,250 X100 - 1:4,125 X250 - 1: 15,000 So the odds depend on which multiplier is assigned to which number, because the odds of the actual draw are 1:15. So look at it like this... on $1 bet the odds are 15,000 to one on getting an x250 AND you need to beat the 15 to 1 odd
Nov 14, 2025, 8:41 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Millionaire for Life multi-state game coming in 2026Reply
The initial knee-jerk reactions are predictable. When people are actually in the store buying tickets and comparing this to other games they will realize that this is a decent game. There are some states where that may not be true but from Michigan I can tell you it looks good compared to everything else we have. I don't like waiting years and years for the 6/xx jackpot to get big and the Fantasy 5 here has never been over a Million since it started 20 or 21 years ago. Also in the years
Oct 23, 2025, 2:48 pm - Think - Lottery News

New Jersey couple wins $3 million lottery prize six months after winning $1 millionNews Story
Couple beats 1-in-2-trillion odds with back-to-back lottery wins By Kate Northrop A New Jersey couple experienced a bout of deja vu when they made a familiar trip to the New Jersey Lottery to claim a $3 million prize just six months after winning $1 million. A husband-and-wife team defied insurmountable odds by scooping a $3 million prize and finding themselves standing before Lottery officials for the second time in six months. Winning the lottery once is tough enough it might o
Nov 18, 2025, 9:52 am - Todd - Lottery News