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The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Not so much can I afford it but rather due to the low odds? (at least in terms of 'lottery land' odds they're low) Years ago while I was buying some Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle tickets, the woman behind the counter said to me - Well! Aren't you the smart one! She then said At least people have a decent shot at actually winning this. I realized that she was a 'Focal Point'. She saw how many people bought tickets for the big games, but she didn't see many of them bring back a winning tick
Mar 29, 2026, 10:18 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this before
Instead of playing one set of numbers for Illinois Lucky Day Lotto (5/45 progressive jackpot, tonight $750,000) I played five. So according to some herer I've cut ther odds of 1,221,759 down to 38,719 so surely I can expect to win somethnig tonight, no? I was tempted to go anoither six sets which woukd have brogught the odds down to under a million, 596,562 but was playing on a lotto vending machikne and only had as $20 pon me and since thr machines don't give change passed it up. Can't
Mar 27, 2026, 7:34 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
To each his or her own. Twenty bucks a throw is steep. That's why whenever there's a raffle (which isn't all that often) I cut back on the other lottery games I regularly play. That's what keeps me from over spending my monthly lottery budget. My thinking is the 20 dollar ticket price is a premium players have to pay for the greatly reduced odds of winning a top prize, not to mention there's a guaranteed jackpot winner(s). Many is the time I've heard a player say about a raffle Players
Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Millionaire for Life multi-state lottery game to replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life in FebruaryReply
I haven't paid any attention to this game nut I just saw it on the NY lottery's home page for the first time. Obviously everybody gets to decide whether or not they want to play, but here are a couple of thoughts. The first is largely about playing this or playing PB (or MM) when the jackpot is still small. Generally, at least 8 to 10 million people (5 to 7 isn't unusual for Monday drawings) spend $2 when the annuity is $20 to $30 million (even if you die before the drawing) and the cash val
Feb 23, 2026, 3:50 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
They both describe the same event but with a different definition of what should be in the denominator (all outcomes or only the bad outcomes). Odds 1:499 is the same thing as probability 1/500. What is your problem with the fact that the word probability has more letters and syllables than the word odds ? It's true. I think you need to put down the crack pipe. The conspiracy theories, atrocious spelling, and frequently illogical statements indicate brain rot, not dissimilar to
Feb 22, 2026, 9:45 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
People often equate odds and probability even though technically they are not exactly the same . Odds is just easier because it's one syllable. Probability has more letters and five syllables. Then whyyy have YOU erroneously equated the 2?,.. if you knew that... I guess it never occurred to you that, there'z a reason whyyy they're referred to by 2 different termz ... Aaand the has more letters and syllables Statement?... G5 wuz right, you MUST be smokin marijuana ... -Stat$ta
Feb 21, 2026, 7:52 pm - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum

Millionaire For Life ...ripoffReply
The trend toward $5 as minimum bet does seem likely to continue. Looks like PA is headed in the same direction, we're on the list for the new game. I've played Cash4Life maybe 2 dozen times and never did particularly well with it. Not likely to play the $5 version. Even the odds on the $2 version seemed crazy high even for the lower end prizes. I agree with you 100%. Bring out a decent $1 game with a reasonably good jackpot and achievable odds on the lower level prizes and we'd be all ov
Jan 30, 2026, 8:53 am - OhSoClose - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
The easy way to understand the difference is from the end of Tucker's last post... 4/500,000... this is where probability stops... one ticket gives you 4 favorable outcomes to the 500,000 possible outcomes. This is the reality of any game. Only here we have 4 top prizes instead of one. 1/125,000... this is where the Odds are... which is favorable outcomes to unfavorable outcomes. He is correct in performing the division here because for every favorable outcome there are 125,000 unfavorab
Mar 30, 2026, 11:00 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
While there are games that cost more than $5..... $10 scratchers, $20 scratchers, $50 scratchers, $20 raffle tickets, etc., the difference is that in those games, you have a vastly higher chance of winning a large amount of money. The problem with the new $5 MM is that they didn't change much of anything. It includes the multiplier for lower prizes (instead of giving you a choice to pay the extra $1). They included a 10X possibility but re-arranged the other multiplier odds to give you preci
Mar 14, 2026, 9:36 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeNews Story
Certain combinations had no chance of winning for three weeks By Kate Northrop Following independent observations by Lottery Post members of an unlikely statistical anomaly in Washington, D.C. draw outcomes, the DC Lottery identified a software problem that meant certain combinations had no shot at winning prizes in three games. The DC Lottery has implemented a fix for a coding error that prevented some tickets from winning in three of its local draw games for three weeks. After
Apr 22, 2026, 1:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News