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Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
Although it's theoretically possible for each ticket to have been a QP, that's so highly unlikely that it's just plain crazy to think that's what actually happened. The retailer probably sold only a few thousand PB tickets for that drawing. To make it simple let's call it 11,688 tickets, or 1 for every 1000 5+0 combinations. That makes the odds of one ticket winning a 5+0 prize 1 in 1000. The odds of 3 winning tickets is then 1 in 1 billion. Based on NY's total sales and the number of retai
Oct 29, 2025, 2:57 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery celebrates state's big 150th birthday with new gamesNews Story
New games and summer-long contests for Colorado players By Kate Northrop The Colorado Lottery is celebrating the state's 150th birthday with a summer-long party that includes at least two new games, Colorado-themed promotions, events, and contests. In addition to the United States turning 250 this year, Colorado is celebrating its 150th birthday, which means new themed surprises for Colorado lottery players. On August 1, 2026, Colorado will officially turn 150. It first joined th
Jun 29, 2026, 7:38 am - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Historically, albeit rarely, MM would occasionally approach pre-tax expectation values of greater than 1.0. This is sure to never happen with the $5 ticket. It's entirely possible that the current format could reach 1.0 before taxes. In fact, it's even more likely thanks to the $5 ticket price, and 4 of the top 5 MM jackpots show that it's possible. The five biggest MM jackpots all exceeded a pre-tax 1.0 expectation value (about $605 million cash), with cash values of $877.8 million, $7
Jun 17, 2026, 11:23 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
According to JADELottery, the odds of the DC 5 drawing producing a singles combination without any repeat digits for 41 consecutive drawings is 1 in 242,413. It's not impossible, but improbable. By the time the game reaches its 50th consecutive drawing without a repeat digit, those odds become 1 in 3.685 million. that math is not correct. the probability of singles occurring in any one pick 5 drawing is 0.3024. the probability of it happening n times in a row is 0.3024^n. that means the pro
Apr 22, 2026, 2:04 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
It depends on what numbers you pick. Someone gave an example of a pick 2 game (and most pick 3 games with front pair etc. bets) with 100 possible outcomes. Betting any 10 combos gets 10 to 1 odds, but are the odds the same for any 10 combos and 10 combos with 10 different digits in the first position? RCB reminded me of when I too hit 5 out of 6 playing the Ohio Lotto when it was a 6/40 game. Wrote down all 40 numbers on playing cards, mixed them up and drew six at a time and placed the
Apr 12, 2026, 12:51 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Washington DC Pick 5 1 in 200 million oddsReply
The have played all singles which is 5 different digits Ex 12345 these different digit numbers make up slightly over 30,000 of the possible 100,000 numbers. So odds of getting that unique combination is 30.24% just to be exact. So on average 3/10 draws you should see that. They've drawn all singles 16 times in a row now. Just think like this, say you make a single bet that you have a 30% chance to win and you win that bet 16x in a row. Or to make it easier it's equivalent to flipping
Apr 8, 2026, 10:46 am - Newkids06 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
A second ticket doesn't eliminate any combinations. You double your chances of winning (i.e. odds cut in half) because 2/292M is double that of 1/292M. The tickets themselves are all 1 in 292M. It's how many tickets YOU hold that affects YOUR odds of winning.
Mar 31, 2026, 2:31 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Hey Coin Toss... Pick 2. Easy game, with 100 possible outcomes. I have 2 tickets. What are my odds of winning? Now I have 5 tickets. What are my odds of winning?
Mar 29, 2026, 5:47 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

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