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I Found 8 Profitable To Play Scratchers
Can't post links yet because I'm a new account but I thought I'd share the results of my research here. I've been messing around with some AI coding and I built a site that automatically imports scratcher data from 25 states and then does an expected value calculation on each ticket. As some of you serious scratchers know, as tickets get sold and jackpots aren't claimed your odds of winning go up and they can actually get to the point where they're mathematically profitable to play on av
Apr 28, 2026, 3:35 pm - ScratchJack - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Someone Above said if someone in Uk wins the lottery they can take the money and run away and not pay complete Federal tax later. And am thinking Now how can you run away in the first place when they gave you no Lump sum option only annuity. If you run away they freezes the rest of your Annuity Payments Ok when people win Powerball the top tax is like 37 percent. There are two ways to pay federal government. One way is the player pays 37 percent and the other way is l guess each sold t
Apr 18, 2026, 1:07 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

Help Me Understand This 😭Reply
I actually am not focused on the jackpots, any win is a good win, and a jackpot win is an even better win. In that case, I think you will like this. Just for fun, I downloaded all the Millionaire for Life draw results to see if anything funny jumped out at me. Then I noticed something very peculiar (well, two very peculiar somethings) about the 3/15 - 3/18 draws. 03/15/2026; 01 ,21,29,46,50; Millionaire Ball: 1 03/16/2026; 02 ,16,30,41,49; Millionaire Ball: 4 03/17/2026; 0
Apr 17, 2026, 2:51 pm - parlayman - Lottery Discussion Forum

Data Analyst looking for a Syndicate Partner (Monte Carlo Simulations for AU Saturday Lotto) &#12820
Hi everyone, I ve been following this forum for a while and I love the analytical approach many of you take. I m a data enthusiast For the past few months, I've been building Python-based Monte Carlo simulations analyzing 7+ years of draw data (specifically focusing on Australia Saturday Lotto and EuroMillions). My system doesn't predict the future (we all know the lottery is random), but it heavily filters combinations based on: Active Trends (Hot clusters in the last 15 draws).
Mar 13, 2026, 1:06 pm - ibrahim1 - Lottery Systems Forum

Data Analyst looking for a Syndicate Partner (Monte Carlo Simulations for AU Saturday Lotto) &#12820
Hi everyone, I ve been following this forum for a while and I love the analytical approach many of you take. I m a data enthusiast For the past few months, I've been building Python-based Monte Carlo simulations analyzing 7+ years of draw data (specifically focusing on Australia Saturday Lotto and EuroMillions). My system doesn't predict the future (we all know the lottery is random), but it heavily filters combinations based on: Active Trends (Hot clusters in the last 15 draws).
Mar 13, 2026, 1:05 pm - ibrahim1 - Mathematics Forum

Once in a blue moon powerball X10Reply
MUSL added the 10X multiplier to PowerBall on 10/7/2015. According to The Texas Lotto Report ( https:///PB2015Rule.htm ) - Ya gotta Google Texas Lotto Report due to The LP's software not allowing the full link above to appear! But here's a cut and paste from The TLR - PowerPlay prizes can be multiplied by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times. They added the 10x to the mix BUT they have the option to announce the 10x may not be available for a particular draw. And the 10x is not applicable to
Jan 4, 2026, 10:12 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Numbers Aren't Meant To Be RandomReply
So, your new answer after your first flopped where you said its because they wanted to make sure the machine is working properly. Now, you have a revised answer: 'because people don't trust the lottery.' [Pausing for a moment of laughter] Oh boy.... ! Anyway, you might want to revised that answer for a 3rd attempt because the Texas Lottery only show a live drawing .....they never show the pre-test process. And have no intention of doing so. So from here, you j
Dec 19, 2025, 3:51 pm - Ney1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
If they advertise $794M, they get less excitement/sales than if they advertise $800. I more or less agree with your reasoning because, even though it's a small difference in the grand scheme the lottery would be offering a few million bucks more. If you look at advertised jackpots from the past I think you'll find that for whatever reason they take their best guess at sales and stick with that number. Four weeks ago they advertised the jackpot as $547 million instead of a nice round 550 whi
Nov 4, 2025, 1:40 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Where are they putting the additional unexpected $2M in sales? They're putting it in the same places as every other $5 in sales. They skim half off the top and the rest goes into the prize pools. The ads are only for estimated jackpots, and higher sales increase it. They're not going to change the advertised amount unless sales are substantially higher than expected, and if you got those numbers from the site that shall not be named (which you must have, because the Texas worksheet doesn't
Sep 20, 2025, 12:35 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
I simply load the last cash value, and subtract the previous cash value (generally off the Texas Lottery site) and use the cash/sales ratio to estimate sales . And in this case you got garbage out because you put garbage in as a result of data that wasn't updated. In this case it looks like you used the $498.4 million cash value for the originally announced $1.1 billion jackpot. The actual cash value at drawing time was about $46 million higher, so they needed almost 70 million fewer ticket
Sep 4, 2025, 3:37 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News