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mathematics of re-playing small winsReply
I did my analysis on scratch-off tickets because most of the prize money goes towards lower prizes. With jackpot accumulation draw games such as Powerball, not much goes to lower prizes. To summarize my first post, for the $5 Colorado scratch-off $100,000 Super Bonus, the average number of tickets played is 2.5x or 3x your original bankroll, depending on whether your stop point is $500 or $1,000. Not surprisingly, the improved odds of winning a large prize exactly correlate with the average
Aug 29, 2025, 8:25 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Special numbers win Kentucky couple $225,000 lottery prize in Cash Ball 225News Story
Couple tests Quick Picks vs. chosen numbers theory and winds up with favorable result By Kate Northrop A Kentucky couple won a $225,000 Cash Ball 225 lottery prize using a set of sweet and sentimental numbers near and dear to them. A retired couple won a $225,000 prize in Cash Ball 225, a lottery game local to Kentucky, after picking up the game a year ago. The husband-and-wife pair, who wished to remain anonymous, will purchase three plays on their tickets. The first set is thei
Sep 30, 2025, 9:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here's the expansion on playing 1 to 5 lines: The Left column xN has the possible outcomes for each Play amount. The xN multipliers can be in any order. As an example, for 3 Play Lines, xN for 2 2 3 could be 2 2 3, 2 3 2, or 3 2 2. 1 Play Line xN Odds 2 1 in 2.13 3 1 in 3.20 4 1 in 8.00 5 1 in 16.00 10 1 in 32.00 2 Play Lines xN Odds 2 2 1 in 4.55 2 3 1 in 3.41 2 4 1 in 8.53 2 5 1 in 17.07 2 10 1 in 3
Jan 5, 2026, 6:28 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
At the odds and the payouts, you are lucky if you win $$, a free ticket that is won never seems to pay off, EVER!! And my intuition tells me, under deeper scrutiny, we might find these funds being laundered into our political party system. Sorry, I'm still not over the Powerball security debacle, with a delayed drawing that was pushed to 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The next morning, the winning store's security tape had the news van in the parking lot next door at 4:30 a.m., waiting for the owner to
Jul 11, 2026, 10:10 am - TMan007 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball is coming to the U.K.Reply
I'd rather that the powerball sells in the uk but the price and odds remain the same, than that they raise the price to $5 the way megamillions did. I guess that they're all trying to get more money in. They're just using a different approach. And I'll keep dreaming for $2 rather than for $5.
Jul 8, 2026, 6:51 pm - winterbird - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia: 7/1 - 7/31/2026Reply
Spotted that... I been runnin 3 odds with the 1 and a even all week and they wont drop'em... The high payouts for pick 4 other than Trips are any number starting with 19... Basically any number of our generation or rather 1940ish and up... 1950's and 1970's pay real good... I went through and looked at the history... Hopefully one hits soon...
Jul 8, 2026, 2:43 pm - DYELLOMAN - Pick 3 Forum

2026's Leading PowerBall Red Ball NumberReply
That lack of a bell curve is why the house always wins. The house always wins because the odds guarantee that they don't pay out as much as they collect. The house may lose on individual bets, but the house wins more often than they lose.
Jul 1, 2026, 1:53 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I believe you are correct. Winterbird said he was going to calculate his personal odds, which I understand as dividing the number of tickets sold by the number of tickets you bought.
Jun 19, 2026, 12:24 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Buddy, if the final number of tickets sold is about 367.000 and there will be ten top prize winners, the the odds of winning one of the top prizes would be 36,700 to 1. Agree? G5
Jun 19, 2026, 8:48 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Michigan: 5/1 - 5/31/2026Reply
Not only repeating a 4-digit same day, but a freakin' consecutive.... I'm no mathematician, but what are those odds? We can also look at the bright side, before 999 dropped, we had that 5678.... could we finally be getting that overdue MIDDAY triple tomorrow?
May 29, 2026, 9:43 pm - Premonitionz - Pick 3 Forum