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$10 500,000 Fortune NH Scratch game... What the...Reply
We can only do the analysis of the games posted on the NH lottery website. Finding the games is a whole other challenge. Here's our reasons why we post all games in our reports: Can t Find the Top Game? We consistently get the same set of questions from new subsribers .they go something like this: Hey you have XYZ game listed as #1 but that game is no longer for sale ..my retailer says that game has ended! What s going on .your report is wrong! Then, the person writing gets upset
Jun 19, 2017, 7:16 pm - ScratchSmarter - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

At what level of information does chaos appear?Reply
We point out in the first post that on a very basic level that chaos appears at 5 bits of information. At that level, chaos over takes the order. Knowing this, if we look at 4 bits of information, we can see order and chaos are balanced at 8 a piece. Looking at one of the original streams of {0, 1}'s, 01101000110101010111001011100111, we can examine each at the 4 bit level. The stream is continuous and starts left and ends right, . We examine each 4 bit segment at each 4 bits of i
Apr 7, 2017, 9:18 am - JADELottery - Mathematics Forum

$403 MILLION: Powerball jackpot to guarantee a happy holidays for lucky winnerNews Story
By Todd Northrop While you're out Black Friday shopping, don't forget to pick up some Powerball tickets. For the fourth time this year, the multi-state Powerball lottery game's jackpot has crossed over the $400 million mark, and entered into the realm of wealth so vast that it's hard to imagine. After nobody won Wednesday's $374.1 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a whopping $403 million for Saturday's drawing the 13th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time. But
Nov 25, 2016, 9:07 am - Todd - Lottery News

Do you believe every combination has the same probability?Reply
The result will the same as the day before for at least 2 days in a row. No it won't. All you're doing is showing an example of one particular series of results that happened in the past. We already know that the same result will sometimes repeat, and probability tells us how often it will happen. What we don't know is when it will happen. With only two choices (H/T, odd/even) yesterday's result can be expected to repeat the next day half of the time, and to repeat for the next two days 25%
Sep 22, 2016, 3:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$311 MILLION: Here comes PowerballNews Story
By Todd Northrop July continues to be an exciting month for lottery fans dreaming of mega jackpot dollars. No sooner was Friday's $540 million Mega Millions jackpot won than Powerball became perfectly positioned to take the spotlight with a big rollover Saturday night. After nobody won Powerball's $288 million jackpot Saturday, the new jackpot for Wednesday, July 13 was estimated at $311 million. More exciting is the lump-sum cash value of $221.4 million, which is the 16th-largest in
Jul 10, 2016, 9:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

$415 MILLION: Powerball jackpot surges on rolloverNews Story
7th-largest cash value in history By Todd Northrop Ready to start dreaming about dollar signs again? Just four months after people from every country went into frenzy trying to find creative ways to buy tickets for the biggest jackpot the world had ever seen, Powerball is back with another top-10 jackpot that can deliver multi-generational wealth. After nobody won Wednesday's advertised $348 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a whopping $415 million for Saturday'
May 5, 2016, 8:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

POWERBALL CREATES WORLD'S FIRST BILLION-DOLLAR JACKPOTReply
Top Federal Tax Rate (Married Filing Jointly - mostly) for the Past 30 Years (and a few other reference points). Just in the past 30 years the top rate has ranged from 28% - 50%. 2015 39.6% 2014 39.6% 2013 39.6% 2012 35.0% 2011 35.0% 2010 35.0% 2009 35.0% 2008 35.0% 2007 35.0% 2006 35.0% 2005 35.0% 2004 35.0% 2003 35.0% 2002 38.6% 2001 39.1% 2000 39.6% 1999 39.6% 1998 39.6% 1997 39.6% 1996 39.6% 1995 39.6% 1994 39.6% 1993 39.6%
Jan 11, 2016, 8:00 pm - ecnirP - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery not paying big winners because state legislature won't pass budgetNews Story
After years of struggling financially, Susan Rick thought things were looking up when her boyfriend won $250,000 from the Illinois Lottery last month. She could stop working seven days a week, maybe fix up the house and take a trip to Minnesota to visit her daughter. But because Illinois lawmakers have not passed a budget, she and her boyfriend, Danny Chasteen, got an IOU from the lottery instead. For the first time, we were finally gonna get a break, said Rick, who lives in Oglesby. And
Aug 28, 2015, 4:51 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Sick mother accuses daughter of stealing $1 million lottery prizeNews Story
A dollar and a dream has turned into a $1 million legal nightmare with a Brooklyn, New York, woman accusing her daughter of running off with her jackpot. In papers filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Barbara Quiles says her daughter, Linza Ford, has absconded with her winnings. It's heartbreaking what she's done, Quiles, 51, said Tuesday night. God is on my side. God doesn't like ugly and this is ugly. The mother says she suffers from lupus, bulging discs, spinal stenosis and has had two
May 27, 2015, 7:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

Addelson Loses 1 Billion Dollar Fortune in Las Vegas Sands
Fate of One Big Player Fotes Fortuna Juvat Eddessa_Knight ~ 1 Man's $10 Billion Loss in Las Vegas Sands Have you ever gone gambling and lost money? Well, sometimes the house loses too. In fact, one Vegas Tycoon has watched nearly $10 billion of his fortune vanish in 2014. Source: Flickr user Stuart Richards. The man Sheldon Adelson is the Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS ) a $45 billion firm that operates integrated resorts -- casinos with hotels,
Dec 28, 2014, 6:07 pm - eddessaknight - Gaming Forum