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Lottery Numbers Aren't Meant To Be RandomReply
Random variables have a probability distribution. What that distribution is depends on what is generating the random numbers. NBA Basketball scores are random, but not uniformly random. It could be 85, but that score is less likely than 110. Done properly, lottery numbers are uniformly distributed random numbers between a and b (e.g. 0 to 9, or 1 to 54). All outcomes have the same probability. The lottery only needs to ensure the balls are sufficiently mixed up before drawing them. I
Dec 21, 2025, 12:15 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

My take on math and ball lotteryReply
Clearly you don't know how the lottery works if you think a fair drawing is not random.
Dec 20, 2025, 5:40 pm - Tucker Black - Mathematics Forum

$1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for ticketsReply
I see the cash option was updated, it is now $689.3 million. The annuity is still $1.5 billion. Will it be raised again tomorrow before the drawing? The interest rate has dropped slightly, so each cash dollar will now buy $2.176 worth of annuity instead of $2.185 worth of annuity. Players are wildly unlikely to buy a different number of tickets because of a change in interest rate so it seems wildly unlikely that a legitimate sales forecast was revised upward exactly as much as require
Dec 19, 2025, 3:39 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Lottery Numbers Aren't Meant To Be RandomReply
And I learned its ran by a mechanical ball drawing machine....what LP members would call a RNG. An RNG is a computer. It stands for Random Number Generator. They test the machine 6 times to make sure the thing is working and that they don't get the same results every time. If they did, then there's probably something wrong with it. If you believe this mechanical ball drawing machine produces numbers in a predictable sequence, rather than at random, why don't you use your system to p
Dec 19, 2025, 11:29 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.25 BILLION: Epic Powerball winless streak marches onReply
Sales should be pretty high with the drawing on Sat.......might be the last stand with this run.
Dec 18, 2025, 7:02 am - mightwin1 - Lottery News

Have you ever played
a jackpot game ticket for someone else or for yourself and someone else and gave them their ticket before the drawing?
Dec 16, 2025, 9:16 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.1 BILLION: Powerball jackpot increased in longest-ever winless streakReply
@ ShagE3 I doubt it, they would go on which state you were resident in on the day of the drawing.
Dec 15, 2025, 6:41 pm - Barramundi - Lottery News

Answer Me This...Reply
Sure. It's definitely possible that The Florida Lottery changed the percentage of net sales allocated to the winners prize pool. (50%) They could have even changed the percentage of the winners prize pool allocated to the top prize. (62%) But that's not what they did or what happened at all. From reading Fantasy5's Official Rules I didn't see any percentages that changed when the midday drawing was added. It's also true that net sales for FF5 could be down in general these days due to player
Dec 15, 2025, 3:02 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Answer Me This...Reply
Just like you, I'm sure many players would think they'd make more money from extra ticket sales, but to answer your question requires me to ask you a question. That question is - WHAT extra ticket sales? Today's Florida Fantasy5 jackpots are way down. The winners prize pool contains 62% of all ticket sales for the sales period of the upcoming drawing. Single winner jackpots are now approximately $110,000 when prior to going to two draws per day they were approximately $200,000. 62% of $
Dec 15, 2025, 10:38 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Answer Me This...
There are some very smart folks who are a lot smarter than I am that routinely post here. Maybe they could weigh in and answer a question for me. A couple of years ago, The Florida Lottery added a midday drawing to their very popular daily Fantasy5 online game. All that did was lower jackpot amounts dramatically. Until that change, daily jackpots were in the $200,000 range. (When the Snowbirds landed in Florida, jackpots climbed to a range of $230,000 to $235,000.) Even in Snowbird seaso
Dec 14, 2025, 4:28 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum