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N.J. paper investigates best and worst places to buy lottery ticketsNews Story
This is not a lucky number: 07102. And yet lottery players line up every day at a convenience store register in this Newark ZIP code. They bring their hopes, dreams and dollars and trade them for games. Hopefuls mill about the Welsh Farms store on Court Street, thumbing through small pieces of paper inscribed with names like Pick 3, Pick 4 and Jersey Cash 5. Some stand against the brick wall outside, feverishly scraping quarters crusted with silver dust across instant-win scratch-off games
Jun 13, 2011, 8:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tenn. players picked up on new odds before lottery revealed glitchNews Story
Updated! Includes illustrative charts below. Somebody knew. Or somebody caught on. An analysis of 55 million tickets played in the Cash 3 and Cash 4 lottery games shows that in August, more people started playing the numbers most likely to come up. That is the time period when a glitch in a new computerized system of picking numbers prevented duplicating combinations such as 1-1-2 or 3-3-3-3 from being drawn. A Tennessean computer analysis indicates that players either knew or figu
Oct 28, 2007, 7:43 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.D. Lottery wrestles with credit card buying optionsReply
(no I haven't been on LP all day. LOL...working from home and just got back on) Coin Toss writes: The question about the matrix changing brings up a good point- if the ticket was considered still good, the player's chances are reduced even more. I wonder what would happen in such a situation. Coin Toss, can you tell me why you think your chances are worse? I realize the odds change when even 1 number is added, but I kept my 6 numbers when FL changed from a 6/49 game to a 6/53 game a
Dec 5, 2007, 5:54 pm - justxploring - Lottery News