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Neural Net Lottery PickerReply
Has there been any thought to applying NN to scratch off games? My thoughts are that lotto games are random drawings of balls, whereas scratch off jackpot tickets have to be controlled by the lottery in some way to make sure the same retailer is not getting the jackpot tickets. The lottery has to know where all of the jackpot tickets are going to be placed in advance. By tracking the retailer location of the previous jackpot tickets we might to be able to find out where the future jackpots ticke
Jan 16, 2016, 11:43 am - mpennant - Mathematics Forum

How to simulate a distribution and use the lottery's own randomness against itself.Reply
The new version of MM will have an option of only playing for the jackpot. Unless your retailer sell the jackpot winning ticket there will be no need to check your tickets. I guess they figure some players rather not be bothered checking a ticket that didn't win the jackpot.
Aug 16, 2017, 3:48 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Odds of winning.Reply
An idea is becoming a retailer and validating tickets in your own business. A percentage of the spent money on lottery tickets would return into your pocket. How about that for improving the payout?
Aug 17, 2013, 7:50 pm - SergeM - Mathematics Forum

Scratch Off Math Puzzle
Here's a lottery-themed variation of a puzzle I saw at work a while back. Your lottery retailer has a crazy new kind of customer ticket scanning machine that works like this: You have to put at least two scratch offs inside it, and then the machine will display a number that is either the sum of the prizes or the product of the prizes. (Assume prizes amounts are whole number dollar amounts, e.g., 0, 1, 2, etc.) You don't get to choose whether it gives you the sum or the product; the machin
Feb 22, 2019, 2:57 pm - oate - Mathematics Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
According to my state, 26.3% goes to the main fund ('profit'), 1.4% goes to secondary programs (unclaimed prizes), 5% goes to retailer commissions, 4.4% goes to lottery administration, and 62.9% goes to players in the form of prizes. But obviously that is overall, not for Pick 3. I have never encountered a store reluctant to pay any amount. They are not even charged for packs of scratch-offs until at least 70% of the pack has been sold, or 45 days has passed after activating it. To my knowled
Sep 8, 2013, 4:28 pm - LottoMetro - Mathematics Forum

What Does It Take To Win (Mathematically Speaking?)Reply
From a strictly practical perspective the lottery administration is doing a sufficient job if players can't predict the results of future draws to gain advantages over other players. If anyone anywhere is able to do that they've kept it well hidden. A few repeated jackpot winners are around and one of them has a PHD in math. If she has anything more than a a luckier streak than other players she doesn't admit to it and she hasn't been in the news lately. Some of her wins were high value scratche
Mar 18, 2011, 10:04 am - JosephusMinimus - Mathematics Forum