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Florida woman wins two $1 million prizes in the same scratch-off gameReply
More information is needed to check the probability of this coincidence. To compute the probability that at least one player wins two $1 million prizes in the same game, the following information is needed. How many times did she play the game? How many other people played the game at least as many times as she did? (when she won the second time) What are the odds of winning a $1 million dollar prize? (from lotto website). Hopefully (2) is good enough. Might need the full distribut
Jun 8, 2023, 10:59 am - Wavepack - Lottery News

$1.33 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in OregonReply
Another big jackpot and once again only ONE winning ticket out of multiple millions of tickets sold. It seems fairly obvious that the Quick Pick option must be programmed to not only spit out so called random options, but to also NOT produce DUPLICATE tickets with the exact same combination of five numbers and the powerball. Why else, in spit of the odds, would there not be, for example, 20 winning tickets? The one winner of the huge Mega-millions jackpot in New Jersey recently selected
Apr 7, 2024, 2:31 pm - jplayer33 - Lottery News

Maryland husband calls wife cheap for lottery strategy, but she wins $229,774 using her methodNews Story
Lottery-playing husband and wife have differing opinions on how to place a bet By Kate Northrop A husband called his wife cheap for the way she chooses to play the lottery, but her $229,774 Racetrax prize is anything but. Despite her husband's dismissal of her lottery playing tendencies, a Maryland woman stuck to her guns and won a $229,774 Racetrax prize. It's not the first time her persistence paid off either. The winner, who dubbed herself and her husband the Bowie Ballers, ha
Nov 9, 2023, 10:53 am - Todd - Lottery News