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• RJOh

  

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  Sep 4, 2006, 9:10 pm

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  I don't actually play the West Virginia Cash25 because I live in Mid-Ohio but I like picking combinations for it on the prediction board because it's the easiest pick-6 game in the country. It has the smallest number field and the lowest odds. The player chooses six numbers from 1 to 25. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1:177,100.

  Eighty-one percent of all the winning numbers drawn have been in the previous six drawings up to 5 times.

  Ninety-seven percent of the winning combinations have one or more numbers from the previous drawing, in fact 2.5% of the winning numbers have 3-4 of the numbers in the previous drawing. 
  

  The overall odds of matching 3 or better is 1:8 and that pays a $1 in the real world and add $5 to your total winnings on the prediction board.

  Simply by playing the last winning combination, a player could have matched 3 or better 13.4% of the time during the last 1000 drawings which is 0.9% better than the random overall odds of 12.5% of picking a winning ticket.

   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones * 

         
  
• delS

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  MegaMillions first and Powerball a close second.  I play pick 4 every so many years.  But, if I spend money, I might as well swing for the fences.  Thats why I chose the two large national lotteries.  I love swinging for the fences.  One day I guess I'll hit a home run.
• geos*5666!

  

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  My First Choice would be 5 number games, second would be 6 number state jackpots and third would be mega millions & powerball as an extreme longshot. Pick 3 is pari-mutuel so i don't play it, no pick 4 in california.
• RJOh

  

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  Sep 7, 2006, 3:29 pm

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  From my earlier post:

  Simply by playing the last winning combination, a player could have matched 3 or better 13.4% of the time during the last 1000 drawings which is 0.9% better than the random overall odds of 12.5% of picking a winning ticket.

  In the above scenario, a player could have played Cash25 for 5 years, spent $1000, matched three 121 times for $121 and matched four 13 times for $130 for a total return of $251.

  Has anyone been working on a formula for picking one line to play in a lottery that out performs the calculated odds over time?
  

   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones * 

         
  
• toot

  

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  It was a tie for me between Powerball & scratchers but since I had to choose just one, I chose PB.
• dvdiva

  

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  The first game I win enough to retire on will be my favorite.
• dwarneke

  

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  My favorite is state pick 5.

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