Here is the way to picture this--.
Each Number is a String below.
Each Circle is Your Group who hold numbers from that String.
For example--last night's ILLINOIS's numbers were 10-19-20-28-30. The winner was in String #28.
For this particular String there are 300 Sets.
I wheel the complete string so if you happened to have gotten Set #243 what would you have won?
String #28 / Set #243
2421. 10-19-20-21-39 3 Spot
2422. 10-19-20-28-29 4 Spot
2423. 10-19-20-28-30 JACKPOT
2424. 10-19-20-28-31 4 Spot
2425. 10-19-20-28-38 4 Spot
2426. 10-19-20-28-39 4 Spot
2427. 10-19-20-29-30 4 Spot
2428. 10-19-20-29-31 3 Spot
2429. 10-19-20-29-38 3 Spot
2430. 10-19-20-29-39 3 Spot
That was one lucky ticket! Overall for Illinois, your odds on any given day are approximately 210 Strings x 300 Sets = 1 / 63,000 for winning a prize or jackpot instead of 1 / 575,757. I think that's right. Someone will let me know if I'm wrong,lol. Hope that clears things up for you. The odds are different for every state's games but for all with 5/39 like Illinois they would be same as here.
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148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175
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