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Two questions:
*Maybe I'm not supposed to bring this up, but does anyone think Pick Ten is fixed? No one EVER wins the jackpot - maybe one person a year. I truly wonder if they set it every day so there are 700+ who win with six numbers, 100+ who win with seven numbers, 8-15 players who win with eight numbers, one or zero who win with nine numbers, and zero who win with ten numbers. Each day, they are drawing one quarter of the numbers. How is it possible no one ever scores ten out of those twenty numbers, ranging from 1-80?
*Why does one's winnings for the other major games vary based on how many total winners there are, but $500,000 is always the jackpot for Pick Ten, regardless of how many people win (which is almost always zero)?
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Quote: Originally posted by Michael44 on Feb 20, 2019
Two questions:
*Maybe I'm not supposed to bring this up, but does anyone think Pick Ten is fixed? No one EVER wins the jackpot - maybe one person a year. I truly wonder if they set it every day so there are 700+ who win with six numbers, 100+ who win with seven numbers, 8-15 players who win with eight numbers, one or zero who win with nine numbers, and zero who win with ten numbers. Each day, they are drawing one quarter of the numbers. How is it possible no one ever scores ten out of those twenty numbers, ranging from 1-80?
*Why does one's winnings for the other major games vary based on how many total winners there are, but $500,000 is always the jackpot for Pick Ten, regardless of how many people win (which is almost always zero)?
Thanks for any assistance you can give.
Not many people play Pick 10 on any given day, relative to other NY lottery games, and since the probability of winning the top prize is 1/8.9 million, it's not surprising that it's hardly ever won.
You can easily verify this with info available on the NY lottery website.
The overall odds of winning any prize in Pick 10 is 1 in 17. Multiply the number of winners on any particular day by 17 and that gives you a very very rough idea of the number of tickets sold that day. For example, yesterday there were 4875 winning tickets, which means roughly 82875 tickets were sold. With so few tickets, the odds of any of them winning the top prize are extremely slim. Even if you are generous and round it up to 100,000 tickets sold, it's still very unlikely.
Also, NY still uses physical balls for its games, which makes it harder for them to rig or fix the games.
As for the second question, you'd have to ask the lottery why they decided on that prize structure. If it were a rolling jackpot, more people would play as the pot increases and then it would be won more often. You can always contact them here: https://nylottery.ny.gov/send-note