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dr san

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Sep 15, 2026, 8:54 am

Hello, who has the best odds of winning the lottery: someone who participates in forums, or someone who never participates in any forum?
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Quote: Originally posted by dr san on Sep 15, 2026
Hello, who has the best odds of winning the lottery: someone who participates in forums, or someone who never participates in any forum?

My guess is someone who never participates in any forum such as a non member who's never even heard of Lottery Post.
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Sep 15, 2026, 2:01 pm

Quote: Originally posted by dr san on Sep 15, 2026
Hello, who has the best odds of winning the lottery: someone who participates in forums, or someone who never participates in any forum?

Why would that make any difference?
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Sep 15, 2026, 3:11 pm

Neither player has better odds on a per-ticket basis.
Mathematically, the probability of any specific combination winning a standard lottery draw is identical, regardless of how the numbers were chosen or whether the player analyzes patterns on a forum.
Tone43

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Sep 15, 2026, 4:10 pm

if I were to use an analogy of driving a car in relations to the lottery

you could ask who has a better chance of becoming a skilled driver
someone who shares on a forum driving skills and learn from the mistakes of others or someone who takes their chances on the road and learn from the school of hard knocks
dr san

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Sep 15, 2026, 4:45 pm

Hi there! Every week we have winners of secondary prizes and, occasionally, the grand prize. While the media often portrays winners as people who don't use strategies—usually older men or women—there are also those who do use strategies. Would it be something like an 80/20 split, where that 20% represents forum-based strategies?
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Sep 15, 2026, 7:06 pm

Quote: Originally posted by dr san on Sep 15, 2026
Hello, who has the best odds of winning the lottery: someone who participates in forums, or someone who never participates in any forum?

The LP predictions are probably better than forum participation simply because wins and losses are measured. Talking about winning is an entirely different thing. (unless you believe everything you read on the Internet)

"Some people have something to say while other people feel the need to say something"
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Sep 15, 2026, 9:01 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Sep 15, 2026
Why would that make any difference?

Differences of opinions are what make horse races.
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Quote: Originally posted by Tone43 on Sep 15, 2026
if I were to use an analogy of driving a car in relations to the lottery

you could ask who has a better chance of becoming a skilled driver
someone who shares on a forum driving skills and learn from the mistakes of others or someone who takes their chances on the road and learn from the school of hard knocks

That's a terrible analogy. Driving a car is not random. It's a skill. There are zero skills involved in playing the lottery -- whether you pick your own numbers or buy a QP, your chances of winning are the same.
That being said, forum participants do have a chance to discover a player's advantage, such as the Mississippi Lottery's triple payout on pick 3 they did recently. I was going to go there and cash in but their promotional fund ran out before I had a chance to go there.
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Sep 16, 2026, 5:36 pm

Lottery forums can give you ideas for playing strategies and other information. What you do with the information, or whether it works or not is another matter.

Everyone picks the right numbers every time. The problem is the lottery doesn't always agree.
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Sep 16, 2026, 8:20 pm

Have there been many big winners here?
The largest one I see as being posted was $385,018 and that was a Quick Pick for the July 14, 2020 Jersey Cash 5.
https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/216513/537
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"There are zero skills involved in playing the lottery -- whether you pick your own numbers or buy a QP"
" I'll be ya Huckleberry, that'z just my Game" .
The Skillz of zero to one, izz soo involved.. There'z no Skillz needed in pickin Scratchoffz .that'z why YOU'RE Capt Scratchalot of the team
https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/340828/8092283
Whyyy do I have to keep reminding you of THAT Black eye?..

-Stat$talker
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Sep 16, 2026, 9:23 pm

Quote: Originally posted by dr san on Sep 15, 2026
Hello, who has the best odds of winning the lottery: someone who participates in forums, or someone who never participates in any forum?

The same reason there are more QP winners, simple stats... there are more QP players. Just like the number of forum users here is impressive, but no contest against the number of players who have never been here. LP has impressive stats for a long time, but we barely scratch the surface of the number of players that play but never heard of the LP or any other lottery forum.

Have an EXCELlent day!
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Sep 17, 2026, 1:55 pm

Forum participation itself does not change the odds; the lottery system does not know who is reading or posting. Each valid ticket has the same published chance, so buying more tickets changes your total chance only because you have more entries, not because of a strategy. For scratch-offs, I separate the printed odds from the live prize picture: the odds are set when the game is issued, while prizes claimed and remaining can change. I check the state lottery’s official remaining-prizes page and the game number before treating a “good” game as current.