lotteries

This might be boring If so I apologise Probably the most common thing with lottery some people seem to not get is the chances of it being the numbers 1,2,3,4,5 are the same as any other group of numbers, and assume it is not possible. This week ours was nearly the next best thing 3, 5, 7, 9...

I didn't want to derail the other current Lotto thread so have started this thread to ask . . . What is the better bet? One attempt at winning with 3,838,380 to one odds for the attempt, or ten attempts at winning with 38,383,800 to one odds for each attempt? Or are they both the same?

For years, I've been telling people that it's as likely for you to get the above numbers as something like 35,32,18,16, 28, 21. People can't seem to believe it. Is this actually the case, or am I making a fool of myself?

Since there is a big roll over this week I have bought some tickets. I was looking on the prize information and I saw that getting 3 main numbers correct pays more than 3 main numbers plus a Lucky Star number. Surely getting the Lucky Star number as well makes it more difficult and thus should...

Suppose there is a mega-huge-lottery where they draw 6 numbers from 100. The winning combination came out and is: 12 - 14 - 30 - 46 - 52 - 68 Suppose also you have 5 tickets for this lottery with the following combination: Ticket 1 : 11 - 13 - 29 - 45 - 51 - 67 Ticket 2 : 21 - 41 - 03 - 64...

I just read a piece on the 'office lottery' that the newly elected congresscritters go through to determine who gets each of the available office spaces, some of which are apparently more desirable than others. Lots of superstitious behaviors...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2010-07-13-lottery-winner-texas_N.htm?csp=hf

The Texas Lottery is now at $70 million. The website says that taking all the money at once will produce a $45.7 million prize. If the federal government takes 35% of that, then $29.7 million is left for the winner. The chances of winning (from website) are 1 in 25.8 million. The lottery is...

Link Here's the text. Good idea, bad idea, or just pointless and stupid?

I'm determined to figure out how I can make a pendulum work. To do this I will predict numbers for Lotto5 and Powerball and post my findings weekly on here to keep a record of how many I get right. Since the odds of winning Powerball (or any lottery) are virtually zero (I took a statistics...

Odd and slightly silly question, but I'm not sure where to start with this. What is the probability of any given person randomly becoming "rich" - maybe arbitrarily getting $2 million in the US or other western countries, just out of the blue, by some means other than buying a lottery ticket...

Canada's lottery organizations are currently running a national on-line lottery game that is different from any others. It's called Millionaire Life, the grand prize is $1 million per year for 25 years. Details here. It is going to be based on one grand-prize winning number out of all tickets...

The score to the Best College football game of the year, on Saturday, was 42-39 Ohio State over Michigan. Look at the winning lotto pick four numbers in Ohio that nite. Hmmmm! Great game! http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4347352.html

There is a website claiming to increase your chances of winning the lottery, using a bunch of high level math algorithms and stuff “like trend analysis, linear- and route-regression, Fourier analysis, chaos theory - and other systems that make your head spin.” They claim that this is from a...

I've played the Lottery before, and many people I know and like play the Lottery. But anyway, from a skeptical point of view, is the lottery idiotic? And especially the way people play it? There are people who buy lottery tickets when the Jackpot is extremely high, but as far as I know the...

From: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/money/5533099/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=money and many other sources, as well. Arrgh! No, NO, NO, NO, NO! Why does this come up everytime a number comes up twice in a row in a lottery? Will they ever get it right? ... I did check, and there are a few...

I Corey White am offering to buy up to $5,000 in Ohio Lottery Tickets. Any psychic on the JREF Forum who wishes to accept CoreyWhite's Million Dollar Challenge can play up to 100 lottery numbers, from any of the Ohio Lottery Games. If your numbers are played after I have informed you that I...

I dont' want to earn my money that way. I want to invent something, or problem solve, to help mankind and feel good where I got all my big money from. Not some 'gift' that befell ME and not others, where *I* became stinking rich, while others who slave away and get dirty everyday, who may go...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3277796a4560,00.html I know this is not magical or anything. But this time, the odds were broken. :)

So - I always hear of how unlikely it is to win the lottery. This weekend someone said (with some authority) that getting hit by lightning 4 times is more likely than winning the lotto. Later on, he mentioned that getting bit by a poisonous spider and then dying from that bite is also more...

The pendulum's prediction for tonight's drawing: 7 11 24 39 42 PB 33

My friend just stepped out to buy his lottery ticket. It is a ritual for him. I don't gamble at all. Nadda. The last I ever gambled was probably almost 25 years ago when I got in on football lotteries at work. (or whatever you called those things). Before that, I would play Friday night poker...

I just received this variant on the Nigerian e-mail scam: I see, so I just won a bundle of money in a lottery I never entered, and they can't just send me a check, I have to open a special account to receive my winnings... My momma only raised a coupld of stupid children, and I'm not one of them.