Let's Play The Lottery

[Gracie]

I was gonna answer the qeustion but Jim beat me to it.

Pssssssst. We is showing us ages!

 

[JimBowie1958]

I was gonna answer the qeustion but Jim beat me to it.

Pssssssst. We is showing us ages!

Hey I wear all my gray hair, wrinkles, beer belly and fat ass with pride.


It took a lot of hard work over many decades to earn them.

Growing old isnt for gutless cowards. Proud to be 58 years old!

 

[Skull Pilot]

Every time I think of lottery madness, I think of this:

Instant rep reward for the first person to identify what it is.

It's got to be a twilight zone

 

[longknife]

Saw pictures in my local newspaper of people lined up several times around the building just across the state line south of Vegas. Hundreds of them.

 

[g5000]

Every time I think of lottery madness, I think of this:

Instant rep reward for the first person to identify what it is.

Shatner in his Twilight Zone episode.

And it only took two years for someone to answer the question!

This forum doesn't do rep points any more, but I tagged your post with a Winner award.

 

[g5000]

Saw pictures in my local newspaper of people lined up several times around the building just across the state line south of Vegas. Hundreds of them.

How bizarre is it that you can't play Powerball in Nevada?

 

[g5000]

To enhance your chance of winning, play a few of the most comonly pulled numbers.

That No. 20 red ball has made its way out of the kettle 49 times, the most of any of the numbered balls. No. 20 also is the second most common number on the five white balls that are selected in each Powerball drawing as well, behind 26 and ahead of 32, 16 and 42, a Daily Herald analysis of the numbers shows. Wanna win Powerball? Try these numbers


Mathematicians that think these number trends are meaningless are idiots. There are slight variations in all manufactured items, and it is no different for ping pong balls.

Do you really think they have used the same balls for the past 13 years?

The mathematicians are not the idiots in this picture. There's a reason why they say the lottery is for the mathematically challenged.

The balls used for the Powerball drawing are changed if they show enough wear to warrant the change. In other words, there is no set time. There are actually four sets of balls of each color (4 red, 4 white) and the sets used for a particular drawing are randomly chosen before the drawing occurs. The balls are only used for Powerball and they are weighed and X-rayed on a periodic schedule.

Iowa Lottery › FAQs › Drawings FAQs

 

[g5000]

Here is the history of Powerball, including each time the ball sets have been changed: Powerball - History

Ctrl-F and search "New ball sets".

The red ball sets were changed in November. The white ball sets were changed in October.

That is the period when they increased the number of balls and thus made the odds of winning harder again.

The fact they have been regularly adding more numbers over the years and making the odds more and more difficult also explains why the lower numbers are the most commonly drawn numbers over the long term.

However, the odds of drawing the highest number are equal to the odds of drawing the lowest number for each individual drawing.

 

[saveliberty]

I'll probably buy a ticket or two.

Frankly, I still have a $15 Walmart card and a $50 Amazon card from Christmas. What am I going to do with millions?

 

[g5000]

Some more trivia:

When I started this topic three years ago, the odds of winning were equal to 75 percent of the US adult population.

Today, the odds are equal to 120 percent of the adult population.

 

[saveliberty]

Some more trivia:

When I started this topic three years ago, the odds of winning were equal to 75 percent of the US adult population.

Today, the odds are equal to 120 percent of the adult population.

We had to give the illegals a shot.

 

[JimBowie1958]

To enhance your chance of winning, play a few of the most comonly pulled numbers.

That No. 20 red ball has made its way out of the kettle 49 times, the most of any of the numbered balls. No. 20 also is the second most common number on the five white balls that are selected in each Powerball drawing as well, behind 26 and ahead of 32, 16 and 42, a Daily Herald analysis of the numbers shows. Wanna win Powerball? Try these numbers


Mathematicians that think these number trends are meaningless are idiots. There are slight variations in all manufactured items, and it is no different for ping pong balls.

Do you really think they have used the same balls for the past 13 years?

The mathematicians are not the idiots in this picture. There's a reason why they say the lottery is for the mathematically challenged.

The balls used for the Powerball drawing are changed if they show enough wear to warrant the change. In other words, there is no set time. There are actually four sets of balls of each color (4 red, 4 white) and the sets used for a particular drawing are randomly chosen before the drawing occurs. The balls are only used for Powerball and they are weighed and X-rayed on a periodic schedule.

Iowa Lottery › FAQs › Drawings FAQs

It is very likely that whoever made the ping pong balls had the numbers done in series as they came off the line. I.E. that all the 20's came off at once, then all the 21's etc. There is in manufacturing known flaws of such a nature that understanding the sequences helps you with. The temperatures of the bubble making machine vary slightly from moment to moment, so that half of one set of balls is slightly narrower than the rest, some bigger, very slightly again. There are physical reasons why some balls come up far more often than others.

Here is a video that shows the process where ping pong are heated to standard size and melding the halves together, then cooled off. There are slight differences in the temperatures, cooling time and shape of the molds.

Now Lottery balls are not ping pong balls, but are likely made in a very similar way. In fact the posted specs on lottery balls show variance in them. It is impossible that that variance is unrelated to the manufacturing process.

If You Think All Lottery Balls Are Made Out Of Ping-Pong Balls, Wait Till You See These Pictures - The Lotto Life - Ken Silver's Lottery Winning Tips - the lotto life

A similar example of the value of knowing sequencing is the various sports cards. They all come off in sequence and get packaged in sequence. So you could buy four boxes of a brand of cards and record the position of each pack and where in the box that pack is located. Soon a sequence will appear. You can identify the locations of all the valuable cards as soon as you know the composition and location of a single pack of cards, assuming the owner has not mixed them thus changing the sequence. So you ask for a fresh box, open a pack, figure out the sequence and where the valuable cards are in the box, then ask the owner to get you another fresh box you think you might buy, as he goes to get it, rifle the packs for the best cards left.

People do that all the time and so thoroughly tossed boxes of packages almost never yield good cards, assuming that the owner did not do this himself already.

But what do I know? I am just an unemployed veteran with a bad back.

 

[longknife]

Saw pictures in my local newspaper of people lined up several times around the building just across the state line south of Vegas. Hundreds of them.

How bizarre is it that you can't play Powerball in Nevada?

They got something called Megabucks a few years back - a system of interconnected slot machines with jackpots starting at $7 million. It purportedly pays into a state education fund. It's currently @ $12,091,826.01 and was last hit in Mar 2015 at the Westgate Hotel & Casino for $ 10,744,293.40

There's Quartermania with jackpots starting at $100,000 - it was just hit at the Silverton for $158.725

They keep making noises for a state lottery but it never goes anywhere.

 

[g5000]

They've screwed the pooch. The made the odds too ridiculous. You can't go from 175 million to 292 million to one. 75 percent of the adult population to 120 percent of the adult population.

The people running Powerball are retarded.

Don't be surprised if they decrease the number of balls this year. No one has won the lottery since they fucked it up.

 

[longknife]

The fine print that only gets reported at the very bottom of the page is that the last drawing produced something like 75 who won ONE MILLION each and sever who won TWO MILLION each.

I wouldn't mind something like that.

 

[petro]

I never play the suckers bet called Powerball. Would just as soon wipe my ass with my money and would get more satisfaction from it.

 

[g5000]

If they don't reduce the odds, this will not be the last billion dollar jackpot we see this year.

 

[g5000]

In honor of the Powerball jackpot hitting half a billion dollars again, I am bumping this topic.

There are still 69 balls and 26 red Powerballs in the mix, so the odds of winning the full jackpot remain at a stratospheric 292,201,338 to 1.

292,201,338 is 120 percent of the adult population.

If you win, you can take 30 installments over 29 years, or you can take a lump sum which is about half the full jackpot.

Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $510 Million, Where To Buy Tickets In Tennessee

Financial experts say that if you can get more than a 3 or 4 percent return on an investment, the lump sum is actually the best way to go in the long-term.

As if people hold onto the lump sum and don't spend any of it, and live off the interest.

I would take the installment plan for the full amount. 510 million / 30 = $17 million a year. I think I can manage to survive on that.

4 percent interest off the lump sum comes to about $10 million a year. But that's assuming you get the total lump sum, which you don't.

Because...

The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 percent.

And then you have to add your state's income tax, if there is one in your state.

 

[martybegan]

In honor of the Powerball jackpot hitting half a billion dollars again, I am bumping this topic.

There are still 69 balls and 26 red Powerballs in the mix, so the odds of winning the full jackpot remain at a stratospheric 292,201,338 to 1.

292,201,338 is 120 percent of the adult population.

If you win, you can take 30 installments over 29 years, or you can take a lump sum which is about half the full jackpot.

Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $510 Million, Where To Buy Tickets In Tennessee

Financial experts say that if you can get more than a 3 or 4 percent return on an investment, the lump sum is actually the best way to go in the long-term.

As if people hold onto the lump sum and don't spend any of it, and live off the interest.

I would take the installment plan for the full amount. 510 million / 30 = $17 million a year. I think I can manage to survive on that.

4 percent interest off the lump sum comes to about $10 million a year. But that's assuming you get the total lump sum, which you don't.

Because...

The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 percent.

And then you have to add your state's income tax, if there is one in your state.

The Lottery is a tax on people bad at Math. That being said I've been playing the same numbers in various 6 ball/5ball+1 formats since I was 18.

Like everyone else with wishful thinking I have my plans for the $$.

1st: Call my sister in law lawyer and have her read up on lottery law.

2nd: Only take 60% for myself and my wife

3rd: Split the other 40% in equal shares to the following families: Mother,Father/stepmom, brother/SIL, Sister/BIL, mother in law, and Brother in law. That takes care of them, and spreads the grubby family targets around.

 

[g5000]

In honor of the Powerball jackpot hitting half a billion dollars again, I am bumping this topic.

There are still 69 balls and 26 red Powerballs in the mix, so the odds of winning the full jackpot remain at a stratospheric 292,201,338 to 1.

292,201,338 is 120 percent of the adult population.

If you win, you can take 30 installments over 29 years, or you can take a lump sum which is about half the full jackpot.

Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $510 Million, Where To Buy Tickets In Tennessee

Financial experts say that if you can get more than a 3 or 4 percent return on an investment, the lump sum is actually the best way to go in the long-term.

As if people hold onto the lump sum and don't spend any of it, and live off the interest.

I would take the installment plan for the full amount. 510 million / 30 = $17 million a year. I think I can manage to survive on that.

4 percent interest off the lump sum comes to about $10 million a year. But that's assuming you get the total lump sum, which you don't.

Because...

The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 percent.

And then you have to add your state's income tax, if there is one in your state.

The Lottery is a tax on people bad at Math. That being said I've been playing the same numbers in various 6 ball/5ball+1 formats since I was 18.

Like everyone else with wishful thinking I have my plans for the $$.

1st: Call my sister in law lawyer and have her read up on lottery law.

2nd: Only take 60% for myself and my wife

3rd: Split the other 40% in equal shares to the following families: Mother,Father/stepmom, brother/SIL, Sister/BIL, mother in law, and Brother in law. That takes care of them, and spreads the grubby family targets around.

I would become Santa Claus, flying from children's hospital to children's hospital, paying for surgeries for kids whose families can't afford it.