No winner in the Powerball last night:
https://i.imgur.com/mCfEK7g.png
No winner in the Powerball last night:
https://i.imgur.com/mCfEK7g.png
How many draws per week? That 39 draws for $1m, is that 39 unique numbers you get to choose for the $1m in a single draw apart from the $70 million lottomax? Or is it 1 play per draw for free repeated over 39 draws? How does that work?
Without actually computing anything, everybody, mathematician or not, would tell you that it's not worth the cost. And they're usually right. Even an old guy that spent over $300,000 to win a jackpot had to do it twice before he won. That's $600,000 in two draws. And he could have easily lost the second time.
7/49, out of one pool of numbers, assuming no repetitions allowed: 49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44 x 43 = 432,938,943,360 possible lottery numbers. You're picking 1 for $5. Is one of those numbers a "powerball"? In other words, it comes from a separate pool, a la choose 6 from one pool, and choose 1 from this other pool, introducing a possibility for a repetition? How do you hit the $1m?
I had an idea a while back to track numbers drawn over time and get rid of them out of a master list, and also get rid of similar numbers and other "wouldn't be picked candidates" (for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), but then I found that the lottery corporation changes ball pools infrequently, but enough to make that approach useless. You'd still have to spend something like $500,000 to have a reasonable chance of hitting it.
Ya sorry I didn't explain that well. You pay $5 and get 3 sets of 7 numbers between 1-49 (you can pick but I usually just do the quick play so the 3 sets are random). Then they draw 40 sets of 7 numbers, one for the jackpot, and 39 more times for $1m prizes (you have to hit all 7 to get the extra max million prizes though, no partial wins/free plays on those even if you get 6/7).
There is a draw twice a week, each draw nobody wins, the prize goes up to a max of $70m, and more max millions get added.
Totally get that it's all mathematically most most certainly not worth it, but it would be cool to see how your odds change with 39 max millions versus none.
No winners yet:
Mega Millions
https://i.imgur.com/3SjEnlO.png
Powerball
https://i.imgur.com/KxQ6Q6J.png
Still no winners in either lottery.
Mega Millions
https://i.imgur.com/l93IdBH.png
Powerball
https://i.imgur.com/0R6d1ow.png
I missed out last time :(
https://i.imgur.com/SCDOTss.png
Powerball for tonight.
Mega Millions draw for tonight:
https://i.imgur.com/iUzGFBJ.png
No winner in Powerball last night, next drawing:
https://i.imgur.com/BSzV0uj.png
No winner in the Mega Millions last night.
https://i.imgur.com/yrsXTnX.png
One winning ticket sold in Florida for the Mega Millions $494 million jackpot.
Powerball for tonight:
https://i.imgur.com/IezLepI.png
No winner in last nights Powerball drawing:
https://i.imgur.com/y2WfYep.png
No winner in Powerball over the weekend:
https://i.imgur.com/eHLSwPr.png
No winner last night:
https://i.imgur.com/tOc2tgG.png
Lottery billboard was updated to $700 million for the Powerball draw tonite.