No winner in the Powerball last night:
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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?Originally Posted by Godfather
Our 'Lottomax' national lotto is a 7/49 draw and it's currently at the maximum payout of $70m (tax free, paid in full up front) for about the 6th draw in a row on Friday. Every draw nobody wins, they add more 'max millions' draws - which are additional draws of 7/49 for $1M each. There are currently 39 additional max millions draws for your $5 play. So for $5 you get a chance at the $70M + 39 more draws for $1m. How much more 'worth it' mathematically is that to play
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.
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Godfather (09-30-2022)
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.
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