lotto

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...

Okay, forget all this if you already read it before I deleted the question. If you had read it but don't know the answer - there's a two-game minimum in Aussie Powerball I'm okay now. Nothing to see here - unless you know where there's some "psychic picks" for this week's Aussie Powerball...

As in many other countries, Denmark has a national lotto. Here, you have to guess 7 correct numbers out of 36 possible. To make it easy, there is an automated system that will select the numbers for you. You basically press a button, and the system spits out 7 numbers out of 36. It's easy, and...

I'm curious if this can be explained to a mathematically challenged individual like me: Standard Lotto 6/49 draw where six unique numbers from a list of 1 through 49 are randomly drawn: Is there any less chance that the same group of 6 numbers will be randomly generated more than once? I...

Apologies if this has been mentioned but: If he can predict lottery numbers, what is he doing applying for the challenge? I predict that, when his clarification comes through, he will water down this claim to one or two numbers in the day's selection.

Someone put together a neat little clip here speculating on whether or not Bush is planning to announce the capture of Bin Laden at a more politically oportune time. Now, I despise Bush. And I don't trust him for a second. Still, I find this really really hard to swallow. Something like this...

I've seen pens sold at drug stores with a numbered ball filled chamber at the end. You are supposed to shake the pen until 5 balls slide into a tube as a way to predict your lottery numbers. But I think they actually decrease you chances of winning the lottery. For example, in a 5 number game...