Tell me lottery formula?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lottery_couple

btw how many different # combinations are there in ALL for powerball

Answer 1

Let's assume that I could figure out the formula.  What makes you think I'd share it with anybody, let alone some stranger on the internet?

For that matter, do you really think that NOBODY has ever tried this?  If people could do it, then the lottery business would have went out a long time ago.

Prof. Post, who they quote in the article, is correct: "there's no way to take randomly generated numbers and determine the winning combination from them".  In fact, the fact that you logged into this site is proof of this, since passwords are encrypted strings that can't really be decrypted unless you try all combinations.

You can find the odds for powerball on their site:

http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_pr...

Answer 2

ok i work for the lottery and there is no formula! I do the draws in the state of colorado and its all a computer. you can not even predict. these people just got lucky. Sorry but no way in h**l can you figure how a random computer will pick numbers.

Answer 3

luck+luck+money that your probably wasting anyways=WIN,,,no actually it =PHAIL unless you do actually win but its still phail if all you get back is a free ticket that doesn't win or the five dollars you used to buy some tickets

Answer 4

Here is how to win the lottery:

Every week, take $10 and go to the store where they sell tickets.

Then put the $10 in your pocket and return home.

Put the money in a cookie jar.

At the end of the year, you win $520.  Guaranteed.

The story about those people who won more than once

having a formula is pure baloney.  There is no formula.

I cannot find it now, but I recently saw something about

the likelihood of people winning multiple times in the lottery.

Even though the odds of winning once are very low,

there are enough people playing that the odds of someone

winning more than once are such that is almost bound

to happen.  It's somewhat like the birthday paradox:

it only takes a couple of dozen people before the chances

are better than even that two of them have the same

birthday.  Across the millions of lottery plays, it becomes

harder and hard to distribute the prizes only to new winners.

Sooner or later someone who already won will win again.

But it is purely a matter of luck.

Because the lotteries don't pay out all that they take in,

over the long run, cumulatively the players lose money.

Just not equally.

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Answer 5

Approximately you have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance in winning the powerball lottery.