Massive lottomax Jackpot this weekend.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by SebC

There is actually a degree of strategy in choosing lotto numbers. You want your numbers to be unique so that if you win, nobody else has the same numbers and you don't have to split your winnings. So basically, you want to avoid birthdays, 3s, 8s, and any other lucky numbers. Maybe through in some 4s and 13s. Avoid 7s, because people tend to like 7s when making up numbers, often at the expense of 0s and 5s. Or you can assume that whatever thought process you're using to make up numbers, other people are also using, and go with random numbers.

Interesting... but the Lotto 649 numbers last night:

27 28 31 41 42 43 bonus:46

no number picking strategy would have gotten those!

[speede5]

Originally Posted by albertGQ

Each ticket has the same chance of winning, but since you have more than one ticket, you have more chances to win

1:85,900,584 + 1:85,900,584 + 1:85,900,584
= 3:85,900,584
=1:28,633,528

So if you have 3 sets of numbers, your chances of winning do increase

Something is wrong with this. Your odds increase by a miniscule amount, they don't get cut by a third. The true odds are 1:85M for each set of numbers. I wish I was better at math.

How about this one;

If you buy a ticket in the home lotto, where they sell say 5000 tickets, what are your odds of winning one of the 500 prizes? 1:10 like they advertise? or 1:5000 for the first drawing, 1:4999 for the second, 1:4998 for the third, etc. Your odds are never truely 1:10.


Or do I need to go back to grade 5? lol

[wpgflamesfan]

Originally Posted by The Goon

It's scary how I've thought through the short-term process if I were to win the jackpot.

Things like: shaving my head and wearing glasses before visiting the WCLC so the pictures they take look nothing like I normally do, having a flight booked immediately after getting the winnings so I don't have to deal with media and (suddenly friendly) family members, etc.

Haha I'd love to talk to the media and provide them with some great quotes as opposed to the vanilla fluff that they usually get.

Reporter: What are you going to do with your winnings?
Me: Hookers & Blow.....Hookers & Blow
(End of Interview)

As for the suddenly friendly family members and old friends that came out, I'd have no problem telling them to **** off. And while we're on that subject I don't think I'd ever go up to one of my family members or friends and ask them for money if they won the lotto.

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan

Surely to goodness you'd want to Charlie Sheen it up a while before you got married.

First thing I'd do would be to invest it all into something relatively low-risk so i could live off the interest for the rest of my life. Next I'd transfer to ASU or some other party school in the states and just win for a few years. After that just travel and golf.

Nah, not my personality to party hard or whatever. Id celebrate but i wouldnt dive into hookers n Blow.

Id get married and just enjoy life doing whatever i wanted to do. Race cars or travel a lot. Buy a boat and go sail the Caribbean.

[HOOT]

Well at least if you won you could do burnouts on your own property instead of destroying others.

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by HOOT

Well at least if you won you could do burnouts on your own property instead of destroying others.

Yea, i would be doing burnouts 24/7. I wouldnt even care, i would just buy a car that didnt even drive but just did burnouts all the time. Id be burning out driving down deerfoot at 100km/h just burning my tires.


God im so moist right now.




/sarcasm.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by speede5

Something is wrong with this. Your odds increase by a miniscule amount, they don't get cut by a third. The true odds are 1:85M for each set of numbers. I wish I was better at math.

You can think of it as your odds of winning with each numbers you have as being reduced by the odds of you winning with any of your other numbers. The effect is negligible, meaning if you buy 10 times as many tickets, you have very, very close to 10 times the odds of winning.

Also...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

[speede5]

TY, I found a decent explanation online, the 'odds' improve as stated, but although it looks so much better you still have next to 0% chance of winning.

1:85M = 1.5e-8% chance
1:28M = 3.4e-8% chance.

So you're saying there's a chance!

[hkstylez]

There's no chance the West will take this 50+ pot, it's always the East. I say it's Rigged.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by hkstylez

There's no chance the West will take this 50+ pot, it's always the East. I say it's Rigged.

A couple in Vancouver won the $50m not long ago.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/201...inners-101102/

[Methanolic]

The LOTTO MAX Jackpot for Friday March 4, 2011 was carried over.



This Friday's Jackpot is an estimated $50 Million and an estimated 31 MAXMILLIONS prizes.


$242,728.80 in the LOTTO MAX 6/7+ Bonus category was won by 5 winning tickets purchased in Ontario.


9 of the 22 $1 Million MAXMILLIONS prizes offered on Friday March 4, 2011 draw were won or shared.Tickets winning MAXMILLIONS prizes were purchased in Calgary, Edmonton *2*, Yellowknife, Manitoba, British Columbia, Ontario *5*, Quebec and Atlantic Provinces.


The $100,000 EXTRA prize for Friday March 4, 2011 was won by two lucky tickets purchased in Alberta.

[TylerSVT]

Glad i forgot to buy a ticket. Next week i guess?

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

Glad i forgot to buy a ticket. Next week i guess?

Maybe your ticket would have been the one with the right 7 numbers?

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Methanolic

9 of the 22 $1 Million MAXMILLIONS prizes offered on Friday March 4, 2011 draw were won or shared.Tickets winning MAXMILLIONS prizes were purchased in Calgary, Edmonton *2*, Yellowknife, Manitoba, British Columbia, Ontario *5*, Quebec and Atlantic Provinces.

I read this and checked my numbers; I had already checked for the $50M last night. I had the first 3 right; and was close on the 4th number. For a split second there I thought I might have won.

At least I won $20 again on another ticket; so next week will be free again for me again.

[Old Yeller]

My sure fire investment strategy is not working when I forget to buy a ticket.... especially after posting already in this thread.

[Ducay]

CP pool?

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Ducay

CP pool?

You would need signatures from everyone who entered and also trust the CPer who held the ticket.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Better yet, just keep it in your pocket so that you don't need to pay one of those generic ATMs $2 in the event there's no BMO ATM around.

No feces either!

edit: And about the topic of buying tickets/winning.

If I buy a ticket, I really do enjoy planning out for a while what I would spend the money on, so even though I have no chance it its't really a 100% waste.

If I won, I would still live in Calgary, still keep working in the short term and still go to school. Actually, I would probably donate a huge chunk of cash to where I work (non-profit organization) for them to use for IT stuff (no more P3 - 800MHz Desktop PCs!), once I had that all set up, I would quit my job and finish my degree. Then I would probably continue on to get a PhD and do research for the rest of my life.

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by Rathji

No feces either!

edit: And about the topic of buying tickets/winning.

If I buy a ticket, I really do enjoy planning out for a while what I would spend the money on, so even though I have no chance it its't really a 100% waste.

If I won, I would still live in Calgary, still keep working in the short term and still go to school. Actually, I would probably donate a huge chunk of cash to where I work (non-profit organization) for them to use for IT stuff (no more P3 - 800MHz Desktop PCs!), once I had that all set up, I would quit my job and finish my degree. Then I would probably continue on to get a PhD and do research for the rest of my life.

Probably one of the only people i know who would actually work with 50 million in the bank.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

Probably one of the only people i know who would actually work with 50 million in the bank.

Depends on your job and your employer. There was a guy who won something like $25m but still worked, drove his 86 honda accord to work everyday and continued renting his 450sqft apartment. He told himself that if he won he would not spend a penny for a year to make sure he was making the right choices. I don't think I could do it, I'd be Sheenin' it up, but in Rathji's case I could understand it being a non-profit organization and all.