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How many 6/49 tickets do you play per draw?

How many 6/49 tickets do you buy per draw?

  • 1

    Votes: 13 41.9%
  • 2-6

    Votes: 16 51.6%
  • 7-10

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 11+

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Total voters
    31

Toke

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Just wondering as I notice that most of the $1,000,000 extra draw prize goes to a '01- ticket. Of course it's obvious that single tickets are the biggest sellers, so wondering how many you play. Me? 5 lines per draw.
 

HOLLYWOODG

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Dec 11, 2016
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Play $1,000 with no encore anytime the prize goes to $50 million or above. Win a bunch of free tickets and small prize winnings... But when I win the $50 million I will have the biggest orgy ever amongst other things... just imagine! :whoo:
 

frankcastle

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Feb 4, 2003
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I said 2. But usually just one or two lines is all I play. I find when you play 3 or 4 lines you often win a free ticket.

But I look at it that you have to be in it to win it but that spending additional money doesn't really have significant returns.
 

rags

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Jan 22, 2012
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Last nights winner of the guaranteed million was at least a 10 ticket buyer
 

rags

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Jan 22, 2012
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I play 2 lines for every draw 649 049 lottario Lotto Max, 1 set of numbers every draw based on my father and a quick pick set, I have won about $ 1,600.00 so far this last 3 months
 

SchlongConery

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Jan 28, 2013
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Anything more than one ticket is a waste of money.

A second ticket does not double your chances of winning. It increases them from 1 in 13,983,816 to... TWO in 13,983,816

Imagine an Olympic pool filled with 14 million ping pong balls. And you can increase your chances from one ball to two, or three etc.


Multiple tickets for a 649 or Lottomax draw are a compete waste of money.
 

rgkv

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Nov 14, 2005
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just bought my weekly supply,, 1 6/49 and encore, 1 max with encore, 4 lines and encore lottario
 

thirdcup

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Jan 4, 2005
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Directly above the center of the earth
You're chances of winning the lottery whether you buy a ticket or not are about the same. (But I still occasionally buy. It gives me a chance to dream)
 

rhuarc29

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Apr 15, 2009
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A second ticket does not double your chances of winning. It increases them from 1 in 13,983,816 to... TWO in 13,983,816


That is the definition of doubling your chances. :confused:

Anything more than one ticket is a waste of money.
One ticket is usually a waste of money. The only time it actually makes logical sense to buy a ticket is when the prizes are exorbitant. And even if it makes mathematical sense, you have to ask yourself if it's worth buying a ticket with such low odds.
I'll throw in $20 when I see lotto max over $60M or 6/49 over $35M. No encore (fool's game).
 

oldjones

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Aug 18, 2001
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That is the definition of doubling your chances. :confused:
Keerect!!! I think what he was trying to get at was something like the odds against aren't cut in half. As you said: Doubling infinitely small is still infinitely small.
 

SchlongConery

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That is the definition of doubling your chances. :confused:



One ticket is usually a waste of money. The only time it actually makes logical sense to buy a ticket is when the prizes are exorbitant. And even if it makes mathematical sense, you have to ask yourself if it's worth buying a ticket with such low odds.
I'll throw in $20 when I see lotto max over $60M or 6/49 over $35M. No encore (fool's game).

You are correct and I was wrong. What I meant to say was that you do not appreciably increase your odds by purchasing any more than one ticket per draw.

One ticket is a waste of money if you do not win. But someone does win. As the saying goes, you have to buy a ticket to win.

So the way I look at it is like this. $3, $5 or $8 a week will have zero effect on my life. $500 a year will have no effect on my life and I can afford to blow it on the extraordinarily long odds that *I* might win a jackpot that would have a huge effect on my life. And I play regardless of whether or not it is a big jackpot or a small one. $5million bucks will make a big difference in my life and still worth the $3, $5 or $8 (both draws) I throw away.

But any more than one ticket per draw is an even bigger waste with a 1 in 28,000,000 chance of me being that "someone" who wins. I hear people say that they don't enter the small draws because WHEN it is their turn to win, they don;t want to waste their win on only a few million bucks! lol! Mind of a gambler.

So your $20 on big draws is better spread over multiple draws than on one draw. IMO.

I agree with you that Encore is a sucker bet. So are those scratch and win crack addict tickets.
 

SchlongConery

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Keerect!!! I think what he was trying to get at was something like the odds against aren't cut in half. As you said: Doubling infinitely small is still infinitely small.

Yup, that's what I meant to say!
 

Zoot Allures

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Jan 23, 2017
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What they should do is have more smaller prizes instead of one giant prize but they are worried about the bottom line as a giant prize brings in the suckers

Sad, as a giant prize is often wasted because a fool got it

Whereas several smaller prizes could do wonders for a lot of people but the government is more concerned about the bottom line not the social impact
 

GPIDEAL

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Jun 27, 2010
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Keerect!!! I think what he was trying to get at was something like the odds against aren't cut in half. As you said: Doubling infinitely small is still infinitely small.
SchlongConery said:
Yup, that's what I meant to say!
1 in 13,000,000 vs 2 in 13,000,000. Doesn't 2 in 13,000,000 mean 1 in 6,500,000? Isn't that cutting in half the odds? Admittedly, the odds are still quite large.
 

GPIDEAL

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Jun 27, 2010
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That is the definition of doubling your chances. :confused:



One ticket is usually a waste of money. The only time it actually makes logical sense to buy a ticket is when the prizes are exorbitant. And even if it makes mathematical sense, you have to ask yourself if it's worth buying a ticket with such low odds.
I'll throw in $20 when I see lotto max over $60M or 6/49 over $35M. No encore (fool's game).

I don't always play Encore but it's not necessarily a fool's game. You have better odds of winning but the payout is less. It's also cheaper to get into the game. (The grand prize in Encore is $1,000,000 for odds of 1 in 10,000,000)

Can one play several Encore games with 1 line of another game? If so, 5 bucks of Encore means 1 in 2 million chances to win vs. 1 in 28.6 million chances to win a Lotto Max prize which costs the same (Lotto Max is 5 bucks a line).
 

GPIDEAL

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Jun 27, 2010
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I play about 4-5 649 tickets per draw. Sometimes more sometime less.
I've won $100 a few times on 649, but lately nothin'!!!
Boo!! :p
I play more than a few games because I also play for a group.

The most I've won is Early Bird Lottario. Can't recall exactly but it was in the range of $400.
 
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