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The odds of winning the Lotto Plus jackpots are the same as the odds of winning the main Lotto jackpot. More than 90 percent of Lotto players also enter Lotto Plus. [80] The minimum cost of playing Lotto with Lotto Plus is now €6. Lotto 5-4-3-2-1 logo in use from 2008 onwards
Let’s look at the odds of winning lottery prizes for two of America’s favorite lottery games: Powerball and Mega Millions. Mega Millions Top prize: 1 in 302,575,350
The numerator equates to the number of ways to select the winning numbers multiplied by the number of ways to select the losing numbers. For a score of n (for example, if 3 choices match three of the 6 balls drawn, then n = 3), ( 6 n ) {\displaystyle {6 \choose n}} describes the odds of selecting n winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers.
A jackpot of €190 million (£170.2 million) was won by a single ticket holder in the UK bearing the winning numbers - 7,10,15,44,49 and the lucky numbers 3,12. The highest jackpot ever won in the UK, and second highest jackpot to date, was £195,707,000 (€230,300,000), on 19 July 2022.
In 2015, the Powerball lottery lengthened the odds of winning from 1 in 175.2 million to 1 in 292.2 million. Mega Millions followed two years later, lengthening the odds of winning the top prize ...
The Irish Lotto has operated since September 2018. When a player buys a ticket in the Irish Lotto, The Lottery Office purchases a matching ticket in the Irish National Lottery’s ‘Lotto’. To play Irish Lotto, players choose 6 numbers from a pool of 1 to 47. The Irish Lotto has two draws each week, on Thursdays and Sundays, AEST.
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Robert Heinlein mentions the Irish Sweeps in his novella, The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950). In his novel Glory Road (1963) it plays a central part in the early chapters: the protagonist accumulates many lottery tickets through playing poker, one of which carries a winning number. When he looks into the possibility of selling this ticket before ...