What was even more amazing is that every single line of the syndicate’s 65 lines won a prize! Read the story of our winning Powerball syndicate.Ĭosta Rican player R.R. No joke! Read what our millionaire winner said about his big success!įifty five of our players from all over the world teamed up in a Powerball syndicate in November 2017 and shared a $106,000 win, including two 3rd Division prizes of $50,000. from the UK won the Powerball’s second place $1 million prize after playing just five entries in the draw on 21 April 2012! When he got the call from theLotter informing him that he was a big winner, he thought it was a joke. He plans to travel and retire in style.ī.U. Read more about our Canadian Powerball winner's story to find out how he discovered he was a millionaire while he was eating breakfast.ħ3-year-old H from El Salvador had one question on his mind when the Powerball jackpot hit $1.5 billion: Where can I buy a Powerball ticket? Luckily the answer was theLotter and he won the $1 million 2nd prize in the historic draw on 13 January 2016! "I won!" he shouted out when he heard the news. from Quebec won $1 million on Saturday 27 February 2016, marking the second time in two months that a foreigner had won the coveted second prize. is a veteran player who has been playing lotteries with theLotter since 2003, teaching us a little about the virtue of persistence.Ĭanadian P. won an amazing $1 million second prize on Wednesday 19 October 2016. In conclusion, it appears we have both mechanisms operating randomly and are free to compute the odds of winning, probability that there’s at least one winner, and, most importantly, our expected profits.TheLotter's US Powerball Online Lottery WinnersĬan a non-US citizen win the lottery? Of course you can! This is confirmed not only on the official Powerball website, but also in the stories of some of our biggest US Powerball online lottery winners here at theLotter.Īustralian G. These data strongly suggest that the Powerball computers are generating combinations with equal probability and thus at random. Without these data, it can be illuminating to look at the number of Powerball tickets sold and the percentage of the 292,201,338 possible combinations that are covered by those tickets. Analyzing the frequencies of the numbers that were generated would reveal the degree of randomness of the Quick Pick process. The randomness of these machines’ results can also be tested, but with more difficulty: it involves either buying large numbers of “Quick Pick” tickets or collecting ticket information from a large number of people. From those seeds, additional calculations generate numbers at rates that approximate randomness. This beginning number is often called the “seed.” Other seeds may be created from different phenomena that presumably occur without reason or predictability. In this process, the computer may use some information, such as the computer’s real time clock with precision to a millisecond, at the time that a request for a lottery ticket was made, to trigger a process that draws five numbers and one powerball number. In computer programming terminology, this is often called generating a “pseudo random” number. The potential problems come from the fact that computers are devices programmed by humans and so, almost paradoxically, they must be given a systematic method to choose random numbers. Without a machine to generate numbers with plastic balls, lottery machines nationwide have been generating numbers for ticket buyers in ways that may not give each number exactly equal chances of being chosen. How random are these numbers? Stephanie Keith/ReutersĮvaluating the “Quick Pick” numbers is more challenging. Without doing the statistical calculation and data collection, given the nature of this device for generating balls/numbers, it’s safe to assume that this process generates each number with equal probability. Studying the results from previous drawings would allow an assessment of whether each number is occurring with similar frequency. In short, the ball marked 68 may be more likely to be picked than the ball marked 1. Coupled with gravity, this may be enough to keep those balls lower in the container and thus more likely to be picked by the platform. It is possible – though it’s a stretch – that balls with printed numbers requiring more ink to delineate the number on the ball may weigh more due to the extra ink than balls requiring less ink. Generally speaking, it seems reasonable that each ball is equally likely to be selected by this process. This procedure is repeated for the selection of each ball (five white and one red, the “Powerball”). The air is then turned off and a ball is raised from the bottom via a platform and then removed from the container. The balls are dropped into the respective containers and then mixed in the container by what appears to be air injected from the bottom of the container.
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