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I have been searching for strategies to win the powerball. Does anyone have any suggestions? If you are addicted to finding that winning strategy, drop me an email. I need all the help I can get. Ill share my opinions with you.

Let me spoil the surprise for you. There is no ‘system’ and there is not ‘steategy.’

Every time the balls pop out of that machine it is a completely random event that has no bearing on any previous drawing. The random numbers will be produced and if you are lucky they will match the numbers you picked.

The odds of winning Powerball are over 115 million to one. You are significantly more likely to die on the way to pick up your ticket.

You can plan all the systems you like, but you are going to have to get really incredibly lucky to win.

I live in France and am planning to watch the results of the US election come out live, (I have CNN and CNBC on my TV and want to follow it state by state.) What time will the results start coming out for the east coast states?

I read something about a restriction on calling the results until after polling has closed on the west coast. Does this apply to the networks calling states or just the whole country?

Each state counts its own vote as soon as the polls close. I think the first state to finish voting is Kentucky or Indiana and that’s 5.30pm local time, if my memory serves me correctly. That’s 11.30pm in the UK and 12.30am in France. Within minutes the networks will call the state for one of the candidates or declare the contest too close to call.

Americans finish voting early, particularly compared to the UK. Most states finish at 7pm or 8pm local time, so by 2am in the UK, 3am in France, most states in the Central Time zone have closed their polls and most votes have been cast. California, the largest state by population, is the only major state in the other time zones. If it’s a landslide, the result may well be apparent by 2.30am French time. If the vote is really close, the result may not be known until the morning rush hour in France or later. Remember that in 2000 everything depended on Florida and that went to the courts and a partial recount.

The US, quite remarkably, doesn’t have federal laws on the conduct of federal elections, leaving it to local state law. There is no ban on counting the votes and declaring the victor before other states have finished voting.

I think what you heard about referred to Canada, which had a general election on Tuesday. There, there is meant to be a news blackout for the western provinces when the eastern provinces start counting. However, it didn’t work properly and so people in Alberta and British Columbia knew that the Conservatives were doing well before they’d finished voting.

I’m having an adult Halloween party this year. I’m trying to get everything planned and organized for my party early, in hopes that it will be a success. I have some games planned for the party and want to offer prizes for the winners and I am offering a grand prize for best costume instead of a door prize. I am doing all of this on a small budget so I need ideas for some good, but inexpensive prizes for the games and for best costume. Can anyone give me some ideas please?

For best costume you could give either a $10 gift card for gas or a plastic trophy or medal from the Dollar Store. For other prizes I would go to the Dollar store and buy Halloween figurines, bowls, plates, decorations, and candy.

Who do you want to win in SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE? I want Sabra to win

I agree; I really want Sabra to win.

i want to play fantasy football for money next year. but how do the prizes work. like are there different prizes i can sign up for? i was thinking i could pay like 20 bucks and have a chance to win 100$ that kind of prize.. i dont want to pay a lot of money.

how does it work?

If you are the commisioner, then have the teams pay in to draft a team, say $20. Out a of a 10 team league, that makes a $200 pot. With such a small pot, you’ll likely only pay out the top two teams, like a 70/30 split ( or $140/$60). I’d suggest doing at least a $50 buy in, and make the pot a little bigger to pay out 3 or 4 teams that make it to the playoffs.
My league is a $150 buy in with 12 teams. $1800 pot is split like so: Winner gets half or $900, 2nd place gets 3 shares or $450, 3rd place gets 2 shares or $300, 4th gets his money back , $150.
If you play with the same guys every year, I would suggest adding a traveling trophy, which each years champion holds thru the following season. Ours is really nice, with an old time leather football helmet on top, it gets an engraved plate added every yr with the champs name and year.
It makes it that much more fun, having a trophy all off-season and keeps all your team managers interested in your league.
Google or search Ebay "Fantasy Football trophy", they can run $40-100 dolars. They’re cheaper now in the off season, but if your handy, and creative, you can make your own. (I did for about $40) Just make sure the base is large enough to put plates on with each years winner, then get some plates made with the name of the league for the front and one with the first years winner and your set. (mine were done for $10 bucks for both) You can add anything you want as the top if you do it yourself, and it can be really funny too!
But the commisioner has to run the money end. No web site will do that for you, that would be illegal.

I would like to join or play lotto international. and I see in google that there is a lotto international that allow the asian to play lotto but I am very doubtful if I am this site is eligible. How to figure it out? Please let me know. Thanks!
what I mean how do I know if the site is legitimate.

Are you doubtful you’re Asian, or doubtful the site is eligible (and if so, eligible for what exactly?)

Suppose you played the lottery in another state and won the jackpot. Do you have to pay state taxes for both the state you won in and the one your living in?

That would depend on the states involved and how they treat lottery winnings and cross state income.

Some lotteries use only the computer generated methods for drawing the winning numbers. Is this acceptable for accuracy?

Wouldn’t you think that if it WASN’T foolproof, that someone would have found out the pattern and capitalized on it?

I am very familiar with the lottery systems, and, while it IS impossible for a computer to pick a TRULY random number… the algorithm is complex enough that it doesn’t generate traceable or noticeable patterns.

Much like 256-bit encryption is ‘virtually’ impossible to crack (it would take extremely powerful computers a dramatically large amount of time to decrypt it) the algorithm cannot be traced back to a pattern

So… yes… it is acceptable for accuracy.

There are 100 squares. You have 1 square. You have a chance to win 4 times. What are your chances of winning at least once out of the 4 times?
This is ignoring score possibilities. Just simply the odds of winning regardless of numbers drawn.

your chances are 1 in a 100 … for each quarter..
the pool i was in i won twice same square (numbers changes each quarter) what are the odds of that happening

I want to play the national lottery or lucky dip by going to a shop. I am 16 with proof of age. When you buy a national lottery ticket, do you get a free lucky dip? Which games have the best odds of winning any prize?

You should use the national lottery tickets to choose 6 numbers on a line for the wednesday or Saturday draws. Each line cost a pound and you need at least 3 right to get a return. If you cannot be bothered to fill out the ticket or you cannot choose 6 numbers between 1 and 49 the you just go to the counter and ask for a lucky dip, this means the computer will choose the numbers for you at random. You can ask for as many lucky dips as you want. For example 3 lucky dips will cost you £3.00 and all three lines will be displayed on your ticket for you to check. Good luck!!!!