Is this true randomness..is there such a thing anymore?

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Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson

No video poker machine tells you how many royals will be hit.

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True, but the odds are just a wee bit better. Take your California Fa$t Money game:
http://www.calottery.com/Play/Scratchers-games/$1-Scratchers/fas%24t-money-749
A buck a ticket, close to the $1.25 of a hand of quarter VP and with the same top prize; $1,000 We know its about 1 in 40,000 for the VP, for Fa$t Money it is 1 in 480,000.

Another thing to think about before investing your life savings in lottery tickets is that for every winner their has to be a greater amount of losers. So if you are playing a $10 game with a 1 million dollar prize there needs to be 100,000 losing tickets just to meet that one award, not even counting the other awards and the roughly 50% that the state takes.

I think most video poker games have a winning hand (and a winning hand can be a break even hand) between 35% and 45% of the time. It seems that the various scratchers have a winning hand (which can be a break even hand) about 29% of the time. Seems like video poker is the better gamble for percentage of winners.

One final humorous conclusion. I said that if they got another roll I would buy one ticket IF I won at the casinos and lo and behold good fortune shown on me and so I did what I said I was gonna do and got one. Well, halfway into the scratching, I uncovered the number 37 (LOL) and was kinda expecting the worst when the number 14 MATCHED! I had the unbelievable luck to.......WIN MY MONEY BACK! Ha ha. I can't leave without telling the name of the game-NUTCRACKER>Finally, a game that lives up to it's name!:cool::rolleyes:

I received $15 worth of California lottery tickets in a birthday card today. (I'm 61 but if you include all my spare parts my blended age is about 22.) Of the $15 worth of tickets, only one was a "winner" and it paid $2 which was double the cost of the ticket.