Lottery app can give you a better look at the odds

On A2 was a two-paragraph brief about a Lake Wales man who bought a $20 Gold Rush Classic scratch-off Florida Lottery ticket at a convenience store, scratched it off, and found a $5 million prize. Derrious Bradwell opted for the cash payout of $3.55 million; the store will get a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket.Get more news about菲律宾彩票包网服务 ,you can vist loto98.com

Now let's see how really amazing this is - and how lucky Bradwell was.The $20 Gold Rush Classic game started out with six top-prize tickets of $5 million. Bradwell's ticket was the fifth winner in the bunch.

How do I know this? There's an app for that. The Florida Lottery app, available for free on Google Play or the Apple Store, has a lot of useful information: current winning numbers; past history of winning numbers; lottery retailer locations; a past-numbers search; automatic random-number generator and the odds of winning scratch-off games -- including the number of top-prize tickets remaining in that game. (The information is also available on the lottery website .

Knowing how many top prizes remain in any given scratch-off game (there are almost 90 different ones being sold) may make a difference on whether you want to continue buying those tickets. For instance: The odds of winning even $1 million can be in the hundreds of thousands. But the chances of winning a game with all the top prizes sold: 0.

One scratch-off game is fat with $1 million winners: The new $30 Fastest Road to $1 million game went on sale with 155 top prizes of $1 million. There are now 152 top prizes remaining. (The cash payout is $790,000.) What are the odds of winning that $1 million? Just 1 in 271,000.

That's a lot, but this is a lot more: The odds of winning $1 million in Powerball by matching all five white numbers is 1 in 11,688,000. The odds on that scratch-off ticket look a lot better - even though the cost of the Fastest Road ticket is 15 times as much as a Powerball ticket.

If your chasing the $15 million top prize in the $30 Florida 100X The Cash, you might want to wait a week or two to play that game. There are zero of eight prizes left. The $1 million version of that game (which also costs $30 a ticket) has only two of 20 top prizes remaining, according to the app, which is updated almost daily.

Lottery officials noted those games have been reordered and top prizes will be reappearing.

As noted previously, the app has a lot of useful information. It also has current numbers for all online games. But it has this drawback: The app still lists Lucky Money as an online game. It was replaced by Jackpot Triple Play a year ago, which isn't listed. (Note to Florida Lottery officials: Fix this, will you? A year and Jackpot Triple Play still hasn't made it? Seriously?)

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