Talk:Lotto Max

Relaunch/replace
An unregistered editor rewrote this article and other lottery article to state that Super 7 is being relaunched as Lotto Max. The ILC news release annoucing Lotto Max: Given that Max has a different ticket price, draw structure, prize structure and name from Super 7, there is no basis for describing it as a relaunch of Super 7. Ground Zero | t 02:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * said "Lotto Max will launch..."
 * included references to the "newest introduction", and
 * made no reference whatsoever to Super 7.


 * I agree with you; replace is more appropriate here. Mind  matrix  14:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Lotto max didn't replace Super 7, super 7 was "phased out" to make room for future lottery games, much like pay-day will be, I wouldn't call lotto max a Super 7 replacement (GCompsupport (talk) 02:13, 9 June 2010 (UTC))

Odds
When I created this article I didn't calculate the odds however I was wondering if somebody could do that b/c ??? aren't really the odds. Krj373 (talk) 22:29, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The odds currently given in the article are wrong. What they've done is calculate the probability of a given selection winning each prize, and then divide the denominator by three (since there are three selections in each $5 play). But that method fails to take into account that one $5 play might a given prize twice (or all three times). The standard way to do the calculation is to apply the formula 1-(1-p)^3 where p is the probability of a single selection winning. (This assumes that at least two selections in each play are picked randomly by the computer and are stochastically independent of each other and of the third selection.) The correct probabilities in decimal form are as follows:


 * {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"

! Match !! Probability on a single selection !! Probability on a $5 play ! 7/7 ! 6/7 + bonus number ! 6/7 ! 5/7 ! 4/7 ! 3/7 + bonus number ! 3/7 ! any prize ! no prize
 * 0.00000001 || 0.00000003
 * 0.00000008 || 0.00000024
 * 0.00000334 || 0.00001002
 * 0.00021049 || 0.00063133
 * 0.00467750 || 0.01396697
 * 0.00434339 || 0.01297367
 * 0.04126223 || 0.11874924
 * 0.05049705 || 0.14397006
 * 0.94950295 || 0.85602994
 * }


 * and in fractional form the probabilities are:


 * {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! Match !! chance on a single selection !! chance on a $5 play ! 7/7 ! 6/7 + bonus number ! 6/7 ! 5/7 ! 4/7 ! 3/7 + bonus number ! 3/7 ! any prize ! no prize
 * 1 in 85,900,584. || 1 in 28,633,686.
 * 1 in 12,271,512. || 1 in 4,090,506.5
 * 1 in 299,305.2 || 1 in 99,768.7
 * 1 in 4,750.88 || 1 in 1,583.96
 * 1 in 213.79 || 1 in 71.60
 * 1 in 230.23 || 1 in 77.08
 * 1 in 24.235 || 1 in 8.421
 * 1 in 19.803 || 1 in 6.946
 * 1 in 1.0532 || 1 in 1.1682
 * } —Mathew5000 (talk) 06:08, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

70 million was one by one person need to update stats
Alberta Calgary man $70,000,000 in November 2022 2604:3D09:7B79:A400:ADCB:7DA:7467:3F70 (talk) 04:48, 26 November 2022 (UTC)