So you can make an informed decision about how to lose your money playing the lottery.

Return On Investment. For every $1 you put in, this is the theoretical output of that $1. Since the lottery is a losing game, this will be almost guaranteed to be less than 1, meaning you're always losing money

ROI takes the total amount of prizes available divided by total number of prizes divided by odds multiplied by the price of the ticket.

Unknown, but with the data provided, it's the best we could come up with. It does rely on the general odds to be accurate to infer the total amount of tickets still available. It also needs the claimed prizes to be updated quickly.

Current ROI is the ROI calculation above just using the current prize pool.

The difference between the ROI calculated with the current prize pool vs the original prize pool. An advantage means there are more top prizes available than lower prizes.

Calculated from the current number of remaining prizes and the overall game odds.

Odds caculated on the estimated remaining tickets available and current prizes

Theoretically, if the prizes available are accurate and you buy every ticket available, yes. But practically, of course not

No. The only winning move is to not play at all.

At the current moment, no but adding it is a possibility. The data is a bit simpler and less interesting, so we would like to make sure we're showing something new and useful.

Not yet, but more states will be coming soon.

The data is pulled from the txlottery.com website daily.

The data is pulled straight from txlottery.com, but we can make no judgement on how accurate or fresh their data is.

If the game is marked as closed, it will no longer appear on the homepage. The game page will still exist and should be able to found via search. It's also possible new games don't have the prizes claimed posted yet.