New Powerball e-mail from the Missouri Lottery

Reply #3

RJOh — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:30:27 GMT

As far as the matrix changoing or not, how are the odds going to go from 1 in 195 million to q in 175 million without a matrix change?

Sorry I missed that point, looks like they will reduce the PowerBall pool to 35 and have a matrix of 5/59+1/35.

MATCHES ODDS WINNING COMBOS

5/5+B 1 : 175223510 1

5/5+0 1 : 5153633 34

4/5+B 1 : 648976 270

4/5+0 1 : 19088 9180

3/5+B 1 : 12245 14310

3/5+0 1 : 360 486540

2/5+B 1 : 706 248040

1/5+B 1 : 111 1581255

0/5+B 1 : 55 3162510... [ More ]

Reply #2

Coin Toss — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:56:40 GMT

RJOh,

If you subscribe to the Missouri Lottery e-mails they occassionally send out surveys about proposed games.

Those surveys will have questions such as, This game will likely have 23 winners a year, etc..etc..., would you play it?

I know the 24 in the e-mail above is probably an average, but still.

As far as the matrix changoing or not, how are the odds going to go from 1 in 195 million to q in 175 million without a matrix change

Reply #1

RJOh — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:07:26 GMT

More millionaires for Missouri. The Match 5 prize increases 5X to $1million (Missouri will average 24 more millionaires a year). Match 5 with Powerplay - Prize doubles to $2 million.

I took that to mean the 24 players in Missouri that match 5+0 and would normally get $200K before will be getting $1M with the $2 tickets. The matrix size doesn't have to change for that to happen. Under the new system Powerplay will only double the top prize rather than multiply it by 5

New Powerball e-mail from the Missouri Lottery

Coin Toss — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:35:55 GMT

I couldn't copy and paste the e-mail the way it came, here's the text typed out:

(The first part of this is specific to Missouri)

More millionaires for Missouri. The Match 5 prize increases 5X to $1million (Missouri will average 24 more millionaires a year). Match 5 with Powerplay - Prize doubles to $2 million.

Bigger Jackpots

Starting jackpot doubles to $40 million. The minimum roll doubles to $10 million. Average jackpots won will increase from $141 million to $255 million.

Bett... [ More ]