Sweet Million Vs Cash4Life Odds

Reply #16

maringoman — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:14:22 GMT

I think the lottery commissions keep it, those parasites! I seldom play NE L4L

RUMOR; While I was preparing for my earlier response I was surprised to see on wikipedia that Arkansas Lottery and DC Lottery are scheduled to join NE Lucky for Life in January 2015. Virginia is scheduled to join Cash 4 Life. Hopefully LP admin will find out more about this and inform us more.

Reply #15

abjorik — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:56:00 GMT

I wonder where the money from NE LuckyFor Life top prize goes. Nobody wins it, so who gets that Top prize allocated money

Reply #14

maringoman — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:53:39 GMT

I suspect Cash4Life will go the way NE Lucky For Life went. They will let players get used to the game then they will find an excuse to make changes. Of course the changes will be to their favor. There has been 4 Cash4Life winners of the top prize and this is not good from the perspective of the lotteries.

Since they brought the matrix changes on September 19, 2013 of the NE Lucky For Life game there has been 0 winners of the top prize.

Reply #13

million0914 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:19:01 GMT

Today through August 28, on Mondays and Thursdays, the New York Lottery has a promotion going on with Cash 4 Life: Buy two games ($4 worth) on one ticket, get a free Quick Pick. You can either play two games on one drawing, or one game for two consecutive drawings. I might take advantage of this promotion.

Reply #12

million0914 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:32:07 GMT

Other problems I have with Cash 4 Life is the fact that unlike Powerball, Mega Millions, and New York Lotto, if nobody wins, the jackpot does not roll over into the next drawing.

Unlike Take 5, if nobody wins, the top prize money does not move down to the second prize.

Unlike Sweet Million and Pick 10, if there is more than one winner, the top prize gets divided amongst all of the winners. As I mentioned before, in Sweet Million, up to five people could win the top prize of $1 million. And... [ More ]

Reply #11

abjorik — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:12:15 GMT

NY Lottery is really shameless. The odds always worse and worse, and now the ticket Price has DOUBLED with offering the lower odds. How crappy is that. I hope people eventually gonna find out that and quit buying the C4L tickets!

P.S. Never bought a C4L ticket

Reply #10

House Edge — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:06:55 GMT

Yes your right, there has never been more than 2 jackpot winners in a single draw. Also I should mention 2 jackpot winners in a single draw has only occurred 2 times.

Reply #9

million0914 — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:02:20 GMT

I also agree with House Edge about why isn't Pick 10 the game that is being replaced, instead of Sweet Million. In fact, I even talked about it in another thread, 276033.

While we are on the subjects of odds and money, Pick 10 is 2.32 times harder to win than Sweet Million, yet the top prize is only half that of Sweet Million. And considering that nobody won the top prize in the last ten drawings of Sweet Million, as well as House Edge's revenue numbers, think of the money that the New York L... [ More ]

Reply #8

RedStang — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 05:20:42 GMT

Someone hit 1k a day for life.

Someone hit 1k a week for life.

76 players have won 2500.

I would say this game blows away SM.

I will agree the $2 price sucks but all games will be that soon.

Reply #7

mediabrat — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:39:28 GMT

I also agree with House Edge about Sweet Million vs. Cash 4 Life.

I'm not saying he's wrong. Any of us here can clearly see that he's absolutely right about the odds. All I'm saying is that your average lottery player does not care about the odds. All they look at is the payout.

Reply #6

million0914 — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:17:21 GMT

I also agree with House Edge about Sweet Million vs. Cash 4 Life.

Also, since we are discussing per dollar odds, the per dollar odds for New York Lotto are actually 1.93 times better than Cash 4 Life.

New York Lotto's odds are 1 out of 22,528,737. Cash 4 Life, like House Edge said, is 1 out of 43,692,096. And New York Lotto lets you receive money over 26 years, whereas Cash 4 Life guarantees only 20 years. Plus, the New York Lotto jackpot rolls over whenever nobody wins, unlike Cash 4 Life... [ More ]

Reply #5

mediabrat — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 04:25:10 GMT

Your one of many other players who can't compare odds.

*I* can certainly compare odds. My point, and I think we agree on this, is that most players can not and/or do not compare odds. If they do, obviously it doesn't make an impression on them, because if it did, NO ONE WOULD PLAY THE LOTTERY because of how remote the odds are!

The thing is, I can also compare payouts. And yes, the odds are worse for C4L than they are for SM. However, the payouts for C4L are better when you compare them by... [ More ]

Reply #4

House Edge — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:43:42 GMT

Your one of many other players who can't compare odds. You say why would New Yorkers play Sweet Million when that same dollar gets you a chance at a minimum of $15 million (Mega Millions) or TWO chances at a minimum of $2 million (Lotto)? Well you say $15 million im guessing you mean jackpot after its reset. Wow have you seen the odds on the new Mega Million game 1: 258,890,850. Your odds of winning Sweet Million is 67 times better than winning Mega Millions Jackpot. And New York Lotto have the... [ More ]

Reply #3

mediabrat — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:11:43 GMT

A chance at a million for just $1 is indeed enticing, but lottery players quickly figured out that the all the other prizes were GARBAGE. It didn't help that barely anyone ever won the million. Also, why would New Yorkers play Sweet Million when that same dollar gets you a chance at a minimum of $15 million (Mega Millions) or TWO chances at a minimum of $2 million (Lotto)?

Cash4Life's odds may be worse, but the prize structure from top to bottom is more attractive to your average player. Ther... [ More ]

Reply #2

SaintAndiesPl — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:36:57 GMT

Nobody was buying Sweet Million... it was under performing.. I know the odds are bad for Cash For Life but just the thought of winning a 1000 a day for life is worth buying every now and then. I hardly bought Sweet million...

Reply #1

wallyjay — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:17:10 GMT

I'm lead to believe the average lottery player has no clue of the odds or the prize level of the game there purchasing. And I still think Sweet Million should replace Pick 10 as a daily game. It can exceed well over $100,000,000 in total yearly sales. Reason is if Sweet Million was daily it would have to sale $273,973 per draw, rather then twice a week at $961,538 per draw.

Must agree completely with these statements, especially the first. Maybe they will use this as a way to bring back... [ More ]

Sweet Million Vs Cash4Life Odds

House Edge — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:43:00 GMT

I can't believe the New York Lottery yanked Sweet Million, and replaced it with this trash Cash4Life game. Lets compare this at a $1 game draw. Sweet Million was $1 play. Cash4life is $2 play. To make this even, we multiply the odds of Cash4Life by 2. Sweet Million stays the same since its already a $1 play. As you can see chart (A) is Sweet Million $1 play, chart (B) is Cash4Life $1 play, and chart (C) is the current Cash4Life $2 play.

Don't be fooled by odds. $1 and $2 tickets can really ad... [ More ]